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N 1904 James M. Hamilton was made President and the College became collegiate. New departments were organized and “Aggie” entered upon a new era. In a decade from 1910 until 1920. the attendance at the school grew by leaps and bounds and increased from four hundred thirty to nearly a thousand. There were golden days of substantial growth, and organizations grew rapidly in numbers and strength; in 1917 the ban of Greek letter fraternities was removed and our present powerful fraternal organization began its growth. 'Hie Morril Act of 1862 required that all Land Grant Colleges give military training and until 1917 this training was spasmodically offered. In 1917 a regular staff was detailed to this post and instruction has been continuous since. Mr. Hamilton resigned as President in 1919 and at his own request Alfred Atkinson was made his successor. Under his guidance we fared well and gained substantial support from the Bond Issue of 1920. The Engineering Building and shops, the heating plant, Lewis Hall, the Gymnasium, and Herrick Hall were all constructed under the provisions of this measure. After being almost within grasp, a Supreme Court decision swept away the hopes for a Greater Montana State College, and once more we await the future.
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WO DAYS before the Fourth of July, 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, the Congress of the United States passed the Federal Land Act which made possible the creation of Montana State College. Advantage of this Act was taken by the people of Montana on February 16, 1893, when one hundred forty thousand acres of the public domain were set aside for the maintenance of the Greater University of Montana. Early in the spring of 1893 the State Board of Education held its first meeting in Bozeman. Nelson Story, Sr., a prominent cattle man of the Gallatin, gave the College forty acres of land overlooking the city of Bozeman as a building site. An adjoining one hundred sixty acres were donated, half by Gallatin County and half by the public-spirited citizens of Bozeman. An Executive Board was appointed and Luther Foster was made acting President. On April 17, 1893, in a frame building, formerly used as a Presbyterian Academy, the President, an assistant, and eight students registered in Business Economy, opened Montana College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The next fall A. M. Ryan was made President and with six assistants began a College term. In the summer of 1894 the present extension building was built and the campus became more than an empty prairie. In June, 1894, James Reid was made President of the institution and funds were provided for the erection of new buildings of which Main Hall was the first to be completed.
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