The declining teenage population, the increasing cost of a Harvard education, and growing competition frm other schools will cause the College's applicant pool to shrink in the next several years, according to William R. Fitzsimmons '67, acting dean of admissions and financial aid. Fitzsimmons made his prediction at a meeting last week of 125 representatives of the Harvard-Radcliffe Schools and Scholarship Committees. At that conference, he cited a study by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education--an organization of selective private colleges--which projected that the Harvard-Radcliffe applicant pool will decline from last year's figure of 13,500 to 11,800 by 1983 and to less than 10,000 by 1985.

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The director of the race relations foundation said this week he will meet this fall with House masters, faculty members, administrators, athletic coaches and students to discuss racial problems on campus. S. Allen Counter Jr., associate professor of Biology, said that in the two months since he became head of the foundation, many minority students have complained to him about "insensitive" and "callous" House masters, "disrespectful" faculty members, and "subtle" racism on athletic teams. Many of the foundation's meetings and activities this fall will focus on the Houses, Counter said, adding that some Houses "by their very atmosphere and reputation seem to stimulate or create alienation on the part of minorities of color."