WOMEN WILL ENTER SCHOOL OF DESIGNING

Women will be admitted to the Graduate School of Design as candidates for degrees for the duration of the war. The result of a vote by the Governing Boards of the University, the new ruling was reached after an understanding between Harvard and Smith College by which the Cambridge School of Architecture, for some years affiliated with Smith, will discontinue instruction during the emergency.

The move is not unprecedented, since women have been admitted to the Graduate School of Education for some years as candidates for degrees. It will effect economies in the administration of both institutions, particularly welcome in view of the effect of the present world situation.

Organized in 1915

Smith's school is 27 years old, having been founded in 1915 when a group of five young ladies first set foot in Cambridge and arranged for tutoring by younger members of Harvard's Faculty of Architecture. The school was not incorporated as an educational institution until 1924, when it got a board of trustees.

By 1933 the School had attracted enough female Christopher Wrens to be recognized as an affiliated graduate school of Smith College and the next year graduates of its courses received the first Smith degrees in Architecture. In 1933 it was made an integral part of Smith College.

Last fall the question was raised of whether Smith students might not be provided for at the School of Design. The change was adopted, and under the new system members of the Cambridge School will transfer to Harvard's, which is now open to other women students.