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It will open an avenue for the we tremble at the thought of the expression of public opinion, and OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 9 work before us, we begin it gladly. will aim, in every possible way, to m We believe that the same public help all in their development of spirit that founded THE TECH their young manhood and young will sustain it to the end. womanhood. It is hoped, too, that November 6, 1981 The Institute has never been it wilI keep the interests of the rich in papers. Only one, we Institute before its gradurates, believe, has ever been published. cherishing among them the Sonie yeairs algo, the Specitrumis tiernorv of their Almla Mater. Our shone tor Li time, but soon faded brother and sister colleges, also, .1iway. Still Ilater, aln aIttempt wals will become better acquainted rnade to estahlish alnother pilper, with us throu-h this paper. but in valin: the first number never W'e cannot look far into the future. We calnnot tell what buds To the Staff and Editors of The Tech: And now conies THE TECH, of -enius may be untolded in these .lskting its shalre of favor. Even ,IS columins. But even if genius does e its predecessor, it alttempts great not bloom:, even if the bealuties of things. It will be its aim to pro- rhetoric and p~oetry are not devel- Congratulations on bringing The Tech into its second century. Not only I mnote the interests of the students oped here, even if this paper is the paper the oldest student activity on campus (if you don't count "hacking" ot the Institute, alnd malintalin a becon-es, like the school it repre- and other such informal pursuits), it is a vital force in creating community friendly spirit amom-Y them, breaik- sients, only a tleld for plain honest among all who live and work here -- students, faculty, and staff. ing down the .Incient barriers of work, -we shall nevertheless be clalss .Ind deptirtment. It will exer- sure that the efforts we make are Besides printing news of interest and importance to our community, the cise a guardian care over the stepping stones to further attain- paper has become a forum for the varied voices which may arise on any given members of the school, protecting ments. helping us alil to the higher issue. As you know, I don't always agree with the views expressed in your the Freshman, curbing the Sopho- and nobler uses of our lives. pages, but what kind of university would we be without the dialectic generated by differing perspectives and assumptions? If there is anything I've learned in my thirty years as an MIT citizen, it is that this place and its people flour- ish by challenging old truths and creating new paradigms for understanding E ourselves and our world. This spirit is embodied in The Tech -- a tradition I that serves us all. I Here's to the second hundred years! . es orrice or THE PRESIDECO December 14, 1956 Sincerely yours, The Editors and Staff THE TECH Genti-emen: I Congratulations to you and to your predeces- sors on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the founding of THE TECH. I have followed the prog- ress of THE TECH with great interest since I was a part of it as an undergraduate, and share with you a sense of pride in the accomplishments of our newspaper. November 16, 1981 A student newspaper at the Institute is a symbol of our nation's great free press. The student paper must maintain the high standards of responsibility, accuracy, and thoroughness of the ... but must look to the past best newspapers of the country, Bscause the student newspaper has a monopoly in its own com- MIT's history is rife with tales portant role in establishing con- one hundredth annive-sary of the I munity, however, its obligations and opportunities tinuity in such an inherently dis- Institute's undergraduate news- are of even wider import. It must constntly assess of notable personalities, memora- its responsibilities to the students whose ble accomplishments, and divisive jointed environment. Throughout paper fortuitously provides such interests it serves and to the institution it so controversies. Even a cursory ex- its century-long existence, The an opportunity. The experience often represents, It must maintain its objec- amination of the historical record Tecoh has tried to provide an has been enlightening and re- tivity within a framework ar impressive responsi- ; bilities and opportunities. reveals that these stories follow a accurate record of the personali- warding. The review was especial- pattern. If there is a lesson to be ties and events which have com- ly encouraging because it revealed I am confident that THE TECH will, in the that, for the most part, The Tech years ahead as it has in the past, discharge its learned from these pages, it is this: bined to form the history of the obligations and capitalize on its opportunities, MIT's history is cyclic. Institute. Each board of editors has been effective in both report- Congratulations on your efforth thus far and good The repetitive nature of MIT has had as its primary objective ing major MIT events and provi- luck and clear sailing in the future. events is not obvious to its student thorough coverage of current ding a forum in which to discuss Yours sincerely, population, which turns over MIT events. The collective efforts their implications. every four years. The short length of these students provide a sur- The journalist's dual tasks of of stay and the difficulty of work prisingly complete history of the objective news gathering and R. Killian, give students little chance to gain Institute. thoughtful interpretation are President perspective on their experiences at Only on rare occasions can a especially difficult for student the Institute. student find the time to examine newspapers to achieve. These A newspaper can play an im- MIT's historical treasures. The newspapers often bear the extra i I responsibility of journalistic mo- nopoly: The Tech has been MIT's H. Ward Leonard '83 - President Brian J. Glass'82 Chairman sole newspaper for most of the T H E Henry F. Ross'82 -Secretary Stephanie L. Pollack 82 - Editor-in-Chief paper's history. In addition, the 1.W. Litchfield '85 Treasurer Jon von Zelowitz'82 - Managing Editor newspaper is a student activity for Richard W. Epstein'83 - Business Manager most of its staff, and so must T E C H Volume l. Number 1 Volume 101, Number 50 provide them with opportunity foi Wednesday, November l 6. 1881 Monday, November 16. 1981 enjoyment and relaxation. The mere attainment of a hun- dredth anniversary supports the Directors: W. B. Snow '82, H. B. Gale '83, A. S. Pratt '84 News Editors: ivan K. Fong '83, Jerri-Lynn Scofield '83 conclusion that The Tech has had Editor-in-Chief: A. W. Walker '82 Night Editors: V. Michael Bove '83, Judy Passman '83, Bill some success as both a newspaper Civil and Mechanical Engineering: H. S. Chase '83 Giuffre '84 and an activity. As with MIT's Architecture: G. T. Snelling '82 Sports Editor: Eric R. Flerning '83 history, this success has been cyc- Mining and Chemistry: C. H. Tompkins, Jr. '83 Arts Editors: Lisa Buchholz '81, David Shaw '82 lic. Distinguished peaks of de- Sports: R. T. Gibbons '83 Advertising Manager: Allen Frechter '83 tailed investigative reporting have Advertising: S- M. Munn '82 Production Manager: Richard Salz '82 alternated with debilitating valleys Editors: G. W. Mansfield '82, G. J. Foran '83, F. F. Johnson Contributing Editors: Kevin G. Osborn '82, Kenneth Snow of notably poor journalism. '84, A. D. Little '85. '82, Laura Farhie '83 These cycles of the Institute and Indexing Project Representative: A. David Boccuti '79 The Tech will, we hope, continue indefinitely. MIT's history often ' appears, to each set of students passing through it, as a disjointed The Tech (ISSN 0148-9607) is published twice a week during the academic STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE year (except during MIT vacations), weekly during January, and once during series of conflicts. The following the last week In July for $10.00 per year Third Class by The Tech, 84 Editors: Stephanie Pollack '82, Jon von Zelowitz '82. Richard Saiz pages reveal that MIT's solid base Massachusetts Ave. Room W20-483, Cambridge, MA 02139 Third Class '83; Staff: Eric A. Sohn '81. Patrick M. Thompson '82, Richard of individual effort and institu- J1 postage paid at Boston, MA. Non-Profit Org. Permit No. 59720 Epstein '83. Lillian Ruston '83, Jerri-Lynn Scofield '83. Bill Giuffre POSTMASTER: Please send all address changes to our malling address. The '84. tional persistence has proven suf- Tech, PO Box 29, MIT Branch, Cambridge. MA 02139 Telephone (617) 253- licient to resolve those dichoto- 1541 Advertising, subscription, and typesetting rates available. 0 1981 The Cover photograph and issue design by Jon von Zelowitz. mies. We hope that The Tech has Tech. Printed by Charles River Publishing. Inc. . Photographs and il/ustrations courtesy MIT Museum. contributed to that success. im L- Novemnber 16, 1981 Page 3 r I....Nmm--quomol- 'IRNMN~ ~~ On November 16, 1881, the In- severe struggle, suceeded in mak- stitute witnessed its second at- ing a touchdown, from Which a tempt to establish an undergrad- goal wats kicked. In the second uLlte paper: TITe 7T(eh. With this innings another touchdown was special issue commemorating 100 I scored by Harvard, the score of vears of uninterrupted publica.- MIT being filled only with safety ijon, the attempt was, in at least touchdowns." one sense, successful. Viewed Th7e Tech also reported on non- chronologically, the newpaper academic pursuits. "The means presents a unique history of MIT employed by a few students to a history told by its students. clear steps of the heterogeneous The paper originally had a larg- crowd which gathered there at the er scope than does The 7T(ec of time of President [Chester A.] recent years, covering topics rang- Arthur's visit gave to the reporters ing from world affairs, scientific n opportunity of chronicling treatises, and Institute particulars what is known in their inflated to student literary attempts. For diction as a 'student outrage'. The exaimple, an editorial observation students certainly had a right to in the November 30, 1881, issue the steps. read "The Policy of the English "It would seem that the 'ladies government in regard to the Irish and gentlemen' should have yield- question has been, up to this time ed their position after having been a lenient one.... Measures repeatedly and politely requested should be taken to suppress the to do so. They did not, however, thing once and for all." Closer to so a few of the more thoughtless home, a letter to the editor on the of the students threw several cup- need for a break in the work at fulls of water upon them from an IMIT stated a generally prevailing upper window, while others slow- opinion: "Mentally the rest is ly forced the crowd from the needed. We as students scarcely topmost steps." need to be assured of this for every The 1883-84 scholastic year was imin who knows the mental strain generally marked by expansion of of six days' close application, interest in non-scholastic endeav- miust feel its necessity.'' or, beginning with a lively discus- Both intramural and varsity I sion of the "school colors." Noted as might at first sight appear, since has been a demand for men in the I morning of the 23rd [of Decem- sports held the students' interest The Tecth: "The Institute colors the water furnished by the old profession and, consequently, an ber], and within fifteen minutes through the 1881-82 scholastic have been for years among the apparatus has been quite turbid apparent lack of competition." the first lot of three hundred and near. A November 5 story on the vague traditions of the school. lately." On January 14, 1885, President sixty were sold out.'' interclilss games stated, "A fenc- There was a spasmodic attempt A significant event of the year Walker had issued his report for The seeds of the Coop had been ing match headed sports. Gibbons last year to bring them into prom- was the arrival from Paris