Education: Chaperons

To Dartmouth’s gala Winter Carnival goes many a comely young woman to dance, to watch winter sports, mayhap to taste beverages from Canada, hard by. As convention demands, chaperons are present, a precaution against possible irregularities. Most undergraduates at most colleges regard chaperonage as an unnecessary appendage to a good party. Unless they be their female relatives, chaperons get little attention from the male revelers.

Last week The Dartmouth (undergraduate daily) aroused by past indignities to chaperons, plumping for abolition of chaperons, editorialized: “Many of us are unwilling to ask our mothers, or anyone we respect, to bear the brunt of universal disregard, and even the shade of contempt which cannot but arise from the office of chaperon as it exists at present.”