Degrees for Medics

FOR THE DURATION Of the war, the Dartmouth bachelor of arts degree will be awarded to students who successfully complete the first year of medical school away after at least six semesters of satisfactory work at the College, it was announced on May 30 by President Hopkins. This action, approved at the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, was taken upon recommendation of the Committee on Administration, and is immediately applicable to men in the Classes of 1943 and 1944 who left Dartmouth to enter medical schools.

Prior to this vote by the Dartmouth trustees, the A. B. degree from the College was awarded only to those medical students who were admitted to Dartmouth Medical School and who successfully completed the first year there.

Arrangements have been made with the Secretary of the Dartmouth Medical School to submit to the Board of Trustees at the appropriate time the names of the men who have become eligible for the A. B. degree under the provisions of the Board's vote. The Medical School will receive reports from other schools certifying the completion of the first year of professional study, and it will also determine what require ments in the pre-medical course students must meet during the six semesters at Dartmouth in order to qualify for the Dartmouth degree.

The vote by the Board of Trustees making this new arrangement effective for the duration of the war was passed as follows:

"VOTED: That for the duration of the war period, the Bachelor of Arts degree be awarded in absentia to students who are admitted to medical schools after completing not less than six semesters at Dartmouth with satisfactory standing, whenever such men have completed the first year in the professional medical course satisfactorily according to the standards of the institution to which they have transferred."

Two DEVELOPMENTS LEADING UP TO START OF NAVY AND MARINE V-12 SCHOOL ON JULY 1 Left, members of the Dartmouth faculty, listening to Lt. C. K. Wallace of the Indoctrination School staff, prepare toteach Naval Organization if needed in the new V-12 program. Right, Captain H. M. Briggs, commanding officer of theIndoctrination School, swears in 44 Medical School students, the first contingent for the new Dartmouth Unit.