Good News for Some.

On April 16 Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36 and his weary cohorts sent out Dartmouth's glad tidings to some 1225 young men, so-so news to some 200 put on the waiting list, and not-so-good news to some 3050 others. Now, in this day of multiple applications, the College must await the May 2 deadline to learn which of those accepted by Dartmouth choose to accept Dartmouth.

Although the total number of applications was down 4.8 percent compared with the previous year (as were those for Brown, Columbia, and Yale), the job of selecting the Class of 1970 was as hard as ever. "If anything the decrease is a slice off the bottom," Deputy Director of Admissions Alfred T. Quirk '49 noted publicly, attributing fewer applications to "better guidance in the schools and more alumni participation on the local level, discouraging those boys who obviously could not make the grade."

Some 177 men of the Class of 1970 had already been accepted on the early decision plan - twenty more than last year. The Admissions officers are again shooting for a class of about 800 men.