New Term Opens

DARTMOUTH WILL OPEN its fifth term under the Navy V-12 Program on November 6, with its trainee enrollment reduced from 1900 to approximately 1280, the revised quota assigned to the College by the Bureau of Naval Personnel. The Bureau has recently announced that no new V-12 men will be enrolled for the term starting March 1 but that students already in training will continue their allotted term. This will mean a further cut in the size of the Dartmouth Unit after the coming term.

Among the 750 to 800 men leaving the Unit at the end of the summer term are 314 second-term basic trainees being transferred to other colleges for special curricula and also because of the cut in enrollment. Only 84 of this group are being retained. A total of 374 trainees are expected to complete the V-12 course, and some others will be separated for academic reasons.

Topliff, New Hampshire and South Fayerweather Halls will no longer be used by the Navy at the start of the new term. V-12 men will thus be concentrated on the west side of campus in Gile, Streeter, Lord, Butterfield, Russell Sage, Hitchcock, Massachusetts and North Massachusetts Halls.

Included among the new V-12 arrivals for the November term will be a small number of Marines from other college units which are being closed out. Tuck School will have 125 new pre-supply students, raising its enrollment to a record high of approximately 300 men. A few new basic trainees and upper-level transfers are also expected.

Civilian enrollment for the coming term is estimated by Registrar Robert O. Conant '12 at approximately 225 men. This number will include a half-dozen students returning to college following medical discharge from the service and also about the same number of transfer students. No civilian freshmen are being admitted at the start of the November term.