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from $170 to $220, including fees, effective with the class entering
in 1920. The treasurer was also authorized to sell certain parcels of
land that had been donated as part of the new endowment.
T. Edward Wilder, '74, a trustee since 1907, died August 22, 1919 at
the age of 64. His will contained a bequest of $20,000, conditional on
the raising by the Trustees of $80,000 additional to found a chair of
Commerce at the Institute. To succeed him the Trustees elected Major
Victor E. Edwards, '83, one of the ablest rolling-mill engineers in
the country, a capable executive with a distinguished war career. In
June, 1920, Aldus C. Higgins, '93, a high executive in the Norton
Company, of which his father, Milton P. Higgins, was a founder, was
elected to fill the remaining vacancy on the Board. Rev. Maxwell
Savage succeeded the Rev. Edwin M. Slocombe as pastor of the First
Unitarian Church in 1919, and was elected to the Board in October of
that year. Rev. William R. McNutt, pastor of the First Baptist Church,
joined the Board in May, 1919. That fall Worcester again swung to the
Democratic side, so Peter F. Sullivan succeeded Pehr G. Holmes as
mayor and ex-officio trustee.
Alumni agitation for more representatives on the Board of Trustees
brought immediate action. A bill was introduced into the Legislature
to permit an increase in the number of trustees from fifteen to
thirty, and at the same time to permit the Institute to hold property
up to $5,000,000. The by laws of the Corporation were completely
revised, the section covering membership being of the greatest
immediate interest. It provided for six ex-officio members: the mayor
of Worcester, a representative of the State Department of Education,
the President of the Institute, the pastors of three churches. There
were also to be nine life members, and fifteen term members.
The nomination of term members, three each year for five-year terms,
was delegated to the Alumni Association. Since the new by laws were to
become effective July 1, 1920,
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