THE SUMMER SESSION

The action of the trustees in. assuming full responsibility for the summer school which private initiative had carried forward for twelve years, has apparently been justified. Their appropriation of funds made possible this summer the payment of less meager salaries, an increase in the variety of courses, and a more extensive campaign of publicity during the spring. As a result the attendance this summer is 191 as compared with 125 last year, an increase of 52 per cent. New York City continues to send by far the largest delegation. The number of Dartmouth undergraduates enrolled is 67. A nearly equal number of Dartmouth students were in attendance last summer, consequently all of the growth of the summer session consists in the increased enrollment of teachers and others from away —this, in spite of the withdrawal of the scholarship requirement for admittance of Dartmouth undergraduates to the summer school which had been in operation during recent years. It would seem that that requirement had not operated to keep out of the summer school many who really wished to come.

The most gratifying feature of the present session is the presence here of forty-five graduate students, including ten alumni of Dartmouth. Several of these are superintendents, supervisors, and principals of high schools. Only a fraction of them are candidates for a higher degree. The others are simply interested in taking those courses which will keep them abreast of the subjects they are teaching, or add some wider scope to their academic horizon.

The incidental features of the summer session have included daily public lectures, with occasional concerts and recitals, Saturday walking trips and excursions, and, most notable of all, two open air performances at the Bema in College Park by the Coburn Players, on August 9.

Viewing the present summer session as a whole, one is convinced that the response which the public, and especially the teaching public, has made to the efforts of the College to increase its range of usefulness, warrants the belief that larger and more varied educational offerings in future summers will result in rapid growth of a substantial sort. The location of Dartmouth among the New Hampshire hills makes it an ideal place for summer study.

The following statistical summary of attendance may be of interest:

Men Women Total Graduate Students 23 22 45 Dartmouth Undergraduates: Class of 1915 13 Class of 1914 29 Class of 1913 19 Class of 1912 6 Total 67 67 Other Students 22 57 79 Total 112 79 191 Per cent 58 42 100

OCCUPATIONS Superintendent of Schools 2 Supervisors and Principals 20 Teachers in Normal Schools and Colleges 4 Teachers in High Schools 18 Teachers in Grade Schools 49 .Dartmouth Students 67 Students in Other Institutions 20 Other Occupations 11 Total 191

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION New York 51 Colorado 2 Massachusetts 50 Rhode Island 2 New Hampshire 29 lowa 1 New Jersey 12 Georgia 1 Vermont 9 Maine 1 Pennsylvania 6 Michigan 1 Connecticut 5 Minnesota 1 Maine 5 Ohio 1 Dist. of Columbia 3 Washington 1 Illinois 3 Wisconsin 1 184 Foreign Countries 7 Total 191