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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 contrarys 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 departments 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、这事件标志着由William Barfon Rogers的长期的努力的结束。William是MIT的一创立者兼第一任主席，他努力要开创一种新型和时代、国家需要相关的教育机构，在那里可以获得知识性和实用性的教育。 | 
