Freshman registration, a Memorial Hall rat-race in any year will be crowded to capacity today because of the compressing of what is usually a three-day affair into the brief space of 12 hours.

Almost as complicated to administer as the Selective Service registrations, the 1946 signing-up process necessitates a large staff of University officials and student aides to complete. Stanley K. Leonard, a graduate student who has run the midyear and final examinations for the past three years, will be in charge of the whole organization. He stated yesterday that he was using between 25 and 30 men in the Hall itself, and would need an additional half-dozen to sort out the course cards later on.

Freshmen signing up today will first get their study cards in Memorial Hall, and will have to talk their course programs over with their advisers some time during the morning or afternoon, returning again to go through the rest of the formal registration.

Peak hours will probably not be reached until afternoon, when the milling Yardlings will either be coming in late for their first batch of material, or coming back after having received advice on what courses they should follow during the summer.

Among the problems the registration staff has to deal with is parents who watch or help their sons register, press photographers, and the solicitors for laundry, valeterias, and student publications who operate directly outside the exit to Memorial Hall.

Fathers who accompany their sons are permitted to run the registration gauntlet with their progeny, but mothers are politely seated at the East end of the Hall and told to wait.