COMMENCEMENT

A real War Commencement concluded the first war year of the College, and it was a Commencement of which any college would be proud. Backed by the administrative officers, the seniors started, early in the spring, to lay plans for a big Commencement with the twofold purpose of properly concluding their own four years of undergraduate work, and of keeping the alumni and the college in as close .touch as possible during the times in which co-operation is especially needed.

Although it was impossible for the alumni to return in any such numbers as in ordinary years, those of them that could responded nobly and the class of 1918 and the College were given a real Commencement. Of the senior class itself, there were just over 80 men who had remained to complete their four years' academic course. About 50 members of the class came back to Hanover in uniform to receive their diplomas, and degrees were granted to nearly 100 members in the service who were unable to be present.

To raise the number of visitors nearly to normal all undergraduates were urged to remain over the week-end and a number of the fraternities held house-parties. It is estimated that Dartmouth entertained about 700 out-of-town guests for its 149th Commencement.