THE COLLEGE

Now that the College has settled down to work and the students have all been properly registered and classified, the figures from Registrar Robert O. Conant '13 show, as expected, that Dartmouth this year has the largest enrollment in its history. The grand total of 3,092 students is 84 mere than last year's previous record figure. Undergraduate enrollment of 2,852 men is 72 higher than it was last year.

The big factor in the enrollment jump is the size of the freshman class, which has finally shaken down to 805 men. Even without this increase of 48 men in the entering class, there would have been a decided gain over last year in under- graduate enrollment, for all three of the upper classes are larger than in 1955-56. The sophomore class (1959) has 722 of its original 757 members back this fall. The Class of 1958, victim apparently of the sophomore hurdle, has dropped from 714 to 633 but is still more numerous by three than last year's junior class. The Class of 1957 has held the line more stoutly, with 618 men as compared with last fall's 630, and is fourteen larger than the previous senior class.

The undergraduate total also includes 58 men from the Classes of 1949 through 1956, as well as sixteen unclassified students. Men from these earlier classes are in most cases those who dropped out for military service and have now returned to complete the degree requirements.

Tuck School this year has an enrollment of 179 men, 101 in the first-year class, 76 in the second, and two as special students. Thayer School has 68 students, 35 in the first year and 33 in the second. The TuckThayer course is being taken by fifteen men, six in the first year and nine in the second. The Medical School has an enrollment of 48, evenly divided between first- and second-year men.

In addition to the men in the second-year classes of the associated schools, 98 other men are doing graduate work at Dartmouth, making a total of 240 in this category.