BUSINESS SCHOOL WILL HAVE SPECIAL SESSION

The Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration announced last night that an Extra Session designed both for recent college graduates and men with some business experience would begin on January 28. The Extra Session will be open to students with degrees from accredited colleges. In addition, well-recommended men who do not held college degrees but who have had adequate business experience will be admitted under the regular provisions governing special students.

Students in the Extra Session will have the same instruction under the same faculty as those in the regular first-yea" class and will be entitled to full academic credit. The Session will continue until August 14, thus enabling the students to enter the regular second-year class in September, 1935. By the elimination of vacations, the normal two-year course is consequently compressed into a period of only one year and four months.

The shorter period of time of the Extra Session permits a reduction of about 25 per cent in room and board expense, thus making an approximate cost of $1,000 for room, board, tuition and books for the seven months of school from January to August. A limited amount of financial assistance will be available to those men who are unable to defray all expenses from their own resources. This assistance includes various jobs about the School, in the Dining Halls and on the grounds, as well as the School loan Fund which is available to properly qualified students.

Decision to hold an Extra Session in January will make available an opportunity to begin training for business openings without waiting until the September term. That such openings are available is evidenced by the placement of the 1934 graduating class, over 90 per cent of whom had been placed by the first of October, and in the two previous years over 85 per cent of the graduating class had been placed by the same date. The jobs which these men secured were located throughout the country and represented affiliations with many different types of business enterprise. In addition, twenty men entered various governmental bureaus and agencies.