Forty-Niners

The young indian braves mentioned above are inordinately proud of the fact that their number and their class numerals are exactly the same, resulting in the catchy phrase "forty-nine '49ers." Dean Strong still sticks to his story that it was a whim of chance and not administrative manipulation that brought about this similarity. The coincidence will be short- lived in any event, for the current expectation is that a sizable group of new freshmen will enter in July. At this writing there are one hundred more names on the active list than there were in April 1944.

Any increase at all in civilian enroll- ment will make us happy. While skirting the southern end o£ Fayerweather Row late the other night we were more aware than usual of the emptiness and blackness of the dormitories on the east side of campus. New Hampshire and Topliffi also loomed dark and lonely on the right, and the Rip- ley-Woodward-Smith unit, set back among the trees, had some of the melancholy air of the nearby Sphinx tomb. At that mo- ment nothing seemed more profoundly true than that it isn't a collection of build- ings that make a college but the human be- ings who give them life.