YPs Give Watson Larger List, Still Have No Advisers

One half of the dispute between the Young Progressives and Associate Dean Watson reached an uneasy solution yesterday, but the other half remained unsettled.

Lowell P. Beveridge '52, president of the organization, yesterday morning gave Watson a supplementary list of about five Y.P. members, bringing the group's official membership to 15. The group still does not have a faculty adviser, however.

Watson had told Beveridge earlier that only men listed in the Deans' Office files could be considered as official members of the Y.P. and be allowed to work with the group.

Beveridge's move officially cut the ground out from under the sizable number of twilight members of the group who had not wanted to have their names appear on the lists kept in University Hall. According to Beveridge there are about ten men who were active with the group before and would have been willing to join it officially if they had not had to submit their names to the Deans' Office. He deplored the fact that the list requirement in the rules prevented the others from being members of the organization.

Since Watson has expressed his satisfaction with the supplementary list, this half of the problem is now settled. But the Y.P. has not yet managed to get the two advisers required by the Rules for Undergraduate Organizations. Beveridge has been trying for some time to get members of the faculty to advise the group, but has so far failed. The group, however, has confined its efforts to faculty members, though graduate members and men similarly connected with Harvard are eligible for the posts.

Beveridge said last night that Watson had not indicated that alumni who were not members of the faculty could be advisers, and had mentioned only professors when suggesting possible advisers. The Rules for Undergraduate Organizations, however, speaks of "faculty or alumni advisers."

Beveridge said that even though the Y.P.'s will now try graduates he is not sure that they will be able to find the two advisers required. Whether the group will be refused recognition by the Deans' Office if it falls to fill the requirement is not yet clear. Watson yesterday refused to discuss the eventuality