In Brief . . .

The number of women exchange students at Dartmouth next year will double to 150, Dean Katharine Stevens announced last month. The increase is due both to the success of this year's program among students and faculty and to a larger number of women applying to Dartmouth under the Twelve College and Wellesley Exchange Programs. Of the 150 coeds to be enrolled, the largest delegations will be from Wellesley and Smith. Cohen Hall will continue to be a women's dorm and the additional 75 women will be housed in North Massachusetts Hall.

A five-day academic week, beginning next fall, has been adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Saturday classes, which will be dropped, have dwindled in number in recent years and the ones scheduled have suffered from irregular attendance. To make up for the class hours now allotted to Saturday, the faculty voted to increase the scheduling of 8 and 9 a.m. classes, time slots only sparingly used under the six-day week.

Applications for next fall's freshman class are up about 3% over last year, Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, director of admissions, disclosed last month. He reported a near-final total of 4704 completed applications compared with a final figure of 4593 for the Class of 1974. A class of slightly more than 800 men will be chosen from the 4700-plus applicants.

The annual spring meetings of the Dartmouth class officers will take place in Hanover on the weekend of April 30-May 1.