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...Asked by McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis '68 if voting for the resolution meant voting against Rudenstine's decision, Goldfarb flatly said...
Then, in 1912, a retired shoe manufacturer named Gordon McKay gave $5 million to the then-Graduate School of Applied Science, Martin says. McKay guaranteed the future of engineering at Harvard...
...Gordon McKay made his millions with the machines that were used in making shoes," Martin says. "So he left his money, dominantly, for mechanical engineering...
Abernathy says that only the McKay gift prevented Harvard's engineering department from becoming part of MIT. When the merger became a legal issue, the court ruled that McKay's money could not be transferred...
...courts said at the time that...when Gordon McKay was alive, MIT existed, and he made the choice to give [the money] to Harvard," Abernathy says...