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FACULTY BODY FOR H-Y-P CONFERENCE NAMED YESTERDAY

Five Round Tables Will Take Up Phases Of Governmental and Economic Work In the Nation

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Announcement of the Harvard faculty committee to assist in drawing up the agenda for the second annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Conference, to be held here February 26 and 27, was made yesterday.

The committee will consist of President Conant, Merle Fainsod, instructor in Government, Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Richard V. Gilbert '23, instructor in Economics, Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, assistant professor of Law, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, Edwin Mims, Jr., instructor in Government, Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics, Alan R. Sweezey '29, instructor of Economics, and John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy.

The general title of the Conference sponsored by the "Harvard Crimson", the "Yale News", and the "Daily Princetonian", this year will be "The Role of Government in the National Economy". The group will be divided into five round table discussion bodies. These round tables will meet three times, and then at a final plenary session, the chairman of the groups will report to the entire Conference.

Different tables will discuss 1) "The Maintenance of Employment", 2) "The Role of the States", 3) "The Control of Currency and Credit", 4) "The Government of Competitive Enterprise", and 5) "Government Revenue and Expenditure."

There will be three general sessions of the entire Conference. The opening event will be a luncheon for all dele- gates and guests the first day of the Conference. That night after the first round table sessions, a banquet will be held, and a buffet lunch the next noon will also bring all members of the Conference together. The plenary session will be addressed by a speaker taking as his subject the title of the Conference "The Role of Government in the National Economy.

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