Summer School, Oldest in Nation, Presents New Educational Program

Air-conditioned Lamont Library, a new educational policy, and a liberal sprinkling of co-eds are some of the things the Summer School is counting on to offset an anticipated nation-wide decline in enrollment for the coming year.

Under its newly-appointed director, William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, the country's oldest Summer School is presenting its usually distinguished Faculty, and a new program of conferences on general topics.

Lamont is the center of the Summer School for all students, both male and female.

The session lasts from July 5 through August 26. More than ever before, summer offerings reflect the regular curriculum, in line with the theory that summer school should be more than a place to atone for past academic sins.

Faculty of Over 120

Over 50 scholars from other universities in this country and Europe will join a record 70 members of the Harvard Faculty. The Summer School offers over 165 courses in the arts, sciences, and education, covering more than 40 fields.

Harvard students will find such familiar courses as "Dictatorship and the Government and Politics of the Soviet Union," given by Merle Fainsod, professor of government. They will also find that Summer School, educationally speaking, is a good buy.

Expenses Lower

Course for course, summer expenses average about 50 percent lower than during ordinary terms at Harvard. There are bonuses, too, such as the conferences on "Educational Administration," "The Responsibility of Freedom in Education," "The Welfare State," "The Great Powers and the Near East," "The Defense of Poetry," and a special workshop on "Science in General Education."

The teaching rosters of these symposia include such names as Max Lerner, Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, Representative Christian A. Herter '15, (R-Mass.), The Honorable Charles H. Malik, Minister to the United States from Lebanon, and poet Stephen Spender.

Additional Summer School attractions are the July concerts of the Boston Pops Orchestra, and special trips to Tanglewood will bring the Berkshire Festival within easy access.