Educators Honor Lawrence Scientific School Centennial

Leading scientists, educators, and research men will gather at the Harvard Club of Boston tonight to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the Lawrence Scientific School, a Harvard institution which, in its time, fathered many of the techniques of modern scientific and general education.

Vannevar Bush, director of the Carnegie Institution in Washington, and J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, will give guest speeches at the banquet, while President Conant will outline the development of science since the creation of the Lawrence Scientific School spurred laboratory research and teaching in the United States.

Centennial exercises will start in the afternoon, when members of the University Visiting Committee meet at the Graduate School of Engineering to hear University engineers present papers on recent research.

Presenting Papers

Reinhold Ruedenberg, professor of Electrical Engineering, Karl Terzaghi, professor of the Practice of Civil Engineering, Gustav Kuerti, assistant professor of Aerodynamics, and Daniel Okun, teaching fellow in Sanitary Engineering, will address the meeting.

Among the innovations introduced by the Lawrence Scientific School during the years 1848 to 1906 were instruction of graduate students in research, training of teachers, laboratory teaching of science to undergraduates, and extension courses for people unable to attend regular college classes.

The School also introduced the Bachelor of Science degree at Harvard on a parity with the arts degree.