However, many members of the faculty disagree with the Gropius conception. Others would modify it. But some agree wholeheartedly.

LeBoutiller backs Gropius, "We've got to have a point of View-Gropius' or someone else's. We need an overall policy."

Variety of Doctrines

But William L.C. Wheaton, chairman of the Regional Planning Department, feels that "Harvard should offer a variety of doctrines"

The school's deficit complicates the choosing of a new dean. Design needs a man who will go out and raise money for the school's programs. The Corporation's policy, since the post-war years, forces each graduate school to stand or fall on its own financial feet.

But few great artists are either able or have any desire to beat the bushes for endowments. They want to spend their time at their art, not at the boring tasks of administration. For this reason, most members of the faculty agree that the dean cannot be both an administrator and an artist.

In a letter to President Conant dated October 22, 1951, Gropius sent his own suggestions for improving the Design School. In one part of his letter he discussed the qualifications of a dean.

"I suggest," he wrote, "to promote the closest integration of all departments of the School of Design by placing it under one director as the responsible key man; this director to be simultaneously the Chairman of the Department of Architecture, since architecture is historically the mother art of design from which all the others have branched out; to give the director an able administrator as his assistant who should also be endowed with an ability for fund raising."

Others, like Wheaton, would suggest that a relatively conservative man become dean, while the innovator-artist become head of the architecture department. But remembering what happened when Gropius obscured Hudnut, most members of the faculty think such a combination would breed personal rivalry and animosity.

Design's other large problem is the financial one. The school now has an endowment of approximately $3,600,000, and almost all of it was originally marked for architecture. Landscape architecture shares in the Charles W. Eliot fund of $115,000, but Regional Planning has only one endowed chair.

From its 170 students, 110 in Architecture, 25 in Landscape Architecture, and 25 in Regional Planning, the school does not receive enough tuition to keep out of the red. Unless it gets money quickly, it must take one of a few decisive steps.

A distinct possibility is the merging or slicing of one or two of Design's triumvirate departments.

Architecture Safe

The history and endowments of the school make it unlikely that Architecture will suffer from any changes that might be made.

Design first grew out of the Fogg Museum from a course given by Professor Charles H. Moore in the Principles of Design in Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. Later more courses were added, mostly taught by Professor H. Langford Warren. They were historical courses rather than design.