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checked by higher requirements for entrance, this leading to the 

 transfer of men in "general science" to the College. Surmount- 

 ing great difficulties, the resources of the School were diversified 

 and strengthened on many lines. The development was espe- 

 cially marked in engineering, mining, metallurgy, architecture, 

 landscape-architecture, and forestry. In addition there were 

 four-year programmes in chemistry, geology, biology, anatomy, 

 and physiology. These four-year programmes under the new 

 organization are things of the past, as also the old name, the 

 Lawrence Scientific School giving place in the University 

 Catalogue to the Graduate School of Applied Science. These 

 changes are embodied in the plan of reorganizing the work of the 

 School which Dean Shaler announced as his last official act. 

 While in charge of the School Mr. Shaler lifted its scholarly 

 and moral tone, as well as its numbers, to that stage of advance- 

 ment where Gordon McKay's magnificent bequest made possi- 

 ble a brilliant and expansive future. It was, therefore, a sur- 

 prise and bitter disappointment to him, upon his return from 

 Europe in the spring of 1904, to find that negotiations were on 

 foot between the corporations of Harvard College and the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology for transferring to the 

 latter institution a large share of the income of the endowment 

 which Mr. Shaler, through his friendship with the giver, had 

 been instrumental in bringing to the service of the Lawrence 

 Scientific School. More than this, there was the provision, as 

 Mr. Shaler states in an address delivered before the graduates 

 of the Lawrence Scientific School, that the institution which 

 Mr. McKay called "his School" should disappear, and that in 

 place of it there should be benefited another institution, not 

 a constituent part of Harvard, but a supplement to the existing 

 Institute with some slight semblance of joint control on the 

 part of the governing boards of the University. The discovery 

 of this strange and unexpected danger at the moment of fair- 

 est promise, when, by sound accomplishment, the School had 

 reached the gateway of a great future, "perhaps," as he said, 



