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In the Graduate Schools

Cambridge University Courses Open; Coed Session Planned Here

In cooperation with Cambridge University and the Cambridge School of Domestic and Landscape Architecture, the Harvard Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture will give a series of courses this summer at Cambridge, England, it was announced yesterday by B. W. Pond, dean of the School of Landscape Architecture. It is also planned to establish a summer school of architecture in Robinson Hall for those who do not desire to make the trip to England. This will be the first year that Harvard University has given any summer architectural courses.

Teachers from the University of Liverpool and Oxford Universities, as well as practicing London architects, will assist in the various courses in the English School, which will include city planning, design, and landscape architecture. The courtesy of many famous British manors has been extended to the new school, and trips will be planned to visit and study them. The courses will extend through July and August, being open to all properly qualified students and giving them credits in their respective universities.

The Massachusetts branch of the school will be in charge of S. F. Hamblin, director of the Botanic Gardens, and will present all the courses regularly given in the winter, session, including classes in surveying, perennisis, freehand drawing, and design. These classes will be open to women, and will include visits to points of architectural interest in the vicinity of Boston.

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