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In a period when most liberal arts Colleges saw applications falling off, Dartmouth experienced a 75 per cent increase in completed bids for admission between 1971 and 1974.

Although the figure is considerably inflated because the first year of a three-year study conducted by Georgetown University coincided with the start of both coeducation and year-round operation which, theoretically, doubled the pool by including women and increased the size of the student body by 25 per cent, the number of men applicants alone grew by 28 per cent.

Admissions Director Edward T. Chamberlain '36 attributed the dramatic increase to the initial impact of coeducation and a general increase in multiple applications, as well as to the attractions of the flexible Dartmouth Plan, the College's reputation, and Hanover's geographic location. With the ratio of applications to places available in the freshman class climbing from five-to-one in 1971 to eight-to-one in 1974, it is not surprising, he notes, that applications from men this year leveled off at an estimated 5,700, slightly lower than last year's figure.

Charles Hamm, a musicologist from the University of Illinois, has been named Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music. He will be the second occupant of the endowed chair established under the will of the late Arthur Virgin "00.

A graduate of the University of Virginia, with a master's degree and a doctorate from Princeton, Hamm is immediate past president of the American Musicological Society. Owing to a commitment to conduct a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar next year at Illinois, where he has taught since 1963, he will not join the Dartmouth faculty until July 1976.

WDCR, the student-operated commercial radio station, has won a special citation from United Press International for its election-night coverage of the Wyman- Durkin race for a U.S. Senate seat from New Hampshire.

The recognition was part of the annual New England Broadcast Awards competition sponsored by UPI. WDCR's entry was a half-hour tape edited from more than eight hours of coverage, during which a student anchorman correctly forecast the moot outcome of the election.

The first Katharine Brock Prize, to be awarded annually to the outstanding woman in her first year at Dartmouth, has been won by Mary Fraser Lovejoy '77 of Milwaukee.

Named in honor of the assistant to the dean of freshmen, who will retire in June after 21 years of service to the College, the Brock Prize is the counterpart of the William S. Churchill Freshman Prize for men.

Unknowingly, Mrs. Brock herself picked the first recipient. Unaware of plans to establish the prize in her name, she selected Miss Lovejoy in response to a request from Freshman Dean Ralph Manuel '58 to see whom she would have nominated for the Churchill Prize, had women been eligible.

The Concord String Quartet, currently in residence, has won wide acclaim since a briefstay in Hanover the summer of 1971. On Patriot's Day, they commemorate events atanother Concord 200 years ago with a Charles Ives Centennial Concert at the Hop.