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Conant Article Ranks as Chief Feature--Drive This Week For Subscriptions

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Paying respect to the man who admitted their class to Harvard, the last of the thirteen classes which he inducted into the University, the 1937 Red Book will be dedicated to the late Henry Pennypacker '88, former chairman of the Committee on Admissions, it was announced last night by Charles C. Gibson '37, editor-in-chief. Last year the book was dedicated to President Lowell as a tribute on his retirement from his position as head of the University.

The feature of the book this year will be a discussion of the educational innovations of President Conant. Following the general ideas expounded by the President's report and recent articles in Time and The American Magazine, the story goes further and points out some rather unusual aspects of the question, it was reported yesterday by Leavitt S. White '37, Editorial Chairman. Written after several interviews with President Conant, in which ideas already discussed in the magazine articles were considered and modified. It proposes some novel and revolutionary views on the questions involved.

At present an intensive subscription drive is being launched by the Business Board under the direction of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37, chairman.

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