Traditional Pomp, Splendor Planned for Commencement

Graduate students and reveling alumni this year will disport themselves as no Commencement group has done for the last five years, during the four-days from June 3 through June 6, according to a program released yesterday by David M. Little '18, secretary to the University.

Only about 225 college degrees will be awarded this June, of which the Class of '46 will receive a small fraction, with the rest going to "accelerated" members of '47 and members of previous classes disrupted by the war.

This year's figure, nevertheless, marks the largest June graduation since 368 A.B.s and S.B.s were given in 1943, and far exceeds last year's 93 as well as 92 of the year before, the smallest number since 1861.

National Figure To Speak

A speaker "of national importance to be announced later" will share after-dinner honors with President Conant at an informal banquet Tuesday evening, June 4, at the Copley-Plaza in Boston. He may well be one of the honorary degree recipients about whom speculation usually centers in the pre-Commencement weeks.

Joseph C. Grew '02, former ambassador to Japan, was given the only honorary degree three years ago, but the University loosened up the following year with eight awards, and last year borrowed Admiral Ernest King and correspondent Leland Stowe from the national view to head a list of 12 honarary guests on the Commencement platform.

Besides Phi Beta Kappa's public exercises starting off the week, Monday will see a dinner in honor of George H. Chase '96, former Dean of the University and member of the 50-year class, followed by a business meeting in Harvard Hall at 8 o'clock to discuss a proposed World War II Memorial.

Veterans To Give Harvard Angle

Undergraduates will have two occasions to address "the age that is past" on Tuesday. In the morning, several students will speak along with members of the Faculty, President Conant moderating, while Wilbur J. Bender '27, Counsellor for Veterans, will pick five veterans to explain to an afternoon audience at Sanders Theater "How the War Brought Me to Harvard and What I Expect to Take Away."

A concert on the steps of Widener by the Glee Club later in the afternoon will precede the main banquet that evening.

Yale's treatment of the baseball squad will be the most pressing concern for the crowds on Wednesday afternoon following a morning of open houses throughout the University and round table discussions after lunch.

Commencement Is June 6

Lacking the Baccalaureate Servicing the third year because of the dearth of regular Seniors, Commencement Day itself, Thursday, June 6, will feature the traditional speeches and exercises along Widener Library quadrangle, with the award of honorary degrees in the Tercentenary Theater, Memorial Church.

Alumni will congregate in the Stadium Thursday afternoon for the exercises which, during the war, consisted of military reviews, but which had formerly involved the gentle sport of throwing confetti at the graduating class after the delivery of the Ivy Oration.

Twenty-fifth reunion activities, always most prominent in Commencement Week and expected to be attended this yearly about 700 members of the Class of and their families, will dove-tail with the general program at several points, but in addition will include a Tuesday outing to the North Shore, and a men's display on the pre-war scale at the Parker Heuse Wednesday evening.