Russian Rector Expects Exchange System Soon

Another intermediate step towards the final goal of a Harvard-Leningrad exchange program was taken successfully yesterday. Professor A. D. Alexandrov, Rector of the University of Leningrad, told the CRIMSON, "I am certain as a man can be that there will soon be professors and graduate students starting the new program, possibly next year."

This statement came after a meeting between the five visiting professors from Leningrad and Dean Bundy and other University officials, which climaxed nearly a week of dinners, visits, discussion and generally becoming acquainted with the University.

Alexandrov said that he was in "complete agreement with the Harvard professors and Deans." An informal source indicated that perhaps, with a bit more work at the administrative level, a formal program could be set up to put the long-awaited exchange principle of the Lacey-Zarubin agreement into effect for the first time.

Informal Agreement Made

A brief, informal agreement was drawn up sketching the general lines of the program, and the problem of financing the exchanges was also considered. No definite decision, however, was reached on this matter, and it will probably be mentioned again in correspondence between Harvard and Leningrad later this spring.

While at the University, the five Russian scholars talked with Harvard professors in their fields of study and attempted to find out tentatively who would be interested in visting Leningrad at some future date. Alexandrov indicated, however, that future exchanges would probably be open to professors in all fields of learning, not just the scientific ones emphasized by the current delegation.

Yesterday, most of the visiting professors spoke to seminars in their various fields of study, with Professor V. A. Fock, one of the foremost physicists alive, drawing a capacity audience of about 300 in the Jefferson Lecture Hall. Most of the professors leave today, Alexandrov for Berkeley, Calif., Fock for Princeton and the others for New York City.