War Quickens Pace of Summer School Session

With an enrollment of 2211, the largest since 1991, the Summer School and the University's dog-day life was quickened considerably by the turn of affairs in Europe. In addition to the usual scholarships, appointments, and Summer School teas and sociables there were two sizeable conferences. A faculty committee for American defense as well as a Harvard Public Health Unit in England were founded.

Over 100 faculty members holding the opinion that America is faced with "danger both serious and immediate" formed a committee for American defense. Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Greek and Latin, chairman of the group, issued an eight point manifesto.

Measures for Defense

The committee in its credo asks for immediate measures for defense, registration of all adult Americans, all possible aid to countries at war with totalitarian powers, and the maintenance of a fearless and united national morale.

Because it believes that the present emergency can be successfully met by nothing less than the united and organized efforts of all the people, the group will endeavor to obtain a classified registration of faculty members and to recruit support for various defense agencies.

One of the high lights of the Harvard summer was the two-week conference of diplomats, religious leaders, businessmen, and educators on "Religious Principles and Contemporary and National Issues." The conference which dealt with the Church's part in world peace and democracy was conducted for two-day periods by five leaders belonging to the Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths.

Mordacal Johnson, president of Howard University and a famous negro leader, electrified the conference with his view that danger of totalitarianism will come from the suppressed Southern states. He claimed that "one third of the nation, living in the South, has a one party dictatorship, inflamed race hatred, and a tribal religion."

Ways to improve tomorrow's children concerned the other major conference of the summer. The conference brought together leaders, teachers, and research workers in many fields for an exchange of views as to ways and means of improving both the heredity and environmental endowments of tomorrow's children.

Conference leaders faced with the fact that America's birth rate is on the decline agreed that the decline must be stopped if America wishes to keep her position as an imperialistic power. Exports were at odds as to the best method of increasing America's birthrate. Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, foresees the decline of civilization through fostering propagation of the lower classes, while Thomas V. Moore of Catholic University asserted that moronity has a biological trend to climinate itself. The rest of the summer was, like the weather, alternately hot and cold.

Feminine enrollment in Summer School continued to show a steady increase with almost 900 of the fair sex; requirements for M.A. in Teaching were slackened; over 400 gallons of afternoon tea were consumed; Samuel Eliot Morison. Professor of History, caught up with Columbus