June 30, 1905.] 



SCIENCE. 



975 



The net income of said Endowment shall 

 be used to promote applied science : — 



First. By maintaining professorships, 

 workshops, laboratories, and collections for 

 any or all of those scientific subjects which 

 have, or may hereafter have, applications 

 useful to man ; and 



Second. By aiding meritorious and 

 needy students in pursuing those subjects. 



Inasmuch as a large part of my life has 

 been devoted to the study and invention 

 of machinery, I instruct the President and 

 Fellows to take special care that the great 

 subject of mechanical engineering in all its 

 branches, and in the most comprehensive 

 sense, be thoroughly provided for by my 

 Endowment. 



I direct that the President and Fellows 

 be free to provide from the Endowment all 

 grades of instruction in applied science, 

 from the lowest to the highest, and that 

 the instruction provided be kept accessible 

 to pupils who have had no other oppor- 

 tunities of previous education than those 

 which the free public schools afford. 



I direct that the salaries attached to the 

 professorships maintained from the En- 

 dowment be kept liberal, generation after 

 generation, according to the standards of 

 each successive generation, to the end that 

 these professorships may always be at- 

 tractive to able men, and that their effect 

 may be to raise, in some judicious measure, 

 the general scale of compensation for the 

 teachers of the University. 



I direct that the professors supported 

 from this Endowment be provided with 

 suitable assistance in their several depart- 

 ments by the appointment of instructors of 

 lower grades and of draughtsmen, foremen, 

 mechanics, clerks, or assistants, as occasion 

 may require, my desire being that the pro- 

 fessors be free to devote themselves to 

 whatever part of the teaching requires the 

 greatest skill and largest experience and to 



the advancement of their several subjects. 



I direct that the President .and Fellows 

 be free to erect biiildings for the purpose 

 of this Endowment, and to purchase sites 

 for the same, but only from the income of 

 the Endowment. 



I direct that all the equipment required 

 to illustrate teaching or to give students 

 opportunity to practise, whether instru- 

 ments, diagrams, tools, machines, or appa- 

 ratus, be always kept of the best design and 

 quality, so that no antiquated, superseded, 

 or unserviceable implement or machinery 

 shall ever be retained in the lecture-rooms, 

 workshops, or laboratories maintained from 

 the Endowment. 



Finally, I request that the name Gordon 

 McKay be permanently attached to the pro- 

 fessorships, buildings, and scholarships, or 

 other aids for needy students which may 

 be established, erected, or maintained from 

 the income of this Endowment. 



EXTRACTS FROM THE MINORITY REPORT IN 

 FAVOR OP THE ALLIANCE.* 



I. If the plan is not adopted, Harvard 

 Avill be obliged to energetically develop the 

 Lawrence Scientific School as a broad col- 

 lege of applied science. With her re- 

 sources, reputation, and large body of 

 alumni, and profiting by the lessons of 

 experience, there is no doubt that she can 

 make this school a success. This is abun- 

 dantly proved by the experience of other 

 universities which have technical schools. 

 This school will be a rival of the Institute 

 in the same community. 



II. Competition in business or in educa- 

 tion always involves some economic waste. 

 In education it is beneficial only if neces- 

 sary to keep up the spur to endeavor. The 

 Institute does not require competition with 



* This report was signed by Professors Fay; 

 Jaggar, McKibben, Moore, Swain, Walker, and 

 was supported by President Pritchett. 



