New Bedford Institute of Technology - Fabricator Yearbook (New Bedford, MA)

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THE STAFF EDITOR J. HAROLD RIGBY ART EDITOR WENDELL C. BLAKE BUSINESS MANAGER CHARLES F. ORR, Jr. ATHLETICS EDWIN RAMOS CLASS OF 1926 STEWART BURT ASSISTANT EDITOR WILLIAM BEAUMONT CLASS HISTORIAN STANLEY ARMITAGE ALUMNI NOTES ALBERT GRIMSHAW ADVERTISING MANAGER JOSEPH B. NOVICK ASS ' T ADVERTISING MANAGER S. K. LEE CLASS OF 1927 WILFRID RICHARDSON [Seven]

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THE HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL X the year of 1895, the Massachusetts Legisl maintain Textile schools, the expense of wh On August 1. 1895, a group of intereste School in New Bedford would he feasible, in 18° l) and the first class was graduated in For nineteen years the school was a semi- made each year by the State and City. On J amending the State Constitution. The hrst building built in 1898-99 is the building machines. In 1911 the building containing the recit Legislature in 1922 appropriated $50,000 for an additi the spinning and new weaving department. The feat view, is the spacious gymnasium provided, where athl atnre passed a bill allowing cities to establish and ich was to be shared by the state and city, d mill men got together and proved that a Textile and worth-while. The school went into operation 1900. private institution, but supported by appropriations uly 1, 1918, it became a State institution by an act now containing the Picking, Carding and Roving ation rooms and Chemistry Laboratory was built. The on to the machinery building. This addition contains Lire of the new addition, from the students ' point of etic contests and social events are held. [Nine]