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affecting the value of bonds arc punishable by a fine of 8500, imprisonment for not more than 

 ten years, or both. The office of supervisor of loan agencies was created and anyone who 

 issues loans of $300 or less at a rate, including interest and expenses, greater than 12 % must 

 secure a licence from the supervisor, who is authorised to fix the rates of interest. In 1911 

 a law was passed against monopolies and one for the control and regulation of fraternal 

 benefit societies. A new code for co-operative banks was adopted in 1912. There was in 

 the state treasury December I, 1911, 6,208,336. Receipts for the year were $48,054,457 

 and expenditures $47,892,827, leaving a balance, December I, 1912, $6,369,965. 



Education. A code adopted in 1911 for state aided vocational schools, permits industrial 

 schools to be established under the local school board (formerly only under special board) 

 and to receive state aid, if approved by the board of education. The board of education was 

 authorised to investigate the advisability of establishing and maintaining in Taunton or 

 Attleborough a school for designing silverware and jewelry. 1 The school committee of any city 

 or town was empowered (1911) to grant the temporary use of school buildings, out of school 

 hours, for public educational purposes. Among the appropriations were: $100,000 annually 

 for ten years to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in return for 80 free scholarships- 

 but no appropriation in 1917-21 unless by that time the Institute should have $1,000,000 

 additional endowment; and $50,000 annually to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 

 return for 40 free scholarships, with a similar proviso in regard to 1917-21, unless the Insti- 

 tute then have an additional endowment of $350,000. The legislature authorised in 1912 

 the building of a model school for the Salem State Normal School, the contract for which 

 was let in the autumn of 1912; and the establishment of independent agricultural schools in 

 Bristol county and in Essex county on the approval of the voters, which was granted in 

 November 1912: in Bristol, 17,869 votes to 8,042; in Essex, 35,279 to 9,349. 



In the school year ending July I, 1912 the school population between the ages of 5 and 

 15 was 577,160; the total enrollment (all ages), 546,914; the average daily attendance, 458,- 

 065; and the length of the average school year 9.35 months. Expenditures were $22,502,934 

 ($3,733,729 for new buildings, etc.). 



The percentage of illiteracy in 1910 of all 10 years and over was 5.2 (5.9 in 1900). 



The Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded arrangements in 1912 for removal 

 to the Cambridge side of the Charles River Basin. It received several large gifts during 

 1911-12: about $500,000 from T. Coleman du Pont; the same amount from the widow of 

 W. B. Rogers, the founder; $600,000 from the Francis B. Greene Fund; $2,500,000 from 

 an anonymous benefactor; and 850,000 from the bequest of Nathaniel Thayer of Lancaster, 

 who left the same amount to the General Hospital and $250,000 to the Boston Museum of 

 Fine Arts. It also received in 1912 from Theodore U. Vail the George Edward Dcring col- 

 lection (about 30,000 volumes) of electrical books; and a bequest (not available within 21 

 years) from C. H. Pratt of $750,000 for a school of naval architecture and marine engineering. 

 On October 10, 1912 work began on a new library (from plans by Horace Trumbauer) for 

 Harvard University on the site of Gore Hall, the old library; it is to be a memorial to Harry 

 Elkins Widener, who was lost on the "Titanic" and whose excellent collection of rare books 

 was given to the University. In 1912 work began on the new Germanic museum, and plans 

 were approved and location fixed for three freshmen dormitories. A new house for the 

 president was completed and occupied late in 1912. In March an anonymous gift was an- 

 nounced to the Graduate School of Applied Science of a new electrical laboratory for the 

 study of high tension currents and a location and plans were decided on. In the same month 

 the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital (for the study of cancer) was opened near the 

 Harvard Medical School group of buildings on Back Bay, Boston. In April 1912, by the 

 will of A. L. Rotch, the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory with $50,000 for maintenance 

 was given to Harvard University. A bureau of research in municipal government was 

 established at Harvard in 1911. Amherst College which has definitely returned to the 

 humane or classical curriculum, in May 1912 chose as president, to succeed George Harris 

 (b. 1844), who resigned November 16, 1911, Alexander Meiklejohn (b. l$72), who graduated 

 at Brown University in 1893, taught philosophy there and became dean in 1901. He was 

 inaugurated at Amherst on October 16, 1912. On June 9, 1911 Ellen Fitz Pendlcton 

 (b. 1864), dean of Wcllesley College, was elected its president, succeeding Caroline Hazard. 

 Mount Holyoke College on October 8, 1912, celebrated with a pageant its 75th anniversary 

 and completed an endowment fund of $552,000. Lemuel Herbert Murlin (b. 1861), president 

 of Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, in 1894-1911, was inaugurated president of Boston 

 University, October 20, 1911. By two acts of 1912 Wheaton Female Seminary (founded 

 1834) at Norton was authorised to hold $1,000,000 of additional real and personal estate, 

 to change its name to Wheaton College and to grant the degrees of A.B. and A.M. 



Penal and Charitable Institutions. The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Training 

 Schools was established in 1911 to replace the separate boards controlling the Lyman School 

 at Westboro, the Industrial School for Girls at Lancaster and the Industrial School for Boys 



1 No school had been established at the end of 1912, but certain evening courses were 

 given in 1911 and 1912 in Taunton and North Attleborough schools for the benefit of silver- 

 ware and jewelry designers half the expenses being borne by the state. 



