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109 Colleges Represented

October 1943
Article
109 Colleges Represented
October 1943

THE ESTABLISHMENT HERE of the Navy V-12 Unit has brought to the Dartmouth campus representatives of 109 colleges in more than a score of states from the east coast to the west.

While the largest proportion of the 2000 trainees have come from New England institutions, there is a fairly large representation from the Central states and from the neighboring state of New York. The most distant colleges represented are Santa Ana Jr. College, San Diego State College, U. C. L. A., and the State College of Washington.

The largest delegation from any one college is the group of more than 300 Dartmouth reservists who have been transferred from the civilian College to the Unit. Second and third largest contingents are 105 from the University of Wisconsin and 82 from the University of Chicago.

Following these are twelve institutions with a representation of more than 20 men each. They are Boston University, 72; Boston College, 66; Holy Cross, 61; Northeastern, 34; Fordham, 33; N. Y. U., 27; lowa, 26; Williams, 26; Xavier, 23; Columbia, 22; Manhattan, 21; and St. John's, si.

Colleges sending between ten and twenty men each include Clark University, 18; Bowdoin, 16; Indiana, 14; Harvard, 14; Maine, 14; Springfield, 14; Missouri, 13; Colby, 13; New Hampshire, 12; George Washington University, 10; Mass. State, 10; Middlebury, 10; and St. Anselm's, 10.

LIEUT. HENRY B. WILLIAMS AUS, technical director of the Players and instructor in English, now on leave serving in the Engineer Corps.