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MIT History

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)
1931	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chinese students directory for the past fifty years. Call number: T171.M42b.C53 1931. (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

1984	Rhetoric and Liberation, March 28, 1984. Thomas Kuhn Papers, MC.0240. (PDF)
1968	M.I.T. Commencement Speech, President Howard W. Johnson, June 7, 1968. Records of the Office of the President, AC.0118. (PDF)
1949	The Machine Age, by Norbert Wiener, version 3, 1949. Norbert Wiener Papers, MC.0022. (PDF)