To Enroll 3,000

IN ORDER TO admit as many as possible of the veterans on its application list, Dartmouth next fall will expand its enrollment to approximately 3,000 men, it was announced by President Dickey late in May. This temporary increase beyond the College's normal enrollment of 2,400 has been sanctioned by the Board of Trustees following a special study by a faculty committee to determine the maximum expansion possible within the limitations of Dartmouth's small town location. The additional places are being filled entirely from the hundreds of applications already on file, and the expansion has not permitted any reopening of the fall application lists, which were closed some months ago for new men.

The October enrollment of 3,000 is expected to include about 2,400 veterans, a percentage believed to be unique among the colleges of the country. In order to accommodate this record number, classes will be scheduled both day and night, especially in the laboratory sciences; the faculty will teach more and larger sections; and the number of students housed in each dormitory will be considerably increased beyond the normal.

Through a reapportionment of space in all the bachelor dormitories their capacity has been increased by approximately 500 places. Using standards between those of the prewar years and those set by the Navy for housing members of the V-12 Unit, College officials have assigned additional occupants to rooms where space standards permitted and where toilet and shower facilities were adequate. In Crosby Hall additional toilet facilities are being installed on each floor. Double-decker beds are being used where necessary and, in general, the influx of veterans means that accommodations will not equal those of prewar years.

A revised scale of rentals for these dorms will go into effect next fall, raising the total rate per room as a partial offset to increased costs of operation but reducing the rate per man in those rooms where additional beds have been installed. The new rental scale averages $90.50 per occupant per semester, as compared with $95.32 before the war, and will provide a lower net income to the College than before the war because of increased costs. The number of accommodations at the average rental or below has been increased from 923, or 59 per cent, to 1,299, or 62 per cent.

Housing for students next fall is expected to provide approximately 3,000 places all together in the bachelor dorms, fraternity houses, dorms and houses for married students, and off campus. The number of men permitted to room in each fraternity house has temporarily been increased from 16 to 19 where space and facilities are adequate.

The College's most difficult housing problem next fall will be that of providing housing for married veterans and their families. About 400 such veterans are expected among the 5,000 students enrolled and spaces for them will total only about 325. Assignment to Dartmouth of 96 additional FPHA housing units, increasing the capacity of Wigwam Circle to 200 units, will help greatly but this total is included in the 325 places.