An Account of the Proceedings Preliminary to the Organization of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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J. Wilson and son, 1861 - Počet stran: 23
 

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Strana 4 - Technology, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining a society of arts, a museum of arts, and a school of industrial science, and aiding generally, by suitable means, the advancement, development, and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce...
Strana 17 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Strana 19 - AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
Strana 6 - for the purpose of adopting measures preliminary to the organization of the Institute, and in furtherance of a petition to the Legislature for a charter, and a portion of the Back Bay lands.
Strana 4 - Accordingly, at a meeting held May 28, 1860, the Committee assigned to a sub-committee, consisting of WB Rogers, EB Bigelow, JM Beebe, MD Ross, and CH Dalton, the duty of preparing and reporting the plan of an institution designed for the advancement of the Industrial Arts and Sciences and Practical Education in the Commonwealth.
Strana 5 - The numerous responses to this circular, approving the objects and plan of the proposed Institute, and offering cooperation in its several departments as laid down in the Report,, satisfied the Committee that its leading features were practically suited to the great industrial and educational objects in view, and that the general scheme was likely to command the hearty and helpful approval of the community at large. After an interval of about two months...
Strana 5 - Institute, confining the invitation to those only to whom the Report had previously been sent, and who were supposed to have made themselves acquainted with the different features and bearings of the plan thus distinctly submitted to them. It will be seen that the following circular, calling this meeting, was framed with the view of testing still further the deliberate approbation and interest which might be felt in regard to the proposed Institution : — BOSTON, Jan. 7, 1861. DEAR SIR, — You...
Strana 15 - Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and the above-named Institute of Technology, under such conditions as in your judgment may best promote the practical objects of these Institutions, and conduce to the educational and industrial interests of the Commonwealth. For the details of the organization and purposes of these several societies, and of their claims upon your favorable consideration as connected with the...
Strana 7 - Committee be instructed to use its best efforts, in co-operation with the Committee of Associated Institutions of Science and Arts, to obtain from the Legislature an Act of Incorporation for the Institute, and to secure a grant of land on the Back Bay for its use, and for that of other institutions devoted to the Practical Sciences.
Strana 3 - ... but silent work done at that time in furtherance of the scheme, being found in a pamphlet published in 1861,* in which the statement is made that, "Believing that the failure of their previous appeal to the Legislature was, in part at least, due to the incompleteness and vagueness in which they had presented this department of their general plan...

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