MIT History Haiku
The haiku poetry form follows the 5/7/5 meter.
Here are some haikus created by staff of the MIT Institute Archives & Special Collections:
The dome’s reflection
Harkens to earlier time
Back Bay to Cambridge
A technical school
William Barton Rogers felt
Yields innovation
Cleofan women
Established relationships
Found strength in union
Stroboscopic studies –
Frequent flashes formed freeze frames
Doc made applesauce
1861
To 2011
Anniversary
Bituminous coal
Whispered in a death rattle
His last words…perhaps
Ellen Swallow was the first woman graduate of the Institute |
Building on campus Numbering does not make sense I will need a map |
We’re an institute Not a university Crucial distinction |
Boston and Cambridge Always building everywhere MIT growing |
MIT’s first map Done digital in July 1969 |
PhD theses for pioneering research and discovery |
Julius Stratton Leader beyond MIT Nation and the sea |
James Killian think “threes”: “M-I-T” “P-B-S” and “Ike” in DC |
My mind may be gone And my hands may grow weak but Mind and hand goes on |
Thanks, Emma Rogers For saving William’s papers We’re still reading them |
In Boston’s Back Bay Students studied principles In labs learned by hand |
Winter wonderland Blizzard of seventy-eight Tim stands in the mud |
One Alfred P. Sloan Namesake of the business school Course six graduate |
In E52 Lever ran a soap business Now home to Sloanies |
We’ll be adding more throughout the MIT150 celebration. If you have an MIT history haiku, please send it to mithistory@mit.edu, subject line “MIT History Haiku”. Happy 150th!