P.B.H. WILL AGAIN SPONSOR UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY

This fall Harvard will take to its bosom 100 extra students, but approximately 88 per cent of them are foredoomed never to get a diploma, none will register in Mem Hall, and they will be instructed by a faculty of undergraduates.

The program is part of the social activities of Phillips Brooks House, which is sponsoring a group of student tutors under Newbold R. Landon '42 to instruct high school graduates in college subjects by way of preparation for a college career.

Statistics taken since 1936, when P.B.H. first launched the program, show that only 12 per cent of the students tutored have ultimately gone to college. However, all have been better prepared for careers by courses in bookkeeping, languages, composition, and science.

Under-undergraduates Grow

Last year over 90 students took advantage of the courses offered, and the year before, 34. Their popularity is attenied by the need to expand this under-undergraduate body in the face of increased applications.

Mathematics, chemistry, and physics have proved the most popular courses: however English literature and composition, French, history, Latin, biology, astronomy, German and Spanish are strong competitors.

Instruction is given at night in the rooms of the Undergraduate Faculty, and students have privileges in the Phillips Brooks House Library and the University's museums and libraries.

In addition to the tutoring, the student professors supervise the award of some 10 scholarships enabling high school graduates to take the regular University Extension Courses offered by faculty men from Harvard and other Boston colleges and universities.

The idea of an undergraduate faculty was borrowed from other American colleges, among them the University of California, Lehigh, the University of Southern California, and Radcliffe.