MacLeish, Richards Discuss Poetry; AVC Will Hear Howe on Smith Act

Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, J. A. Richards, University Professor, and J. Douglas Bush, professor of English, will discuss the "Poet and Modern Society" at a symposium at 8 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House dining hall.

The speakers will analyze three major problems under the main topic:

The conflict between poetry and science.

The relation of poetry to other branches of learning such as philosophy and history.

And finally, the importance and usefulness of poetry in a critical age.

The constitutionality of the Smith Act will be analyzed at 8 p.m. tonight in Littauer Auditorium by Mark DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law. Howe is speaking under the auspices of the Harvard branch of the American Veterans Committee.

The 11 Communist leaders, recently sentenced to jail, were convicted of violation of the Smith Act, which prohibits advocating overthrow of the government by force or violence.

Howe has said that the Act has been used unconstitutionally in the past and that the Supreme Court, if it follows its precedents, will strike out the law.