student life

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This collection documents the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) crew team from 1910-2014. It includes material that covers practices, competitions, alumni reunions, and other functions of MIT crew. There are photograph albums, scrapbooks, visual materials, training logs, films, and administrative documents.

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This collection contains one box of correspondence, minutes from club meetings, financial records and regulations from the MIT Flying Club from 1928-1929. The correspondence addresses the organization and administration of the club, membership in aeronautical organizations, and the concerns of MIT administrators over the safety and necessity of a flying club. The financial records in the collection include bills and receipts for parts and service and some correspondence with vendors.

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The records of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Hillel Foundation, bulk 1956-2010, contain ten linear feet of correspondence, meeting minutes, self-published newsletters and brochures, photographs, posters, and scrapbooks, which document the organized activities of MITs’ Jewish student body. Much of the material provides evidence of social, academic, and religious events sponsored by MIT Hillel.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Outing Club (MITOC) contains materials donated by members. Box 2 contains a set of newsletters chronicling club trips and activities covers the period 1949 to 1970. The newsletter was variously titled either MITOC News or GNARMPFSK, "the sound a camper makes when she or he wakes up in the morning" (per MITOC 2015 web site). There are a few issues of Alumni GNARMPRSK which provide a historical look back at the club and its members. The...

Scope and Contents This collection was compiled by the Association of Independent Living Groups (AILG) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the MIT 150th Anniversary Archives Project. The majority of the materials relate to The Campaign for 530, a fundraising drive in the late 1990s by the Alpha Mu trust that raised $1.7 million to renovate the fraternity's chapter house. Other materials include an invitation to the 2003 Centennial Founders' Day Weekend and a report on the chapter's financial...

Scope and Contents This collection was compiled by the Association of Independent Living Groups (AILG) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the MIT 150th Anniversary Archives Project. It is composed of materials relating to the history of the Omicron Chapter of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and includes minutes, newsletters, the chapter's constitution and bylaws, a history of the chapter written in 1932, musical score of the chapter song, and an example...

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The collection comprises materials documenting the origins of the guidebook "How to Get Around MIT" (HowToGAMIT). The materials span the years of 1969 to 1993.

Scope and Contents The collection includes some correspondence, subscription records, and office manuals of the Tech Engineering News, a monthly professional journal published by undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with alumni and faculty. It was originally conceived of as a supplement to the student newspaper,The Tech, in 1919, when Tech advertising manager Ray St. Laurent discovered that some businesses preferred to advertise in a college technical journal rather than a...

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The collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Athletic Club consists of a preliminary draft of the constitution and bylaws of the Technology Athletic Club. The draft, written by Frank Maconi, bears the name "Students Athletic Club," a name that was dropped when the club was founded. It also includes a folder of notes on purpose and student names.

Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection documents the activities of the Technology Christian Association (TCA), a student organization of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).The Technology Christian Association was founded on January 17, 1895, under the auspices of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). Material in this collection, spanning 1905 to 1948, comprises three record formats: scrapbooks, ledgers, and logbooks. The collection is arranged chronologically by format. Scrapbooks,...

Scope and Contents of the Collection The Ten Club Records, 1936-1969, document the activities of an engineering club at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the mid-twentieth century. The bulk of the collection dates from 1937-1957, and includes meeting minutes, printed invitations, and some correspondence. The collection consists of one series in two bound volumes. Each dated entry records the names of invited guests and newly elected members. Eight charter constituents endorsed the rules, and a cumulative...

Abstract The collection documents the career of William A. Zisman, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zisman joined the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in 1939 where he was head of the Lubrication Branch (subsequently renamed Surface Chemistry) until 1956, superintendent of the Chemistry Division until 1968, and chief of the Laboratory for Chemical Physics until he retired in 1975. Abstracts and reprints of Zisman's articles, correspondence, notes, and reports in the collection...