Frost to Live In Adams on Ford Project

Robert Frost will visit Adams House this year on the newly increased Ford Foundation grant to the Houses, Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams, has disclosed. Student and faculty committees in Dudley and the other Houses have also made tentative plans for use of the grant which this year totals $2400.

Frost will speak to House members at a closed session sometime next month, Brower said. The poet also plans "to do something with students" in a more informal way, and perhaps will read with a group of Adams House writers and poets. Brower emphasized that these events would not be public affairs and admission would be by ticket issued only to members of Adams House.

Beginning this week, Adams House is also scheduling several "informal" art sessions led by Morton Sacks, a local artist who helped design the sets for a House production of Alcestis several years ago. Early in January, William Hawthorne, a professor of Engineering at Cambridge University, will stay at Adams briefly and talk with students there about education for engineers.

Brower noted that all these plans are "utterly experimental," and are not to be taken as precedents to be followed with future grants.

Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell, reported that that House is "exploring various avenues," but so far has decided to continue the tutor-student dinner it inaugurated last year.

Musical events will also be included in Kirkland House plans for the Ford grant. A joint faculty-student committee is tentatively planning concerts and talks by modern critics, and fairly definite plans have been made to finance a literary magazine in the House.

A visual arts room will be instituted at Dunster House, Master Gordon M. Fair said last week, and the House will continue its drama workshop under the direction of Gaynor F. Bradish, Teaching Fellow in English.

The grant will also be used to finance drama in Dudley, Allston Burr Senior Tutor Charles P. Whitlock said yesterday. Part of the funds will be used for continuing the drama group begun last year, and some money will also be set aside for a painting and sculpture studio, which has been set up in Apley Court.