UNIVERSITY ALLOWING POLITICAL FORUM HERE

After a period in which it refused permission to the student Union to use a lecture room for its proposed forum of the candidates for Governor of Massachusetts except under stringent conditions, the University last night removed all restrictions bit the one limiting admission to students only by ticket.

Previously permission to hold the meeting was limited by the restriction that there be "no reporting of the meeting in the press, either by advance releases or by reporters at the meeting. A written acceptance must be received from each of the four speakers who will understand and agree to all above conditions."

Forum Next Week.

The forum will be held in the New Lecture Hall on Tuesday or Wednesday depending on the convenience of Candidate Curley and the speaker whom the Republicans send, who, according to latest reports, will be neither Saltonstall nor Cahill. Both are scheduled for speeches in the southern parts of the state at this time.

Robert E. Lane '39, president of the Student Union, charged yesterday that a refusal to allow candidates for office to speak on Harvard property was a "mistaken policy."

"If the University objects to allowing meetings during 'the heat of the campaign," Lane's statement read, "it is denying the right of students to hear political issues discussed when they are most eager to hear them. It is precisely at this time that students should hear a discussion of the issues."

Against Placating Press

Lane claimed that if the University's action was based solely on fear of unfavorable publicity the action was impractical, since "any controversial meeting will bring unfavorable publicity from some quarters." Pressure on Granville Hicks or on Dean Landis is possible, he said, "if the University is overanxious to placate the press."

In addition to the Republican and Democratic candidates, Otis Hood and Jeffrey Campbell will represent the Communist and Socialist parties respectively.

The exact time for the forum had not been announced last night as Student Union officers were presenting the candidates with new rules for the meeting and working out a time that would suit all four