THE SUMMER SESSION OF 1914

The class work of the current summer session of the College started July seventh with the impetus and promptness essential for success in courses which are compacted into six weeks. Concentration is encouraged by the attendance regulations, which allow no cuts, no unexcused absences whatever, and' which permit only unavoidable absences to be excused. One professor, handing into the office an attendance report "for two large classes in which during an entire week there had been but one absence, remarked, "I wish the attendance was like this during the year!"

The total enrollment is two hundred twenty-eight. Of this number, 53 per cent are "men and 47 per cent women.

There are ninety-one Dartmouth undergraduates enrolled, which is nearly the same as in 1913. The decrease in the number of failures reported during the past college year seems not to have had an immediate effect on the number of students in the summer session. Perhaps the lessened need of picking up dropped hours is offset by the increased willingness of men who do not need mere hours, to put to good use a portion of the long vacation. One special class of eight men in Chemistry is made up of students who, by completing this , work during the present summer, will be able to gain a year on their pre-medical chemistry requirements. It is interesting to note in this connection that of the twenty-one students in the various chemistry courses, not one is engaged in repeating a failed course. Mathematics and the modern languages have the most formidable proportion of repeaters.

The ebb in attendance as compared with last summer's high water mark has a variety of causes. The decrease is found chiefly in three groups: students from other colleges, students about to enter college, and, mainly, teachers in graded schools. The practical elimination of the paene is directly traceable to the policy adopted in selecting the courses to be offered, and will cause no one any regrets. For the drop in the number of students coming from other colleges, the present writer is still seeking a reason. The decrease in the number of grade teachers has several causes. The chief ones are the considerable increase in the rates charged for dormitory accommodations and table board, and the lack of special incentive which was furnished last year by the unusually large number of New York promotional examinations.

The constituency of the Summer Session is gradually extending over a broader area. Twenty states are represented in the geographical distribution of students in the session of 1914. In comparison with the previous year, it is interesting to note that New York maintains its numerical leadership over Massachusetts, but with a diminished margin; that the District of Columbia has as many representatives as Vermont, and that there are more students here from Illinois than from New Jersey, Maine, or Connecticut. Apparently there is need of intensive cultivation of territory near at hand, for the enrollment of students from the cities of New England is surprisingly low. It is not to be wondered at, that teach-from the towns and villages of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine should want to do their summer studying in a university where the surroundings of a great city give a complete change from their customary environment. By the same token, teachers from the cities would certainly flock to Hanover if they only realized that here they can find superior class-room instruction in a college with a beautiful country setting of woods and hills. Students almost always go to one school rather than to another because that school has been suggested to them by someone they know personally. If the summer session of the College is to have a strong clientele in Boston, Springfield, Providence and the other cities of New England, it must enlist the active, personal interest of the alumni, particularly of all those engaged in educational pursuits.

For an alumnus to ascertain whether or not the College is offering opportunities during the summer term comparable with those of the longer semesters, he need only run through the list of instructors. Professor Bartlett and Professor Richardson are in charge of the Chemistry courses. In English, Professor Emery and Mr. Follett have the cooperation of Professor Tatlock of the University of Michigan, and of Mr. Crawford of Yale. Professor Clark and Professor Skinner, with Professor Langley of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, give the courses in Modern Languages. History, Economics, Education, Fine Arts, Music, Physics and Mathematics are all taught by men recognized as superior teachers, capable of giving a valid exemplification of Dartmouth educational ideals to the, high school instructors who as students here have .Dartmouth under inspection during the summer weeks.

The trend of the times, not merely in college education but in many other lines as well, is strongly toward a longer year and a wider use of educational facilities. Dartmouth is one of the few New England institutions of the first rank to recognize this trend and to lead in its development. The policy of maintaining a summer session of the College in addition to the long semesters, is, to be sure, still in the experimental stage. Two more years, however, ought to show decisively whether or not the trustees of the College are right in their conviction that the educational plant ought not to lie idle for three months out of the twelve.

STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF ATTENDANCE Men Women Tot. Graduate Students 13 28 41 Dartmouth Undergraduates: Class of 1914 6 Class of 1915 28 Class of 1916 41 Class of 1917 16 Total 91 91 Other students 15 81 96 Total 119 109 228 Per cent 53% 47% 100%

OCCUPATIONS Teachers in Colleges and Universities Teachers in Normal Schools 8 Superintendents, Supervisors, and Principals of Schools 14 Teachers in Secondary Schools 26 Teachers in Elementary Schools 56 Dartmouth Students 91 Students, in Other Institutions 17 Other Occupations 10

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION New York 88 Colorado 2 Massachusetts 54 Michigan 2 New Hampshire 27 California 1 Dist. of Columbia 8 Connecticut 1 Vermont 8 Indiana 1 Pennsylvania 7 Iowa 1 Rhode Island 7 Ohio 1 Illinois 6 Missouri 1 New Jersey 5 Wisconsin 1 Maine 4 Minnesota 3 228