1,100 Freshmen to Register Here This Month; Chances Under Draft Depend on Local Boards

The 1,100 members of the Class of 1955 who register here on September 20 will be getting a different kind of Harvard education than their predecessors got. For the entering freshmen will be the first class to get the full General Education program that has been in the making for ten years. The record of '55 will be closely watched to see if it benefits from having a different set of course distribution requirements and a full does of the survey classes that were first introduced five years ago.

This is also the first class since 183 that has not had to face English A. composition course that pounded clear writing into students' heads. Instead '55 will be offered a course under General Education that will try somewhat to associate the teaching of writing with G.E. work in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Changes and More Changes

Alumni sons will find a Harvard greatly different from the dinner table one, because the College went co-ed during World War II. (Joint institution is the local term.) But while the unlimited presence of women in the Yard still surprises visitors, College students have long since accepted this condition and no longer talk about it.

Members of the Class of '55 will arrive in Cambridge beginning Monday, September 17, but much of their thoughts will constantly turn homeward as they wonder what their local draft board is going to do with them. Many men are expected to sign up with one of the three ROT programs.

This year's class will be about 50 small than '54, but such variations are normal. The admissions office can never be sure in May what the shrinkage will be over the summer.