Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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H I S T II H Y . . . Plan of grounds of the State Agricultural College — 1884 Hardy ' s administrations have already been noted. During Dr. Humphrey ' s term, 1934-45, the following buildings were added: Dairy Judging Pavilion, Abbatoir and Curing Plant, Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Building, Hull Hall, Magruder Hall, Extension Service Build- ing, Utilities Building, College Grill, Col- lege Book Store, Petroleum Testing Lab- oratory, West Stadium, and Swimming Pool. In addition, a number of faculty apartment houses and residences were constructed on the campus during Presi- dent Humphrey ' s term. During Dr. Mitchell ' s administration, which began in 1945, the college library has been moved into a new million dollar air-conditioned building. Other important buildings added since the war include Pat- terson Engineering Laboratories, Dairy In- dustries Building, Dairy Production Plant, Agricultural Engineering Building, Gym- nasium, Poultry Plant, enlargement of greenhouses, enlargement of Veterinary Science Building, Moore Hall, Briscoe Hall, Carpenter Hall, Walker Hall, Gar- ner Hall. The new Animal Husbandry Service Building, with an amphitheater with a

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CI d5rief 15 residences, Dining Hall, Experiment Station, barns, and implement sheds. During the next 15 years, the Hardy Era, the following buildings were added: Lee Hall, Hospital, Laundry, Power £ Dairy House, Chemical Laborat tile Building, Montgomery Hal to Main Dormitory, Woodwor K ' n Dairy House remodeled and ing, now known as Military S| ing. Dr. Fred T. Mitchell is the 1 dent, and the fourth alumnus president of his alma mater, dents of LSU, the University of Ar the University of Arizona, and MississT Southern , and Arkansas Polytechnic Col- lege, in addition to Mississippi State, at present are alumni of State, mother of college presidents. In all, 17 Maroon alumni have served as college presidents. The first president of this college, Gen- eral Stephen Dill Lee, having governed the campus for 14 years, was succeeded in 1899 by Ex-Governor John M. Stone, fter the letter ' s death in 1900, J. C. presided over the growth of the n during 12 eventful and some- y years. George H. Hightower owed : icirdy; then came W. H. Smith, te superintendent of educa- vid C. Hull of Meridian, an . B. M. Walker, an alumnus; [ an alumnus; Dr. George Duke , now president of the Univer- yoming; and Dr. Mitchell. I of these presidents made their con- tributions to the development of the col- lege, but the greatest expansion of the physical plant occurred under Lee, Hardy, Humphrey, and Mitchell. The buildings erected during Lee ' s and General View of Campus — 1898

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