THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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THE PEOGEESS OP SCIENCE 



WORK IN ENGINEERING AT HAR- 

 VARD UNIVERSITY AND THE 

 MASSACHUSETTS INSTI- 

 TUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



The corporations of Harvard Uni- 

 versity and of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology entered into an 

 agreement in January, according to 

 which all work in mechanical, electrical, 

 civil, sanitary and mining engineer- 

 ing will be conducted in the new 

 buildings of the Masachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology on the site re- 

 cently acquired by the institute on the 

 Charles Eiver embankment in Cam- 

 bridge, not so very distant from the 

 site of Harvard University. 



The university agrees to devote to 

 the courses in engineering the income 

 of the funds of the Lawrence Scien- 

 tific School and the use of equipment 

 not more urgently needed for other pur- 

 poses, together with not less than 

 three fifths of the Gordon-McKay en- 

 dowment. This will provide at pres- 

 ent some $60,000 a year, and may 

 ultimately amount to more than $250,- 

 000. The institute devotes to the work 

 all funds that it now holds for the pur- 

 pose, and both institutions agree to 

 use in future all funds acquired for 

 the promotion of teaching and re- 

 search in engineering. Buildings are 

 to be erected only from the share of the 

 funds supplied by the institute. All 

 funds are to be expended through the 

 bursar of the institute, but the corpora- 

 tion that supplies the funds is to pre- 

 scribe the way in which they shall be 

 expended. 



All members of the instructing staff 

 in the engineering departments re- 

 ferred to who give instruction in 

 courses leading to degrees in both in- 



stitutions are appointed and removed 

 by the corporation that pays their sal- 

 aries after consultation with the other 

 corporation. The faculty of the insti- 

 tute is to be enlarged by the addition 

 of the professors, associate professors 

 and assistant professors in the school 

 of applied science of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, and at the same time the pro- 

 fessors of the institute receive the title 

 and privileges of professors of the uni- 

 versity. The president of the institute 

 j is the executive head for all work car- 

 ried on under the agreement and is to 

 make an annual report to both corpo- 

 - rations. When a future president of 

 the institute is to be selected, the presi- 

 dent of Harvard University is to be 

 invited to sit with the committee that 

 recommends the appointment. 



Students at the institute in the engi- 

 neering courses mentioned are ad- 

 mitted to be candidates for degrees at 

 Harvard University and have the same 

 rights and privileges as students in the- 

 other professional schools. Students- 

 may receive degrees from either or 

 from both institutions. 



Both institutions are unaffected in 

 name, organization and rights over 

 their property and either institution 

 may terminate the agreement on notice 

 of at least five years, or a shorter period 

 if mutually agreed on. 



It will be remembered that some 

 eight years ago the corporations of the 

 I Massachusetts Institute and Harvard! 

 University voted a plan of affiliation 

 which was later abandoned owing, it 

 was said, to the fact that the institute 

 could not sell its present site for busi- 

 ness purposes, though in fact the aban- 

 donment of the plan was due to oppo- 

 sition on the part of the faculty and 



