THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE. 



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THE PROGRESS OF SCIEXCE. 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND THE 



MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE 

 OF TECHNOLOGY. 



The proposed alliance between the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 and Harvard University is a matter 

 of more than local interest. Among 

 the questions involved are the relations 

 of technological to liberal and other 

 forms of professional education; the 

 advantages of great size to a univer- 

 sity; and the share in the control of 

 educational institutions which should 

 be assumed, respectively, by the trus- 

 tees, faculty and alumni. 



President Eliot has on previous occa- 

 sions urged the union of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology with 

 Harvard University, but it appears 

 that the present plan was proposed by 

 President Pritchett and the corpora- 

 tion of the institute, led thereto by 

 the large bequest of Gordon McKay 

 to Harvard University for work in 

 applied science. The history of the 

 movement is, in brief, as follows: On 

 May 4, 1904, the corporation of the 

 institute passed a motion requesting 

 its executive committee to ascertain 

 whether any arrangement could be 

 made with Harvard University for a 

 combination of effort in technical edu- 

 cation which should substantially pre- 

 serve the organization of the institute. 

 On September 14, the corporation voted 

 to secure the opinion of the faculty and 

 alumni. On March 24 of the present 

 year, an agreement was presented to 

 the corporation, drawn up by President 

 Henry S. Pritchett and Professor A. 

 Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, on behalf of the institute, and by 

 Dr. H. P. Walcott and Mr. Charles 

 Francis Adams, on behalf of the univer- 

 sity. This agreement provided for the re- 



moval of the institute to the site shown 

 on the accompanying sketch, where it 

 would erect the buildings; the joint 

 work in industrial science would be un- 

 der the control of an executive com- 

 mittee appointed by the corporation of 

 the institute and containing three mem- 

 bers of the Harvard corporation; there 

 would be at the disposal of this com- 

 mittee the income of the funds of the 

 Lawrence Scientific School and three 

 fifths of the income from the McKay 



Proposed Site of the Massachusetts In- 

 stitute of Technology and the Approach 

 to the Buildings of Harvard University. 



