UNIVERSITY TO ESTABLISH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION WITH $2,000,000 ENDOWMENT

The establishment of a Harvard Graduate School of Education is now a certainty. Is has been announced that the President and Fellows of Harvard College have notified the General Education Board that they have secured in cash and valid pledges $1,500,000 toward the endowment of the new School, thus satisfying the terms of the Board's pledge of half a million dollars. A total endowment of two millions for the new School is thus assured.

For many years the University has hoped to establish a Graduate School of Education which would place the training of teachers and school officers on a par with the training for other professions. This Graduate School of Education will greatly expand the work of the present Division of Education at Harvard, the Division remaining only for the purpose of giving a few undergraduate courses, chiefly for those who do not intend to teach. The Graduate School will train school and college teachers, school superintendents, and normal school teachers; will conduct researches in Education, will have its own library, laboratory, and model school, and a clinic for the study of children, their growth and work.

Education Board Pledged $500,000.

On June 2, 1919, the General Education Board pledged $500,000 for this purpose, contingent upon the raising of $1,500,000 by Harvard to complete the school's endowment of two millions. On September 19, 1919, the President and Fellows of Harvard College voted the sum of $500,000 toward the establishment of the School, the income from this sum being about equivalent to the present budget of the Division of Education. This vote simply assured the continuation of such support as the study of Education is now receiving from the University and did not require the acquisition of any new funds. The sum of one million dollars remained to be raised.

Certain gifts designated for this Fund have been received, making up part of the fund needed. Although the Endowment Fund campaign is by no means completed, the progress of the campaign, together with certain other special gifts to the School of Education, justified the President and Fellows in setting aside the balance of the sum necessary to start the School. This action assures the receipt from the General Education Board of their gift of $500,000 and establishes the School of Education on a firm basis. The action does not in any way alter the plans of the Harvard Endowment organization to continue their campaign.

May Admit Women to the School.

Plans for the new School are under way, and it is expected that they will be announced shortly. Considerable interest has been attracted by the question, which is now being discussed, whether women will be admitted to the School. If this is done, the Graduate School of Education will be the only regular department of Harvard University which is not conducted exclusively for men. The School of Public Health and one or two other organizations connected with Harvard admit women, but no regular department of the University does so at present.