New University Foundation Will Aid Five Grad Schools

Plans for a new Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research to aid graduate and professional schools were announced by President Conant yesterday.

The Foundation's principal objective will be to provide funds for student housing, research, fellowships, and scholarships in the graduate schools of Arts and Sciences, Design, Education, Engineering, and Public Administration. The institution recently gained Corporation approval.

President Conant emphasized that expansion of the University's research program is particularly urgent at present.

In addition to an original fund to be provided by the corporation, an annual income of $250,000 will be needed to allow for adequate research, fellowship, and scholarship programs.

Construction of a dormitory-dining-commons center for graduate students holds top priority on the new Foundation's list of projects. Plans are ready for the center, which will be located on Jarvis Field in Cambridge.

"An important function of such a graduate commons project will be that of widening the intellectual life of the graduate student at Harvard," President Conant said. "Lawyers, architects, students of divinity, future secondary school teachers, scientists, historians, and public servants should all be mixed up together."

The Foundation will be expected to supply $1,000,000 of the total $3,650,000 estimated necessary for the graduate center. The Law School in currently asking for $1,650,000 from its alumni while the balance is to be provided by friends and alumni of the other graduate schools.