Of the new University buildings which will be erected in Cambridge and Boston as soon, as the $10,000,000 endowment drive is completed, 13 are being planned for the Harvard Business School.

In order to find room for these buildings, which will involve an outlay of some $5,000,000, the University is again forced to move an important part of its work out of Cambridge. The Business School group is to be located in the Brighton district of Boston across the Charles River from the present Freshman group, and will occupy a part of the University's land across the street from the Stadium.

A departure in collegiate building design has been made by the adoption of Massachusetts Hall, the oldest college structure in America, as the keynote of the architecture. This famous old building has just been the scene of a fire, and press dispatches at the time united in calling it "the most beautiful college building in America".

Beauty Without Extravagance

It represents beauty in design with economy of construction and absence of excessive ornamentation. This is why President Lowell and Dean Donham of the Business School selected its type of architecture to dominate the group which Bishop Lawrence says "will be a great symbol of what right business means to the nation and a great memorial to the part great business men have played in the development of the country from Colonial times to the present day." Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia buildings has influenced the architecture of the most striking building.

Dean Donham has given out the following material, prepared by his office, relating to the Business School group:

The Business School is one of the youngest of the graduate departments of the University; and it is still working out problems in a new pedagogic field for the benefit of other colleges, 106 of which are now using its "case books of business". Harvard is continuing to experiment and test the methods of teaching business, which ultimately may still further standardize these methods.

Will Form Self-Sufficient Unit

The Business School, as a department of the University, will be a complete unit; the students will live, eat, exercise and study in their own buildings. As important parts of its training are the development of group consciousness and the stimulation of discussion among students, its Dean and Faculty believe dormitory life to be as important as in an undergraduate college.

The whole has been divided into three groups dependent on the different aspects of the daily life of the student; first, the study group; second, the recreation and dining halls; and third, the dormitory group. The buildings thus form three large quadrangles, giving the effect of the college groups at Oxford undoubtedly the finest cluster of scholastic buildings in the world. Oxford, therefore, gives the plan for the whole. For the details, southern Colonial university buildings have been studied and merged with our northern Georgian work.

The Business School buildings will be built of dark red brick with white trim, and cornices and gables similar to the original Harvard buildings, of which the most, famous is Massachusetts Hall. They will, of course, be of first-class fire proof construction which, unfortunately, many of the older buildings are not, as the recent fire in the oldest of them has proved.

A consideration of the separate buildings shows that the Administration building has on the first floor, the Dean's office, offices for the five assistant deans, conference rooms, information desk office of the registrar, offices for secretaries and clerical workers, and a large room divided into twenty compartments for readers of the students' reports, as well as space for fifty stenographers and typists. On the second and third floors are large spaces to be developed as the requirements demand, into compartments for teaching marketing, industrial management, accounting, finance, statistics and other subjects.

The two class-room buildings will each contain four amphitheaters. One of these buildings will have four rooms, each seating one hundred and seventy-five students; the other building of four rooms will seat one hundred and twenty-five students in each room. In this connection, it might be well to mention the fact that the professors have small desk spaces outside the amphitheaters in which to confer with the students between classes. All of these rooms have been studied from the point of view of accoustics and light.

Library to be Flexible

The Library is so designed that the stacks can be extended, and the whole building can be doubled, without in any way changing the present design. It is now planned to house 150,000 volumes.