Raymond L. Buell, assistant professor of Government, will conduct this year at Harvard a seminar course, Government 33a. This announcement was made by William Y. Elliott, chairman of the Department of Government. The course is instituted in the belief that further progress has not been made in the development of world organization for the reason that students of international relations have not yet diagnosed the war system.

The course will start with a study of the theory of war, according to the writings of von Clausevitz. Admiral Mahan. Moltke, and others. It will study the contrasting pacifistic theories, and then proceed to an examination of the existing militaristic systems. Attention will then be given to efforts to abolish and control war.

Professor Buell spent 1925-26 in Africa for the Bureau of International Research of Harvard University and Radcliffe College. As a result of this trip he wrote "The Native Problem in Africa," in two volumes, a book which led to protests from several governments, and which was presented tot he League of 'Nations' mandates commission. He has been Research Director of the Foreign Policy Association since 1927, visiting professor of International Relations at Yale, 1929-30, lecturer in International Research, 1931-32, and lecturer Social Research, 1931-32, and lecturer on Colonial Government at Columbia University.