There are pressing building needs at the Business School for a home for the Advanced Management Program and for a new center for growing activities in the international field. Approximately $6 million will be required to satisfy these wants. Toward this goal almost $2 million has been raised.
The Divinity School wishes added endowment to provide adequate fellowships for students, to improve faculty salaries and add new chairs, and to support its library. It also requires capital funds for construction--a second floor on the recently constructed Library building, and additional space for offices and classrooms, a dormitory and above all, a refectory. Something like $7 million must be found to achieve these goals. In the meantime Dean Miller has been forced to give primacy to shoring-up the School's immediate position by seeking increased annual giving for current operations. This item on the income side of the School's budget has been raised in recent years from almost nothing to more than $200,000.
Neiman Foundation
The Neiman Foundation is seeking $1.2 million in new capital funds to match a similar amount given conditionally by the Ford Foundation. This added endowment will enable our program for journalists to be restored to its original strength, it is to be hoped, even augmented, and its effectiveness and influence increased in a number of ways. The effort is prospering through the devoted, energetic, and extraordinarily able leadership of Mr. Davis Taylor, publisher of the Boston Globe. To date his efforts have brought more than $800,000 of the $1.2 million being sought in matching funds.
But these items, considerable as they are, by no means exhaust the list of needs and of efforts now being made by the University to meet them. I pointed out in my report last year that even with the acquisition of Longfellow and Larsen Halls the space requirements of the Graduate School of Education had not been met. Most pressing is the want of a library, because the limited space at present available for library purposes in the basement of Longfellow Hall is shockingly inadequate for the large and vital school for education we have now created here. Plans for a new library and research building are being drawn. It is estimated that this building will cost $5 million. Towards this goal an application has been made to the Office of Education of the Federal Government for $1.5 million, and additional funds in excess of $500,000 have already been secured. This effort, which is only now beginning to move forcefully ahead, is being led by a former member of this Board, Mr. F. A. O. Schwarz. But when the full $5 million for this important building has been found, the School will still have long-range needs for endowment totalling $15 million.
School of Dental Medicine
The Harvard School of Dental Medicine was the first university dental school established in America. It will be 100 years old next year. Though it is the smallest dental school in the country, it is by no means the least influential. Its program was drastically revised in 1941 to enable it to place greater emphasis on research and on the thorough grounding of its students in both medicine and dentistry. After a quarter of a century there can now be no question about the wisdom of the change, for during the intervening years the School has made an outstanding record in producing teachers, research scientists, and superior practitioners of specialties for the dental profession. And it now looks forward to cooperating with other branches of medicine to make an enlarged contribution to general health care.
The capital needs of the School of Dental Medicine were not included in the Program for Harvard Medicine. The most pressing of these is for a new building. Its present facilities are no less inadequate and outmoded than are those of the School of Design. The School is making plans for a new seven-story building, to be built on its present site, which will enable it both to have its own laboratories for instruction in the basic health sciences, and at the same time more than double its enrollment. The proposed new building, to cost $8.6 million, will triple the space now available to this branch of Harvard for teaching and research. Toward financing this construction a grant for $4.6 million has been approved by the Public Health Service of the Federal Government. So the immediate objective is for an additional $4 million. A Centennial Campaign is now being organized to secure these funds.
Two very special fund-raising efforts within the University remain to be mentioned--one already well underway, the other--an exceptionally large one--only now being readied.
Law School
The Law School has chosen the sesquicentennial anniversary of its founding, which it will observe in 1967, as an occasion to launch its drive for $15 million in new capital funds. Approximately $6 million is being sought for two new buildings primarily to provide more space for the library, additional classrooms, lecture rooms of smaller size, and more offices, both for the Faculty and for activities of administration. The other goals sought are $4 million for new chairs in criminal law and urban legal studies; $4 million for additional financial aid to students; and $1 million for increased endowment for the library. Professor Austin Scott has accepted the Honorary Chairmanship of this campaign. The National Chairman and effective leader of the strong committee, which has now been organized to conduct the drive in all parts of the country, is another member of this Board, and also a former teacher at the Law School, Mr. Robert Amory, Jr. Although the effort has only just begun to move beyond preliminary stages, there is as of this date a total of $3 million in hand, and it is hoped the drive can be completed by June 1968.
