3,423 GSAS Students To Register

At today's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) registration, 3,423 students will join 49 departments in fields of expertise range from medical science to forestry science and beyond.

These scholars, including more then 600 first-year graduate students, will report to Lehman Hall between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. to claim their student (and at times teaching fellow) status.

According to Associate Registrar Gayle E. Merrithew, students who have no outstanding debts with the University will receive packets teeming with bureaucratic materials today.

This array will include registration forms, study cards, identification cards and catalog supplements; quite similar, in fact, to what their undergraduate counterparts will take away with them on Friday.

Late arrivals who miss what is reputed to be the University's most expeditious registration will be required to report to the Registrar's Office at 20 Garden St. and pay a $50 penalty upon their return to Cambridge.