Blood spilled in the name of freedom and self-rule saturates the pages of history. Many an ardent patriot has bitten the dust in this cause since Moses led his party across a courteously-disposed Red Sea to the hoped-for freedom of the promised land. Many a sturdy Gaelic cranium has succumbed to violent pressure for the sake of autonomy in the Emerald Isle. But at least we have come upon the group that is loftily indifferent to self-government on whatever terms. This group simply does not care for it.

The student council at Yale has resigned with the recommendation that student government there be abolished. The Committee of Seven of Amherst College recently resigned in a huff because the college hired a policeman to usurp their duties and because, due to the efficiency of this policeman, some Amherst and Smith students were dismissed for conduct unbecoming the quiet virtue of the Amherst campus. Even the serenity of Harvard calm has of late been ruffled by student government controversy. It is happening everywhere.

Student government rests necessarily on the honor system. College students just cannot get enthusiastic over the honor system. It is a fundamental truth of undergraduate life that virtue must have its vacations and that college regulations must inevitably be sometimes disobeyed. And although there is a certain sportsmanlike joy in slipping one over on the administration, one's honor cannot be similarly lightly treated. The honor system holds one too strictly.. It is a pretty idea, but it works too well.

Here at last is something that we don't have to abolish at Dartmouth, because that we don't have any. True, we have our Palacopitus and our Occom Council. Hums are duly planned, freshman fights restrained this side of barbarism, football rallies tenderly nurtured, train concessions awarded. But all discipline is quietly and inexorably meted out over in the sanctums of the administration building, and everybody is glad of it. The Dartmouth.