V-12 Cut Announced

IN COMMON WITH OTHER COLLEGES and universities participating in the Navy V-12 program, Dartmouth will take a cut of approximately 25 per cent in the size of its V-12 Unit, starting with the November term, it was learned by College officers who attended in New York on May 12-13 a meeting of Navy and college representatives. The announcement was made by Vice Admiral Randall Jacobs, Chief of Naval Personnel.

For the coming term, starting July 1, the V-12 program will maintain its present over-all enrollment of about 70,000 men, and Dartmouth expects again to have a full unit of approximately 2,000 men. The Navy's decision to make a 25 per cent cut is in line with Fleet needs at present and with the progress of the war.

General reaction to the Navy's announcement was that the size of the cut and the advance warning would combine to enable the V-12 colleges to work out readjustments with less difficulty. Speaking for Dartmouth, in the absence of President Hopkins, Sidney C. Hayward '26, liaison officer with the Navy, declared that a reduction in V-12 enrollment had been anticipated for about the November term and expressed the opinion that perhaps a system of faculty leaves will be helpful in solving the faculty dislocation looming as the largest problem. "Regardless of V-12 enrollment," he stated, "Dartmouth will continue to offer its liberal arts program to qualified civilians, of whom there may be an increasing number discharged from the armed forces in a year or less," and added that Dartmouth was grateful for the manner in which the Navy had announced the impending cut far enough in advance to enable the College to make plans.

Dartmouth's delegation to the New York meetings at Columbia University included Captain D. E. Cummings, Commanding Officer of the V-12 Unit; Mr. Hayward; Deans Bill and Neidlinger; and Halsey C. Edgerton '06, treasurer, who participated in financial discussions.

The Navy announced that no V-12 Unit in the country was likely to be cut below a total of 250 trainees, which means that the larger units, such as Dartmouth, will probably take a higher percentage of reduction in the achieving of the over-all cut of 25 per cent.