Student Attitudes Revealed.

Last spring the enterprising leaders of the freshman classes at Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton conducted a survey among their classmates, and the statistical report of that survey, recently issued, revealed interesting information about Dartmouth student attitudes.

The Class of 1968 undergraduates were asked about their adjustment to college life. Some 72 per cent of the Dartmouth men answering the questionnaire said it had been easy, compared with 66 per cent of the other Ivy schools combined. When asked if they were satisfied with the caliber of instruction offered, 84 per cent of the Dartmouth freshmen said they were; 71 per cent was the "All-Ivy" total. Similarly 82 per cent of the Pea Greeners thought their instructors were sufficiently available for help outside the classroom, compared with 74 per cent for the All-Ivy figure.

Student government at Dartmouth received a 70 per cent endorsement (compared with 38 per cent elsewhere) which caused Angus S. King Jr. '66, president of the Undergraduate Council, to respond, "It expresses more awareness of the effectiveness of student government up here than I thought existed."

The Dartmouth, editorializing on the figures that showed 51 per cent of the Pea Greeners happy with their social life as compared with 49 per cent at the other schools, said "It is amusing that the isolated, monastic Big Greener finds more happiness in his social life than does the freshman in the coed or semi-coed college." Dean of Freshmen Albert I. Dickerson '30 was "not surprised, but gratified and reassured."

To borrow a Madison Avenue-ism: We must be doing something right.