CONANT STARTS ON ANNUAL TOUR WEST

Departing last night for his annual West Coast barn-storming tour, President Conant left last night for the sunny climes of California.

There he will fraternize with the expatriate Harvard Alumni who compose the West's Harvard Clubs and with the educational big-wigs of the region.

After having consumed approximately 15 days on the Western Trek, he will be the main speaker March 25 at the Charter Day Ceremonies of the University of California at Los Angeles. In the evening he will take part in the Charter Day Banquet there.

Speaks to Harvard Clubs

Tuesday, March 26, will find President Conant still in Los Angeles at an all-day meeting of the Harvard Clubs of the region, where he will address a luncheon audience, including Governor Culbert Olson and Mayor Fletcher Bowron, who recently won renown for his clean-up of the city. He will speak on the need of democracy for unusual men.

On the evening of the same day, he will address the Harvard Club-men on the "Case of the privately-Endowed University." The other main speaker on this program will be DR. Robert A. Millikan, Nobel Prize physicist of California Technology Institute.

Next day President Conant will hob sob will the faculty of the California Institute of Technology and will speak to them on the subject of changes in ideas in relation to organic chemistry.

He will be the featured speaker at the Charter Day of University of California at Berkeley on Thursday, March 28, and will address the Charter Day banquet following these exercises.

On march 31 he will talk to a picnic luncheon of the San Francisco Harvard Club, and will return early in April to Cambridge.