Summer School Project Will Train Southern Negro 'Faculty, Students

One hundred Negro students and faculty members from southern colleges will study at Harvard this summer under a privately financed program to improve Negro education, Thomas E. Crooks, Director of the Summer School, said Wednesday.

Harvard, Yale and Columbia are participants in the Intensive Summer Studies Program (ISSP) which will cover all expenses for a total of some 300 students and faculty members from 70 colleges, Crooks said.

Last year, Crooks said, the summer school sponsored a similar number of students (about 70), but the participation of faculty members is a new idea.

There will be 28 Negro faculty members from southern colleges at Harvard this summer with practically a "free run of the university," Crooks said.

The reason for including faculty members was to "increase the communication between big research universities and small Negro colleges," Crooks said.

Crooks described ISSP as "something of a student talent hunt. We recruit the best intellectual power we can find and place them in a community where faculty members relate to them as potential PhD candidates."

By showing these students the kind of life scholarship represents, the program hopes to encourage them to become professional academicians, Crooks said.

Recommendations from summer school faculty members could help to get interested students into good graduate schools, he added.

Crooks also announced Wednesday that composer Igor Stravinsky will be in Cambridge for the summer.

In cooperation with Stravinsky and under the direction of writer and composer Robert Craft, a graduate performing music seminar will prepare and present the first performance over in completed form of Stravinsky's Los Noces.

A number of other Stravinsky works will also be presented in concert by the seminar, Crooks said.

Total enrollment in the summer school will be close to 4800, Crooks said, of which 1/4 will be regular winter students. About 48 per cent of the student body will be women.

A large group, about 800, students, will be from abroad. The appeal of summer dormitory life evidently is low as nearly 70% of the students will live off campus, Crooks said.