Summer Semester

ELEVEN HUNDRED DARTMOUTH students who had ended their spring semester only a little over two weeks earlier returned to the College on May 85 to resume studies under the accelerated war program. Summer classes will continue without a break until August 26, when final examinations begin.

In addition to the 1100 upperclassmen enrolled for the summer, about 250 entering freshmen will arrive on July 6 to register for the special eight-weeks term beginning two days later. The remainder of a class of approximately 700 men will matriculate in September. For both freshmen and upperclassmen summer studies are entirely optional.

The College had scheduled its next commencement for May 2, 1943, but since the new senior class is almost completely present at the summer term and will therefore complete the requirements for the degree in December, graduation for the Class of 1943 will probably be moved ahead to shortly before Christmas. No definite decision on this has yet been made.

The extra semester now in progress is the first regular summer term in Dartmouth's history and the first summer session of any sort since before the last World War. The year-round schedule at Dartmouth will continue for the duration of the war, with the Tuck, Thayer and Medical Schools following it also.