of a the year. A summary by the news- planted aind were flourishing by kvas the 'running high' at four feet inence and a few of the more plaque commemorating the late I paper stated that "President the spring of 1887. Trhe Tec h eleven. In the htilf-mile walk, energetic students mystified their William Barton Rogers. "Permis- Walker's report, recently pub- reported briefly on its progress. Ripley won by six inches in classmates by appearing with sion has been granted by the lished, gives an encouraging state- ''The Co-operaltive Society has 4.103/4. A potato race won by scarfs and handkerchiefs of card- Corporation to place the tablet in ment of the condition of the just entered upon its second years [the C ass on 1818S3 concl uded the inal fnd gray. The large majority. the entrance hall of the old build- I Institute. Not only is the number its past career halving been sin deiv's sports.'' I ntercollegiately, in however, frowned upon the inno- ing, now called the Rogers Build- of students nears one-third larger unu~suallv prosperous aInd encour- the third annual stinter games of vation and seemed with difficulty ing. The price agreed upon with than last vear, representing a lar- alging one. The Society had up to the Unio)n Athletic Club, held to realize the claim of the Institute the sculptor w·as between three ger geopgraphical territory. but the April I st nearly 600 members, and Jlmuaurs 23, 1882, ''the I nstitute upon a ny portion of the spectrum. and four hundred dollars and examinations for admission have mans. have found their rnemher- \kzis represented by one tug-of-war To t hose conservative mem bers of three hundred and fifty dollars shown a marked improvement in shipn a so~urce of great salving to tearn, one man in the 75-yard the Institute who may be inclined have been paid." The plaque is the preparation of candidates. The themn, wchile the tratdesmllen havec dash, and one in the pole vault.'' to resent the innovation, we can now in Building 10. I report closes with an appeal for been readv and aniious to renews additional endowments kkhich their etontracets.' shall place the institute of Tech- Th1e 'Tech1 printed its first spec-all nology on an assured basis. reduc- edition xchen IMIT \\t)o1 the NoCrth- ing the large tuition tee ($200).' ealstern Intercollegi..e Freootball The exceptional storv of the Ch~l-rpionhllipi. Heralded Lis "it e 1885-1886 vear Was the rise of the at h leti alchievemenlt of' the era, Institute fLotball team to pre-emi- the en-Lre issue \Aas devoted to the nence in its league:'The standina t\%t, pla,\offparnesMNiI- %von1 on i ts, in the Northern \Waly to the title. An .article ' intercollegiate I Wil- sh(_S MMI.r ITnd Wiilliams tied lor liarns \V'hite ~ashedi' Conta~_,ious the championship." The high- I C heering, Characterizes Eateh Pre,,- lights of the championship game tv Pla\, , oave the fo!Iw,\,ine nk.1! were reported is follouvs:''The hurmardlv: -'L)uane kicked to .Stan - ball, sfter being put in play, stcart- field oil three dowens: utruWNillianns ed for the Tech goal line. but here I(ost the ball on Li funible. Duanel some of the most skillfut play of here ran around the end of W11- the game was done and T\wombly liams' line and stopp^(l onlN at made a touchdown and the score WNillliams' 15-vard line, uhere he was tied. Field made a long run was thrown, when his head struck. for the Williams kick-off but was WIrock. For Li time he waIs ucnCl- I tackled and thrown in great shape sicious; he, however. came to just by Herrick. Soon, however, Field before the time limit find made secured another touchdown for another prctty run to within 12' W illiams.' vards of Williams' goal lisle: .In- The first fraternity at MIT, other rush, head doasn, by ILIl~ne Sigma Chi, was established in amnid cheers, veils and the moist 1881. Five years later, concern unprecedenlted demonnstratioin of' arose that the fraternity's influ- joy." This wa3s the first 4 of 22 _rrr~R~lOB~r(881k- a~--·r~P~w~e~lF~-- IF A _ _I'_ W` .'W, v_, ence was too great. "There seems points finillly compiled. MIT began admitting women as regular students in 1883. and two dozen were attending the Institute in to be a growing feeling, especially An epidemic of mumps just 1888. Ellen Swallow Richards, MIT's first coed, is shown at the extreme left in the rear. in the lower classes, that the before spring, 1888, fi nals caused Even a century ago, troubles only say in all humility that Course VI, founded the same fraternity men are endeavoring to problems for many of the st u- I with the quality of the campus' though possibly no improvement, year as The Tech, was first men- control student affairs here, and dents. ''Thle Tech has already dining services existed: "I wish to it is often a relief." tioned in the fall of 1884: "This that therefore the fraternities spoken of the epidemic of the call attention to the condition of An avid interest of the school in year there will graduate from the should be opposed, and no frater- mumps at the Institute and of the the Institute restaurant. The pro- railroading accounted for the fre- Institute of Technology the first nity men elected to positions in carelessness which exposes every prietor of this restaurant has a quent articles concerning record class that has evcr completed the class or society, put on commit- member of the school to the considerable advantage over all runs and technical advances in work in electric engineering. Al- tees or otherwise honored." danger of catching them." competition in that he has his rent construction. Steamships received though other scientific schools The fall term of 1886 also wit- This was also the era of Presi- and gas gratis; and being in one of extensive coverage, but to the have already prepared men for nessed the beginning of perhaps dent Walker's firm guidance. His the Institute buildings the students Class of'83 the railroad was the this profession, yet the Institute is the oldest tradition on campus. favorite statement -"The Insti- Would naturally go there in prefer- hope for the future of transporta- a pioneer in this branch of educa- Although now defunct, the Soph- tute of Technology is not a place ence to going elsewhere. Now, tion. In the locals column a few tion. Already the electrical engin- omore-Freshman football game for boys to play, but for men to under these circumstances, why words were devoted to more close- eering department is one of the has been, at times, a major part of work" -was popular for many Cannot he furnish patrons with at-hand advances in the Mechani- largest in the school, and, in spite MIT life. "The much-talked-of years and still finds use. Walker, Well-cooked, substantial meals at cal Engineering Laboratory. By of the fact that until a year ago no Sophomore-Freshman game has fond of giving spontaneous a fair price?" December 12, 1883, The Tech connected work had ever been at last been played, and the Fresh- speeches, once gave an incoming The first issue of the 1882-83 noted that "an electric light has done in this branch of instruction, man won in a hard-fought strug- class the following advice: "Pre- school year reported a significant been placed in the laboratory of the arrangement of studies has gle. We extend our heartiest con- palre yourself for a university of Student interest in sports: "For applied mechanics, and photo- been wonderfully well planned gratulations to 1890. On the Soph- science, for every course is a1 sonle vears there has been among graphs of beams under stress can and does great honor to the facul- omore team there were seven men college in itself. Throwv everything us a growing interest in the game now be taken regardless of the ty. and especially to the head of who played on the varsity at else aside as belonging to bows; we Of football, and in the establish- weather." the department. various times this year, whilst receive you today as men. Show ment of a representative Institute A third-year chemist in 1884 "The uncertainty as to the true there were not more than four on yourselves worthy of the trust elevcn." Two weeks later, in the was no stranger to supply short- nature of electricity is to many the Freshman team." imposed in you. Allow no man to October 25th issue, an account of ages: "He was seen the other day minds a charm. A more practical Another first for the year was do that v.hich reflects upon your- the first game appeared. "In the patiently filtering his distilled wa- reason for the popularity of the the publication of Tec hnrique. sell' and which casts discredit llrst half the Harvards, after a ter- not so senseless an operation electrical department is that there '"Techlnique for 1886 appeared the upon the Institute." I _ . - I -- II _ Page 4 Tech Cenltennial I~s~sile 111X} T}cjc during the I8)0's took itelv m1lado a fundw-tentai part of croxvd of bloodthirsty Sopho- the Showers, which meagerly pro- heart of the magazine- a ret je,, anII aictive role in supporting MIT's tlhc 1rstitutet. mnores, ssho had had the experi- duced "such reinains of lukewalrn of news which had been published-E I'Oothtall telam1 ror tat o majo r rcea- MIT was; not and never will be ence of'one cane rush were coming waLter as the boys front Chauncey in Thef TechA and articles ol',,rl sons: several vears in Li row. the eo~nftined to its camnpus do in 1890( about five hundred people Eskimo settlemnents. The upper a bust of the Institute's late Pres- they put two names on the Ins- Field Daly that year. At the end B came to enjoy the meal and after- end of the fjord seemns never ident Francis Amuas Walker, comm ballot. The Jech did a the Cane Rush, the studefl:,O wards drink the toasts. Included before to have been visited by an arnid ceremonies of praise and creditable job of explaining these found, at the bottom of the pileS-e aimong the speakers were General American party." Using nagnetic admiration for his fifteen years' mysteries in one editorial, and ''the prostrate body of one unfor.E Walker, Dr. Dewey, Lind Profes- tnd pendulum observations, the contribution to MIT's growth. advanced the hope that 1898's tunate contestant." In views oef sor Levermore. They spoke abo ut MIT group made some of the Perhaps as a consequence of this, Committee, through hard work this, President Pritchett abolishAd the customs fnd traditions at miost accurate maps then avail- calls for "college spirit" and "hu- and good judgment "will win the theRush, and future Field Da\4- Tech. Professor Levermore also able. At the end Of the journey, m-anizing one's self' were again thanks of the students instead of were limited to a relay race, tub_ made an earnest plea for a livelier Professor Helmert made a report heard in the halls. their riducule." of-war, and football game. if interest in modern languages to the Geodetic Association about Not the least of these pleas The first issue of Tecthnologl In the spring, Dr. Henrv S_ nmiong the students. the purpose of the expedition: to focused on the need for improved Review, a magazine designed to Pritchett was chosen aIs the nave- But during all of this levity the determine the force of gravity at athletic facilities and livelier stu- keep alumni from losing contact President of the Institute, replace1 sork Lit the Institute could not be the pole and to deduce the figure dent interest in sports. In the with the Institute, appeared in the ina Crafts. who held resigned afte l foraotten. Students alkvavzys had to of' the earth's curvature. gyninasium1 itself, the loudest ob- winter of 1898. While the editorial three years in order to devotel be on guard to prevent the follow- The January 7, 1897, issue of ject of criticism was the quality of scope has expanded since then, the himself to scientific resea3rch. - ing from happening to them: ''An- Tlhe T-rch was a bleak one, as it I other baitch of the flunked contin- announced the death of President Ii - 2 gent is desperately seeking excuses Walker. "To President Walker's r to send home With the reports of' fifteen Sears of administration, the last tern while the powers that be growth of the Institute of Tech- take advantage of their worried nology from three hundred to as condition, and remorselessly pile twelve hundred students is a last- on the work in even more of a ing monument. His position as an hurrv than usual." Not only those economist and as a citizen is Congratulations to The vho did poorly had problems, indicated by his honorary degrees, however: "Thalt was a heartless and by the long list of public deed of Secretary Tyler's, to have offices which he filled. His person- Tech staff from the =.