3513 Undergraduates Register; Total Figure Declines Only 70

Three thousand, five hundred and thirteen undergraduates had registered in the University for the coming year when Memorial Hall closed its doors last night at the end of the third day of registration.

The figure, only 70 men below the total registration in the College last year, indicates that the graduate schools will sustain the major portion of the 10 per cent drop in enrollment which is expected for the University as a whole.

Running contrary to the trend begun three years ago toward a declining student body, the Freshman Class alone has shown an increase over last year's figures and jumped 18 men beyond the predicted 1,100 mark to reach a total of 1,118.

Seniors 100 Below

This year's Sophomore Class had reached 874 last night, a drop of 244 from the high set by the Class of '45. Enrollment in the Junior Class fell another 85 men to 789. The Senior Class is an even hundred below the Juniors.

Although late registrants may yet boost the enrollments of the three upper classes, it is not expected to be near the number of Freshman late-comers, who have swelled the Yardlings' ranks since last Friday's figure of 997 to the present 1,118. Out-of-course students among the undergraduates number 43.

Complete figures covering the graduate schools were not available last night, but a known drop of more than 400 in the Law School and an anticipated loss of 200 in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences lend convincing support to predictions of the heavy losses the remainder of the University is expected to suffer.

The large number of Yardlings in College this year is explained by the increased quota which College officials have placed upon entering Freshmen in an attempt to maintain the student body at nearly normal levels despite the draft and other inroads which national defense has made upon men of college age.