"Out of the Depths"

Late in the last school year, a disturbance among the students manifested itself in a desire to change things at Dartmouth during this coming year. It resulted in the establishment of new institutions, the revamping of the old. It brought about a close scrutiny of the athletic system, with a resultant change in tone. The administration, its policies, its form, and its principles, were altered in line with educational progress.

The whole to introduce a rejuvenated college spirit into Dartmouth. After several poor seasons on the gridiron, the diamond and the track, and concurrent with the disillusionment and flight of hope that naturally accompanies a period of economic despair, the college felt that its life-blood was being sapped and its spirit was falling into the doldrums.

Thus, at this year's beginning we have freshman rules, and a football squad, hardened by the newly begun spring practices, going through one of the hardest fall sessions in years; there are new fraternity regulations, an enlarged and more potent Green Key; and above all there are the changes introduced by the administration: abolition of all entrance requirements and a consequent broadening of the selective system to fill the gap; appointment of a dean of the faculty who will have direct control and supervision over the curriculum, the better to perform progressive alterations.

If it must be described in terms of an NRA, it may be called a new return of aspirations for Hanover. 1933-34 is a year of planned recovery for Dartmouth. Recovery not only from the depths of athletic slump, but better still from the depths of listlessness and cynicism which had begun to surround the college life. At the same time it is not meant to be something like the old and trite "Do or Die for Harvard" collegiana. There are hopes it will reach deeper.

It is the same old Hanover to which the college has returned--but it seems a different Dartmouth. --"The Dartmouth."