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tries of the country than any school in New 

 England Avould be. When they shall have 

 had time to grow to their full development, 

 what will be the effect upon the Institute 

 of Technology, especially if it is isolated, 

 out of the main current of educational de- 

 velopment, and actively competing for sup- 

 port and students with another strong 

 school not three miles distant? 



VII. If this agreement is rejected by the 

 Institute Corporation and Harvard ener- 

 getically develops her technical school, 

 Harvard almnni all over the country- 

 lawyers, bankers, merchants, engineers, 

 men in responsible positions in the great in- 

 dustries — will be enlisted in an active cam- 

 paign to promote Harvard interests as 

 against Institute interests. By acting to- 

 gether and giving the preference to Har- 

 vard graduates, they may at least seriously 

 hamper the growth and retard the develop- 

 ment of the Institute. By allying our- 

 selves with Harvard, we should gain the 

 active support of this large and influential 

 body of men instead of their opposition. 



VIII. By combination and cooperation 

 instead of competition there is economy in 

 administration ; in heads of departments ; 

 in libraries and photographs ; in museums 

 and collections ; in lecture apparatus and 

 similar appliances ; in buildings, especially 

 as regards large lecture-rooms not often 

 used ; and, to a greater or less extent, in 

 laboratory apparatus. 



IX. There is also an economy or an in- 

 crease of efficiency in combination, with 

 reference to the instructing force. With 

 the same number of men that would be re- 

 quired for two separate institutions a 

 single institution would allow greater 

 specialization in the teaching, permitting 

 the student to come in contact with a larger 

 number of inspiring teachers, or it would 

 enable more than one teacher to teach the 

 same subject, thus stimulating each to do 



his best. This stimulus would be greater 

 if the two teachers were in one institution 

 than if they were in two. There might, 

 and probably would, also be an economy 

 in the number of teachers, especially in 

 the purely lecture courses, and, as already 

 stated, in heads of departments. 



X. If Harvard energetically develops 

 her technical school, she Avill probably, in 

 course of time, have more resources avail- 

 able than the Institute, considering her 

 large number of wealthy alumni and their 

 relations to the business world. The Mc- 

 Kay will provides "that the salaries at- 

 tached to the professorships maintained 

 from the endowment be kept liberal, gen- 

 eration after generation, according to the 

 standard of each successive generation, to 

 the end that these professorships may 

 always be attractive to able men, and that 

 their effect may be to raise in some judi- 

 cious measure the general scale of compen- 

 sation for teachers of the university." In 

 the course of time, therefore, when the 

 McKay money becomes entirely available, 

 it seems inevitable that Harvard will have 

 a very high standard of salaries for pro- 

 fessors in her technical school, — probably 

 much higher than those at the Institute. In 

 this case she could attract to these positions 

 the ablest men, who can not now afford to 

 be teachers because of the inadequate re- 

 ward. Whether under these conditions the 

 Institute would be the leader in technical 

 education in this community is at least 

 doubtful. 



XI. Increase in the number of students, 

 if accompanied by corresponding adapta- 

 tion or organization of the teaching force, 

 should also conduce to economy and etfi- 

 ciency. 



XII. Whether the plan is adopted or not, 

 we can limit our numbers by raising the 

 standard. If increase of m;mbers is a dis- 

 advantage, we shoiild limit them in this 



