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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE those working in offices and laboratories as well as those in the Glatfelter Hall basement. It also offered the prospect that many administrators could begin using the facility. By 1984-1985 there was a computer studies curriculum of six courses, a computer studies faculty with the standing of a department, separate administrations for academic and administrative computing, and increased computer facilities, both in Glatfelter Hall and over the campus. From Admission to Commencement The 1945-1946 academic year at Gettysburg College began on Thursday, September 15, 1945, only thirteen days after the formal surrender of Japan, and ended with commencement on Monday, May 27, 1946. Since 1911 the College year was divided into two terms, and for about twenty years the semester break had been coming during the second half of January. The catalogue no longer announced an academic year of thirty-five weeks, although this in fact remained the standard. Formal opening exercises, following a freshman orientation program which varied in length from time to time, occurred on a Thursday in mid-September (often, though not always, the third) and commencement took place on the first Monday in June. In 1951 the College broke with a tradition as old as the institution itself when it decided to begin holding baccalaureate and commencement on the same day: the first Sunday in June. A major calendar change occurred eighteen years later, when 4-1-4 went into effect. The fall term then began in early September and ended before Christmas, eliminating the brief post-Christmas session which many had long found unrewarding. After a four-week term in January, the spring session began in early February and ended in time for baccalaureate and commencement to be held on the first Sunday in June. For all practical purposes, the College operated year round during the war. Most of the veterans who entered after the fighting had ended wanted to complete their education as quickly as possible, and for several years after 1945 summer-session enrollments ranged from four to six hundred students. By the 1950s they had dropped into the two hundreds and remained there for more than fifteen years. Several efforts to attract more students proved to be unavailing and in 1971, after enrollments had fallen below two hundred for several years, the summer session was abandoned. The months of June, July, and August were used instead for conferences, as well as for necessary maintenance and improvements. In the forty years after 1945 local and national events caused fewer interruptions in the announced schedule of classes than they 89