- the Tabular Views of the second al qualities are stamped as an term out before the last exam was inspiration on the hearts of all over, and it took away who ever came much from under his influ- Office of the Dean for I= the unalloyed enjoyment of the ence. j= vacation, but we can forgive that President Walker was superbly in admiring his zeal." characterized by one writer: Student Affairs The Institute Committee- no\ ''Through the tide of student life ! the Undergralduate Association- which daily ebbs and flows in the a \sas founded in Februairv of 1893. great hall of Rogers, has moved , The first meeting *sats held in TZIe for fifteen years one believed, r T;'(Ich's office one Salturdalv afi'ter- comirnanding figure. Alert, erect. noo1n airid .A. F. Benllis I "ais choste Lind strikiingl halndso, e, a17wayS c tcilpor~try chalirm,,lan. F:1,even Stul- bherding in Gruceful recogn ition of In dcnts ;ttendcd anid drte· LIp Lt the sho\t\er of salutes Lkhich wvel- I C 0IISM.Iutitton agtrrcein that "thie comrncd his appearance. , he passed po\vxcr-s o the co111l itttee shall 11ot quickie on into the President's As you celebrate the | he dc1iinitcl\ Outliniced hut its gene- rall polic shall bhe to further the lrn October Jame11s M\w.Crafts anniversary of your first bc·st Iltcrests of the Institte ZclS a "'INr elected the neotN President or s hole." Liphilosophy still held b\ the Institute. St LIdct govcrnment t . lThe F-resh man-Sophonilore hundred years of service, we I)nrin this tines the Co In mittce Cane1 Rtush N,,,,a still a verN popu- _ ni1ct oInce c err three X eek just to make nionev for the Com- picture, is the best hallf of a white 1- 111ittce was not proper. They also sweater: and in all probability in fornmed a subcommittee to handle the room of some Sophomore reporting. the publicity and asked Boston may be seen what was left of my newspapers to help in this endeav- jacket, but I surely do not possess or. The Committee was immedi- it. . .. Before we knew it a great I L -- I Novemnber 16, 1981 Pa-ge 5 - r It r x~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I t------I-- I I - -- ,- --`C- __ _ I _1-~-1~1.Ii~ _ ~ 1-11 i1 comrilunity u ;as never ver% keen I.ist alnd furious III the 10 years N EWVB UR Y 'i ,lfter 1910() MIT ~Nas to) see nitan~ rl l a _ on the idea, and mans- saw Har- , ~~ _S T~_ R -E -E T _ _ i vard's eacerness as a sign thaLt it significajrjt chanlges: three Nealrs -- I ul- r-3 - i L) - r.__i v r--i would like to "take over" the In- later the school moved from near J A d !--r-- [I usI0 id , I iL IJ stitute. The proposal died, howN- Cople SquaIre to the present site. 1111 jjut -J ' ever, w hen the MIT Corporation LDuring the next 10 nears. 11ef 8 o a,L. T CJ N and the State Supreme Court Frelc headlines more ofiten then > I '~~~~~1I cancelled it. not contained the fiord chang~e- IJ I| COPLE, F-or a1 w hilt this caused sorne cver, thing \N%,s chlnging, from ST E5E SE t 5SunFet. 5T T tension between the two student registration matteril to drinking bodies, and this new-found en- fountains. As reported in 1910, s QUARE.V` If---- Li , mity had at least one interesting "The drinking cup is shuffling off cc C- , result. D~uring a jointly-staged this mortatl coil. ... Bubbling H~~~u , " TT~"~r-rr r Republican rally, the Boston fountains (Ire to be installed ;1ll I , I police felt the event was meant to over the Institute.'' be a pitched battle between rival But the big chtinge came in a more subtle manner; the thought LOCATION OF BUILDINGS student bodies. The officers beat -- z~ OF THE the students with clubs fnd Presi- ol relocation of the Institute .ap- (r MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE dent Pritchett complained to the pecared more and more frequently 4 authorities that he had "obtained in the pilper's; pages. often dis- a OF 3 LOWLL | TECH NOLOGY a surgeon to dress the wounds of guised in long-Nvinded speeches;.at 13 K A l£UTORI eight or ten men, each of whom alumni meetings. BOSTON had been struck, as they said, At one such meeting held in Trs ^z O a E S T 904 ~~~~~5 C ac J r r mas while attempting to escape. ' Symphony Hall, Institute Presi- rose after dinner RO(i- Rb BUILD] -N( ,I BUY.,'I`r) N TR, I, Considerable pressure had dent Malclalurin WALKER BLIIDINSI i after the turn of the to sla: ''. .. youth naturally HE:Ni<0 1. PiLRiC BU'ILDINGI, 8 IIIS' IN grown just ENG;I.NL i.Nl, Bt piD.>,P AtI - century regarding students's use Ilo ok sforward rather than I.OWEI.L BUILD.IJI.S4 I.ARENI"lr' "oI .F" balckward. So, even tonight wve %IE H XNICAI I Of alcoholic beverages and their LABURAlt)RILI I informal smokers and class din- fire thinking mainly of the NewA G------bYSINAslU UM i \ trF P st A ners. For example, Them Tecth re- Tech nology, wsherein . under f reer 1 904 included only seven buildings, although the Institute owned all cof The MIT campus in ported that at one concert the conditions *se can retain .1ll that is the land bounded by Trinity Place, Stanhope Street, Clarendo)n Street, and the passageway. Glee Club had planned to end best in the spirit of good oldt Lack of space had already prompted talk of relocation at this time. their program with a rousing ren- M IT." He then announced that The turn of the century saw the With the issue of September 28, would be mixed and financial dition of the "Stein Song. but Edward Hager '93 hald donated first Tech Show. Tlpe rTecl gave 1904, 7-l1ie Tec(h instituted a control centralized. In addition, "by Special request of a promni- enough cernent to build the news the following review: " 'Applied radical change in both its form what w'as seen as "Wasteful com- nent member of the Mas- school, and that arlother alumrnLIS Mechanics,' which was given at aind content. The paper started as petition' between the two schools sachusetts Anti-Saloon League Or the class hatd dotnilted 1000 the Hollis Street Theatre during a magazine, appearing first bi- would be eliminated: Harvard and several zealous members of lacres of land for a Civil Engineer- the last week of April, tells of the weekly and then weekly, but it could confer degrees in pure sci- the W.C.T.U. present in the ing Camp. Maclalurin also ma~de it adventures of eight Tech students was now felt that in order to grow ence while MIT would deal with audience" the song was cancelled. kniownr that alumnim corltributions traveling in Germany in search of with the Institute it was necessary the practical. As the Institute rolled into its were sufficient to buy a new site. adventure fnd information. Dur- to change the format to that of a The proposal met with a great second half-century of operation, provide the state would pay its ing the course of the action they four page newsletter, coming out deal of controversy. The MIT changes and improvements came share. run across t party of Tech co-eds, three times a week. who are also in the pursuit of At this tinie Ahe Ilnvitute ap- knowledge. This meeting furnish- peered. A combination of the old es plent) of opportunities for literary sections of 7Th Teclh and local hits and catchy topical scientific urticles, The .itute songs. The love affairs of Ludwig was usually the organ through and Rosalie, two German young which the faculty spoke formally people, and the fascinating to the student body. powers of four frauleins, play im- In 1904 a proposal was made to portant parts in the plot. The join MIT with Harvard, with the libretto, as well as the music, is Institute becoming a major from several pens and is all branch of the University. The cor- characteristic of Tech life." porations of the two colleges _F_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Alumni gathered at the Boston campus in 1904 for this reunion. A controversial proposal made earlier in the year to join MIT with Harvard University in order to avoid "wasteful competition" between the two schools was a major topic of conversation. Hey, Techies, this Bud's for you! I President Maclaurin urged alumni to support the New Technology. I Budweiser The Undergraduate Association vvoul like to congratulate This Bud's for you, The Tech for a century of for 100 years continuous news service of student reporting -L i i Page 6 The Tech Centennial Issue we 7T1he 7T·(Sth announced in 1911 building fund. This is a gift which mores at this season of the year, TV/, Tech and the students re- The Great War had also inter- that "Tech will move, it will move has probably never been equaled they had some warm discussion acted violently when, in May, rupted most Of the ordinary activi- = soon, and to a site close to the city by any living man in bestowing and finally passed a motion that 1911, the Activities Council abol- ties of the Alumni Association, a_ limits of Boston. All that remains money on an institution of learn- the class retrain from all demon- ished basketball from the Institute delaying any reunions until June 9 is the Final selection." Forty possi- ing. It will enable the alumni to strltions against the Freshmen ... against the wishes of the Athletic 1920. 7Te Trechhnoted that alumni, ble sites were considered, includ- center practically, their entire at- such as capturing the Freshman Association. To publicize popular coming back to what they consid- ing Springfield, Wellesley, Milton, tention on the question of raising Chairman, or the customary baths sentiment on the issue, The Tech ered the old school, were actually and the Fenw ay district. Later in the frog pond in the Public printed an edition in which every returning to the New Technology. I mioney to equip the New Institute, e that year, on Wednesday, October and to build whatever dormitories Gardens." page was bordered with the words MIT's important buildings had I1, a banner headline proclaimed and social gathering places they "Cambridge Site Chosen for New may feel are needed-" This anon- __ Technology.' The story gave very ymous "Mr. Smith" was later = few facts, reporting that the site revealed to be George Eastman, e 'is a tract of land of about fifty \,hose beneficence did not end acres at the end of Harvard with this huge gift. Bridge, bounded by the Charles Many different plans for locat- a River, Esplanade, Massachusetts ing and building dormitories were Avellue., nd the Boston and Al- evaluated. One scheme considered bany Raillw~ay (Grand Junction in early 1913 envisioned dormnitor- tracks). Main Street and Ames ies "four or five stories in height Street. It is all level land capable and built completely surrounding of being advantageously devel- several yards or 'quads' nuch the oped with admirable exposure to sanme w ay as is the custom in light everywhere.'' English universities." Several fra- To the accusation that "Tech is ternities also announced plans to deserting Boston," President relocate near the new site. By Maclaurin replied that the "new 1914, most of the planning deci- site is already easily reached from sions were made and construction all portions of the Metropolitan was underway. _ IC~4- rR _r *v A area, and when the Cambridge By late 19 15, the familiar shape subway is completed, passing the of the buildings as seen from the edge of the property with an Harvard Bridge could be distin- important station just below, it guished. Inscomm began issuing vill be even more easy to reach." regulations for the governance of As usual, money was the pri- dormitories that year, and estab- mary factor determining how lished the present Dormitory quickly New Technology could be Council setup. ready for students. Alumni and The MIT structure of today friends rallied to the cause, how- grew into existence as Tech slowly IiQyI,-3 ever. The following spring, The