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A campus scene in 1878. Newly opened VVclls Hall in the background housed male students until it burned in 1905. A t Y 1 A X v. if J, fe fa 5 T e Early Be innin s of a Great University Reflect Its Future In 1855 the State of Michigan bought a farm and started a college on its back forty. The college thrived and the farm grew into a great university for advanced study in agriculture, science and the arts. When the first students--61 of them-arrived for the dedication ceremonies in the spring of 1857, the col- lege was only a crude clearing in the wilderness of nature and the minds of men. Three buildings, a few acres of virgin soil and six dedicated men, this was Michigan Agricultural College. In the next few decades, the idea of the land grant college crystallized. The campus expanded as did the curriculum and enrollment. The agricultural college was evolving into a significant aspect of the American educational scene. Instruction in Home Economics brought co-eds to campus in the l890's. Q ff .ag ,QE Q Q wg, I X . xx gf. ,, i, x, , 9 ' 3 A . Q . vig i . 1. 3'
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s S537 r cr, , ,f . lift, , 1 ' 4 Y., 9 v A record crowd was present for the dedication Farm LHHG, 1910. ofthe new football stadium on October 11, 1924. T e Turn ofthe Century: A Century of Progress A Century of Growth By the turn of the century Michigan Agricultural College had achieved fame not merely as the symbol of a great idea and the daring of new thinkers, but for having shown the way in a concept of education for service to all people. It had taken education to the people in its Farmers' Institutes, then brought the people to its campus for its short courses. It had kept pace with the time of great industrial change. It had adapted to a blossoming America and had shown the need for and benefit of education for all of its people. 6
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