Soviet Visitors Tour University, Discuss Further Exchange Plans

Twelve Russian "students" yesterday continued their frenetic tour of Cambridge, as they met with the Deans, attended conferences and toured the College area. "The tempo in the United States is very fast," group leader Nikolai Voshchinin commented at the news conference, and the group's pace certainly proved his statement.

In the morning, the group of student visitors--average age 25.5 years--met with Dean Bundy to discuss further American-Soviet exchange programs. Following a closed luncheon in Quincy House, the group wandered through Widener, Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger, Peabody Museum, and the Russian Research Center.

"The name of Harvard University is well known in Russia," group leader Vadim Loginov, a member of the Presidium of the Committee of Youth Organizations, told newsmen assembled in the Quincy Junior Common Room. Loginov managed to insert some not-too-subtle propaganda in his introductory remarks: "I was very happy to hear my country had photographed the other side of the moon," he told the 20 reporters and students at the conference.

Two Soviet groups of 12, selected on the basis of geographical distribution and profession, are currently visiting the United States. One group, including a large number of agricultural students, is touring the Middle West. The contingent now in Cambridge will remain here a week and then visit Penn Yann, N.Y., Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City before returning to the U.S.S.R. on Nov. 25.

Four of the Russian group are staying in the Houses, two at the Business School, and the four women at Radcliffe.