4 Professors Join in Study At Princeton

Four Harvard professors will serve as consultants to evaluate American scholarship in the humanities, it was announced yesterday. Sponsored by Princeton University, the four-year project will be aided by a $335,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.

James S. Ackerman, visiting lecturer in Fine Arts, J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, University Professor, and Renato Poggioli, chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature, participated at the first meeing of the group this past weekend.

Educators from five other institutions also joined the Princeton Council of the Humanities "in a preliminary attempt to define the areas which will be studied," Gibb explained.

Other Scholars Invited

While conducting the Ford Foundation study, the Council will invite scholars from other campuses to assist faculty members at Princeton. Four to six Princeton professors and consulting universities will be made Fellows of the Council each year, while other educators will act as conference participants or as visiting Fellows of the Council.

"Our study will be beamed partly at the general public and partly at teachers, writers and students," Bush noted. "An attempt will be made to define humanistic aspects of natural and social sciences and to recommend general improvements in teaching and scholarship."

Gibb stated that the Committee's finding would "be published as a variety of reports in different fields of study." "No one person can discuss these various fields at this early stage, but we hope that all the findings will be pooled together in a final definitive report," he commented.