"Danger"

Last week, in his annual report to the Harvard Board of Overseers, Harvard's President James Bryant Conant waved warning flags:

P: "It seems evident that we are in danger of reaching the condition already so acute on the continent of Europe, where the problem of unemployment in the learned professions demands attention. . . . It seems to me highly probable that a diminution in the total number of students in the universities of this country is desirable."

P: "I think few . . . can doubt that the learned professions suffer because they have failed to recruit from all economic levels of society."

President Conant proposed to extend Harvard's national scholarships, now financing 67 undergraduates from 15 States, to all parts of the U. S. and to the university's graduate schools. He also announced Harvard Law School beginning next fall would admit only those candidates "who appear to the committee in charge to have at least an even chance of passing the examinations. . . ."

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