Council Report Approves Retention Of Present War Service Credit Policy

Lacking a general student response, the Student Council investigation of the College policy on granting academic credits for war service has concluded that insufficient general dissatisfaction exists to call for further action.

Although 25 percent of the undergraduates in a poll last month said that the College policy affected them adversely, the failure to follow up the opinion with letters to the Council was attributed by Robert S. Sturgis '44, on behalf of the Council, to possible inertia in cases of minor injustices and to a certain amount of liberalization in Dean's Office handling of individual petitions.

Dean Hanford predicted yesterday that the policy of the Faculty Committee on War Service credit, of which he is chairman, would become less strict as the peak enrollments of the next two terms taper off. One of the present policy's chief objectives is to make it possible to admit a maximum number of new veterans during this critical period.

It was also hinted by Dean Hanford that undergraduates forced to accept war credit may now be able to re-petition in a year or two if they should continue to feel that their course of study has been incomplete.

Meanwhile, a survey of other Ivy League colleges by the CRIMSON has shown Harvard to be the only one making an aggressive effort to push its present student's along where possible to make room for veterans who would not otherwise be admitted.

While Yale, Brown, Cornell, and Columbia have indicated that they intend to leave students an option with respect to the acceptance of approved service credits, Dartmouth requires that returning veterans submit a program of study, with or without service credits, to which they are expected to adhere.