V-12 Associated School
THE NAVY V-12 UNIT, starting its courses of instruction at Dartmouth on July 5, will be operated as one of the associated schools of the College and its students will have the same alumni status as non-Dartmouth students in the Medical, Thayer and Tuck Schools, it has been announced by President Hopkins with the approval of the Board of Trustees.
Academic credit applicable toward the A. B. degree will be given for all courses completed by men enrolled in the V-12 Training School, and these credits may be transferred to any college in which a student has already been matriculated or may be counted toward advanced standing in Dartmouth College if the student wishes to apply as a candidate for the Dartmouth degree after the war. It is expected that other colleges will similarly accept V-12 credits offered by men applying for admission.
The July 5 starting date for instruction in the V-12 Training School will also be the starting date for the civilian College, which has revised its accelerated schedule "to conform to the calendar of three 16 week terms a year required by the Navy College Training Program. The Navy and Marine students ordered to Dartmouth for V-12 training probably will report a few days before July 5 in order to complete necessary preliminaries. Dartmouth's civilian Class of 1947 will enter College with the July term.
Additional information about the operation of the Navy College Training Program was obtained by the College on May 14 and 15 when President Hopkins, Treasurer Halsey C. Edgerton '06, Captain H. M. Briggs, and Sidney C. Hayward '26, liaison officer between the College and the Navy, attended the New York meetings of Navy officials and representatives from the various colleges participating in the program. One fact learned was that the size of the units starting in July may be larger than originally expected. Dartmouth had been anticipating only a little more than half of its total quota of approximately 2,400 men for the July term, but it now seems possible that three-fourths or more of the Dartmouth Unit may report at the outset.
Some of the other details learned at the New York meetings are presented more fully in the article of questions and answers about the Navy program printed in the front section of this issue.
As reported last month, the present Naval Training School at Dartmouth will close on June 7, following the graduation of the present class of about 400 commissioned officers on June 4. Captain Henry M. Briggs, USN, commanding officer of the Indoctrination School from its beginning last July, was detached from the School on May 20 and transferred to Brown University, where he will be commanding officer of all Naval activities, including the R.O.T.C. and the new V-12 Unit. Immensely popular in Hanover, Captain Briggs directed the indoctrination of some g.ooo student officers and made the Dartmouth training school one of the model NaVy stations in the country. His departure for Brown was the occasion for many formal and informal expressions of regret on the part of the College and the Hanover community.
