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Mascot

The beaver, "nature's engineer", was adopted as mascot at the annual dinner of the Technology Club of New York on January 17, 1914 by a group of MIT alumni. The late President Richard Maclaurin formally accepted the proposal, and at this dinner a group of beavers shown in natural surroundings was presented to the Institute. Lester Gardner, a member of the Class of 1898, provided the following justification: "The beaver not only typifies the Tech, but his habits are particularly our own. The beaver is noted for his engineering and mechanical skills and habits of industry. His habits are nocturnal. He does his best work in the dark."⁵

The beaver has since been nicknamed Tim the Beaver, Tim being MIT spelled backwards.

Nickname and song

The initial MIT football team was nicknamed the Techmen.⁶ After being discontinued in 1901 and self-reinstated by a group of students in 1978, the team called themselves the Engineers, which then become tradition until now. The team also revived the old fighting song, now dubbed as "The Beaver Calls".⁷ The lyric reads:⁸

I'm a beaver, you're a beaver, we are beavers all. And when we get together, we do the beaver call. e to the u, du / dx e to the x, dx Cosine, secant, tangent, sine; 3.14159 Square root, integral, mu dv Slipstick, slide rule, MIT! GO TECH!

NCAA championships

Team

Individual

Individual teams

Ice hockey

MIT's men's ice hockey team was one of the earliest collegiate hockey programs in the United States. It "was organized in the winter of 1899 to introduce the Canadian game of Hockey in the Institute".¹⁰ The team has played almost continually since.

Facilities

Sources:¹¹¹²

External links

• Official website

References

1. "CoSIDA Academic All-America All-Time Recipients". MIT. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-03-07. https://www.mitathletics.com/information/excellence/CoSIDA_AcademicAllAmerica ↩

2. "NCAA Elite 90 Award All-Time Recipients". MIT. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-03-07. https://www.mitathletics.com/information/excellence/Elite90 ↩

3. Cohen, Rachel (May 18, 2010). "MIT the No. 1 jock school? You're kidding, right?". Associated Press. Archived from the original on September 12, 2011. Retrieved 2011-06-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20110912090653/http://www.youniversitytv.com/news-sports/3655-mit-the-no-1-jock-school-you-re-kidding-right ↩

4. Powers, John (April 24, 2009). "MIT forced to cut 8 varsity sports". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on April 30, 2009. Retrieved October 1, 2015. http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/articles/2009/04/24/mit_forced_to_cut_8_varsity_sports/ ↩

5. "Tim the Beaver Mascot History". MIT Division of Student Life. 1998. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2012-11-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20121102075003/http://studentlife.mit.edu/cac/services/mascot-history ↩

6. "From cancelled to champions: The strange history of MIT Football". MIT News. 19 November 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-01-07. Retrieved 2019-03-10. https://news.mit.edu/2014/from-cancelled-to-champions-strange-history-mit-football-1119 ↩

7. Cohen, Ben (2014-11-23). "How Players at MIT Engineered a Football Team". The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-03-10. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-players-at-mit-engineered-a-football-team-1416586648 ↩

8. "The MIT Beaver Call". Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2020. https://web.mit.edu/track/outdoor/beaver.html ↩

9. "MIT, Wisconsin-La Crosse win 2023 DIII track & field championships | NCAA.com". www.ncaa.com. https://www.ncaa.com/live-updates/trackfield-outdoor-women/d3/mit-wisconsin-la-crosse-win-2023-diii-track-field-championships ↩

10. "1902 Technique" (PDF). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2020. http://web.mit.edu/technique/www/scans/1902_Technique.pdf ↩

11. Facilities on Mitathletics.com https://mitathletics.com/sports/2021/4/20/information-facilities-home.aspx ↩

12. Dept. of Athletics (Aug 2012). "2012–13 Quick Facts" (PDF). MIT. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-02-19. Retrieved 2015-10-01. Intercollegiate Athletics: 33 varsity sports. http://mit.edu/athletics/www/department/DAPERQuickFacts09.pdf ↩