Program for Harvard Science
Finally--or almost finally--I come to a new very large effort to be made for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and for the teaching of undergraduates. This is a Program for Science in Harvard College. Lest humanists immediately exclaim that enough has already been done for science, let me say at once that no neglect of the humanities is implied in the effort. As President Eliot asserted almost a hundred years ago, "This University recognizes no real antagonism between literature and science...We would have them all and at their best." But there is need now for enlarged new facilities for science (there have been very few significant additions in this area during the past thirty years), and especially for undergraduate instruction in science, little of which receives any support from Federal sources. Beyond this, though it is clear that the antipathy popularly supposed to exist between teaching and research is largely imaginary, still, if the proper role of research in teaching--especially in the teaching of science to undergraduates--is now to be demonstrated here, a new facility of the proposed kind is urgently required.
The final goal of this program--in itself one of the largest ever undertaken by the University--is nearly $49 million. The goal includes $14.5 million for a new center for undergraduate instruction in science; $12.6 million for biochemical facilities and for an enlarged program in biochemistry; and lesser amounts, from $800,000 to $5 million, for various purpose's--chiefly for additional space, for renvations, and for increased endowment--in anthropology, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering and applied physics, astronomy and the astronomical observatory, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, mathematics, geology and the computing center.
It is difficult to see at the outset where all this money can be found. Surely a considerable part of it will have to come from agencies of the Federal Government. There are already applications before the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation. And the case will be presented to private welfare foundations, to corporations with a known concern for science, and also to alumni and to other individuals. The task of securing the funds for this ambitious program will require careful organization and a sustained effort which is only now beginning to take shape.
Such are the major efforts which have recently been defined and authorized by the Corporation. There are several other lesser ones. For example, another $1.4 million will have to be provided to construct the Center for Reproductive Biology at the Medical School. A total of $3.5 million has already been raised toward this end ($1.8 million from the Federal Government and $1.7 million from the Ford and Avalon Foundations). In addition, the Rockefeller Foundation has pledged as part of the Program for Harvard Medicine the sum of $2 million payable over a period of years to provide staffing for the Center. The Medical School also has other large building needs. And we are still $800,000 short of the $2 million in added endowment we have been seeking for the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Villa I Tatti, Bernard Berenson's famous home near Florence. But even here there is no end to the list; for already other needs begin to appear.
More Pressing Needs
In terms of the future of the total American scholarly enterprise, one of the most important undertakings completed here last year was a thorough study of Harvard's system of libraries carried out cooperatively by the Director of the University Library and the University Librarian. Their report is being given thoughtful consideration. They point out that the Harvard Library, the first library in this country, and now the largest university library in the world, is at present necessarily collecting more kinds of material from more parts of the world than ever before, and further, that since the output of books is everywhere rapidly increasing, it will be possible to maintain the present level of collecting only by acquiring more books--and unfortunately, as costs rise, more expensive books--each year than the year before. It is expected that the University collections will pass the 10 million volume mark during the next decade. In addition to buying these books and maintaining them, there is a question of where, for example, in Widener, place can be found for those who will wish to use them. The number of faculty and students, especially graduate students, using Widener, has long since passed the limits the building was intended to serve; and their numbers continue to grow (the faculty group, for example, by 44 per cent, the students, including graduate students by 48 per cent during the last decade alone). The time is clearly upon us when we shall have to seek large additional sums both for capital needs and for increased operational expense if the Library is to continue as one of the nation's great resources for scholarship and the special glory of this University.
The increased expense almost certainly to b incurred during the next decade in connection with the growing use of computers in scholar pursuits promises to be even more formidabl. It is impossible at this point even to guess wh sums will be required in this rapidly burgeoing area, but already we have had enough experience to know that they will be considerable.
Another recent study documents the need for expensive additional facilities for the lively undergraduate program in athletics, primarily for a new, year-round multipurpose gymnaisum and the remodeling of existent structures. Athletics