4700 Students to Register For 86th Summer Session

The Harvard Summer School today opens its 86th session with the largest enrollment ever. About 4700 students will register this morning and afternoon in Memorial Hall.

For the first time in the School's history, females will outnumber males, according to an estimate by Thomas E. Crooks '49, Director of the School. The population of women around Cambridge in the summer has steadily increased, said Crooks, and in 1961 it will comprise more than 50 per cent of the Summer School enrollment.

Officially and formally, the session begins tomorrow night with a Convocation in Sanders Theatre at 8 p.m. Classes begin tomorrow at 8 a.m.

Mrs. Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe College for the past year and a half,. will deliver the Convocation address on the subject of educational opportunities for women. Crooks will preside at the annual meeting and will deliver preliminary remarks.

The summer faculty includes teachers from 32 American universities, five foreign institutions, two high schools, and the New York Board of Education. Among the visitors are Karl W. Deutsch, professor of Political Science at Yale; Viktor E. Frankl, professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Vienna; Sidney Hook, professor of Philosophy at New York University; Michael Jaffe, fellow of King's College, University of Cambrige; John F. Kermode, John Edward Taylor Professor of English at the University of Manchester, Shigeto Tsuru, professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo; and Horace Armistead, professor of Design at Boston University.

About 160 courses will be offered to students who come from 50 states and many foreign countries. The 1961 enrollment surpasses by 700 last year's record-breaking turn-out of 4,000.

For the second year, the School will offer financial aid to several students from Greater Boston high schools between their junior and senior years. A plan to seek out talented local students and bring them to the Summer School for exposure to Harvard is now awaiting foundation support.

About 50 secondary school students will be among the registrants today, and 500 to 600 Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates will be signing up for courses.

Crooks attributes the recent flood of applications from all over the country to the "increasing competition to get a good undergraduate education." He noted that most of the highly rated liberal arts colleges do not have summer sessions.

Crooks added that he expected a continuing growth in the number of undergraduates here each summer because many want to concentrate on language or science requirements on the off-season and leave time during the academic year for other work.

"All liberal arts students should study the possibilities of summer school," said Crooks.

Among the activities awaiting summer school students are the new Brattle Street Forum, poetry readings in Lamont Library, the International Seminar with participants from 25 countries, Yard Punches each Wednesday from 3-5 p.m., a conference on "The City and History," the first session of which is open to students, a tennis tournament, square dances informal dances, a Tanglewood tour, and an educational administration conference.

Monday 8 a.m. Dormitories ready.

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration, Memorial Hall.

12 m.-1:30 p.m. First meal, Union.

4:30 p.m. Placement Tests in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Emerson D.

Tuesday 8:45 a.m. First morning chapel (daily) Appieton Chapel.

8 a.m. First classes.

9 a.m.- 4 p.m. Registration, last day, Memorial Hall.

4:30 p.m. Placement tests.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Sign-up for tennis tournament in Matthews 4.

7-8 p.m. Chorus organizational meeting, Sever 11.

8 p.m. Convocation, Sanders Theatre.

9 p.m. Schneiders' Band concert, Widener steps.