To the Editor of the Crimson:

It is greatly to be regretted that the Harvard School of City Planning, almost the cradle of the art in America, with its brilliant and unique background of accomplishment should find it necessary to discontinue its activities because of "insufficient funds", especially at this most critical period in the development of planning.

For the past seven years, income for the school has been derived from two sources, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and an endowment by James F. Curtis '99 for a Charles Dyer Norton Professorship of Regional Planning. Anticipating the expiration of the Rockefeller grant in September 1936, the university presented to the Foundation a proposed program for continuing the work of the school coupled with a proposed set of financial arrangements under which the work would be carried on. The financial plan proved unacceptable to the Foundation, and the affair was closed. So was the school.

We cannot help but feel that other sources of income should be sought and that every possible effort should be made to continue the existence of this school which for the past twenty five years through the influence of its graduates has really been the most vitalizing force in the profession. For Harvard to fail in this effort, thus sacrificing so much of the achievement to date, will be to admit either that she has not sufficient breadth of vision to recognize the essential art of planning or that she does not feel it important enough to seek further some way of providing for the continuance of the school. Draveaux Bender--Massachusetts State Planning Board Staff   Oscar Sutermeister '32