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way rather than in any arbitrary way. By 

 adopting the proposed plan, we retain the 

 field, and can get all the strongest students 

 from this community. If there are two 

 schools, Harvard will very likely get as 

 many as we do. 



XIII. The addition of the Harvard 

 Faculty to that of the Institute would be 

 a distinct gain. Whether all would har- 

 moniously work together at once is of 

 little consequence. Temporary adjust- 

 ments might have to be made. "With 

 broad-minded cooperation a larger effi- 

 ciency would result by adding to our body 

 a staff of able teachers with new ideas and 

 without Institute traditions, but animated 

 by ideals and purposes as high as our own. 

 Of all men the teacher is most likely to get 

 into a rut. In-breeding emphasizes this 

 tendency. The intlux of a body of new 

 men with other points of view than our 

 own would tend to counteract it. 



XIV. If the proposed plan should result 

 in more intimate association between our 

 Faculty and the Faculty of Harvard Col- 

 lege, the result would be beneficial. 



XV. Institute students are given a nar- 

 row training, and would benefit by associa- 

 tion with men studying the humanities and 

 the other professions. 



XVI. One great lack which Institute 

 men have always felt is college life and col- 

 lege spirit. Many of them come from 

 their homes or boarding places in the morn- 

 ing, attend their classes, and go home at 

 night, seeing little of their fellows, and 

 gaining no experience in the art of getting 

 on with men. Their after-success will 

 probably depend as much upon their abil- 

 ity to deal with men as upon a knowledge 

 of their profession, and their progress may 

 be much retarded by a lack of some 

 qualities which they might gain at the In- 

 stitute if they could take the time for more 

 intimati' association with their classmates. 



Moving to a site out of town would give 

 the opportunity for a change in this re- 

 spect, since it would render possible the 

 introduction of dormitory life. 



XVII. The surroundings of many of our 

 Institute students in cheap boarding 

 houses, with poor food and the temptations 

 of a great city about them, are in many 

 cases most unfavorable. We believe the 

 distractions and diversions of such a life, 

 and even the distractions in home life from 

 the presence of friends and relatives and 

 from home chores and duties, are much 

 greater on the average than these which 

 would arise under proper management in 

 the dormitory system. The proposed plan 

 would be an improvement over present con- 

 ditions, because a larger proportion of stu- 

 dents would live in the suburbs, and be- 

 cause dormitories might be established, 

 which is now impracticable. 



XVIII. Educational institutions must 

 depend more and more upon gifts from 

 wealthy men. Harvard Univereity and 

 the Institute are in the same community. 

 They must appeal for support to the same 

 class of persons, and in many cases to the 

 same individuals. If the two were work- 

 ing together, the finanical results would be 

 better than if the two were working sepa- 

 rately and in opposition to each other. 



XIX. Rich men who have large sums of 

 money to give away desire to have their 

 gifts expended economically, and, as a rule, 

 they believe that economy results from 

 combination and cooperation rather than 

 from competition. If this agreement 

 should be declined by the Institute, many 

 of them would say that the Institute was 

 unwilling to cooperate, and thereby in- 

 crease efficiency and economy, Avhile Har- 

 vard University was willing to cooperate. 

 This attitude would render them less likely 

 to give to the Institute. 



The present plan seems to offer almost 



