Committee of Ten Appointed to Aid Future Teachers

In an effort to stimulate interest in the teaching profession, President Pusey has appointed a special Committee on Teaching for Harvard and Radcliffe College. The ten-member group will consider the Colleges' role in interesting able men and women in teaching careers at every level.

Oscar Handlin, professor of History and chairman of the new committee, said last night that "there is every indication that most able people are not going into teaching" and that the group will consider various methods for remedying this situation.

All committee members contacted emhasized the need for impressing upon prospective teachers the fact that there are many financially rewarding openings available. Mrs. Wilma Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction at Radcliffe, echoed the general feelings of the group, saying that "some potentially good teachers lack confidence. We must show them the improved financial conditions in the profession to encourage these individuals."

Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy and one of the committee members, expressed his disappointment with education's greatest paradox. He stated that "although the teaching profession is of indispensible importance, its reward is slight in proportion to its value." White hoped for an increase in the profession's average wage and felt that the interested student "should be made to realize how important the work is in the modern world."

White also felt that the most acute problem is to be found on the elementary school level