American Architect and Building News Volume 84 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ...and narrow-minded attitude is in a sense symptomatic of the differences that exist in the tone of the two institutions, a difference that is, orused to be, very noticeable to one who, after taking his degree at Harvard, elected to take his professional training at the Technology. If a complete " merger " were contemplated, through the operation of which the identity of one institution or the other were to be completely lost, active opposition and protest would be understandable at least, if not praisewortlty; but the identity and, in a degree, the autonomy of each institution is to remain unimpaired, in the event that the conference committee report that some form of partial merger is advisable. As the prime object of the coalition is to prevent waste and secure economy, one would think that, as that is one of the ends most persistently kept in view by the educational methods at the Institute of Technology, the movement would receive its warmest support from the graduates of that institution, as their training would better fit them to realize the possibility and effectiveness of the proposed economies. The economic waste of maintaining in such close proximity two great educational plants and staffs of instructors, such as exist in the Institute of Technology and in the Lawrence Scientific School, is too obvious to require discussion, and it is a real misfortune that sentimental considerations are bound to enter so largely into the discussion and possibly settle it, one way or another. BUT even if it is decided to lay the matter on the table for the present, we feel _that it would be regrettable that the Departments of Architecture of the two institutions--the oldest and the youngest of the leading architectural schools of the country--should not...