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

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1855.' Mzkbzlgan uila' az college with IN 1855, the State of Michigan bought a farm and started a College on its back forty. The College flourished, and as more and more students arrived, the fences were torn down and the farm grew into a great university for the advanced study of Agriculture, Science and Art. When the first students-there were 61 of them-arrived for the oflicial dedication in the spring of 1857, the college was only a crude clearing in the wilderness of nature and the minds of men. Today, one hundred years after being established by the Michigan Legis- lature on February 12, 1855, Michigan State College is a multi-million dollar institution on a 5,000-acre campus, attended by more than 15,000 students. Michigan State College is a product of the mid-19th century, the time of the American romantic, of exploration, expansion and the development of a new sensitive United States. Its founders saw the College as further intel- lectual glory for the state, others saw it merely as competition for the University of Michigan, still others-the majority-saw it as an oppor- tunity for Michiganis youth to enjoy the dream of the 1800's, 'fsimple living and high think- ing. The idea of the College's founders appealed to the young people of Michigan and to their fathers, pioneers of the wilderness that was Michigan. 'in joseph Rickelson Williams, son of a New Bedford shipmaster, Harvard graduate and joumalist-he helped found and edited the Toledo fOhioJ Blade-was a vigorous pro- ponent of the idea that farmers should educate themselves and their children. He was presi- dent of Michigan State in its first two years, but resigned in 1859. He was president pro tem of the Michigan senate when he died in 1861 at the age of 53. 9