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Featuring discusions of propaganda in schools by distinguished speakers and a luncheon meeting later, the Harvard Teachers Association will hold its 49th annual meeting tomorrow with President Leonard Carmichael of Tufts as chairman.
At the morning discussions, which will be open to the public and will start at 9:45 o'clock in Agassiz Auditorium, Radcliffe, Professor Kirtley Mather, director of the Summer School, will preside.
The luncheon speakers are headed by Joseph Auslander '17 Consultant in English Poetry of the Library of Congress, who will speak on "Poetry and Modern Life." Audrey W. Auslander, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, will read from her own poems, while Joshua L. Liebman, of Temple Israel of Boston, will talk on "Dicatatorship versus Democracy: The Jewish Attitude."
On the general theme of "Language and Life," the morning sesion will open a panel of discussion of "Propaganda as the High School Pupil Sees It." Horace Kidger, head of the history department of Newton High School, will conduct the discussion with five students from his classes.
Undergraduates participating in the second panel of discussion on "Propaganda at Harvard" will be John M. London '41, Jack E. Bronston '42, Lester G. Hawkins, Jr. '41, and Roland E. Shaine '41.
In the final panel on "Propaganda in Education," Stephen E. Fitzgerald, Nieman Fellow; Sidney Mandell, of New York; and Jeanette Sayer, Research Associate in Government, will speak.
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