RADIO SCHOOL TO TAKE COMMON

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who was present at the meeting of the University Board of Overseers yesterday, decided after an inspection of the Cambridge Common and two other sites for the new buildings of the Radio School, soon to be erected, that the rapid growth of the school would necessitate the taking over of all the available land by the Government. He was accompanied on his tour of inspection by Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, U. S. N., commandant of the First Naval District, and Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel F. Ayer '00, commandant of the Naval Radio School.

As a result of Secretary Roosevelt's decision, work on the buildings will commence as soon as possible. The Common will be closed and it is probable that accommodations for one complete unit of the school will be erected there. The greater part of the Andover Theological Seminary land and the Palfrey Estate will be used for an instruction shed, and such additional recreation facilities as become necessary. The Government expects to expend a sum of $350,000 on the construction of these barracks and school buildings.

At the Overseers' meeting yesterday, President Lowell submitted the resolution adopted by the Corporation of the University as follows:

"Harvard University takes a keen interest in the Cambridge Common. It has also land of its own not necessary for its immediate use. If the Navy Department desires to use either this land or the Common, the University will be glad to have either of them so used for the purposes of the war."