Mind And Hand

by Stratton, Julius Adams; MANNIX, LORETTA H.

• ISBN13: 9780262195249
• ISBN10: 0262195240
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

The motto on the seal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Mens et Manus"-"mind and hand"-signals the Institute's dedication to what MIT founder William Barton Rogers called "the most earnest cooperation of intelligent culture with industrial pursuits." Mind and Handtraces the ideas about science and education that have shaped MIT and defined its mission-from the new science of the Enlightenment era and the ideals of representative democracy spurred by the Industrial Revolution to new theories on the nature and role of higher education in nineteenth-century America. MIT emerged in mid-century as an experiment in scientific and technical education, with its origins in the tension between these old and new ideas. Mind and Handwas undertaken by Julius Stratton after his retirement from the presidency of MIT and continued by Loretta Mannix after his death; Philip N. Alexander, of the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, stepped in to complete the project. The combined efforts of these three authors have given us what Julius Stratton envisioned-"a coherent account of the flow of ideas" from which MIT emerged.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Paul E. Gray
Preface	xiii
Prologue	xvii
The Antecedents
1 European Origins	3	(18)
2 Migration of a Heritage	21	(10)
3 The Rise of Technical Education in America	31	(32)
The Rogers Brothers and the Boston Scene	63	(76)
4 A Family Affair	65	(26)
5 Harvard	91	(22)
6 The Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard	113	(26)
The Founding of MIT	139	(86)
7 Pre-Historic Annals of the Institute	141	(28)
8 An Auxiliary to the Cause of Education	169	(20)
9 Facts of the Founding	189	(36)
The Struggle to Get Under Way	225	(116)
10 Persistent Perseverance	227	(24)
11 The Land-Grant Act of 1862	251	(26)
12 Harvard Again	277	(18)
13 The Difficult Question of Money	295	(24)
14 The Building	319	(22)
The Society, the Museum, and the School	341	(98)
15 The Society of Arts	343	(36)
16 The Committee on Publication	379	(14)
17 The Museum of Technology	393	(22)
18 The School of Industrial Science	415	(24)
A Voluminous Enterprise	439	(92)
19 The School Opens	441	(30)
20 The First Faculty	471	(28)
21 The First Students	499	(32)
The Early Curriculum and Methods of Teaching	531	(84)
22 The First Six Courses	533	(26)
23 A Curricular Innovation	559	(18)
24 Methods of Teaching	577	(38)
Epilogue	615	(6)
Appendixes
1. Committees and Officers of the Institute, 1860-1870	621	(4)
2. Society of Arts Communications, 1862-1870	625	(24)
Notes	649	(96)
Abbreviations	649	(96)
Selected Sources	745	(16)
Illustrations	761	(4)
Index	765