moved into its magnificent home. Tech joyously recorded an unex- Student life remained much the pected burst of fortune. This time, same despite the changes in facili- Construction of the New Technology was a formidable task, entailing the use of 22,000 piles to the banner read "Institute Re- ties. In 1912, hazing was an im- keep the buildings from sinking, as the site had been filled in with Charles River mud. ceives Anonymous Gift; Two And portant issue for almost everyone Track and cross country were "WE WANT BASKETBALL." only recently been constructed, A Half Million For Fund," and a on campus. Under a headline the most popular sports during In an editorial, G. M. Keith said, and were displayed to the alumni subhead added "Site Practically reading "Sophomores Abolish this period. Enthusiastic suppor- '. .. if the attitude of the student by professors and their assistants. Clear; Cement for Buildings Last Traces of Hazing" an article ters rented special trains in order body is to have any weight, we President Maclaurin died of Ready to Ship."' The story ex- reported that "Yesterday noon, in that they could follow the teams believe that this weight will be pneumonia in January, 1920: plained that, "Yesterday after- Huntington Hall, the Sophomore around the New England circuit. found to be so overwhelming shortly before his death his condi- noon, President Maclaurin made Class held its first meeting as a Maps of cross country courses against their decision that they tion was regarded as excellent. His the startling announcement that second year class at the Institute. appeared at the top of The Tech's may think best to reconsider. At physician stated that Dr. an anonymous donor had added On the Field Day question, which front page, along with frequent least, we hope so." Needless to Maclaurin had used "everv ounce the sum of $2,500,000 to the always is the big one for Sopho- news of MIT's successes. say, the sport soon returned to the of his strength" in working for Although interest in crew was MIT scene. Technology, and had no energy sparse at the beginning of the World War I temporarily dis- left for fighting the disease. i ,,, . ,,t0 decade, it picked up in the later rupted student life at the Institute. T/e Tech soon reported the years. In October, 1910, an Walker Memorial, built for use as appointment of a new Institute announcement appeared concern- a student activities center, opened President:' "Ernest Fox Nichols, ing the "new shell for the Crew! in 1917 just in time to house 250 former President of Dartmouth There are now two shells with naval aviators. The end of the war College and Professor of Physics places for eighteen men, and on brought a rapid return to peace- Lit Yale, was elected President of the average fifteen report for prac- time pursuits, however. Registra- the Institute late Wednesday after- I tice. Come out some afternoon at tion surged, exceeding all records noon by the Corporation.' Ac- four and try pulling an oar. Per- in the fall of 19 19 when more than cording to Tle Teach report, Dr. I haps you'll like it. Everybody gets 3,000 men made plans to study at Nichols was a distinguished scien- a chance." the Institute. tist Lind able administrator. - I I Warmest Congra tulations ..w. ~ . .^. e World War I forced the conversion of the gallery cof the to The Tech Walker Memorial dining hall into a dormitory for 250 naval e aviators shortly after the building opened in 1917. e as you celebrate e 1 = f r your centennial 1 a YOU have been the voice s The I e .= Humanities Department of aMIT .- it salutes for 100 years! - The Tech We look forward to nearing on its You 100th birthday! for at least 100 more. HARVARD COOPERATIVE SOCIETY MIT Student Center IL -- I _I-I November 16, 1981 Page 7 I -~~~~~~~~~~ I F ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The decade did not begin aus- piciously - Nichols resigned sev-, I en months after his selection with- out actually assuming the office of President. Soon after his inaugu- ration, Nichols was stricken with an illness which made it impos- sible for him to take up his duties. His physicians insisted that he relinquish the post, and in the fall of 1921 he finally felt obligated to do so. On October 13, 1922 The Tech reported that "A president for Technology was elected Wednes- day afternoon when, at a meeting of the Corporation, Dr. Samuel Wesley Stratton was chosen lo Fill the place held in the past by such men as Rogers, Walker, and Mac- laurin." Dr. Stratton, who had been Director of the U nited States Bureau of Standards, was received enthusiastically by the undergrad- ( 9 an '` ··-- 'P - a a H."·- ..`z b E:: 9r : ',C · , uates. In a message published in Q -· -" " %' Ra- the issue of The Tech which an- `I· · .t,& d 2')n aa3**B ZP · X c,· U- 6w nounced his selection, Stratton P 1X 8 88PP I: ·U o l ZB qp C o a- *,o " -1"Ft""*?I *',·* " sa - * : 6 6 3 aa .QP e * B· wrote "I am in hearty sympathy B ': i .·.,. . ,*A:S P D p " aa , with student activities. I have I , s` ' cVB Ie - ^ f sr "bre x. heard of the admirable way in While rivalry moderated in the 1920's, this 1925 freshman tug-of-war team still took competition seriously. which Technology undergradu- ates conduct their athletic teams, MIT's intercollegiate athletic teams also took most of the other passed through a period of crisis of the foremost physicists and publications, etc., and I am in teams were extremely successful in events to complete a triumph Following the controversial Feb- educators in the country. Former hearty sympathy with a healthy New England in 1926- The high which surprised the experts. ruary, 1929 issue of the magazine, President Stratton became Chair- participation in them for recrea- point came in May, when three The issue of The Tech which the Institute Committee appoint- man of the MIT Corporation. tion. A man who studies and does Engineer crews topped as many appeared on the Ides of March in ed a committtee to investigate V(,o The Institute continued to ex- nothing else during his college Harvard crews in an important 1929 reported that Voo Doo, Doo's status on campus and re- pand. Plans were laid for the career is missing a portion of his New England meet. Institute MIT's humor magazine, had just port on whether or not the mag- construction of a new dormitory education .... " _=tH~6~$P~V/ j-',~ azine should be allowed to contin- behind Walker Memorial. With In late 1924, MIT was the r~~~i~~~~k~~~~48~PA ue as a Technology publication. room for 200 students, this addi- grateful recipient of Eastman z8 g g.~s/./.K !~""~a~t9~~818"~WE The February "Back Bay Num- tion increased the institute's dor- Kodak stock conservatively val- ber,' purposely written as a smut- mitory capacity to 620. Planning ued at $4.5 million. The stock was ty issue, had sold out in one day, also began for three other build- the gift of George Eastman, one of according to Earl Glen, the proxy ings, including Building 5. MIT's most spectacular benefac- for the General Manager of Voo The freshman curriculum was tors. Eastman's previous contri- Doo. Glen claimed that the mag- revised in 1930: Mechanical butions included the $2.5 million azine had been forced to print Drawing and Descriptive Georne- anonymous gift for the New Tech- such an issue because of its finan- try were combined, first-year nology and $4 million for the cial condition. With The Tcech and physics was modified to include endownent donated in 1919 on the student body advocating le- onl% mechanics, and freshman the condition that others contrib- niency, the Institute Committee chemistry hours were slightly re- ute an equal amount. 'In announ- requested only that the responsi- duced. In another major academic cing the presentation," of the ble managing board resign and change, the Institute adopted a stock, T7he Tech reported, "Mr. that the magazine comply with cumulative system of grading. Eastman characterized Technol- rules of decency in the future. After three years of study and ogy as 'the greatest school of its President Stratton appointed development, the Institute decided kind in the world.' " Harold E. Lobdell '17 to be Dean upon the systein in order to allow MIT easily found uses for the of Undergraduate Students in Oc- parents and students to clearly contribution. Earlier that Lear, the tober, 1929. Lobdell had been understand the standards govern- MIT Corporation had taken op- Assistant Dean for the previous ing the action of the faculty in the tions on relatively large parcels of eight years and, since the death of determining students' academic land adjacent to the Institute for Dean Henry P. Talbot '85 in 1927, reports. use in future expansion. A gift of had been in charge of the office. The Institute treasurer s report $125,000 from Coleman duPont He was the third Dean of the for the fiscal year ending June, '84 toward the land purchase Institute, the first having been 1930 shoved that the Institute's assured the availability of space Alfred E. Burton, who served expenditures for the period had for Tech's grossing needs. from 1902 to 1921. been almost $4 million. This fig- Entertainment was important Several notable events occured ure explains Thte Tech's use of the to Techmen. All-Technology in 1930. Tuition was raised front word Xlvtpenldous.\' to describe the Smokers were designed to unite $400 to $500, the second $100 creation of a student loan fund of the undergraduates for one eve- increase in three years. Another $4.2 million by Dr. Gerard Swope ning of recreation together. Each item of interest was thfe elopemnent '95, the President of the General year the committee working on of the Technology Christian As- Electric Company and a menmber the affair attempted to outdo the sociation President. of the Corporation. previous year's group in both the The M IT Presidency again The year ended with the Canm grandeur of the individual events changed hands during spring term bridge fire department's refusal to and the glamour of the entertain- of 1930 when Dr. Karl Taylor permit the traditional freshman zp--·;~a~~ w 10 ers. The Smoker had offered a Compton was appointed to the bonfire. First year students had special attraction in the fall of position. Dr. Compton had been destroyed their ties at this event, I Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, shown with Albert Einstein, was 1920, when the sponsoring com- head of the Physics Department at following the fire with the com- mittee announced that there named President but resigned before assuming the post. Princeton and was considered one memorative planting of a tree. a I would be a wrestling exhibition by I 1 - - I "professional wrestlers from abroad," and two boxing match- es. WIMX, the MIT Radio Soci- ety's station, was active through the 1920's after acquiring $7,000 worth of equipment in 1919. Inter- est in radio during that period made W IMX the center of a great CONGRA TULA TIONS Congratulations to deal of attention. The station set several long distance transmission The MIT Alumni Association records, sponsored lectures and The Tech movies, and appeared frequently salutes all former and current on the first page of The Tech. Freshman-Sophomore rivalry staff members of The Tech underwent a change late in the on its 100th decade. Moderation and fair play for became more important than ri- valry, and Field Day evolved into 100 YEARS ann iversary a series of athletic contests. In October of 1927 the Glove Fight of creative reporting was instituted as a replacement for wild free-for-alls between the two The MIT Museum classes, and President Stratton threatened to expel any student and Historical Collections who hurt the prestige of the Insti- tute by disorderly or improper conduct. I -- -I I- .j Page 8 The Tech Cenatenlnial Issue r I f r .. . - The Great Depression stronglv holidav and crisis made cashing Important changes in the sett Jr. of the English Deprartment scene. A battle between students affected the Institute and its stu- checks increasingly difficult. ROTC program, started after assunmed Killialn's position at the trorn Technology and Harvard