Report to Faculty On College Size Due Before May

The Faculty committee to examine the problem of the size of the College will probably report back before next May to enable full Faculty discussion of the issue this spring, according to Robert W. McCloskey, professor of Government.

McCloskey will head the nine man committee which was created by the Faculty at its last meeting. He said yesterday that the report would probably not be "any deep empirical look at the matter, but an assembling of the arguments pro and con." In this respect he compared the proposed report to a set of lawyer's beliefs, rather than an attempted solution of the issues.

Other members of the committee which was appointed by Dean Bundy are Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe, Richard T. Gill '48, assistant professor of Economics, Seymour E. Harris '21, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Dean Monro, David D. Perkins '51, associate professor of English, Elliot Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, and Seymour Slive, associate profesor of Fine Arts.

The ad hoc committee was created on the motion of McCloskey during the Faculty discussion on rescinding a 1923 recommendation limiting the freshman class to 1000 members.

Among the issues it will consider are the relationship of the size of the College to that of the Graduate School, and the effects of an increase in the College's enrollment on the residential houses and on the most desirable size for the Faculty.

Last formal discussion of the size of the College was by the Committee on Educational Policy in 1956.