Summer School Conference To Discuss 'Little Magazine'

The role of "The Little Magazine in America" will be the topic of the second Summer School Conference. There will be three public evening sessions, July 30 to August 1, next Monday to Wednesday.

Tickets for these sessions, which take place at 8:30 p.m. in Burr Lecture Hall, will be available at the door.

The Conference will also include closed sessions, which are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday in Lamont Forum Room. Notable among the participants in these will be Leo F. Raditsa '56, Editor of i.e., the Cambridge Review, who will appear on Tuesday. Several months ago The Cambridge Review published a book-length criticism of Harvard, written by Raditsa and three other students.

The topic at the public session on Monday will be "What Are Little Magazines For?". Participants will include Robert Giroux, vice-president of Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy; Philip Rahv, Editor of the Partisan Review; Henry Rago poet; Robert Lowell, Editor of Poetry, and Henry A. Kissinger, Editor of Confluence.

The relationship between the serious writer and the editor of the Little Magazine will be explored in the Tuesday conference, "Writers for the Little Magazine." Speakers will be Frederick Morgan, Editorial Director of The Hudson Review; William Barrett, formerly of Partisan Review; John Sweeney, curator of the Farnsworth and Poetry Rooms in Lamont; and William Y. Elliott, Director of the Summer School.

"The Audience for the Little Magazine" will be the topic of the last public session on Wednesday evening. Speakers in this session will be Ray B. West, Jr. Editor of The Western Review; John E. Palmer, Editor of the Yale Review; and Marianne Moore, poet.