College enrollment will reach its lowest ebb since the wartime boon when approximately 5100 men file through Memorial Hall today. That total is 400 below the number registered in September and 100 less than the tally at last year's spring registration.

Only 61 of today's registrants are new, and even they aren't genuinely new. They are men who have been at Harvard before but who took leaves of absence, self-imposed or otherwise. For the first time since before the war there aren't any new freshmen in the mid-year census. Last year there were three.

As of today signature cards will required to eliminate proxy registration, which previously was illegal but not at all rare.

The drop in enrollment is explained by the 400 men who fulfilled their degree requirements in the post term. Their departure has left some 200 vacancies in the Houses, but House-master filled up the empty rooms as early as January 15. Of those who register today, 900 will receive degrees next June.

When to register

Here is the order of registration once again: Men with names beginning A-M register between 8:30 a.m. and 12 noon. Those with initials N-Z file through between 1 and 4 p.m. Latecomers, A-Z can register between 4 and 6 p.m.

Ex-servicemen will not fill out the necessary Veterans Administration forms in Memorial hall today, but at the office of the Counselor for Veterans in Weld Hall.

The assorted hucksters who hover around Mem Hall exits to bargain for signatures, money, and political souls of fatigued registrants will be fewer than the number present at fall Term Registration, but they'll be there.

Radcliffe won't sign up for the second half of the year until Wednesday.