A Full House

As the College opens this 200th year, it has the largest student population in its history, and every inch of residential space is occupied. Enrollment figures include approximately 3200 undergraduates and over 500 graduate students in the associated schools and in M.A. and Ph.D. programs in the Arts and Sciences. The increase of at least 150 onampus students during the fall term has resulted from a record freshman enrollment of 854 men, a reduction in the number of students on leave for the foreign-study program, and an addition of 70 coeds at the College this year as exchange students.

The young women, mostly juniors, are living as a group in Cohen Hall. They have come to Dartmouth for one year under the experimental Ten-College Exchange Program. During their year of study here, they will participate in college activities, but they are not candidates for a Dartmouth degree. All the credits they earn will be transferred to their home colleges, to which they are scheduled to return next fall.

The girls are at Dartmouth to take courses or utilize facilities that may not have been available in their home colleges. Several of them, for instance, were attracted by the unusually strong programs in art and drama Dartmouth offers, reinforced by the facilities in the Hopkins Center. Other coeds are majors in history and Russian, while still others are interested in Dartmouth's exceptional computer training.

Of the exchange students selected by a faculty committee on the basis of their academic ability and the seriousness of their proposed programs of study, the largest contingent (25) comes from Smith College, followed by Mt. Holyoke (15), Vassar and Wheaton (7 each), and Connecticut College (3). Although the exchange program takes its name from the number of colleges that initiated it last spring, it has not been limited to them, and several other colleges are represented among the group by one or two students, from as far away as Occidental and Talledega. Under the exchange program, about 15 Dartmouth students are taking a year or part of a year at other colleges, with seven going to Smith (most for one term) and five to Vassar.