THE COLLEGE

WITH some of their number sporting Bermuda and Florida tans, the students returned to classes on Monday, April 11, after a two-week springrecess, to begin the final lap of the academic year. While they were away the last patches of snow disappeared and spring put in a somewhat tentative appearance in the Connecticut valley. The students quickly went to work to nail down the season, however, by starting softball games on the campus, getting out golf clubs and tennis rackets, and donning Bermuda shorts- an act of bravado in the estimation of those who still enjoyed having heat in the radiators on a chill April morning.

While seniors began to realize that the end was almost upon them, hundreds of sub-freshmen were about to get the Admissions Office letters that would open the door to their Dartmouth careers. Notifications to the successful applicants for the Class of 1959 are scheduled to go out about the first of May, and the men will have until May 18 to accept admission. During that period of a little over two weeks, Dartmouth alumni active in the enrollment program will be doing some of their most important work to assure an entering class of top quality. Approximately three thousand active applications were processed this spring, and it is expected that the new class will number between 725 and 750 men.