Education: Yale-in-Harvard

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Even in the most sacred places of Harvard University, it has long been possible to enter a door marked YALE— trademark of Locksmiths Yale & Towne of Stamford, Conn. Few people would have suspected that this fact might irk good Harvardmen.

Last week it was disclosed that for the new "house plan" dormitories given Harvard by Yaleman Edward Stephen Harkness. Yale & Towne locks had been ordered upon which the YALE trademark must not appear. Newshawks snooped through Dunster and Lowell Houses, already completed, and reported that among many hundreds, only two outer Yale locks of the usual trademarked variety were in use. One seemed to be an accident, the other was a replacement. The Boston Globe headlined: UNIVERSITY HAS NO INTENTION OF GIVING RIVAL INSTITUTION ANY PUBLICITY FREE OF CHARGE.

Hastily the Harvard authorities explained that they had only wanted to make Dunster and Lowell Houses conform in the last detail with the Colonial type upon which they were planned. Trademarks, explained Harvard, were not used by locksmiths in Colonial days.