CONANT ELECTED TRUSTEE OF CARNEGIE FOUNDATION

President Conant was elected a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Learning at the annual meeting of the board Wednesday in New York City. Since Presidents Lowell and Eliot have both held this position, Dr. Conant is the third President of Harvard to sit on the board.

Last February the annual report of the Foundation asserted that one-third of college Seniors are intellectually on a par with high school students. After advocating improvement in admissions systems, the report went on to say that "if teachers were relieved of their factitious authority for giving credit it would shortly appear which of their number were of recognized value in ministering to the intellectual life of the student and which were being merely carried on by the system."