Conant Talks To Law Grads

A joint of 1,309 alumni of the Law School and of four other graduate schools yesterday heard President Conant call the new Graduate Center a "major step forward is humanizing professional education at Harvard University."

Conant voiced the hope that the new buildings would provide as favorable an atmosphere for continuing the spirit of general education among graduate students as have the Houses for the College.

The President spoke at a Law School-Harvard Foundation luncheon. Conant said that law students and other graduate students will move into the new living, dining and recreational center next September.

"Then, aside from improving the living conditions of our graduate students in Cambridge," President Conant said, "I believe we will be setting at work the most powerful forces making for a liberal education--the forces generated by friendships formed around the dinner table."

"Community Scholars"

"Through forming a true community of scholars within this Center, I hope that we can capture and hold for our graduate and professional schools in Cambridge those human, democratic qualities which are of so great importance for the functions of professional men."

Conant praised the "unity and loyalty" of Law School alumni who have been conducting a campaign for funds with which to finance the construction of five of the dormitories in the new Center and reported "splendid progress" by the Harvard Foundation in organizing the 22,000 alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Design, Education, and Public Administration.

For the Harvard Foundation, the luncheon climaxed a two-day reunion of graduate schools alumni.