The College

At just what moment Dartmouth began its third century is a bit uncertain, but with the opening of the 201st academic year on September 24 the new era had a sure launching. Convocation exercises were held that evening at 8 in the Leverone Field House, and the occasion was marked by President Kemeny’s first Convocation Address since he took office.

Enrollment this fall will be little changed from last year’s totals of 3230 undergraduates and 500 graduate students. The incoming freshman class will be down from 850 to an estimated 820, but this is offset by 30 new transfer students in the upper classes, a marked increase over the five or six such students accepted each year in the past. The freshman class includes 75 blacks and 15 Indian Americans. The coed exchange program is continuing, and 73 girls from other colleges will be enrolled, most of them in the junior class. This year all regular Dartmouth courses will be open to the coeds without the former requirement of the instructor’s permission.

For the first time in many years Dartmouth this fall has a teaching President. Mr. Kemeny is offering one of the freshman seminars, on The Philosophy of Science. Next term the College will also have a teaching President Emeritus when Mr. Dickey gives a seminar course on U. S. and Canadian relations.