Third, your committee has already been able to render a practical service to the city as well as to the College, in appearing by four out of five of its members at the recent hearing at the State House in opposition to the bills for the taxation of college property. The position taken by your committee at that hearing was that the citizens of Cambridge in general are not only against such taxation, but are earnestly desirous that the good name of the city should no longer be imperiled by the repeated efforts of a single individual seeking for notoriety.

Fourth, this club recommend that the Mayor appoint a committee representative of the city government, of Harvard University, and of the citizens of Cambridge at large to consider the great interests of the city for the more suitable arrangement of streets about and approaches to the College grounds."

Mr. Williams, after reading the report, spoke of the work of the club in bringing the project to a head, and decried any credit to ex-Representative Julius Myers. He declared that the movement could in no way be traced to Mr. Myers's campaign for taxation, but was a voluntary act on the part of the College, when the matter had been brought up, long before Mr. Myers's bills were filed with the legislature.

In accordance with the suggestion in the report, a committee was appointed to act in further conjunction with the committee from the College. This committee was announced as follows: Henry M. Williams '85, chairman, Edmund A. Whitman '81, John H. Corcoran, Samuel D. Elmore '93, and George E. Saunders.

Mr. Williams spoke a few words on the recommendations, saying that the annual dinner to high scholars in the Sophomore class was suggested because it fits in with the second suggestion-to get more closely in touch with new students without acquaintances in Cambridge. Such an affair would be a great pleasure and lead to better acquaintance and be a benefit both to the citizens and to the students. The committee on hospitality is a thing near to the heart of the deans. Dean Briggs is heartily in favor of it.

The College's offer had absolutely nothing to do with the bills on taxation before the legislature. The work of the committee was begun in September, and the matter was threshed out by January before the Myers bills were drawn up. The whole thing was voluntary on the part of the College and in the meetings of the committees taxation was practically tabooed from the very start. The club's endorsement of the recommendations was unanimous, and, on motion of Stoughton Bell, a vote of thanks was extended to the committee for its work.

In regard to the Myers bills for taxing Harvard, it need only be said that at the hearing at the State House, Mr. Myers was left not only wholly without support, but was opposed by various citizens of Cambridge, including a committee of the Cambridge Club, who attacked his bills on the ground that they would injure the City of Cambridge itself.

In view of the complete and most welcome change of sentiment, at a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College on March 13, 1911, it was understood that the President should notify the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that in view of the petitions from a large number of leading citizens of Cambridge asking the Institute to remove to that city, the Corporation withdraws any objection to such removal hitherto raised on the ground that the exemption from taxation of so large an amount of property in Cambridge might endanger the stability of the existing provisions relieving educational institutions from taxation.

The city has already applied to the University for expert advice, and the other recommendations recorded above are in the way of being carried out. That the bonds between Town and Gown may grow stronger and stronger, and the mutual friendship and service become too apparent to give any one cause to suppose that the interests of the city and University are necessarily antagonistic, is the hope of every intelligent person in Cambridge.

[Note.-Reprinted from the June number of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine.