A joint course at the Yale Law School and the Harvard Business School, designed to train men for the practice of law in those fields involving contact with or handling of business problems was announced yesterday morning at New Haven. The students in the joint course, who will be carefully selected by the two Schools, will spend their first year at the Yale Law School, their second year at the Harvard Business School, and their final two years at the Yale Law School. Those who complete the course will be awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws by Yale University but will receive no degree from Harvard.

Program of Study

The first year of study will be devoted to a consideration of the usual first year law curriculum with such modification as may seem desirable to supply the business background of the topics studied. The second year at the Business School will be spent in similar consideration of the fundamentals of business training. The last two years will be devoted to a modified form of legal training in which the problems of modern business will be emphasized. Representatives of the two Schools will together give several courses during the last two years. One of these will be a seminar in Business Policy, in one year correlating the several business courses studied at Harvard and in the second further correlating the legal and business educations.

In connection with the plan, President Lowell issued the following statement: To anyone who regards education as an experimental science this new departure cannot fail to be interesting, for it is boldly and carefully designed."