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The Founding of MIT

Citations

(1) Letter, William Barton Rogers to Henry Darwin Rogers, March 13, 1846, William Barton Rogers Papers (MC 1), Institute Archives and Special Collections, MIT Libraries.

(2) Address of His Excellency Nathaniel P. Banks to the Two Branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 7, 1859. Senate No. 1 (Boston, 1859), pp. 30-31.

(3) Emma Rogers, ed. Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Cambridge, Mass.: Riverside Press, 1896), vol. 2, p. 3.

(4) An Account of the Proceedings Preliminary to the Organization of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with a List of the Members Thus Far Associated, and An Appendix, Containing Petitions and Resolutions in Aid of the Objects of the Committee of Associated Institutions of Science and Art (Boston, 1861), p. 4.

(5) Printed circular letter, January 7, 1861, William Barton Rogers Papers (MC 1); also printed in Account of the Proceedings, p. 6.

(6) Acts and Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1861, Chapter 183, Section 3.


Other early MIT documents
1861 Estimate of the Financial Effect of the Proposed Reservation of Back-Bay Lands. 1861. (pdf)
1864 Scope and Plan of the School of Industrial Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1864. (pdf)
1864 Outline of Studies in the Department of Practical Geology, Mining, and Metallurgy. 1864. (pdf)
1865 An Address on the Limits of Education, read before the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 16, 1865. By Jacob Bigelow, M.D. (pdf)
1865-6 First Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students, and Programme of the Course of Instruction, of the School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1865-6. (pdf)
1866 An Outline of a Course of Architectural Instruction. By William R. Ware. 1866. (pdf)
1867 Report of the Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the Subject of Free Scholarships. 1867. (pdf)

 

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