Enrollment 2,818

WITH A RECORD-BREAKING enrollment of 8,818 men in the undergraduate College and associated schools this semester, facilities in Hanover have been stretched to the utmost. An even higher total will be reached in February when the College fills the places purposely left vacant and attains the maximum of 3,000 enrollment approved by the Trustees for the emergency.

Despite unusual crowding, the College opened the new year with only one serious snag when 96 of the FHPA housing units for married veterans were not ready for occupancy as expected because of temporary shortages of labor and materials. Some of the student families were temporarily housed by an appeal on the part of the Administration to residents of Hanover and vicinity to rent rooms in their homes, but other families were temporarily separated when wives were forced to remain at home until the units were completed. Sixteen of the units were finished the first weekend of the fall semester and additional blocks of sixteen have been completed each subsequent week. It is expected that by the time this issue is in the mails all will be ready for occupancy.

A widespread Hanover furniture shortage caused the joint College-Community Committee, under the chairmanship of Sidney C. Hayward '26, to issue an appeal to local residents to sell any spare furniture they might have in their homes, with TheDartmouth being used as a local clearing house. Laundry facilities are in such short supply that students have been advised to send their laundry home where possible. Due to early pre-semester action and the pooling of the resources of Baker Library, local booksellers and publishers, an impending text-book shortage was successfully averted. By the same sort of joint action headed by this committee, the Dartmouth Dining Association and local restaurants have been adequately accommodating the rush of business.

The 3818 students now in college span 15 classes, or nearly four complete college generations. Starting with two members of the Class of 1936, every class up through 1950 is represented. Of the classes already graduated 1946 has the largest number of men, 385. The Class of 1950 leads the entire group with 603 men.