CONANT TO REPLY TO CRITICISM OF TEACHERS' UNION

Replying to the charges of more than 100 Harvard teachers that he advocates "a ploughing under of human minds," President Conant will speak at Atlantic City early next month on "Higher Education in a Democracy," it was announced last night.

In this address, Conant will go more fully into the problem of size of University enrollments, and will amplify his reasons for limited enrollment, first expressed in his Annual Report. The talk will be before the American Association of School Administrators.

Teachers Union Dissents

Ever since Conant's report was first made public, wide comment has resulted on the policy to limit the number of students. This criticism reached its height last Tuesday when the Cambridge Union of University Teachers voted to send the President a statement expressing "strong dissent" with his annual report.

"This restriction of liberal education was one of the first changes made by the Nazis in Germany," the Union warned. "It follows a principle characteristically approved by fascist governments." In conclusion, the statement declared that Conant's idea "would have been profoundly shocking to those Americans who founded and fought for democratic education in America."

David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy, is head of the Union, having succeeded J. Raymond Walsh, formerly economics instructor here. Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, and Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, lecture on Chemistry, were among the others in the Union making the statement.