War Memorial Board Picks Four Best Plans Tomorrow

Eleven distinct proposals for honoring the University's World War II dead will confront the joint Associated Harvard Clubs-Alumni Association War Memorial Committee when its meets tomorrow in Eliot House, according to a statement yesterday by Henry L. Clark '11, secretary of the Committee.

From this array the Committee plans to select four leading possibilities and present them for the consideration of students and alumni. Then after sensing response over a five-month-odd period, thinking in terms of a final decision will begin and the Committee will slate another meeting.

Clark said that the student population here would have its views represented on the 11-man body through Richard G. Axt, Jr. '46, last year's Student Council President. It was during Axt's tenure that a College-wide poll showed over-whelming support for a Student Activities Center as a logical "utilitarian" choice.

In addition to SAC, top contenders are an international exchange scholarship fund, devoted to the cause of world peace; a psychological inspection of University students, expanding upon the Grant Study pattern: and a supplementing of present commemorative embellishments at Memorial Chapel itself, with an eye to continuity in marking the sacrifices of Harvard men in all wars. One such recommended gesture is the installation of new chimes.

Other Proposals

Other ideas submitted to the Committee include a new Medical Center; a hockey rink: a Music Center, with space for symphony concerts; a building enshrining international good-will, such as a dome-shaped Forum earmaked for the discussion of foreign policy issues; better ROTC facilities; and a fund for the improvement of municipal politics in the United States.