Harvard for All

Off & on since its founding, Harvard has been conscience-stricken about limiting its educational facilities to a select few, felt impelled to try instructing the ignorant many. Earliest Harvard attempt at bringing education to the common citizenry was to round up promising Indians, only one of whom graduated.* Exhibiting a fresh burst of social consciousness, last week Tercentenary President James Bryant Conant announced that Harvard's drafty classrooms would soon be thrown open to the public for a free course in U. S. history.

Chief study will be in books recommended in a syllabus to be issued next month, but the readings will be supplemented with lectures by visiting scholars and Harvard bigwigs, who hope to organize "reading parties" during the idle summer months. The course has been financed as a five-year experiment in adult education by Mrs. Charles Warren, wife of a famed Washington lawyer and Pulitzer Prize historian (The Supreme Court in United States History) who has served on Harvard's Board of Overseers since 1934.

*Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (1665).

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