MIT Engineers

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."{{cite web|url=http://studentlife.mit.edu/cac/services/mascot-history|title=Tim the Beaver Mascot History|year=1998|work=MIT Division of Student Life|access-date=2012-11-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102075003/http://studentlife.mit.edu/cac/services/mascot-history|archive-date=2012-11-02|url-status=dead}}

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

The initial MIT football team was nicknamed the Techmen.{{Cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2014/from-cancelled-to-champions-strange-history-mit-football-1119|title=From cancelled to champions: The strange history of MIT Football|website=MIT News|date=19 November 2014 |access-date=2019-03-10|archive-date=2017-01-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107001415/http://news.mit.edu/2014/from-cancelled-to-champions-strange-history-mit-football-1119|url-status=live}} 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".{{Cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-players-at-mit-engineered-a-football-team-1416586648|title=How Players at MIT Engineered a Football Team|last=Cohen|first=Ben|date=2014-11-23|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=2019-03-10|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660|archive-date=2019-03-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328164815/https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-players-at-mit-engineered-a-football-team-1416586648|url-status=live}} The lyric reads:{{cite web|url=https://web.mit.edu/track/outdoor/beaver.html|title=The MIT Beaver Call|access-date=January 19, 2020|archive-date=November 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110171714/http://web.mit.edu/track/outdoor/beaver.html|url-status=live}}

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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!

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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".{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/technique/www/scans/1902_Technique.pdf |title=1902 Technique |work=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |access-date=January 18, 2020 |archive-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022221553/http://web.mit.edu/technique/www/scans/1902_Technique.pdf |url-status=live }} The team has played almost continually since.

Sources:[https://mitathletics.com/sports/2021/4/20/information-facilities-home.aspx Facilities] on Mitathletics.com {{cite web|url=http://mit.edu/athletics/www/department/DAPERQuickFacts09.pdf|title=2012–13 Quick Facts|author=Dept. of Athletics|date=Aug 2012|publisher=MIT|quote=Intercollegiate Athletics: 33 varsity sports.|access-date=2015-10-01|archive-date=2013-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219210811/http://mit.edu/athletics/www/department/DAPERQuickFacts09.pdf|url-status=live}}

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