Spring Term Opens

DARTMOUTH'S SPRING TERM—the third under the Navy V.-12 Program opened on Monday, March 6, with 1,861 Navy and Marine trainees enrolled and with only 180 civilians on the student roster. The present V-12 Unit is slightly larger than that of last term, when 1,850 trainees registered, but is smaller than the first Unit of approximately 2,000 men which opened the Navy College Training Program at Dartmouth last July.

New arrivals for the spring term included 31 civilian freshmen, the vanguard of the Class of 1948, and 802 Navy and Marine students who reported March 1. The two groups went through their separate programs of orientation prior to the start of classes on March 6, the small group of civilian freshmen being matriculated in President Hopkins' office rather than in the large Faculty Room.

Further shrinkage in civilian enrollment, which will probably go up again when the full Class of 1948 arrives in July, £ias necessitated the closing of Crosby Hall as a dormitory. Civilian students are now housed in Wheeler and Richardson Halls. The V-12 Unit is continuing to occupy the same College buildings, but the Marine Corps detachment, hitherto billeted in Topliff and South Fayerweather, has shifted to the west side of campus and this term is in Butterfield and Russell Sage.

The V-i2 Unit of 1,861 men is made up of 1,619 Navy students and 242 Marine trainees. Since all V-12 students now start in the Navy and later shift to the Marines, the latter detachment received only 19 new men this term and has steadily shrunk from its original 650 members and its 400 of last term.

Enrolled in the Unit at present are 269 men from the Fleet, the largest proportion since the program opened here, and 32 Marines from the enlisted ranks, making a total of 301 trainees who have previously been on active duty.