POETS WILL GATHER AT HUNTER COLLEGE MAY 13

For the fourth consecutive year, Harvard and Radcliffe will send delegates to the annual Intercollegiate Poetry Reading Convention, which will be held this year on Saturday, May 13, at Hunter College in New York. F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, announced yesterday that the competition to choose the delegate would be held this week.

Each year representatives from 20 or more prominent Eastern colleges gather to foster interest in the reading of poetry. The Convention is founded on the belief that only through proper oral rendition can poetry achieve its ultimate possibilities as a means of aesthetic enjoyment. The program consists of a series of five-minute recitations by the delegates, each of whom chorses his own poetry.

The Convention was held at Amherst last year, with D. L. Moore '33 as the Harvard delegate. Moore read two poems by Anna Hempstead. Marget Clark, last year's delegate from Radcliffe, read three selections by R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English: "In the Tidal Marsh," "Ironwood," and "The Platitude."