Harvard-Yale Exchange Program Suggested by Professor at Yale

A proposal that Harvard and Yale exchange 15 juniors each academic year has been advanced by Paul Weiss, professor of Philosophy at Yale.

Contacted by the CRIMSON last night, Weiss outlined a plan which he hoped might eventually include all the Ivy League colleges, "if only Harvard and Yale would take the initiative."

He was pessimistic, however, about the future of the plan. He admitted that his efforts to bring the matter to the attention of President Griswold had met with a somewhat less than enthusiastic response. "I expect this idea," he lamented, "to suffer the fate of many such ideas when confronted with the conservatism of the administration."

Queried about the possible advantages of a year at Yale for a Harvard junior, Weiss cited the "stimulation" which would likely be afforded by "the different atmosphere down here."

Since Yale is a "more centrifugally oriented community," he said, it would offer the Harvard student "the stimulation of more companionship" than he is accustomed to in the apparently less friendly environs of Cambridge. Other advantages of the plan mentioned by Weiss were the "different attitude at Yale toward sports and extra-curricular activities," and "the chance to renew old high school friendships."

"If President Pusey would just pick up the phone and call Griswold, the plan could be adopted tomorrow," Weiss said. Mr. Pusey and other high administration officials declined comment yesterday.