GE Seminars Hike Summer Enrollment

The Summer School's enrollment rose over three percent last season to 2800 graduate and undergraduate students at a time when other summer school enrollments were declining, according to William Y. Elliott, Dean of the Summer School.

The reason for this success, according to Elliott, was a combination of the conference program, which included conferences on Science and General Education, and "high level academic instruction."

The major problem faced by Elliott and his staff is the declining enrollment of graduates from Harvard and elsewhere. There were 121 less grad students in 1951 that in 1950. Elliott attributes this to dwindling GI Bill benefits and to a lack of varied and numerous graduate courses.

Many Full Professors

The Summer School had more permanent faculty members in full teaching position than has been usual. The number of full professors teaching during the 1950 session was 11. last year there was 15.

One of the Summer School's biggest successes last year was the Foreign Students Seminar in which 20 "potentially incidental leaders of opinion" from West European countries participated. They discussed aspects of American life and culture, common problems of Western civilization and the difficulties within their own countries.