PREXY OPENS DAY'S EVENTS

The most important of the three days of the forty third annual Associated Harvard Clubs meeting opens officially this morning at 10 o'clock with the morning session in the Club, continues with six separate luncheons at 1:15 o'clock and the Annual Dinner at 7:30, and concludes with an Open House celebration at the Club at 11:30.

Four undergraduates, the graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House, and five members of the administration of the University including President Conant will address the opening session of the day.

Varied Themes

Themes of the talks will run mainly along currents of undergraduate activities and student self-government as they exist now at Harvard; the change in P. B. H. from a religious to a social-service organization; the faculty's and the alumnus' view of the student; and the difficulties of running a university.

The morning session will close with the election of officers for 1940-41. When it is over cocktails will be served in the Club.

The luncheon program has been so arranged that the alumnus interested particularly in letters, in law, in education, in business, in medicine, or in science can hear experts discuss his particular field.

Noted Speakers

Such famous speakers as Walter Groplus, professor of Architecture and the leader of the Bauhaus school of design; Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion; James McC. Landis, Dean of the Harvard Law School;

William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History and expert on modern history; Dr. Thomas M. Rivers of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute; Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory; and George Washington Pierce, Rumford Professor of Physics and director of the Cruft Memorial Laboratory at Harvard, who is retiring next fall.

Phases of Education

All the speakers at the luncheons will be talking on some phase of education in its relation to the various topics which they are nominally discussing.

"How Can Universities Do Arts and letters More Good than Harm?"; "Problems of a New Day in the Law"; "What Price Tenure?" "Has Education as a Business turned Out a Satisfactory Product at a Reasonable Price?"; "Current Medical Conquests"; and "New Tools and Researches" will be the subjects of the speakers.

From the end of the luncheons until time for Open House at the Club at 6 o'clock nothing will be scheduled, and the Alumni will be free to do as they see fit.

President, Mayor, Governor

The Annual Dinner is scheduled for 7:30 this evening. Three distinguished figures in President James Bryant Conant '14; Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts, and Mayor Florello H. La Guardia will address the assembled group at the Hotel Astor at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue.

Following their speeches there will be an "Ave atque Vale" ceremony in which John J. Rowe '07, retiring president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, tenders his position to the newly elected president.

Open House is scheduled again at the Club for 11:30 o'clock and the Hospitality Committee, headed by Ralph S. Foss '03, is hoping to obtain several Broadway stars to entertain the Harvard men present.