Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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Hidden away behind the Veterinary Laboratory is a square brick building which he first college barn. It is as ancient as College Hall, but lacks in tradition. Stored 2n 'zly in it, however, are remains of a cherry lumber case, which at one time occupied the ehupel platform and protected the largest plate electrical machine in the state of Michigan. The first electri ul exhibition given at M. A. C. was when this ponderous attitir was run out from its ease into View 011 the chapel stage, and the large glass wheel enu- tiously rotated, thus per- mitting the students to get an insight into the mysteries of ttnatu 'ul philosophy. Ci Ci Ci chen the ttMec-hzmi- '11! Course tthut was its first namei opened in '85 the pioneer students were employed in the shops, building hithes and 2111 en- gine to help out in the equipment of the depart- ment. A steam cruising yacht, the Iota, by mem- bers of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity t 'st built, fitted out, and launched in Lake Michigun-eurly mementoes of student ueemnplishment from 0111- present engineering course. D D D Classes come and g0, each with its individuality. The first college paper, 6 file Bubble, was blown up to a four page sheet by the class of i68. It soon collapsed. Colleges Hart. and Ag. Studenlr-IXXE The class of '73 first distinguished itself by wearing , W a seven sided mortar board cap and latterly by spend- ing a summer recess of ten days in moving the rock to its present place by the evergreens, from :1 point where Dr. D'IarshaH-s house now stands, where the melting.1r glacier left it. Class individuality means strong individuality of eomtltuent members. Look about you and see if that IS not so. The college g Speculum, a paper which did much for student interest, was established by those be- longing to the Classes of i82mid i83. The foun- tain was given to the College by .83. The studentsi boarding club association was organized through the efforts of men belonging to the same classes. H. XV. Collingwood, .83, Editor of ttRurai New Yorker, did most in establishing the present elub boarding system. W'ho will sueeeed in Fletcherizing.r it remains to be seen. Ml

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W'illiams Hall 0868 vas the first steam-heated building 011 the campus. Up under the roof two of our present college societies, U. L. S. and the i Ties, first found a home. A somewhat crude estimate leads me to the stateu'lent that since the completion of the building each room in this dormitory has been occupied by at least 841i different students. XVhat an interesting assemblage would a home coming reunion for a single student's room produee. Next followed the Chem. Lab., 1871, then old Wells Hall, 1878, and the Li- brary, 1881. When these buildings I have mentioned were new, this kind ot'edueatiou was still newer and was not an altogether acceptable form to the mass of h'Iiehiganis taxpaying citizens. Money for buildings and iimirovements came slowly. This college never had a mushroom growth. But as its students went out to do the world s work, as you will soon do, their willingness to tackle anything and to do honest work strengthened the college little by little, and overfame some strong predjudiees against the new ideas for which the college was established. I had thought in sketching my personal impressions ofthe college as it is today to say something about nionuments-denkmal, the German word, think onee-expresses it best. This that we now enjoy has been brought about by the work of students guided, assisted, helped- but still it is the result of their work whieh has produced what M. A. C. is here and now. So this college is the students7 monument. The buildings, however old and worn or new or grand, are simply the tools with which we work; the reputation of the college, its power to inHuenee our lix'es-this is the monument to the past. Yet the buildings have uainesetVilliams, VVells and A bbot-whieh will remind some of the real old fellows of men whom they worked with at the beginning of M. A. C's struggle. 7The Chemical, Botanical, Horticultural and Baeteriologi 'al laboratories might well have had placed on their comer stones such names as these: R. C. Kedzie, XV. .l. Heal, L. H. Bailey and C. E. Marshall. Still it is not that which remains in the walls that gives strength to the building, but that which you yourself carry away. E El Cl Towering high above the roof of the College hospital is the largest oak tree on the iampus. It was so large that away back in 1861, when all the other native oak trees were topped or beheaded to im- prove their appearance and prolong their lives, this tree was left untouched by the workmen with the sorrowful expectation that in a few years it would die. It still remains in all its native stateliuess. Hi

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On these bright spring days we :don the mmitt and toss the bulleand so we always did. Baseball has given man y of us a ehanee to make a record. M. A. C. has always been more 01' less strong in this di- rection. The home plate has travelled a good deal, being located back in the seventies just north of Williams, then east to where the library stands, then north to Howard Terrace, thence westward to the drill ground. E! C! C Old Glory fioating in front of the Armory from the hundred foot stuff is to remind us that am English student spent in '82 a year on the tzmipus, and utter his return home sent the ash for this form of souvenir of his Visit. D D D The voice of the East Lansing school bell, if it were not so badly cracked, would still be calling us to our college duties. It is the original college bellethe one Which wuked the students of .57 to a five o'clock breakfzmt, Which sounded the alarm when the old dormitory tSaints ResU burned, and which reminded us of our daily round. It was frequently appealed to in moments of exhubemnee; it tolled the funeral of students and teacher; but finally it lost its voice on account of a se- vere and prolonged exposure tsome say the river bedi, and now it whispers to Fae- ulty kids and others: Come to school and prepare for college. D D :1 The elm shade walk on the north boundary ofthe ?zunpus was ordered planted by the State Board in August, '75, preparatory, I believe, to the advent 01' the fair Co-eds just twenty y ears later. E! D C! Opposi- tion to the college by many who should have b e e n it s f r i e n d s drove stud- e n t s a n d t e a e h e 1' s closer to- gether. tVe are still together on a common ground of fellowship-this is the spirit of M. A. C. tIOJ M. A, C. Rezimenf- I890 1881