ANOTHER COLLEGE YEAR BEGINS

As DARTMOUTH'S 199TH YEAR got under way in September, students, faculty and administrative officers engaged in a busy round of familiar events, some remembered by nearly all Dartmouth men and others recalled as personal experiences only by the postwar classes. Freshman Week, just prior to the formal opening of the college year, now brings the entire entering class to town ahead of the rest of the student body, and this year 500 of the 819 freshmen arrived even earlier to take part in the remarkably successful D.O.C. Freshman Trips. Sophomores cut into the latter part of Freshman Week for fraternity rushing, now held before College opens, and with Sunday registration the rest of the upperclassmen were on hand for their renewed assault on academic objectives. For the text of the Monday morning address with which President Dickey urged them onward, turn the next page.

One of the Freshman Trip groups resting near a sign pointing to Mt. Moosilauke.

Freshmen and parents meeting with faculty advisers at theFreshman Week reception held on the lawn of Baker Library.

New students are photographedfor that very essential I.D. card.

In a Dartmouth tradition of long standing, everyfreshman meets the President of the College personally when his matriculation certificate is signed.

Today's students are brought into touch withhigh finance when purchasing their textbooks.

College Hall, the old Commons ofyesteryear, provided plenty of roomfor the spread-out operation of upperclass registration for the fall term.

Rare is the house without a touch of female pulchritude as partof its spruced-up hospitality during the fraternity rushing period.