Information about
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Official Information

• First school charter
• Current charter
• Special Act of 1898
• Special Act of 1931

Historical Information

• Letter by Stephen Van Rensselaer announcing the formation of the school
• Announcement of the opening of the Rensselaer School
• 1824 Method of Instruction
• Early curriculum of the Rensselaer Institute
• The accomplishments of RPI Graduates
• Origin of the school's colors
• Founders and Presidents of the Institute
• Grand Marshals and Presidents of the Union

Songs and Cheers

• Ah! Me!
• Alma Mater
• At Rensselaer
• Bingo
• Fight, Fight for Rensselaer
• The Fighting Engineers
• Fighting Engineers of Rensselaer
• Football Song
• From The Glorious Heights
• Hail Alma Mater
• Hail, Dear Old Rensselaer
• High O'er Hudson's Noble River
• Loyal To Rensselaer
• Now And Forever
• Old Rensselaer
• Rah! Rah! For Rensselaer
• Rensselaer Forever
• A Son Of Old R.P.I.
• Song of the Classes
• Stephen van Rensselaer
• Toast To Rensselaer
• When The Evening Shades Are Falling

• Sports Cheers

Excerpts from The Polytechnic

• 23rd Psalm to an Engineer's Love
• Top Ten Lists
  • Things to do on Hockey Line
  • Rules for Life at RPI
  • Criteria for Getting into Rensselaer
  • Christmas Presents for an RPI Student
  • Infamous Last Words
  • RPI Pick-up Lines Used at Russell Sage
  • Things Men Hate to Hear from Women
  • Worst Things to Hear on Valentine's Day
• Birth of Hockey Line

Other

• New School Nickname??