96. The event marked the end of an extended effort by William Barton Rogers, M.I.T. ‘s founder and first president, to create a new kind of educational institution relevant to the times and to the contrary’s need, where young men and women would be educated in the application as well as the acquisition of knowledge.
    97. Each departmental program consists, in part, of a grouping of subjects in the department’s areas of professional interest and, in part, of additional opportunities for students of their choice.
    98. Alternatively, a student may use elective time to prepare for advanced study in some professional field, such as medicine or law, for graduate study in some area in which M. I. T. gives no undergraduate degree, such as meteorology or psychology, or for advanced study in an interdisciplinary field, such as astrophysics, communication science, or energy.
    99. While the undergraduate curriculum for an open Bachelor of Science degree, as listed by a department, may have its own unique features, each program must be laid out in consultation with a departmental representative to assure that it is meaningful in structure and challenging in content.
    100. Where previously it had concentrated on the big infrastructure projects such as dams, roads and bridges, it began to switch to projects which directly improved the basic services of a country.
    96、這事件標(biāo)志著由William Barfon Rogers的長(zhǎng)期的努力的結(jié)束。William是MIT的一創(chuàng)立者兼第一任主席，他努力要開(kāi)創(chuàng)一種新型和時(shí)代、國(guó)家需要相關(guān)的教育機(jī)構(gòu)，在那里青年人可以獲得知識(shí)性和實(shí)用性的教育。
    97、每個(gè)系的計(jì)劃包括的一部分是系領(lǐng)域內(nèi)的專業(yè)興趣的科目，另一部分是學(xué)生們自己選擇的額外機(jī)會(huì)。
    98、可選性地，學(xué)生可以用選擇性的時(shí)間來(lái)準(zhǔn)備某些專業(yè)領(lǐng)域的高級(jí)課程，比如說(shuō)醫(yī)學(xué)或者法律，或者M(jìn).I.T.不授予本科學(xué)位的某些專業(yè)課程，比如說(shuō)氣象學(xué)和心理學(xué)，或者跨學(xué)科的領(lǐng)域，比如說(shuō)天體物理學(xué)，交流學(xué)或者能源學(xué)。
    99、盡管開(kāi)放式理學(xué)學(xué)士本科課程計(jì)劃由系里列出，可以有一些自己獨(dú)特的特點(diǎn)，但每個(gè)項(xiàng)目的列出必須與系代表進(jìn)行協(xié)商，以此來(lái)保證課程結(jié)構(gòu)有意義，內(nèi)容富有挑戰(zhàn)性。
    100、以前的重心是諸如大壩、道路和橋梁等大型基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施的建設(shè)，現(xiàn)在開(kāi)始轉(zhuǎn)換到能直接提高國(guó)家的基礎(chǔ)服務(wù)的項(xiàng)目上來(lái)了。