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...most important phase of the plan for co-operation is the feeling of cordiality between Technology and Harvard with which it has been made. Jealousy between rival schools and the roaring sentiment of graduates have always been overwhelming. In western states, notably Iowa, where rival scientific schools have existed, both of them under the wing of the state, the feeling has been too strong to allow even state authority to bring about a union of any sort. Harvard and Technology have overcome these natural sentiments and, without common authority, have joined in a plan which will carry influence all over...
...Professor L. J. Johnson, of the Engineering Department, drew up a charter on the commission form of city government, modeled after the newer charters of the western cities. This document was submitted to the voters on a referendum and it was defeated, the chief objection being that it did not take sufficiently into consideration the peculiar needs of Cambridge. Professor Johnson has revised this charter and it will probably be again submitted to the Legislature and to the voters at the next elections...
Good Story of Western Life...
...arrangements for a football game with Chicago have not materialized. Word has been received from Chicago that the Athletic Committee there was opposed to the team's playing any games outside of the Western Conference and especially at so considerable a distance. The decision is in line with the spirit of the conference as informally expressed that intersectional games were not deemed desirable...
...colleges of Massachusetts will be divided into two groups, an eastern one comprising Harvard, Tufts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, and Boston University, and a western one comprising Amherst, Williams, Clark, Holy Cross, and Worcester Polytechnical Institute. Each college will choose a representative who will debate against the representatives of the other colleges in his group. The winners of the two groups will then debate against each other in the final state debate. The intercollegiate Oratorical Association offers a prize of $75 to the winner of this state debate, and the Massachusetts Peace Society offers a prize...