Work has been begun at the University on a temporary building to house certain of the Business School offices, on the old Agassiz lot at the southeast corner of Quincy street and Broadway, opposite Robinson Hall.

The building, which is expected to be ready for occupancy in February, will be of clapboard, 76 by 31 feet in size, and two stories in height, with a high basement. It will be equipped with automatic sprinklers.

The building is intended to meet temporarily the emergency need for additional space for the offices of the Business School, which are now overcrowded. It is hoped that when the Business School secures a group of permanent buildings of its own, this temporary structure may be vacated or turned over for the temporary use of other departments of the University.

The lot on which it is being built was left to the University by Alexander Agassiz '55, who died in 1910. The house which formerly stood there was occupied by Louis Agassiz, Hon. '48, from 1854 to 1873 and by his son, Alexander Agassiz, from 1873 to 1910. After it became the property of the University it was occupied by the Speakers' Club for a time and later used by the City of Cambridge as a schoolhouse. It was destroyed by fire in January, 1917.