Crooks Expects Summer Enrollment Will Increase 300 Over Last Year

Thomas E. Crooks '49, Director of the Summer School, yesterday predicted that enrollment for this year's summer session may be 300 to 400 more than last year.

Men will still be in the majority, but female matriculates are slowly closing the gap. Women students will probably compose 48 per cent of the summer student body, Crooks said.

In addition to occupying the Yard, women students will also take over Quincy House, although the Quincy dining room will be integrated. Rooms in Lowell, Kirkland, Eliot, McKinlock, and Dunster, as well as some graduate center buildings will house male students.

For most of the summer students the session offers a chance to get a taste of Harvard education. Only 24 per cent are Harvard and Radcliffe people. The Faculty, of which Director Crooks emphasizes he "is very proud," is composed mostly of college teachers with some men from foreign and domestic institutions.

Despite the co-educational flavor of the summer session, College students will be subject to rigid parietal rules, which permit no visiting between sexes in the dorms. The effect of this barrier, coupled with the lack of common room facilities, tends to convert the Yard "into a large summer common room," according to Crooks.

Any Diploma Will Do

Another obvious difference in the summer session is the quality of the student body. The only requirement for admission is a secondary school diploma (in any language) or its equivalent. Crooks staunchly defends the policy, adding that the only reason he would change the system would be because "numbers (of students) are becoming too much to handle." Placement tests are given to help non-College students choose their courses.

The summer session will feature the traditional Wednesday Yard Punch and Thursday lecture series, as well as a conference on "The City and History." The conference aims to stimulate scholarly interest in the role of the city in history and to provide "themes from the past" to serve as bases for consideration of contemporary problems. Top professors from Harvard and other American and foreign universities will present papers

Operating again this summer, the International Seminar will give about 45 outstanding persons from 20 countries a chance to work with experts in various fields and present public forums. The Seminar program spread to Japan last September when a group of former Japanese participants sponsored a program in Tokyo on current Far Eastern problems.

The annual Harvard Summer School Conference on Educational Administration, in late July, will be concerned with "National Goals in Education." Among the guests participating will be Dr. Sterling M. McMurrin, U.S. Commissioner of Education, and Dr. Arthur S. Adams, President of the American Council on Education