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.

96、這事件標志著由William Barfon Rogers的長期的努力的結束。William是MIT的一創(chuàng)立者兼第一任主席，他努力要開創(chuàng)一種新型和時代、國家需要相關的教育機構，在那里青年人，婦女可以獲得知識性和實用性的教育。

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.

97、每個系的計劃包括的一部分是系領域內的專業(yè)興趣的科目，另一部分是學生們自己選擇的額外機會。

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.

98、可選性地，學生可以用選擇性的時間來準備某些專業(yè)領域的高級課程，比如說醫(yī)學或者法律，或者M.I.T.不授予本科學位的某些專業(yè)課程，比如說氣象學和心理學，或者跨學科的領域，比如說天體物理學，交流學或者能源學。

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.

99、盡管開放式理學學士本科課程計劃由系里列出，可以有一些自己獨特的特點，但每個項目的列出必須與系代表進行協(xié)商，以此來保證課程結構有意義，內容富有挑戰(zhàn)性。

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.

100、以前的重心是諸如大壩、道路和橋梁等大型基礎設施的建設，現在開始轉換到能直接提高國家的基礎服務的項目上來了。