DARTMOUTH TO ADMIT 100 FEWER FRESHMEN

Owing to the excellent scholastic record of the College during the last two years and the resulting fact that the upper classes have lost fewer men by failure than ever before, Dartmouth will next fall be able to admit only 550 freshmen, 100 fewer than in previous years, in order to keep the undergraduate enrollment restricted to 2,000 men. This fact was announced recently by Dean E. Gordon Bill, director of admissions at Dartmouth. At the same time that the College is forced to restrict its freshman enrollment so drastically it is faced with the problem of selecting those whom it will admit from a list of fully qualified applicants considerably larger than in any previous year.

When the first 550 men of this year's freshman class of 650 were selected on April 1 of last year the number of bona fide applications on hand in Dean Bill's office, allowing for all those listed as doubtful or cancelled, was 1420. The number of bona fide applications on hand to date of men definitely desirous of and fully qualified to enter Dartmouth next fall now totals 1443.

The success of Dartmouth's "Selective Process" of admission is fully attested, according to Dean Bill, by the fact that within the past five years the number of men separated from College at the end of the first semester because of scholastic failure has shrunk from 66 to 33, while at the same time the standards of scholarship within the College have been constantly raised.

Approximately four-fifths of next fall's entering class at Dartmouth will be selected by Dean Bill from the applications on hand in his office on April 1.

The scholastic record for the first semester of the present year revealed failures in terms of men separated or placed on probation to be lower than at any other time in the recent history of the college. The figures announced were: Sep. Pro. Total Freshmen 16 59 75 Sophomores 16 76 92 Juniors 0 25 25 Seniors 0 4 4 32 164 196