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College presidents -- Massachusetts -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Howard W. Johnson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0163
Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection consists of Howard W. Johnson's personal papers and reflects his activities beyond his official positions of president of MIT and MIT corporation chair. The official administrative records from his tenure as president of MIT, and then chair of the Corporation of MIT form a separate collection in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. The collection contains files pertaining to Howard Johnson's service on various boards of directors and overseers in both...
Dates: 1958 - 2008

John D. Runkle papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0007
Scope and Contents The collection consists mainly of the professional correspondence of John D. Runkle, a professor of mathematics and the second president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The bulk of the incoming correspondence is from William Barton Rogers, MIT’s founder, and his wife, Emma Savage Rogers, concerning MIT. Other prominent correspondents include Robert H. Richards, Charles W. Eliot, Benjamin Pierce, William R. Ware, Albert F. Hall, and T. Sterry Hunt. Letters from Edward...
Dates: 1853 - 1880

Julius Adams Stratton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-0431
Scope and Contents of the Collection This collection documents the activities of Julius Adams Stratton, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The collection is arranged in six series by original file groupings. Series 1 contains biographical and genealogical material about Stratton's family, including correspondence, diaries, and reminiscences by his father about his trip west in the mid-nineteenth century. The subject files, Series 3, document Stratton's professional and government activities...
Dates: 1854 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1994

William Barton Rogers papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-0001
Abstract This collection contains the personal correspondence of William Barton Rogers, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Family and professional correspondence, notes, articles, lectures, clippings, and drafts of articles on scientific topics, documents relating his philosophy on science and technology education, and many antecedent documents relating to the establishment and early years of MIT are included. An important part of the collection is drafts of...
Dates: 1804 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1834 - 1882