Record Enrollment

THE largest enrollment in the history of the College brought to the campus this fall an official total of 5,007 men, five more than the previous record made in 1947-48. Undergraduate enrolment, also a new high, is 2,793, compared with 2,717 last year; and graduate stulents in the College and associated schools total 214.

It is within the last two years that increases in enrollment lave been especially marked, although the trend since the war has been consistently upward. The pressure of student veterans, who returned from service to graduate with later classes, is no longer a factor, so this fall's total of 3,007 is by far the largest four-class enrollment in College annals. Last October the total enrollment was 2,932 or 75 less than the present one. In the fall of 1953, the enrollment in the College was 2,857; and in 1952 it was 2,844.

Of the 745 freshmen who entered Dartmouth with the Class of 1956, 604 are still enrolled as seniors. Of the 728 entering with the Class of 1957, 630 are back this fall; and of the 753 entering with the Class of 1958, 713 have returned as sophomores. There are 756 freshmen in the Class of 1959, making this the second largest entering class, exceeded only by 1955, which had 760 members.

Of the 199 men doing graduate work in the three associated schools, Tuck School has 100, of whom 57 are Dartmouth graduates and 43 alumni of other schools; 24 men are at Thayer School; 23 are in the second-year course at the Medical School and 45 postgraduates are doing advanced work in the Medical School. Seven graduate students are taking the Tuck-Thayer course. Last year the number of graduates working in the associated schools was 215, sixteen more than this year's total.