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The fourth annual Harvard-Yale Princeton Conference on Public Affairs, sponsored by the undergraduate daily newspapers of the Big Three, is to be held at Princeton on Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22.
Returning to the campus where the idea for such a conference was originally conceived in 1936, the meeting will take as its central theme of discussion, "Immediate Problems and Policies of the United States Government." Because the purpose of the conference is to enable undergraduates to discuss problems of the day with distinguished faculty men from the three universities and men prominent in public life, it will consist of five round-table discussions with student, teacher, and guest participating.
Students May Take Part
The subjects for the tables are: I. The United States and Latin American Relations; II. The United States' Policy Toward International Trade; III. Social Security and Relief; IV. Government and Transportation Problems, and V. Pressure Groups in a Democracy.
The conference is so constructed that while the Daily Princetonian, the Yale News, and the CRIMSON select and invite groups of professors and eminent guests to the meetings, there is nevertheless provision made for exceptionally qualified undergraduates to take part in the discussions. Twenty-five students from each college will be delegates to the conference, and selection of the Harvard group will not be made until after the spring recess.
Undergraduate Heads
R. H. McBride, Princeton '40, representing the Princetonian; E. A. Ballard II, Yale '40 of the News, and Charles N. Pollak II '40 of the CRIMSON head the undergraduate committee handling the meeting.
Among nationally prominent people who may join the sessions are Dorothy Thompson, columnist for the New York Herald Tribune; Sumner Welles and Francis B. Sayre of the State Department; Edsel Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, representing the automobile industry; Admiral Land, of the Maritime Commission; Walter Lippmann; Matthew Woll, labor leader, and Roger Baldwin, of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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