Widening Sphere
How MIT''s first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.
MIT was founded in 1861 as a polytechnic institute in Boston''s Back Bay, overshadowed by its neighbor across the Charles River, Harvard University. Harvard offered a classical education to young men of America''s ruling class; the early MIT trained men (and a few women) f...
How MIT''s first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.
MIT was founded in 1861 as a polytechnic institute in Boston''s Back Bay, overshadowed by its neighbor across the Charles River, Harvard University. Harvard offered a classical education to young men of America''s ruling class; the early MIT trained men (and a few women) f...
