In the summer of 1976, I briefly had a student job with the MIT Alumni Association office. My job was to prepare personalized letters to MIT alumni using IBM Selectric typewriter connected with tape drives. This was long before the advent of PCs and word processing software. Amazingly, an attached ink pen would also sign the letters to make them appear personal. As part of the job I was asked to organize the storage of Alumni Association in the basement of the building with the idea of creating more shelf space.
In the storage room I came across a printed version of an alma mater song “Sons of MIT”. The song was written by an alumnus sometime in 1940s. The song is printed on the back drop of Kresge Auditorium. I cannot recall ever hearing the song while I was there during mid-1970s. With increasing enrollment of women at MIT “Sons of MIT” has been revised to “In Praise of MIT” sometime during the 1980s. The two versions are presented here.
Waris E. Warsi
MIT Sangam Reunion 