Digitized Collection Items

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A beaver, MIT's mascot

Ongoing MIT Reports to the President, 1994-95 – present;
1911 – 1997 [with a few gaps] (PDF)
Ongoing MIT Course Catalog, a.k.a MIT Bulletin; or MIT Course Catalogue, 1998 – present; 1865-1993; current year. (PDF) Print editions, including issues for 1994-1997 are available in the Institute Archives reading room (14N-118).
2010 Report on Faculty Race and Diversity, 2010 (PDF)
2006 Report of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons. October 2006. (PDF)
2006 Report of the Energy Research Council, May 2006. (PDF)
1949 Report of the Committee on Educational Survey (Lewis Committee). 1949. (PDF)

Documents concerning the founding and early years of MIT

1867 Report of the Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the Subject of Free Scholarships. 1867. (PDF)
1866 An Outline of a Course of Architectural Instruction. By William R. Ware. 1866. (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)
1865 An Address on the Limits of Education, read before the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 16, 1865. By Jacob Bigelow, M.D. (PDF)
1864 Outline of Studies in the Department of Practical Geology, Mining, and Metallurgy. 1864. (PDF)
1864 Scope and Plan of the School of Industrial Science of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1864. (PDF)
1861 An Account of the Proceedings Preliminary to the Organization of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1861. (PDF)
1861 Estimate of the Financial Effect of the Proposed Reservation of Back-Bay Lands. 1861. (PDF)
1861 An Act to Incorporate the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…, 1861. (PDF)
1861 Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology; including a Society of Arts, a Museum of Arts, and a School of Industrial Science. 1861. Second printing. (PDF)
1859 Conservatory of Art and Science. Legislative Document. House No. 260. 1859. (PDF)

Documents from Collections

1949 The Machine Age, by Norbert Wiener, version 3, 1949. Norbert Wiener Papers, MC.0022. (PDF)