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the legal effect of an omission from this agree- 

 ment of any provision for its termination, it 

 is hereby provided that the agreement may be 

 terminated either by the university or by the 

 institute, but that no termination shall be 

 made except upon notice from one party to the 

 other of at least five years unless a shorter 

 time be mutually agreed upon. 



2IV. This agreement shall take effect when 

 finally adopted and approved by the corpora- 

 tion and board of overseers of the university 

 and the corporation of the institute; and the 

 cooperation referred to in Section II. shall be- 

 gin when the institute is ready to open courses 

 in engineering and mining on the site in Cam- 

 bridge mentioned in that section. 



STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT LOWELL 



Peiends of Harvard University and the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology — and 

 they have many friends in common — have long 

 deplored the rivalry of two schools of engineer- 

 ing competing on opposite sides of a river. 

 The disadvantages have been made even more 

 evident by the decision of the institute to cross 

 the Charles; but the difficulty of making an 

 arrangement satisfactory to both parties has 

 hitherto been very great, and in fact the obsta- 

 cles to a combination between rival institu- 

 tions supported by and serving the same com- 

 munity have been one of the grave defects of 

 higher education in America. This diificulty 

 seems at last to have been overcome here by a 

 plan for cooperation in the conduct of one 

 school of engineering and mining. The plan 

 is favorable to both institutions. Both gain 

 thereby. Which gains the most can probably 

 not be determined, and certainly has not been 

 computed, -for the leading motive with the 

 authors of the agreement has lain in another 

 plane. Both institutions exist for the promo- 

 tion of instruction and research. Each is a 

 means to an end larger than itself, the welfare 

 of the community as a whole; and that both 

 acting in concert can further this end better 

 than either working alone can not be doubted. 

 By the combination of resources and momen- 

 tum a school ought to be maintained un- 



equalled on this continent and perhaps in the 

 old world. A. Lawrence Lowell 



STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT MACLAURIN 



The advantages of cooperation between the 

 institute and Harvard have long been the sub- 

 ject of discussion. With reference to the pres- 

 ent plan of cooperation, I beg to make the fol- 

 lowing statements : 



1. The Honorable Richard Olney, in a care- 

 fully considered legal opinion, says " Coopera- 

 tion between educational institutions for a 

 legitimate purpose common to both is certainly 

 not illegal and in this case wholly desirable. 

 The ' agreement ' seems to me to spell co- 

 operation and nothing more, involves no mer- 

 ger of corporations or their property interests, 

 and can be carried into effect without violation 

 of charters or of the trusts upon which funds 

 are held." 



2. Its adoption by the corporation is unani- 

 mously recommended by the executive com- 

 mittee. 



3. It is approved by each of the last five 

 presidents of the Alumni Association, and by 

 the president-elect. The president of the 

 Alumni Association, Mr. Frederic H. Fay, 

 writes : " I heartily commend this effort on 

 your part, and I believe that when it is found 

 that an agreement, such as you have proposed, 

 can be carried out to the satisfaction of the 

 authorities of both institutions, you will find 

 that you have the great body of Tech Alumni 

 behind you, and that you will have added to 

 the prestige, and usefulness and strength of 

 the institute." 



4. It is approved by all the heads of the 

 institute's departments that are directly affect- 

 ed and by all the other senior members of the 

 faculty who have been consulted with refer- 

 ence to it. 



5. It leaves the institute so entirely inde- 

 pendent that it can appoint any officer or in- 

 structor that it pleases, it can appropriate its 

 funds as it pleases, and it can make any regu- 

 lations that it pleases with reference to the 

 courses leading to its degree. 



I believe that the adoption of this agreement 

 is a forward step of very great import to the 



