Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts records

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts records

1862-1941

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The Society of Arts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was formed in 1862. It consisted of seventeen people who met to read the 1861 Act of Incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and enact the first by-laws of the Institute. The Society was to be one component of MIT, the others being a school and a museum. Between 1862 and 1865, however, the Society of Arts was the only element of Massachusetts Institute of Technology extant. Meetings consisted of discussions of Institute business followed by a lecture on a scientific or technical topic. After the school opened in 1865, and the Society was no longer responsible for governing the Institute, its meetings focused on lectures on a wide range of subjects and demonstrations of inventions. Records in the collection include the minutes of meetings of the Society, which include the reports of the Executive Committee and officers, and abstracts or transcripts of lectures, demonstrations, and exhibits presented before the Society.

4.0 cubic feet; (11 manuscript boxes including 10 volumes, 2 small boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6358216

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1862-1865 In 1862, William Barton Rogers issued a notice for the first meeting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seventeen persons responded to the notice and the meeting was convened on April 8 at the rooms of the Boston Board of Trade. The Act of Incorporation of M.I.T. was read and the first By-Laws of the Institute were enacted. The group thus convened referred to themselves as a Society of Arts. William Barton Rogers envisioned that the Society would be ...