PROPOSED HARVARD ALLIANCE

A complete plan for an alliance of Andover Theological Seminary with Harvard University has been drawn up by the trustees of the Seminary after consultation with President Eliot. For several years it has been deemed advisable for the Seminary to remove from its present situation in Andover to Cambridge and to arrange a suitable connection with Harvard University. No decisive action has yet been taken by the trustees of the Seminary, as before reaching a final conclusion, they have asked for a conference with a committee of the alumni. The University will take no action until the plan is formally presented.

The terms of the plan are in brief as follows:

The organization of Andover Theological Seminary shall be maintained without change, all its trusts being executed as at present.

The Seminary shall have a new building near the Harvard Divinity School, to be called "Andover Hall."

The Andover faculty shall be designated by the title, "Andover Professors in Harvard University;" but this title shall not carry any stipend from the University, nor give a seat in any University faculty.

The professors in the Harvard Divinity School and the professors in Andover Theological Seminary, with the President of the University, shall constitute a "Council for Theology, with advisory powers only, its function being to suggest, plan, and co-ordinate courses for theological instruction.

Courses given by the University professors shall, if approved for that purpose by the faculty of the Seminary, be accepted for the Andover degree of B.D., and courses given by the Andover professors will, if approved by the Harvard faculty of divinity, be accepted for the Harvard degree of B.D.