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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proposal that there should be co-operation between Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is not an entirely novel idea. But the fact that a suggestion of this sort has now come from President Maclaurin of Technology gives an added importance to the question. The gist of President Maclaurin's proposal, made in his annual report, is that there should be a pooling of facilities, with the maintenance of the present independence of the two institutions. The reasons back of this proposition are purely economic, for it is urged that each of the two schools has resources which...