New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1922-06-02
H0US|NG.PROBLEM
BOTHERS HARVARD
Plans Made to Move Business
School to New Surroundings

Cambridge, Mass, June "A com
prehensive plan for solving the critical
housing problem Of the Harvard Bust
ness school by lifting it bodily out OF
It's present surroundings and erecting
for 1t new group Of buildings within
easy reach of the other Harvard de.
partments is under consideration by
officials of the university Tentative
plans have been made for raising the
necessary funds. and it is hoped THAT
the buildings may become a reality
| in the immediate future.
The New Group.
The new group would consist of a
central building with administrative
offices and classrooms, and from two
to four dormitories for students. At
present the business school has its
! headquarters in University Hall, holds
Its classes mostly in improvised space
such as the basement of Lawrence
Hall and the basement of the Harvard
Union, and is able to house less than
quarter of its students in dormi-
tories. Wallace B. Donham, dean of
the Business school, said today that
to him the provision of dormitories
for men studying business at Harvard
is even more important that the Sc
curing of ampler classroom facilities,
if the students are to get the most
out of their two years of graduate
work.
Dormitories Important.
The Importance of dormitores in
the life of college is we'll under
stood said Dean Donham, but it is
not generally recognized that they are
as important to a graduate depart
ment such as the Business school
Our men live mostly in boarding
houses and rooms in private houses,
and have little chance for intellectual
and social intercourse with one an
other. They would both enjoy and
profit by opportunities to associate
with other men of similar interests
who have come to Harvard from as
many as $50 different colleges to pre-
pare for business careers, and they
would feel more at home in the uni
versity and come to have a sense of
loyalty to it's traditions and aims such
as impossible today.
II am so convinced of the impor-
lance of the whole matter that If we
were offered the choice between the
cassrooms and the dormitories
personally should not hesitate a mo-
ment to choose the dormtories."
Consider Sites.
Several sites in Cambridge and the
vicinity have been con-
sidered for the projected group of
suggested plans for which !
have been tentatively drawn by Har-
old Field Kellogg, Boston architect.
The plans call for several colonial
buildings, with simple red brick walls
and stone or wood trim, the style de-
ton than on its ornamentation. In
fact the whole group would be CO.
ordinated in scale, material and de-
sign, with the Freshman Halls and the
older dormitories in the college yard.
Two Distinct Groups.
The buildings would fall into two
distinct groups, one for classrooms la
ooratories and administration, and the
,ther for dormitories with dining
lalls and common rooms. The dor
nitory group would be laid out for
100 students at first, to be doubled as |
he school increased in size, whereas {
he administration group would be (
Ldeouate for 1000 men. . ,
1t is felt at Harvard that the pro-
ect of moving the Business school to
uch new quarters would relieve in
arge degree the pressure upon the
present accommodations of the CO..
eye, Graduate school and other DC
,artments.