Aid Program Climbs

THE number of students attending Dartmouth with scholarship aid has risen to 665 this fall, an increase of 101 over the 564 receiving grants last year, it is reported by Robert K. Hage '99, executive secretary of the Committee on Scholarships and Loans. This record total represents 23.8% of all undergraduates, also a new mark in the growth of Dartmouth's scholarship program.

The total amount of scholarship aid for 1955"56 is $591,000, or an average grant of $888, compared with a total of $430,500 and an average grant of $774 last year. The increase in these figures is accounted for not only by a gradual expansion of the scholarship program but also by this fall's increase in tuition, involving a compensating increase in the size of scholarship grants.

In addition to outright grants, the College this year will make loans of approximately $100,000 and will give scholarship men the opportunity to earn some $50,000 in the dining halls. This brings total financial aid to $741,000, or $189,000 more than last year's comparable figure, and raises the number of men assisted to over 700, or slightly better than 25% of all undergraduates.

Of this year's freshman class, 27.4% are receiving scholarships, the highest percentage of aid yet accorded an entering class at Dartmouth. Among the 208 freshmen granted scholarships, nineteen are National Scholars and ten are recipients of new scholarships awarded for the first time.

Thirteen freshmen holding Daniel Webster National Scholarships are: Carl R. Bahn, Amsterdam, N. Y.; John E. Baldwin, Oak Park, Ill.; Ray E. Becker, Grand Rapids, Mich.; George E. Eder Jr., Scranton, Pa.; Sigmund Ginsburg, New York City; Russell F. Hjerpe, New Britain, Conn.; Hugh J. Kelly, Devils Lake, N. D.; Richard A. Knutson, Ellensburg, Wash.; James L. McKee, Denver, Colo.; D. Scott Palmer, Melrose, Mass.; Arthur L. Quirk Jr., Narragansett, R. I.; and Samuel T. Swansen, Milwaukee, Wis.

Six other top awards, the Alfred P. Sloan National Scholarships, are held by these freshmen: Rodney R. Anderson, St. Paul, Minn.; Ronald F. Kehoe, Medford, Mass.; James C. Longcope, Cheltenham, Pa.; Kenneth C. McKenna, Atherton, Calif.; Milford M. Miller Jr., Newburgh, Indiana; and Judson A. Pillsbury, Norfolk, Va.

Among the ten new scholarships first awarded to entering men this fall, three are General Motors College Scholarships, awarded by the College to Stephen A. Banks, Wilmington, Calif.; John G. Burkhardt Jr., Schuylkill Haven, Pa.; and Gregory G. Holthusen, Stevens Point, Wis.; and two others are General Motors National Scholarships, awarded by G.M. in a national competition to Peter B. Andrews, Tenafly, N. J., and Alan A. Samuels, Brooklyn, N. Y.

The first McCarthy-Hicks Scholarships, established by the McCarthy-Hicks Foundation for students from Maryland, were awarded to Richard J. Belinic '59, Catonsville, Md., and Jon Herriott '59, Towson, Md.

The Dartmouth Club of Westchester Scholarship, also awarded for the first time, is held by Walter A. Gilburg '59, Chappaqua, N. Y.; and the first recipient of the Procter and Gamble Scholarship, selected by the College, is A. Stuart Hanson '59 of Minneapolis. A new Class of 1914 Scholarship, similar to the one established last year in the name of the class, was granted to Melvin Brkich '59, Milwaukee, Wis.

Standard Time returns to Hanover