Fall Courses

DARTMOUTH'S FALL CURRICULUM has been overhauled to meet the war emergency. More than 30 courses have been dropped from last fall's schedule and 8 new "defense" courses substituted. These 8 new courses, with the addition of the year courses begun in the summer, shift the emphasis of the program from strictly cultural subjects to the applied arts, or war sciences.

Enrollment increases are especially marked in Physics and Math courses. Since both subjects are basic requirements for many branches of the Service, the sharp change in student choice tells its own story. Math, with 898 students, has the highest enrollment of any subject in the College except English. Economics is third, with 787; History, fourth, 760; and Chemistry, fifth, 547. The imminence of war service has jumped the enrollment of Astronomy 11, a study of navigation, from 24 to 80, three times what it was a year ago. This course is of particular value to undergraduates in the Naval Reserve.

SUMMER COURSES

New courses inaugurated in the summer semester include Defense Mathematics, Radio Technique, Map Interpretation, The United States in World Affairs in the Nineteenth Century, Modern War Strategy and National Policy, Power Politics, Components of Democratic Thought, and Tests and Measurements of Military Personnel.

Leading the list of new fall subjects relating to the war effort are Chinese 1-2, an introduction to the Chinese vernacular, Chinese Civilization 11a-12a and Comparative Literature 27a-28a, two courses in contemporary Chinese culture. In the same category are the courses in Elementary Russian and Russian Civilization.

The other three courses offered for the first time this fall are Region Planning, Navy Orientation, and International Trade Barriers.

LLOYD D. BRACE '25 Elected member-at-large of the AlumniCouncil to fill the two-year vacancy causedby resignation of Harvey P. Hood II '18upon the lattefs election to the Board ofTrustees of the College. Mr. Brace is vicepresident of the First Natl. Bank, Boston.