But by 1907, at the instigation of astronomer George Ellery Hale, a trustee, the school began to change direction: it dropped its vocational curriculum and strove to become a first- rate institution of science and engineering.
到了一九○七年，在校董天文學家何爾的大力主張下，學校方向開始蛻變﹘﹘刪掉職業課程，致力發展成第一流的理工大學。