. . . We expect to remove to Boston for the winter in about three weeks. . . . My last visit to Boston was for the purpose of reading to a committee a pretty full outline of an Institute of Technology, to comprise a Society of Arts, an Industrial Museum, and a School of Industrial Science. My plan is very large, but is much liked, and I shall probably submit it, by request, to a meeting of leading persons in the course of a week or two, after which it will be printed in pamphlet form. The educational feature of the plan is what ought most to recommend it, and will, I think, be well appreciated. It provides for regular systematic teaching in Drawing and Design, Mathematics, general and applied Physics, Practical Chemistry, Geology and Mining, and would require at least five fully equipped professorships, besides laboratories, even at the beginning. It contemplates two classes of pupils, — those who go through a regular and continuous course of practical studies, and those who attend the lectures on Practical Science and Art. But I will not dilate on the plan now.
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William Barton Rogers
As a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the name William Barton Rogers rang a bell with me immediately. Recently an MIT archivist unearthed evidence that Rogers had possessed some slaves when he lived in Virginia years before he founded MIT. Source: https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-class-explores-institutes-connections-slavery-0212
As my source link above points out, Brown University, Columbia University, Georgetown University, Harvard University, and Princeton University, among others, have published their own universities' connections to slavery.
I guess this means we have to cancel M.I.T.