Complex sentence: This was due to the close relationship that developed between the first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, and William Ward Watkin, the representative of Cram Goodhue and Ferguson, the Boston firm retained to design the campus and the first collection of buildings.
Split into simpler sentences: This was due to the close relationship that developed between the first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, and William Ward Watkin. Watkin served as the representative of Cram Goodhue and Ferguson, the Boston firm retained to design the campus and the first collection of buildings.