Grand Total of 8,000 Expected Showing Increase Over Last Year's Attendance

Seven thousand people will be added to the population of Cambridge today, as the grand influx of upperclassmen and graduate students swarms into Memorial Hall before the 5 o'clock deadline. A grand total of some 8,000 students is expected, slightly higher than last year's figure of 7,780.

During the summer, 86 new members have been added to the faculty. Beside those men receiving permanent appointments, there are many distinguished scholars who have been borrowed from other universities either for a single semester or for the whole academic year. Most of these men are already in Cambridge, having attended the Tercentenary symposia and the Celebration.

Among the most prominent of the visiting professors are Sir Frederick G. Hopkins and Etienne Gilson. Sir Frederick is a British Nobel Prize winner, and a distinguished pioneer in vitamin research, who will be a lecturer at the Medial School. Professor Gilson who is probably the foremost Catholic Philosopher in the world today, and who is a great authority on Descartes, and the whole Cartesian school, will be William James Lecturer on Philosophy for the first half-year.

The undergraduate body will receive an increase of only 18 Conant Prize Scholars with the Class of '40. There will be 21 Conant Fellows as upperclassmen, each receiving a maximum of $1200, and bringing the total number of these scholarship holders up to 39.

Graduate Schools

Three main problems of administration in the Graduate Schools await President Conant on his return from England. This year the new School of Public Administration, made possible by the gift of $2,000,000 from Lucius N. Littauer, is Scheduled to take shape. This year also the Graduate School of Education has been reorganized. The curriculum will be more closely related to that of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and general examinations will largely supplant course credits in the pursuit of the degree. Finally, President Conant must continue his search for a Dean for the Law School, a post vacant since the resignation of Dean Roscoe Pound last year.