CURRENT EVENTS FORUM TO TACKLE SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Taking the famous Oxford Union and the Yale Political Union as its models, four undergraduate organizations announced last night plans for the Harvard Congress throughout the remainder of the current year. The Congress will provide an opportunity for all undergraduates interested in current political and social problems to meet in a common forum.

Based on the need for experience in extemporaneous speaking and in the technique of legislative bodies, this organization will also enable men of all phases of opinion to clarify their ideas through discussion and debate. At each meeting a specific topic will be discussed, and it is hoped that in each case a well 'conceived bill will result.

The Concentrators' Councils of Government and Economics, the Debating Society, and the Student Union are jointly supporting the Congress. It is open to all interested men in the University, regardless of technical knowledge of the chosen subject.

At a meeting planned for next Thursday at 7:45 o'clock in the Winthrop House Common Room, a committee will present two diverging reports on the proposed revision of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Debate will proceed on the basis of amendments offered by the committee and on others introduced from the floor.

The sponsors believe that the Congress will produce a high caliber of debate and a spirited exchange of opinion comparable to those of its models at Oxford and Yale. The model Constitutional Convention of last year and the Model League of Nations sessions have shown that this type of body can accomplish worthwhile results.