dents during the 1930's. In 1931, Walker meal tickets were made World War 1, took place during m.gtIzi ne. resulted in the arrests of nine Colonel Frank L. Locke'06, Per- avail'lble to those students who this decade. In 1931, at the urging A Nazi protest meeting was students, including two from sonnel Director of the Division of found themselves in financial of President Compton, a ROTC held ait MIT in Nlovember of 1938. MIT. The~ Tech/'s MIay 3 issue Industrial Cooperation and Re- straits, and Then 7Tch announced air training unit was established. President Compton presided over reported that "a mechanized de- search, told The Tec-h that "while that it would accept such tickets in Compulsory ROTC for conscien- the rally sit which students alnd tachment of invading Harvard the depression will affect men lieu of cash. Tech Show accepted tious objectors was eliminated in faculty members joined to oppose 'Blitzkriegers' Wednesday night finishing this year to sorne extent, bank and student account checks 1936, and a 1937 Tech poll found the persecution of Jews aInd Cath- met with unexpected resistance at there is no great cause for feeling in payment for tickets, the Glee that most students and facuity olics in Germalny. Four years the Technology main line of de- discouraged about the near fu- Club extended credit on tickets, members favored an optional earlier, two M IT students hald fense and retreated in confusion ture." and the Dormitory Committee ROTC Drogram for all students. been jailed for palrticipating in (In leaving on the field 222 pairs of' ll _luraalpL-· E alnti-Nalzi paIrade sponsored by the prlnts, ( pair of underwear shorts, National Student Lealgue. and one leather belt. The battle As part of President Roosevelt's followed al similar one of the night plan to train 20,000 pilots a year, before." the Institute organized an exper- The Institute's facilities contin- imenta~l pilot training program in ued to e,\pannd. The June 4 Tech7 1939. With the aid of the Civil Air not that "the Alumni Swimr- Authority and al $100,000 grant min- pool, latest addition to the from the National Youth Foundal- Institute's expanding athletic fr1- tion, M IT trained 20 selected cilfties, was formally presented by students as reserve pilots. Mr. Harry E. Worcester, presi- The 1930's ended on a politicall dent-elect of the Alumni Associ- note alt M IT with a speech by Earl -ition, to President Karl T. Comp- Browder, then Secretary of the ton at aL dedication ceremeont .t Communist Palrtv of America. 4: 15 yesterday afiernoon.' r Browder's talk (It the Institute was The traditional freshman camp accompanied by considerably less ft Lake Massapoag began o11 r disorder than hild marked his September 27, attended by .i rec- appearances at other schools. ord 380 freshmen. As described bv c At the Institute, 1940 waIs -lie Trech, "During their sta)' in r marked both by increasing con- carrip, freshmen have the oppor- E a cern about the war in Europe and tunlity to meet their classmaltes in n increasingly violent incidents be- group sports such as baseball, I tween M IT and Harvard students husketball, football, and swirm- r exhibit was the center of much amusement at the E find among Institute students. On min'." Freshmen also held the a The next yenar. however, Locke took IOU's at their dance. Despite 1936 ended with a bitter contro- March 8 The Tech reported on a1 opportunity to learn self-defense. 1 I conceded that only 3 ! I of the 467 the extension of the bank holiday, versy over hazing practices, such walter Fight Blitzkrieg: "The bur- The sophomores, following r gralduates had definite jobs. In wel l-esta blished tradition. Lit- r the Bursar's office continued to ais kidnapping and head shaving. ied hatchet was dug up again a both 1931 and 1932 the Institute pay allowed amounts and employ- The Institute Committee officially Wednesday evening when dormi- tacked the freshmen in the earlv offered free courses for Linem- ees received half-salaries. condemned kidnapping and rec- tory members of the two lowest hours of the norning. The battle ployed enlgineers find architects. April of 1934 brought some omrnended discipline by the facul- classes got together in a] friendly did not go as planned, however, Registration for fall term the lalt- optimism to the campus. More tv for offenders. Fraternity hazing riot. After everyone tot into the find, according to 7T1he Tech/7, the ter year fell by 31 1 students (ISthe than 200 Technology students was not subject to the new ruling. spirit of' the affair, water began freshmen "proceeded to pralcticall- Depression began to talke its toll. obtained employment through the Uncertainty concerning future running through the halls and Iv annihilate a smalls band of' the Tech Show hald to be rescued from Federal Emergency Relief Admin- gifts and endowments created in- sophomores be gan running into upperclassmen just entering the receivership with .1 $ 1,100 paly- istration, earning up to fifteen security regarding future income, water. When the Sophs got orgal- carnp grounds. The sophs began ment fromt the Institute Commit- dollars it month. At the same time. and in 1937 President Compton nized, they began aI trek through to fornm .i hasty fifth column be tee. . chapter of Sigma Xi was char- announced a. tuition Increase to the halls with paddles to pick up mingling faith the campers. This The Depression also forced tered at MIT. Forty-one members $600. Despite the shaky financial nyiFrosh who had been so unfor- maneuver did little good, howev- changes in Course VI-A, the Elec- were originally initiated into this situation, MIT continued to ex- tuna~te as to become separated er, for some 15 of the invaders trieall Engineering Cooperative national honorary scientific fra- pand. Plans were made early in from his Compatriots. The little found the waters of Lake Massa- Programs Di fficul t economic con- ternity, including President 1937 to build a new architecture ' Bl itzk rie~g' en ded about one poagv extremely cold, and had to ditions made continuation of the Compton and Dean Bush. building on Massachusetts Ave- o'clock without any major casual- stay in Tech Cabin for a while to course seemn unfair to both stu- An anti-war strike committee nue, and in November the River- ties. Repercussions are expected in ret warms dents and workingmen. The pro- partially composed of MIT stu- bank Court Hotel was purchased the near future.'' Again. the students' attitude gramil was alitered SO that students dents attempted to stage a demon- by the Institute for use as a The European war was begin- toward violence did not extend to would not miss any of the re- stration in 1935 as part of a com- graduate dormitory. ning to prey on Institute minds. In foreign affairs. A poll conducted quired work. bined movement of students from James R. Killian '26, editor of March, a Peace Day was held at by The Tech in October found that Tragedy again struck (I member 95 colleges in the United States. Technoi.lolg1 Reviews, Treasurer of which President Compton and 68.7 percent of those questioned ol the MIT administration in 1931 The strike, intended as a protest the Alumni Association, and for- Dean Caldwell discussed the best did not want the United States to when President Stratton died of L against war and fascism, met only mer Techp editor, was appointed to ways to keep the United States out war unless it was attacked. Over heart attack fit his home. Presi- with booing and derision at the the newly-created post of Execu- Of war. half ol the students believed, how- dent Compton called Straltton's Institute. The demonstration took tive Assistant to the President in Apparently the concern for ever, that a conflict was going to death ''.1 terrible shock, not only place on the eighteenth anniversa- 1938. Professor Frederick G. Fas- peace did not include the local occur. to the Massachusetts Institute of ry of the entrance of the United L I I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Technology, but also to that States into the First World War. ,group)of govern mentall, scien ti fic, As the depression seemed to find industrial agencies which he ease, students' thoughts returned has served so long and so effec- to traditional pursuits. Even with tively.'' Condolences were re- the elimination of the customary eeived from President Hoover and egg and garbage barrage, the .all parts of the nation. sophomores managed to win Field TECH In M;Irch of 1932, Presiident Dav. Improving job prospects Compton announced plalns for cerelted an optimistic spirit ait the Subdividing the I nstitUte into 1935 commencement, and the 100 in '81 schools. The new structure includ- mood continued into the follow- ed fornilllton orf schools of eni-' ino fatll after more than 600 fresh- neeri nix science, Lind ,Irch itectu re, men registered for classes. creation of' division<, of humani- A 19)36 Tecth poll found that the t ics aind industriall cooperation, Institute was not generally in aind explicit recognition of the favor of the New Deal. The same Gradualte School. .,\t the same survev indicated that the great CONGRATU LATIONS! title, Com pton appointed Dr. majority of members of the MIT Valnnevalr Bush ' 16 as the first co mmunitv condemned the Vicc-President of the Institute. Teacher's Oath Bill. The state bill Bu~sh had been Li member of' the passed, however. and a year later, lfaculty, of electrical engineering in a speech before the American sillce 1923. Student Union, President Comp- TheS 7i ch attempted to investi- ton condemned the measure as H AC galte several important questions being entirely useless and ineffec- during 19)32. The newspaper spon- tive. Compton blamed hysteria sored .I poll designed to predict caused by Red scares for the pas- the outcome of the Presidential salge of the bill. 50 in '82 election. President Hoover took Several changes in the Admis- I~~I -I ___ __loInI0 approximately 65 percent of the sions Office occured in 1936. Pro- Instit ute bal lots cast in the largest fessor Alden Thresher replaced straw vote ever held at M IT. the retiring James L. Tryon as Roosevelt lost second place to Director of Admissions. In addi- Socialist N ormaln Thomats. A tion, admissions requirements Central Square police captain were altered so that only mathe- shed light on a more frivolous matics, English, and physics were query when he revealed in can prerequisites for ad mission. interview that Tech men didn't In April of 1936 the first of drink as much as alnd weren't als HHUGiH ES I several All-Technology Peace I I naughty as Halrvaird men. Conferences was held. Pacifists, L------,,------J a Students aind faculty members militarists, and scientists all par- HUGHES AIRCRAFT COM PANY increasingly felt the pinch of the ticipated in the largest peace meet- i depression in 193.2 als the bank ing in the history of the Institute. I I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ II -L November 16, 1981 Page 9 ·C II T - The speed-up program contin- depends on American-Russian T ard during the early months of the ued to accelerate, and in January friendship.'" 