The death mask of MIT president Richard C. Maclaurin, created so that his portrait could be painted, rests at the MIT Museum. Maclaurin oversaw the Institute’s complex, exhausting move from Boston to Cambridge in 1916. With construction still underway in 1919, a special $4 million challenge grant was made if Maclaurin could raise matching funds. He campaigned tirelessly to raise the required amount but wore himself out and eventually contracted a fatal case of pneumonia. He died in office at age 49 in 1920.