Max Lerner, Magr. Fulton J. Sheen, John Crowe Ransom, Representative Christian A. Herter '15 (R-Mass.), and more than 25 other well known men in the fields of politics, religion, literature, and economies will speak at this year's Summer School forums, William Y. Elliott, director of the Summer Schol, announced last night.

The forums will present five topics. Speaking on the first subject, "The Welfare State," will be Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History; Edward S. Mason, professor of Economics; Lerner, a professor of Government at William College; Herter, and Monsignor Sheen.

On the topic, "The Responsibility of Freedom in Education," Lerner, Elliott, President Stoddard of the University of Illinois, and other educators will speak.

Forum on Poetry

John A. Clardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; Stephen Spender, John Crowe Ransom, and Randall Jarrell will lecture later on "The Defense of Poetry." "The Near East" and "Science in General Education" are other topies which will be covered during the summer period.

This year's summer session staff will be the largest in the history of the school. In addition to 70 members of the faculty, the school will employ 50 instructors from other universities to aid in teaching more than 165 courses to more than 3000 students. The session opens July 5.

The summer catalogue will include new courses in "Ballad and Folk Songs in the United States" and "Teaching Music," while other new courses are being planned in "Modern Architecture" and the "Poetry and Criticism of T. S. Eliot."

Among the courses regularly offered to Summer School students will be courses on the dictatorship and politics of the Soviet Union, as well as courses on the United States in World Politics and a special course on the Politics of the Near East.