11950-51 term. Course 20 an- of 1943 The Tech announced that The 7Terc also noted the begin- nounced their new Options Bio- freshmen would enter M IT in nings of a new type of political chemical Engineering, and the June and study year-round. Even hysteria in March, 1948, in report- New School for Advanced Studies more disruptive was the evacua- ing on the Institute's response to was established. tion of the dormitories for use by charges made against Dr. Edward The Institute's rapid physical Armed Forces personnel. In Jan- U. Condon, a noted physicist and and academic expansion was also uary the army planned to take Director of the National Bureau paralleled at the end of this decade possession of the dorm itories, in of Standards. Condon had been by an increasing tempo in student II February a Tech headline an- accused by the House Committee activity. Hacking, always an im- nounced that "Most Students on Un-American Acitivities, and portant part of Institute life, re- II II Face Active Duty By June Re- many Institute scientists spoke on turned to MIT quickly after the gardless of Status," and in March behalf of Dr. Condon and scientif- war. In October, 1946, a group of civilians were forced to vacate the ic freedom. students helped lay a cornerstone dormitories. Construction activities were for a new Radcliffe dormitory. As The victory in the European highlighted in the President's Re- described in The Tech, "the par- theatre was celebrated in the port of 1946, which mentioned the ticipants, members of The Tech ii Great Court in May of 1945, and impending construction of the and Voo Doo staffs and their the Institute slowly began read- Hayden Library and a dormitory dates, brought the fifty-pound justing to peacetimne. By Novem- which was to become Baker cast concrete block, inscribed 'To ber, concerns were again focused House. The dormitory was started the Sons of MIT', to the Radcliffe on mundane activities such as in October, and the library the Quadrangle and plastered it in eating. A November editorial crit- following April. In November, place, christening it with a bottle icized the food at MIT. "At yes- 1948, The Tech reported that "a of Canada Dry Ginger Ale." terday's meeting, Inscomm ap- new modern, twelve-story apart- Another Tech-related incident pointed a committee to investigate ment house will soon be built at occurred a little over a year later, the 'conditions' at the Walker 100 Memorial Drive." The follow- on the day the newly-renovated Memorial Dining Service. This is ing February plans were an- Harvard Bridge was to be opened the latest of a series of attempts to nounced "for the construction of by no less a dignitary than Gov- improve the quality of the food a $500,000 Hydrodynamics Labo- ernor Dever. As reported in Thle served and to lower the prices on ratory and Ship Towing Tank," rtch, "advance information re- such. None of the earlier ones and the new solar house was garding the departure of Gover- The Department of Meteorology conducted a WWII training program accomplished anything worth declared open for occupancy later nor Dever's official party from the in meteorological instrumentatiorn and observation. mentioning. It is hoped that an that i month. Expansion did not Kenmore Hotel was relayed by The 1940's were an era of rapid 2. Only seniors were affected ini- intelligent approach coupled with include only construction: in The Tech walkie-talkie to the expansion of Institute facilities tially by the accelerated schedule, the culmination of the war will March, 1950, the Riverside Apart- bridge. This enabled the crowd to and programs before, during, and but in February the Junior Class bring about a solution which will ments, now known as Burton march across the bridge just in after World War [I. Three large was informed that they would be satisfactory to the large num- House, were purchased to become time to meet the governor. As the construction projects were under- "begin their senior year next June ber of the Institute family con- new undergraduate dormitories. official procession approached the taken in 1941: the Chemical Engi- 8, and continue at school most of cerned." A Tech poll conducted In 1948 The Tech again report- bridge a sleek maroon Cadillac neering Laboratory, the Sloan the summer" as the result of a the following March found that 88 ed a changing of the guard: "Act- convertible, which had been se- Aeronautical Engineering Build- decision by the faculty. Com- percent of the students still felt ing on the recommendation of Dr. cretly hidden in a nearby alley, ing, and the Military Science mencement for the Class of 1943 that room remained for substan- Karl T. Compton, president of slid in front of Governor Dever's Storeroom. After completion, was rescheduled for February of tial improvement. MIT since 1930, the corporation limousine, and gaily proceeded these projects were commonly that year. referred to as buildings 12, 33, and The war also accelerated the · · i:` : ~"··'~ ~ ~ ~ s~~~~~~~~~~~~~~0,-Wr_ 20. The Tech of April ';':'tt'~~ ~ ~~N 15 reported pace of Institute . t=:``..\', expansion. · In that "construction was begun yes- March, at the request of the gov- V~~~~~~~~~-. ,.:r· ·.)Zi terday morning on a large new ernment, MIT agreed to dismantle million dollar laboratory for the the Hangar Gym to make room rapidly expanding Chemical Engi- for a temporary building for gov- neering Department, which now ernment use. As reported in The has more than 400 students." Tech, President Compton told Disappointment swept the cam- Inscomm and the Athletic Associ- pus a month later when attempts ation that "in order to provide to obtain a live mascot failed. The additional space for urgent war Tech reported the death of the activities at the Institute, we must plans on May 27: "The hopes of erect as quickly as possible a large Tech men for having a live mascot temporary building." for this year were dashed last MIT graduated its first speed- night when Mr. George Stobie, up class in 1942. ''Technology Fish and Game Commissioner for graduated the first speed-up class the State of Maine, announced in its distinguished history as Dr. that all the beavers in captivity Compton awarded 469 bachelor's had just been released. He prom- degrees at the school's 75th com- ised, however, that a beaver would mencement in Symphony Hall on be delivered in the fall." April 28. Most of the graduates Minor disappointments were will either immediately go into overshadowed by major tragedy war work with vital war industries on December 7, 1941. M IT re- or into the Armed Forces," The sponded quickly to the declara- Tech reported. tion of war, and The Tech record- Accelerated class and construc- The Radiation Laboratory, now Building 20, was meant to be a temporary structure. ed the reaction of M IT's Presi- tion schedules I . were not the only The end of the war created new has elected Dr. James Rhyne Kil- across the bridge in front of the dent. "The best work Tech can do indications of the war appearing controversies, and MIT was not lian, Jr., vice president since 1945, official motorcade. The car, con- in the present situation is to in the pages of The Tech. Students isolated from the political con- to be the next president of the taining about 10 The Tech men, a continue along the course it has were reminded that "all students flicts of the country. The contro- Institute." brass band and two clowns, made been following in the last year, at th'e Institute who are 18 years of versial Professor Dirk J. Struik MIT also continued to develop the wild trip across the bridge in according to President Compton. age or older and are not living at spoke at MIT in March of 1947. academically. The School of Hu- less time than it took the band to He said he had no way of telling home, will be expected to register The Tech recorded the event: manities was established under the play two choruses of'The Stars how life at the Institute would be for War Ration Book No. I (sugar " 'The United States must unite in guiding eye of Dean John Burch- and Stripes Forever.' " affected by the war . . .. " rationing) at some elementary friendship with Russia,' said Pro- I __ - -- The war's effects quickly be- school in Boston or Cambridge fessor Dirk J. Struik last Friday in came apparent. On December 17, before Thursday, May 27." The an address to the MIT Veterans The Tech announced the Insti- Tech itself would be affected the Association in the Faculty Congratulations to THE TECH, for a tute's decision to accelerate stu- next spring, when paper shortages Lounge. 'I say this not because I dents' schedules. Commencement forced the newspaper to reduce its have lost any sleep worrying century of outstanding service and was moved to April 27, and spring size and limit publication to one about the Soviet Union, but be- journalisnm term was set to begin on February edition a week. cause the future of the world excellence. i AAy'. X We feel a personal pride in your achievements, through the past participation of our founder Arthur D. Little as a member of THE TECH'S editorial board. The employee family of Arthur D. Little applauds your efforts and wishes you continued success. ALArthur D. Little, Inc. I Students gathered in the Great Court in May of 1945 to celebrate victory in Europe. -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ii I Page I ) The Tech Centennial Issue I - I I _ A student-w'ritten article for the The dominant topic of athletic I Jan uar). 195 1, issue of Trebh Engi- interest during the first half of the eering NVews. titled "And Noos decade wa1s the lightweight crew. Karoso," started one of the great- The team captured the Thames est hoaxes ever perpetrated at the Challenge Cup at the Royal Hen- Institute. The article established ley Regatta in England in June, the historical background of a 1954, and repeated the accom- 3anie unfamilar to the majoritv of plishment the following year. E Tech studlents. Karoso, claimed Perennial complaints about the the authors was faster than poor qualitt of food served by checkers and niore provocative dining ser ice were partly an- than chess. swered by the Institute's decision m Enthusiasts formed a karoso to hire Stouffer's to run Morss E 1 Hall and Pritchett beginning early I club, and the group petitioned for e standing in the Activities Council. in 1957. The company was select- I The Tech's suspicions were ed for the high quality and low aroused, however, when it discov- cost of its product, and for its I ered that no one in the club emphasis on the testing of new actuaily knew the rules of the foods. As noted in The Tech, "the game. Further investigation re- firm is now testing some new vealed that no such game had ever frozen foods." On the other side of the cam- existed- the hack was the idea of Mg I-- N=-XRtk me- pus, however, the quality re- a group of' students who had An important part of the 1957 Freshman Weekend - a fall orientation period for incoming students - planned the hoax during the pre- mained poor. Students at Baker was the rally held in Kresge Auditorium at which newcomers learned MIT songs. vious summer. House planned to boycott com- Meanwhile, more serious mons in earl) March. On the day Several traditions and long- Many people of national and classmen who had failed to return changes were transpiring in stu- of the proposed action, the Insti- standing practices disappeared in international prominence visited to campus on time found them- C dent government. The Institute tute announced large increases in the latter years of the 1950's. The MIT during these years. Eleanor selves sleeping in the Walker Committee was completely re- the next term's rent and meal plan MIT Athletic Association ended a Roosevelt came to MIT in 1957 to Memorial gym at the beginning of valmped by a sweeping resolution costs. The boycott was highly ef- fifty year old tradition of Field criticize the current foreign and the term. in April, 1953. Representation of fective, and the next evening a Day sports in 1957 by voting to domestic policies of the Federal The hockey team during this era individual activities on the Com- mob of several hundred students end crew, swimming, football, and Government. Neils Bohr visited fared horribly. After losing 39 mittee was replaced by a single from Baker, Burton, and East track competitions. The next year MIT during November to present straight gamnes, the squad beat vote cast by an activities council. Campus rallied in front of Dean it was replaced by an Institute- a series of six Karl Taylor Comp- Worcester Polytechnic Institute in The fraternities were given three Fasset's home. The group wide All Sports Day. An even ton lectures on "Quantum Physics 1959. The victory was the first and seats on the Committee, and the marched down Memorial Drive to I older Institute practice disap- and the Notion of Complementa- only one for team co-captain dormitories four. Two clusss offil- Baker and set a fire on the north peared with a 1958 faculty vote to ritv.