178th Year Opens

DARTMOUTH'S 178 th academic year will open on October 4 with a recordbreaking enrollment of approximately 2900 men on hand to mark the resumption of the prewar two-semester year. At opening exercises in Webster Hall that morning President Dickey will address the student body and a faculty restored to full strength, and immediately after Convocation classes will begin for the semester than runs through February 11.

Better than 80 per cent of the men enrolled for the fall term will be veterans, and of these about 350 will be married and accompanied to Hanover by wives and children. Six hundred new freshmen, two-thirds of them veterans, will join the 100 first-year men continuing from the spring and summer terms. To the 1,350 upperclassmen continuing in college will be added about 850 veterans who formerly were enrolled at Dartmouth as civilian or Navy V-12 students.

The expanded enrollment this fall is expected to create a variety of unprecedented problems with regard to housing, feeding, instruction, and local services, but the College has made every effort to anticipate these problems and devise solutions in advance, and a joint College-community committee has also been at work on the non-academic difficulties expected to arise.

Although Dartmouth will once more be an all-civilian college this fall, the College's peacetime NROTC Unit will be launched under the command of Capt. Roger E. Nelson, USN. Pending full operation of the Holloway Plan, which was approved by Congress, the NROTC Unit will be made up of slightly more than 200 civilian students, both freshmen and upperclassmen, who will carry one naval science course each semester and who will be in uniform only once a week for drill.