Bekoming MIT :  moments of decision / 
edited by David Kaiser. 
 - Cambridge ;  London :  MIT Press,  2012. 
 - vi, 207 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
<br/><br/>Includes index: p. 201-207 
<br/><br/>Introduction: moments of decision / David Kaiser -- "God speed the institute": the foundational years, 1861-1894 / Merritt Roe Smith -- Mergers and acquisitions / Bruce Sinclair -- Patrons and a plan / Christophe Lécuyer -- MIT and war / Deborah Douglas -- Elephant on the Charles: postwar growing pains / David Kaiser -- "Time of troubles" for the special laboratories / Stuart W. Leslie -- "Refrain from using the alphabet": how community outreach catalyzed the life sciences at MIT / John Durant -- Putting gender on the table / Lotte Bailyn, with an afterword by Nancy Hopkins -- Epilogue / Susan Hockfield 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262518154 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Massachusetts Institute of Technology--History<br/>Education, Higher<br/>Tehnology & engineering--History