BISHOP LAWRENCE TELLS WOMEN HARVARD'S NEEDS

The importance to women of the work of the work of the University's Division of Chemistry, Fine Arts, and its School of Business Administration was stressed by Bishop William Lawrence '71, speaking yesterday afternoon to a group of ladies at the home of Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, 22 Fairfield Street, Boston.

"Chemistry enters with every article of furniture in the drawing room" said Bishop Lawrence. "The varied shades of color in your dress, the window hangings and the wall paper have been created by chemical dyes Of greater importance is the product of chemistry in your cooking and in medicine. Every physician is a chemist, and behind his diagnosis and treatment is the chemical laboratory. And if we ever have another war, which God forbid, chemistry may be the deciding factor in the safety of the nation.

Business Unescapable

"As to business, you are, though you know it not all of you business women. When you took a taxi to come here, you automatically made a contract with the taxi company, or if in your own car, your contract for your chauffeur's wages was already made The wages of your servants are an index of wage scales. You leave one shop to go to another because you think they have not treated you fairly; they have not delivered the right quality of stuff, or have quoted different prices to different customers. We are, you see, all of us closely tied up in common business interests.

"Turning to be Fine Arts, have you ever thought of the hundreds of people passing through the Boston Art Museum as typical of millions who are passing through art museums in all the great cities? People want to know about art. Teachers in Art, curators, connoisseurs, experts in paintings and pigments, are wanted now; will be greatly needed in the future. From Europe and the East are coming some of the richest art treasures. And we must care for them.

288 Year of Service

"For two hundred and eighty-eight years Harvard University has served the people of this land. The gifts poured upon her have come back to the nation in enrichment of culture, life, and character. Today Harvard has a remarkable chemical staff, with men of world-wide reputation. She has for her thousand students in chemistry the laboratory of fifty years ago, wasteful, inefficient, dangerous. The greatest gift that can be made to the nation through Harvard is the upbuilding of a great modern laboratory, and the enabling of her teachers to carry further than ever their research.

"While other colleges and universities have business schools for undergraduates and a few for graduates, Harvard is the one University that has a Graduate Business School fully equipped with a faculty which teaches only graduates. It teaches them as in the Law and Medical Schools, by the Case System. It has 600 students from 184 colleges and universities, but it has no buildings. For the sake of the nation and the upbuilding of business to a profession. Harvard with a noble group of buildings, will send forth a body of young men equipped for high service in business.

"Harvard's special work is not the creation of artists or the support of an Art School, of which there are many in museums and colleges, but the deepening in her students of a knowledge of art, such knowledge as will make them leaders in the teaching of Art to leaders, and teachers throughout the country. And here again the work is done not from books but by a study of the originals, and such work in the detection of forgery, the preservation of art treasures, and sympathy with color and form, as will make the homes of our people, the humblest of them, beautiful in proportion, design and color.

"For these united purposes Harvard turns to the American people with confidence for ten million dollars, three for chemistry, five for business, and two for art."

The hostesses this afternoon were Mrs. Channing Cox, Mrs. Alvan T. Fuler, Mrs. George Agassiz, Mrs. G. P. Baxter, Mrs. Walter C. Baylies, Mrs. William M. Butler, Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby, Mrs. Ernest R. Dane, Mrs. Wallace B. Dooham, Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. Clarence R. Edwards. Mrs. A. Lincoln Filence. Mrs. Homer Gage, Mrs. F. L. Higginson, Mrs. James Jackson Jr., Mrs. William, Lawrence, Mrs. Louis K. Liggett., Mts. Robert W. Levett, Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. Paul Sachs, Mrs. Edward Curtis Smith, Mrs. Nathaniel Phyer, Mrs C. S. Webster