Extracts from Acts of the General Court of Massachusetts, in relation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Act of Incorporation. "William B. Rogers [and others named], their associates and successors, are hereby made a body corporate, by the name of the MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining a Society of Arts, a Museum of Arts, and a School of Industrial Science, and aiding generally, by suitable means, the advancement, development, and practical application of sciences in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures, and commerce." Chapter 183, Acts and Resolves of 1861. Grant of Public Lands. "When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shall have been duly organized, located, and established, there shall be appropriated and paid to its treasurer, each year, on the warrant of the Governor, for its endowment, support, and maintenance, one third part of the annual interest or income which may be received from the fund created under and by virtue of the 130th chapter of the Acts of the 37th Congress, at the second session thereof, approved July 2, 1862 [giving Public Lands to the States in aid of instruction in Agriculture, Said Institute the Mechanic Arts, and Military Science and Tactics]. of Technology, in addition to the objects set forth in its Act of Incorporation [as above quoted], shall provide for instruction in military tactics." Chapter 186, Acts and Resolves of 1863. Power to confer Degrees. "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is hereby authorized and empowered to award and confer degrees appropriate to the several courses of study pursued in said Institution, on such conditions as are usually prescribed in universities and colleges in the United States, and according to such tests of proficiency as shall best promote the interests of sound education in this CommonChapter 247, Acts and Resolves of 1868. wealth." Page. Lowell Free Courses for 1876-77 48-52 General and Qualitative Chemistry. Prof. Nichols's Report 48 49 The Philosophy of Government. Prof. Howison's Report 49 51 Abstracts of Theses by Graduates of 1876-77 The Central Avenue Bridge, Dorchester, Mass., by H. H. Carter The Charles River Bridge at Newton Upper Falls, by Edward Grover 55 The Double Lattice Parker Iron Bridge across the Merrimack River at Lowell, 60 Highway Bridge across the Merrimack River, between Groveland and Haver- Design for an Iron Railway Bridge, with a consideration of the Principles determining the Design, by George F. Swain 66 The Ashtabula Bridge, by Frank E. Wiggin A Review of a Continuons Brake Trial, by William H. Beeching The Westinghouse Air Brake, by George W. Chapman . Double Valves as applied to the Rider Engine, by Linus Faunce The Construction and Use of a Mercury Column, by Chas. H. Fisher On Link Motion, by Cecil H. Peabody The Vershire Copper Ore and its Metallurgical Treatment, by George Bartol On some methods for the Extraction of Nickel and Cobalt from their Ores, by On the Smelting of a Silver-lead Ore from the Merrimac Mine, by Henry D. Report on the Working, for Silver and Gold, of a Middle Grade Product from 79 Treatment of Vershire, Vt., Copper Ore, by H. C. Southworth 81 82 Experimental Working, by Wet and Dry Methods, of a Low Grade Silver and Design for a Steam Fire Engine House, by J. Williams Beal A Town Hall, by Geo. W. Capen A Design for a Steam Fire Engine House, by W. E. Chamberlin On an Impurity found in Commercial Acetone, by John Alden Members of the Society of Arts 95 THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. To the Corporation of the Institute: — I have the honor to submit my report for the year ending September 30, 1877. The following resignations have taken place during the year: Edward C. Pickering, S. B., Thayer Professor of Physics, and Director of the Rogers Laboratory. William E. Hoyt, S. B., Instructor in Civil Engineering and Stereotomy. William Foster, Assistant in the Mining and Metallurgical Laboratories. Lewis M. Norton, Assistant in Quantitative Analysis. Charles C. R. Fish, Assistant in General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis. James B. Stanwood, S. B., Assistant in Mechanical Engineering. Clarence L. Dennett, S. B., Assistant in Mechanical Engineering. Thomas W. Robinson, S. B., Assistant in Quantitative Analysis. In the resignation of Professor Pickering the Institute has sustained an exceptional loss. His connection with the School, as Assistant and Professor, extended over a period of just ten years, an account of which will be found in his report for 1876. This historical sketch so plainly states the origin and growth of the laboratory method of teaching physics in the Institute, and is so full a summary of what the department has accomplished under Professor Pickering's direction, that I need only again ask your attention to it. |