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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P I C T U H E . war veterans, who pushed campus enroll- ment past the 3,500 mark. The faculty has been enlarged and strengthened; the research has been broadened and deepened, in business and engineering as well as in agriculture; and the services of the Experiment Station Extension Service expanded to reac, section of the state. It has been that the services of the college 82 per cent of the families in the When the Progressive Far Dr. Mitchell as its Mississippi year in service to Mid-South it referred to the accomplishm his leadership as almost unbel The Business Research Station, the gineering and Industrial Research Station, the ROTC, the State Plant Board, the State Chemical Regulatory Laboratory, the Pe- troleum Laboratory, the Seed Improve- ment Laboratory, the Seed Testing Lab- oratory, the Regional Seed Research Lab- oratory, Cooperative Creamery Associa- tion, Mississippi-Artificial Breeders Coop- erative, Veterans Farm Training Teaching Aids Library, Adult Education classes and correspondence courses — all of these rep- resent agencies and services associated with the college. An inventory of its 1952 achievements, made in January of this year, indicates the march of the college toward high- is making real progress. ening of the 1952-53 session, as slightly more than 12 per enthan for the previous year, reslpmanjj enrollment was 44 per cent the previous year, and Mis- College had the largest num- ent students in attendance of ution of higher learning in the High standards was given as the most important reason students choose Mississippi State College in a survey of student opinion. The serious attitude of students resulted in the greatest number on the honor roll in the history of the college. The Legislature made the largest ap- propriation to higher education in the