New Pictorial Calendar Features Conant's Art

Announcement of the publication of a calendar unique in the history of the Harvard University Press came yesterday from the University Printing Office. The 1945 calendar, which is the work chiefly of Kenneth J. Conant, professor of Architecture, will be placed on sale within two months.

The chief feature of the new calendar is a series of etchings of Harvard buildings, old and new, done front drawings by Professor Conant. The last calendar done by the University Press appeared in 1943 and was highlighted by informal photographs of the Yard, in contrast to the reproductions of famous sketches, which will be used in the current issue.

Norman A. Hall '22, Business Manager of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, conceived the plan two years ago and has been doing the actual work on it since last February.

The design of the calendar calls for a separate page for each month, containing a large drawing of a College building, a smaller sketch of the structure as it was originally built, or of the building razed to make way for the present edifice, and an explanatory text about the etchings. The cover of the calendar will be the famous Burgess view of Harvard in 1726.