THE COLLEGE

Hanover’s sharp and misty mornings may move in on little cat feet, but that is not descriptive of the arrival of the different contingents of students who shake Hanover out of its pre-fall quiet and serve notice that another college year is about to begin. First come the football players on September 1 (a visiting Harvard instructor sitting on the Inn porch was somewhat shocked to see them padding by barefooted), then the two hundred or so freshmen who check into town but leave quickly on the Freshman Trip, then the entire freshman class of 800-plus and their IDC advisers reporting for Orientation Week, then the fraternity men and hopeful sophomores back for the four-day rushing period that precedes the start of classes* and finally the remainder of the upperclassmen. This last group grows steadily smaller; either the lure of Hanover or restlessness at home causes nearly everyone these days to come back a little early, and a Han- overian is not with it if he lets himself ask the silly question, “Why, what brings you back ahead of schedule?”

The full student assemblage, including a large freshman class, may give Dart- mouth a record enrollment for the 194 th academic year which officially opened with Convocation on Monday morning, September 24. Dormitory space was tight and no sooner had the Music Department vacated Hallgarten last month than work- men were renovating it for use as an overflow dorm.