Situation Stabilized

LESS than 24 hours after the last milk punch party had broken up, the second semester had officially opened and the College was back at work. Thanks partly to the lift from Carnival but mostly to the clarification of draft policy in Washington, the spirit with which the new term began was vastly different from what the Dartmouth administration had expected when undergraduates came back from Christmas vacation in a bad state of enlistment jitters.

The extent to which enrollment has been stabilized for the balance of this academic year is indicated in the Registrar's tentative tally of 2,513 undergraduates for the present semester. This represents a drop of less than 100 men from the total of 2,606 undergraduates who began the college year in September. Not counting '49s and '50s whose combined number shrank from 42 to 15, the senior class (1951) has dropped from 550 to 538. The junior class (1952) has been reduced from 629 to 606, the sophomore class (1953) from 651 to 638, the freshman class (1954) from 719 to 699, and the unclassified group from 13 to 11.

The improved enrollment situation has enabled Treasurer John F. Meck '33 to revise upward the income figure for 1950-51 and to make the cautious statement that the College's books might be balanced after all if the 1951 Alumni Fund achieves the goal of $500,000 set by the Alumni Council, as announced in this issue.