COLLEGE ENROLLMENT GROWS BEYOND DESIRED LIMITS

Dartmouth's 158th college year opened September 23 with registration figures showing a large and unexpected increase in the size of the undergraduate body. In spite of the desire of the college officials that the enrollment be restricted to 2000 undergraduates, 2105 names were recorded in the class rosters. The small number of scholastic casualties in last year's freshman class, the class of 1929, and a sharp decline in the usual rate of shrinkage in the classes are the factors which, it is explained, accounted for the unexpected increase.

The registration offices now list in the undergraduate college 418 seniors, 455 juniors, 637 sophomores, 659 freshmen, and one unclassified student. In addition to these undergraduates there are 11 graduate students in the college, 81 students enrolled in the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and Finance, 36 Medical School and 14 Thayer School students, bringing the total enrollment of the College to 2247.

The usual exercises opening the college year were held in Webster Hall where Dean Craven Laycock presided and spoke briefly to the men.