THE COLLEGE

At no point during the college year is there any real lack of news and activity, but it takes the final few weeks, when everyone seems to be racing the calendar, to prove that the pace of the first seven-eighths of the year was not so swift after all. A deluge of year-end elections, contests, prize awards and traditional observances—all adding up to a sort of handing on of the torch-has kept TheDartmouth filled; and to all this has been added the fillip of the student referendum on the honor system, Dean Neidlinger's unexpected resignation, Theta Chi's rebellion against the membership restrictions in its national charter, and such divers College announcements as a revised grading system, a reduction in the number of major courses for ROTCs in the classes of 1954 and 1955, and the curtailing of janitor service in the dorms.

A favorite student antic this spring has been the shooting off of firecrackers. The constant popping, with an occasional big bang, has not been unlike the general state of campus affairs as the year draws to a close.