College Enrolls 361

WITH A CIVILIAN undergraduate enrollment of 361, the smallest since 1894, the College opened its 175th year on July 5. This number, about one-eighth that of the normal student body in recent years, does not include some 300 additional Dartmouth undergraduates who are included in the 2,000 Navy and Marine reservists ordered here in the V-12 Unit.

This total of 361 is divided into 176 upperclassmen and 185 freshmen, the Class of 1947 being the smallest to enter the College since the last century. This figure is far below that for the Class of 1922 which entered college in 1918, in the middle of the last World War, with 434 members.

This year's entering class claims the further distinction of being the only class in the recent history of the College to matriculate at the beginning of the summer. Whereas a number of students in the Class of 1946 began their college careers a year ago, in July, 1942, the enrollment for that class did not acquire its total of 595 students until the fall semester began in September.

The 1947 freshmen now attend college under conditions different from those of any class yet to enter Dartmouth. While enrolled in a strictly liberal arts program, they find themselves in many of the same elementary elective courses as the apprentice seamen who are here as first-year students in the V-12 Navy and Marine Unit.

Another innovation in the traditional freshman plan is the discarding of the rule requiring all freshmen to eat together in Commons. College Hall, which formerly housed the freshman dining rooms, has been taken over by the V-ia Unit, and the Dartmouth Dining Association, which was in charge of feeding the freshmen, is devoting all of its facilities to serving Navy and Marine students.

In keeping with the atmosphere of military discipline attending the V-12 Unit and because a sharply reduced civilian enrollment has made effective student government impossible, the College has found it necessary to revise the regulations for the new year. New rulings prohibit the drinking of liquor in dormitory rooms at any time and bar women visitors from dormitory

rooms after 7:00 p.m. The ban on liquor is similar to the ruling passed on fraternities during the intersession when a regulation against beer was added to the earlier prohibition of hard liquor.