VETERANS' AID TO BEGIN HERE

Under the provisions of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act passed by the Seventy-Eighth Congress, six educational institutions of the Greater Boston area have completed plans to open a Veterans' Administration Guidance Center at Harvard.

From its quarters in Peabody House, the Guidance Center will cooperate with the University's Graduate School of Education. The staff is to include both employees of the Veterans' Administration and a group of vocational and guidance experts drawn from the faculties of the six sponsoring institutions. The presidents of these colleges and universities--Boston College, Boston University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and Tufts College--will serve as an advisory committee.

Director of the project is to be Robert H. Mathewson, who holds a part-time appointment on the faculty of the School of Education.

The unit here is to be only one of a series of Guidance Centers to be established by the Veterans' Administration in various parts of the country. The plan aims to help men returning from the fighting fronts meet their problems of readjustment to civilian society and industry.

A special contract with the government empowers the Center to act only in cases referred by the Veterans' Administration. It has not been authorized to serve veterans who apply to it in any other way.