-' The next sear, Senator Hu- George Peckingham, who was cers from each yhear were also side of the street. Twelnty-nine end compulsory ROTC for fresh- bert Humphrey told a sympathetic playing in his last game before made Inscornm members. An in- students were arrested, but less men. audience that, while scientists had graduation. dependent post of Vice President than one week later the Institute In November. 1957. President a valuable contribution to make Two reports released during was established, with the holder announced that Stouffer's would Dwight D. Eisenhower, in a na- to government decision-making, 1957 noted aI need for the Institute assigned a special seat on the take over the management of tionally televised speech, appoint- they should not be permitted to to increase contact between facul- Committee. Baker commons. ed MIT President James Rhyne make policy decisions. Other lec- Iy members and students, espc- Killian as Special Assistant to the turers of this period included cially freshmen. In the spring of' A"' (M'%~lU~.' II II President for Science and Tech- Israteli Amlbassador Abbe Eban. 1959. according to r/he Tech, ain II nology. Dr. Julius A. Stratton, space scientist Werner v On Bralun, experimental prograrm N;as estab- then Chancellor of the Institute, and Boston Pops conductor .Ar- lished to a~llow freshmen to hame · ·."'.'·''' w\ts made Acting President. A thur Fiedler. Popular author Al- ii the 'opportunity, to wXork closelr I special edition of The Tec(h report- dous Huxley spent the filll term of fvith distinguished men in the Ficed ]·k~~~~~~~~i~~~~ A. ed in December that Stratton 1960 in residerlce at the Institute of' their ovn choosing.' This .x- h.; Fez 14= <·:~: would become President of M IT as the Calrne-ie Visiting Protessor perimnent, for which students re- and Vannevar Bush %vas to be t 1-11.1l illities. ceiv cd no credit or paw, I~ter A~ p|~v malde honorary chalirmaln of the T-hle 7'(Cch indignantly reported evolved into the Undcrtr-rduate M1I1T Corporation. ill 15'79 that. just logo ears ;alter Restearch Opportunites Progralim. tie Nest organizations allso ap- the ~last increase.,,. tuition for the The illstitute at this Lime bet°in a peared at MI1T during this time. neat \e;ir x.sould be raised S200 to to fetl that it needed to attract The Campus Police force vas ti total ol'f i,00 per ani'll.1ll. fiee mnore donattion.s hoth tw) ad%,lmc founded in September, 1957. Thir- higothr rates did not discouraoc} elcdition Lind resciars h adlll to) teen patrolmen, Hltlconstables il Students troll cvolniin, to NLIT. hclp N1IIT' "fullill its naitio~nal rcs- Cambridge. \sere told to bth -'e.x- htme~'cxr. Thc next tadll the arriall pollsibilit .' In %L·LiN, ff 196()0, aLs tremelv tolerant of student acti\- of` *()) lresfnen caused consider- prelude to the centtennall cclethral- it"." TMo of 1MIT'x older sludenl Llblte M)e croxr)\ dCii nlg . Tr\entcsresh- tion then being plianncd for the activities-the 5: I Club and the mcii A~erc forced to lic in lozullus ncxt !vcar, \l I opened the Sec~nu Commuter's Associatlon- com- in B3ailker. atnd another ah round (cnturx IProgramnl, \%hichl had as bined in 19-'.S to forn the Non- thcmlslv es on cots .sc; ttered its gotel the collection ol' S66 miil- Resident Students' Associaition. thrOL111110Lt Ealt Camppus. Uppcr- lion froml Individuall donors. `r3,',V '' i I .1.-· Congratulations to I I ,·yS c ,."· The Tech and its staff on its .'" I I U~ 100 tanniversary from a c Aldous Huxley, the author r of Brave New World, was a visiting humanities professor at Ml1T during the fall of 1960. -- EG&G Idaho, Inc. e _ Congratulations on a 6 1 century of leadership! r -_ r For a hundred years, MIT scholars have led the Prime contractor at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory technology which shapes the way we work and live. As leaders of industry and contributors to science, your challenges and aspirations have helped bring many of our aspirations to reality. Our congratulations and best wishes for your second hundred years. Inc. Automatic Test Equiprient Group 6§S EG&GIdaho, LSI Products Group FA IRC HILD Arwjlog & Components Products Group -- _Ml P. O. Box 1625, Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401 Advanced Research'& Deeloprnent Lab A Schlumnberger Company I _ Il-P· I November 16, 1981 Page II I r - MIT celebrated its hundredth Eliot. The next year's speakers I--- - anniversary in proper style in a included Ayn Rand, William F. week of Centennial activities dur- Buckley, and Malcolm X. Later ing April, 1961. The week opened visitors included Ogden Nash, with CBS television broadcasting Jules Feiffer, and George Plimp- a live discussion on technology ton. from President Stratton's living Millions of dollars of new con- room. Most of the Centennial struction significantly increased activities took place during the MIT's classroom, laboratory, rec- weekend of April 7 to 9. Friday's reational, and residential space events included speeches by Brit- during the 1960's. Burton dining ish Prime Minister Harold Mac- hall was completed in time for the Millan and US Secretary of State fall term of 1961. McCormick Dean Rusk. Six panel discussions Hall, built using a $1.5 million were held Saturday, and Sunday grant given in 1960 for the pur- capped the festivities with an aca- pose of establishing the Institute's demic procession and convocation first women's dormitory, was ded- at which President Stratton and icated in October of 1963. The Massaschusetts Governor John Green Building was completed Volpe spoke. The celebration ac- one year later, and Building 13, tually ended two weeks later with the Grover Hermann Building, a Centennial Ball in the Rockwell and W20, the Student Center, Cage attended by "over 1,000 opened within two weeks of each Technien and their dates." other in 1965. Later that year, the The Second Century Fund cam- Whittaker Building, which houses paign, established in conjunction the Center for Life Sciences, was with the Centennial celebration, dedicated. concluded in May of 1963. At a "An Interim Report on Hous- banquet at the Waldorf Astoria ing for Undergraduate Men at Hotel in New York, MIT an- MIT,- released in 1964, recom- nounced that the fund drive had mended construction of two new yielded $98 million in private west campus dormitories. Two donations - well over the goal of years later, Frank S. MacGregor W A, 4%-E__K The Center for International Studies was the site of one of four demonstrations held at MIT as $66 million. In addition, nearly '07 donated $2 million toward the 500 companies donated a total of construction of one such resi- part of the nationwide November Actions in 1969. I over $20 million. dence. Graduate student housing Luria was a co-recipient of the I A newly-formed faculty group, after which Provost Jerome t3. In January, 1961, Professor Je- was also in short supply, and in 1969 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the Union of Concerned Scien- Wiesner led a group of three or rome B. Wiesner was named by late 1967 Eastgate was dedicated. his work with bacteria and the tists, planned a research strike for four thousand members of the President John F. Kennedy as Tuition costs rose slowly but viruses which affect them. The March 4, 1969. As described in MIT community to the Boston Special Assistant to the President steadily during this decade. In 1970 economics prize went to The Tech, "Although Kresge Common for a rally that attracted for Science and Technology. 1961 fees were raised from $1,500 MIT's Professor Paul Samuelson. Auditorium was continually filled, over 100,000 people. Wiesner held the position until to $1,700. Four years passed with- In 1965, President Stratton an- research at the Institute did not In November, again as part ofa early 1964, when he returned to out further increases, but in 1966 nounced his intention to resign his seem to be severely crippled." The national movement, the Novem- the Institute to serve as Dean of another $200 increase brought position as of June 30, 1966. Dean marathon teach-in at Kresge con- ber Action was held at MIT. Over Science. costs up to $1,900. Another $250 of the Sloan School Howard sidered topics such as reconver- 1,000 students attended a rally on Johnson was named to the post in sion and non-military research the steps of the Student Center, December; Johnson had taken opportunities and the responsibili- and separate demonstrations were just over ten years to advance ties of intellectuals. held at the Center for Internation- from Associate Professor to Pres- Faculty members and students al Studies, the administrative of- ident-elect. The inauguration took began urging the Institute to re- Fices, Lobby 7, and the Instrumen- s Iroe p dZV- y>\>1 place in Rockwell Cage in Octo- convert M IT's special laboratories tation Laboratory. L· Ale-- Z HEaa6ttros--"-Xs ber, 1966, before an audience of to non-military research. In late 1970 began on a violent note. * rK }(to~~~;" over 4,000 guests. April, President Johnson appoint- Radical Undergraduate Associa- ed an 18-man commission to ex- tion President Mike Albert was I s s Tot5 Ashv\N~~~~s~fi~~oN> N\N,9; The most talked-about campus event of 1967 was the debate amine the relationship between expelled from the Institute, and between Professor Jerome Y. M IT and the special labs. The over 250 students protested the irnu ' KL-P~P L Lettvin and guru Dr. Timothy Special Laboratories Review Pan- expulsion by storming President Leary. In May, The Tech reported el, chaired by Dean of the Sloan Johnson's office. MIT brought that a capacity crowd in Kresge School William Pounds, immedi- civil complaints and Committee Auditorium watched the two ar- :ately began holding inquiries. As a on Discipline proceedings against gue about "possible ways of ex- preliminary measure, the Execu- approximattely 30 of the students. 'I %4,r P 10 R.aJS4 cr ' A^ tricating the world from what they tive Committee of the MIT Cor- Spring term ended earls and I M (. -~ -* I It Av 4, s"To J X both agreed was a miserable situa- poration decided in September sornewhat chaotically. In early - tion." Leary's approach was for that MIT would not accept new May, over 1,500 MIT students - A* . . -E. -1 Is Meoc students to use LSD and "turn on, contracts to develop weapons sys- voted overwhelmingly to strike I Top r 61, -Wi .oi 1 tW-/ tune in, drop out," while Lettvin tems. 'in solidarity with the national argued that the drug is "funda- A nti-war groups across the university strike." The faculty 6' eNLt. PDCIMAC mentally a vicious tool of the country planned a massive mora- voted to suspend classes for the devil" because it induced flash- torium for October 15. This pro- week and approved a "sense of the E ·fP E . I ;LPJ'4uI-aft· Nt· S"r?