MIT-Harvard 1914-1917 merger and Eastman donation

Opening anecdote. The 1914–1917 attempted merger, Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling against it, MIT's bankruptcy, George Eastman's $6 million anonymous donation (Building 6), and Harvard's pivot to founding the Harvard Business School as its de facto engineering school.

Aeronautical engineering and nuclear engineering — those were the first of their type in the country, at MIT. Harvard, between 1872 and 1917, tried to purchase MIT three times, because they wanted an engineering school. I handed out the little thing on leadership at MIT where I quote Thomas Edison, where he says MIT was the greatest school in the country, because businesses were learning that engineers were useful to their economy.