Move from Boston to Cambridge
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Collection on the Celebration of the Move of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Boston to Cambridge
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0343
Abstract
The Dedication Reunion Committee was formed to oversee the celebrations for the dedication of MIT’s new Cambridge campus, which took place on June 12, 13, and 14, 1916. The committee was divided into over twenty subcommittees responsible for an elaborate set of festivities. Several subcommittees are represented in the collection, including the Undergraduate Reunion Committee and the Technology Pageant Committee, whose records form a major portion of the collection.
Dates:
1916 - 1920; Majority of material found in 1916 - 1916
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AC-0013
Abstract
The collection documents the administration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the responsibilities and activities of the Institute's presidents between 1897 and 1930. This was a period of enormous growth and development of the Institute, which was chartered in 1861 and graduated its first class of undergraduates in 1868. There is correspondence about the proposed merger with Harvard University in 1904 and a proposed alliance in 1911. The purchase of land, the planning...
Dates:
1883 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1897 - 1931