(i:-Ql""i 'Pt j .,;C z)·Xt backs. posal was endorsed by M\/IT stu- faculty' resolution favoring the Student opposition to the Viet- dents through the General Assem- strike. The students' action lin, .. rzs r·;-;- nam War and weapons research bly, and on October 14 the faculty gered, however, and a week later · : Claci E increased gradually during this voted in favor of a resolution the faculty essentially voted to end I·T- ·;\ . decade, culminating in the March calling for "prompt and total classes by awarding all students ·- 4 research strike and November w ithdr~awal of American forces doing satisfactory work as of May I Action of 1969, and finally in the fromn Vietnam and immediate re- 4 a passing grade. Finally, on May ii· '"`' ' ordering of our national and inter- 20, MIT President Johnson an- .. e divestment of Draper Laborato- ries in 1970. On October 15 and national priorities." A convoca- nounced MIT's decision to divest 16, 1965, demonstrations against tion was held at M IT on the 15th, itself of Draper Laboratory. the war were held across the I --- country. MIT was no exception, Iore than 250 students protested MIT's expulsion of UAP as 400 students gathered in 10-250 Mike Albert '70 by storming President Wiesner's office in 1970. to attend a teach-in. Polls taken Just before the close of the year, rise was imposed in 1967, bringing on campus in late 1965 and 1966 Digital Equipment Corporation annual costs to $2,150. found that approval of the current donated a $120,000 PDP-I com- Several important changes were state of the war had dropped from puter to MIT. DEC President made in the MIT curriculum in 65 percent to 40 percent, and Kenneth Olsen noted at the pre- 1964. The faculty voted to drop endorsement of complete with- sentation ceremony that the "use- sophomore physics and math, drawal rose from 17 percent to 35 fulness of computers is still limited 5.02, and thesis as General Insti- percent. by a general feeling that they are tute Requirements. At the same, Protests in 1967 were directed new and strange." Computers the requirements were expanded against the Dow Chemical Com- were not strange to the Institute, to include 36 units of science pany, manufacturers of napalm. however, as early research on the distribution subjects and 12 units In March, Students for a Demo- machines had taken place here. It of laboratory. Early the following cratic Society (SDS) picketed the was finally established in 1964 year the faculty agreed to allow Placement Office during Dow re- that digital core memory was each department to recommend cruitment interviews. Plans for a developed by MIT Professor Jay that a student receive a bachelor's larger demonstration the follow- Forrester, when IBM agreed to a degree without specification of ing November raised concern be- $13 million settlement to resolve a course major, and in December cause of recent arrests of 70 Har- patent dispute. the Academic Council abolished vard students for a similar action. The early years of the decade the Dean's List. President Johnson issued a state- were quiet ones for the Institute, Several MIT faculty members ment to The Tech advocating marked by massive growth in won the prestigious Nobel Prize students' rights to dissent without physical plant and frequent ap- during this period. Dr. Charles violence. The Dow protest oc- pearances by prominent individ- Hard Townes, then Provost, won cured peacefully, with 70 SDS uals from many fields. In 1961 the physics award in 1964 for demonstrators participating and -,.-i - M-k P qW . MIT students were treated to fundamental work in quantum perhaps 15 members of Young t f 14 a 11M*a,WAL I11 addresses by Senator Barry Gold- mechanics leading to the maser- Americans for Freedom counter- Centennial activities in 1961 concluded with a ball in water, Herman Kahn, and T. S. laser principle. Professor Salvador demonstrating. Rockwell Cage attended by more than 1000 couples. ILI Page 12 The Tech CentennialI Issue Iw- In March, 1971, the MIT Cor- --- ... m K - poration picked Jerome B. Wies- ner as the Institute's thirteenth if"" .3 President, at the same time nam- Actat t;2 . XI.i' A ing Paul E. Gray to the post of A" ', Chancellor. A highlight of the . I October Inaiuguration was poet Archibald MacLeish's recitation II4A 1' X of a poem written especially for the occasion. The Institute had 31 . + cahlmed down during the year, and used the Inaiuguration as an op- portunity to re-evaluate its direc- tion. The ceremonies were pre- _2.__ ceded by a series Of panel discus- T sions on topics such as future research fnd educational direc- tions for MIT. 1 -4 The era of denmonstrations _h I Was _ 'a~ I'lr from fitished, however. A if I x bomb exploded in the Center for Internaltionall Studies the same month, causirlt. S35,000 worth of damage. A as omenns co-operative orglrnilzation callino itself the proud Eagle Tribe wrote to the Bosvtonl Glohe claiming responsibil- Jerome Wiesner, Institute President from 1971 to 1981, sometimes relaxed ity for the bombing. The group's by singing along at Senior House steer roasts. intended target was Williarn Bun- 1970-71 to $6200 a year for 1980- the department's headquarters in Grade inflation was also exten- permanent basis. The search for (i dy, a former advisor to President 81. Increases, traditionally in in- April, 1975. The following Febru- sively debated during this period. new Dean lasted two years, during Lyndon Johnson. crements of $200, started growing ary, thurrsda' reported that 15 The Ad Hoc Committee on Grad- which the Dean's Office was signi- A second student strike took in 1974 with a jump of $350. Taiwanese students were being ing contended in -March, 1977, ficantly reorganized. Shirley Mc- place at the Institute in April, Freshman class size also generally trained in the constuction of iner- that the current grade system "can Bay was named to the post in 1972. when approximately 350 rose during the time. After the tial guidance and instrumentation no longer differentiate between January of 1980. students voted to strike to protest record size of the Class of 1976- systems in a $900,000 program good and superior performances," The fall of 1978 marked the the war in Indochina. Many dem- 1,040- class size dropped to 900. conducted jointly by MIT and and noted that the mean Grade return of intercollegiate football onstrations were held during the The targets then gradually in- Draper Laboratories. Point Average had increased from to MIT after a long hiatus: the week. A crowd of 200 students creased to a maximum of 1,075. The Taiwanese program was 3.3 in 1952 to 4.2 in 1976. The sport had been eliminated by confronted Wiesner in Lobby 7, a Last year, the target range for the the topic of discussion at a teach- faculty adopted the Committee's President Pritchett in 1900. The picket line was formed in front of Class of 1985 was lowered to in that spring. At the forum, a recommendation that new defini- football club improved quickly, the main entrance at 77 Massa- between 1,000 and 1,025. Taiwanese student took photo- tions be given to the grades, but and in 1980 was offered a playoff "- ^tvi SV rejected the suggestion that tran- spot in the National Collegiate scripts list a breakdown of the Football Association champion- grade distribution in each course ships. The team declined the op- 'IN taken. portunity after the tournament The September, 1977 Fresh- was extended into lhanksgiving man Picturebook contained a pic- weekend. ture of a gorilla, Technique's mas- President Wiesner announced cot, captioned "Harvey Grogo, his resignation in December of Kampala, Uganda." Several pro- 1978, and a search for a successor fessors and students felt that the promptly began. The selection of photograph was a racial slur and then-Chancellor Paul Gray to fill brought the Technology Commu- the position was announced ten nity Association and Picturebook months later. Gray's Inaugura- editor up on charges before the tion, in contrast to that of his Committee on Discipline. After predecessor, was large and color- i= heated discussions and subsequent ful. The actual ceremony began apologies by both TCA and editor with fn academic procession Ait- ; David Soule, the charges were nessed by 6,000 spectators in Kil- dropped. lihan Court: the inauguration wNeeh The same year, the Committee ,ctiviitis ended with a formal <~~~~~~~~~~~~~sPT"~j on0 Academic Performance recom- Inaugural Ball held in the Student mended to the Committee on Center. 3 Educational Policq that drop date 'Ilie Tttch mi nounced in MaN. be moved to the fifth week of the 1979, that at draft report hy the . term. The CEP's endorsement of Comirnittct on Campus DMini11 Tergsmnld ihsoefomgraebrin nMsahset vneate abig n Is the proposal raised I storm of reconmi cn ded a return to conPLu'i- Somerville~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~lFpoiee ipre udeso f-cmu eo.rtr nMyo 92 student opposition. A survey by sory commons for students in four the Student Committee on Educa- dormitories, to start t ith the tional Policy found-that 90 per- Class of' 1984. I1n November, 1'he cent of the undergraduates pre- Tech/'si editor-in-chief proposed :; ferred the later drop date. The commons boycott to protest the 'a chusetts Avenue, fnd 80 students The nmiddle years of the decade graphs of those present, and was proposal was defeated by a close proposal. The boycott was en- .,e conducted ai sit-in at the entrance wvere quiet ones for the Institute: . subsequently accused of being a 72-70 vote in February of 1978. dorsed by the Undergraduate As- /I to the Hermann Building, home of' the tao most notable events of spy. The Institute initiated studies Carola Eisenberg, Dean for sociation President and many stu- . the Center for International Stud- 1973 were the dedication of the of both the spying accusation and Student Affairs since 1972, an- dents stayed away from the dining hi ies. The Techz estimated that class Fairchild Building and the faculty the Taiwanese training program, nounced her resignation in 1978. halls. Nevertheless, President attendance dropped 30 to 50 per- decision to continue freshman both of which were released in Robert Halfman was named act- Gray announced in February of cent during the strike. pass/fail indefinitely. The April May. The training program was ing Dean but indicated that he 1980 that mandatory commons Cambridge and Somerville po- faculty decision established the terminated on June 30 at the would not accept the position on a would return to MIT the next fall. lice officers had to be summoned current freshman system involving recommendation of the Ad Hoc to MIT in early May to disperse internal fail, a single passing Committee on International Insti- hundreds of off-campus demon- grade, a credit limit, and hidden tute Committments. A report by strators who had been smashing grades. Special Assistant to the Provost windows and blocking Massachu- The major campus event of Louis Menand III concluded that, setts Avenue with garbage. The 1974 was a three-week strike by while the student who took the police spent over three hours maintenance workers and dining photographs was not a spy, the using clubs, tear gas, and dogs to service cooks. MIT hired Off-duty Taiwanese government probably I' ii clear the campus. Later that Cambridge policemen to maintain did operate a "nationwide surveil- month, 65 MIT protestors occu- order on the picket lines. The lance system [to] keep tabs on I pied the offices of the Reserve worst lines, however, were those Taiwanese students." Officers Training Corps for 21 outside Walker Memorial-the The latter half of the decade hours. only open dining hall. was marked by a large number of Undergraduate student govern- In April of 1975, the faculty separate controversies on topics :t ment all but disappeared for the adopted some of the proposals ranging from DNA research to first half of the decade. The made the previous year by the racism. The Cambridge City Undergraduate Association Gen- Special Committee on Grading, Council established a seven- eral Asssembly did not meet from establishing a fifth-week add date month moratorium on DNA re- 1970 to 1976- In 1971, a Tech and an eleventh-week drop date, search conducted in special P3 editorial urged students to idem- and extending the senior pass-fail laboratories i n late 1976 an d early onstrate your disgust with the option to include juniors. 1977. Professor David Baltimore, governtent and candidates" by M IT's policies on training inter- recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize writing in "No UAP." No UAP national students caused two con- in - Medicine and Physiology, received 309 of the 1420 votes troversies during 1975 and 1976. threatened to leave M IT if the ban cast. placing second after Robert Two hundred students and faculty becamne permanent. In February Schulte '72, who tallied 420 bal- members opposed to the Nuclear of 1977, however, the Council lots. Engineering Department's train- voted 6-3 in favor of an ordinance AM MIT continued to grow during ing program for Iranian students alllowing DNA research conduct- A near-record blizzard hit MIT and Boston on February 6, 1978. the period, both in size and cost. ,athered for a rall) at the Student ed under the National Institutes of Massachusetts Governor Dukakis declared a state-wide emergency, I Tuition rose fromn $2900 ;I vear for Center and conducted at sit-in at Health guidelines. and classes for spring term began four days late. a I I I I I I-