A Widening Sphere Evolving Cultures at MIT

• Main Author: Alexander, Philip N. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2011
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Universities; History of engineering & technology; History of education; Higher and further education, tertiary education; History of engineering and technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...