NAVY-MARINE TRAINING PLANS
Questions and Answers on Dartmouth's Unit Opening July 1
ALTHOUGH ANSWERS TO the hundred and one questions that are being asked L about plans for Dartmouth's new Navy and Marine College Training Programs are not all known there are many points on which information has been secured from the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington and from First District Headquarters in Boston. A full discussion of the Navy's plans was held at a conference called by the Navy May 14-15 New York. A group of College officers headed by President Hopkins attended the meetings.
The most important recent development in Dartmouth's relationships with the Navy is the allocation to the College of a Marine Unit totaling 660. Although the Marines, all of whom will be college students or entering freshmen, will have their own Commanding Officer, they and he will serve under the Naval Commanding Officer who will be in charge of the entire V-12 Unit at Dartmouth, including Naval students with the rank of apprentice seaman and Marine students with the rank of private.
With the Naval Training School of Indoctrination for commissioned officers in Hanover closing early this month there are facilities freed at Dartmouth for expansion of the V-12 quota beyond the original 1400. The College is planning on a total military student personnel of 2400, although final quotas have not been announced by the Navy. Of the Dartmouth quota the majority will report in Hanover on or about July 1. Additions and replacements will be made at the beginning of future sixteen-week terms, about November 1 and March 1. (Marines are included in the Navy V-12 quota.)
Throughout its associations and negotiations Dartmouth has found the training program of the Navy to be liberal and designed to fit the particular situation of the College in which the various curricula will go into operation July 1. In principles and detail the College endorses the Navy program as broad in scope, truly designed to use existing academic resources, and planned to take full advantage of the large plant and facilities which Dartmouth offers.
The College will be responsible for instruction and all academic work with Commanding Officer serving in an advisory capacity. The College is also responsible for housing, messing, medical services, athletics, social and recreational activities with advice and approval of C.O. required in all cases. The Navy will administer disciplinary and military aspects of program and will actively assist and advise the College at many points.
Will ly-year olds accepted in the V-12 program be enlisted and placed on activeduty in the Colleges July 1? Yes.
How many Navy students will be in Hanover July 5?
Estimates by the Navy, to date, run from 1300 upward. These will be distributed roughly: 80% in the upper levels of academic work, 20% entering V-12 freshmen.
What will be the student personnel of theV-12 Unit?
About 400 Dartmouth undergraduates of Navy or Marine Reserves will stay on in Hanover. Remainder of July 1 quota will be made up of reserves from non-Navy colleges transferred to Dartmouth, entering V-12 freshmen, and trainees selected from enlisted men of the fleet.
What is the Dartmouth-Navy calendar,1943-44?
The first 16-week term will begin July 5 ending October 23. There will be a brief vacation and about November 1 the second term will begin followed by the third term about March 1. Navy holidays will be observed as follows: Ist Monday of September, Nov. 11, Thanksgiving Day, Dec. 25, Jan. 1, Feb. 22, May go, July 4.
