A draft copy of Philip M'Pherson's Report on a Year's Study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology divided into part 1 'Graduate Fire Control and Stabilisation Course', part 2 'Comparison of M.IT. and R.N. Methods for producing Engineer Graduates, appendix I 'Detailed Description of Each Subject Taken', appendix II 'A Sample Quiz, being the First Quiz in the Subject Vector Kinematics and Gyro Instrument Theory', appendix III 'Details of student admission and studies' , appendix IV 'Detailed analysis of M.I.T. undergraduate course', appendix V 'Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering', appendix VI 'Graduate Subjects of Interest to Marine and Ordnance Engineers', appendix 'Syllabus for Ordnance Engineering Dagger Course' and a hierarchy of the M.I.T. Instrument Laboratory. Also included is an handwritten index and summaries of parts 1, 2 and 3 as well as letters from M'Pherson to The Director of Naval Ordnance and The Engineer-in-Chief forwarding the report.