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...discourage the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from moving across the river from its Boston home, fearing that the new school would focus attention on the property tax issue and endanger Harvard's exemption. But MIT still moved--in 1916, with the president and trustees aboard the good ship Bucentaur, it ceremonially crossed the Charles into Cambridge...
Today's feature in the Technology celebration will be the pageant and masque, "The Conquest of Chaos by Technology," in the new buildings this evening at 8.30 o'clock, and the sailing of the Bucentaur, carrying the archives of the institution to their new home on the Charles. There will be music, fireworks, and a grand illumination. This performance will not be postponed on account of rain. The Harvard Bridge will be open only to foot passengers...
...galley which will take a central part in the Technology pageant has reached Boston and is now anchored in the Charles River Basin. It is named the Bucentaur and is patterned after the stately Venetian galleys of old. It was built expressly to take part in the water festival in connection with the opening of the new Massachusetts Institute of Technology buildings next Wednesday...
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