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The revival of Indian tradition on the campus reached its chmax in 1947 when the State Legislature changed the name of Massachusetts State College to University of Massachusetts. Immediately there was a spirited drive by undergraduates headed by George Burgess, ex- ' 49, to replace the cognomen Statesmen with something more appropriate. While animal husbandry majors, DAR enthusiasts and Cape-Codders were rooting for Bulls, Minutemen and Pilgrims, Burgess literally put the Indian sign on the campus by placing the issue of university cognomenclature before the student body until Redmen became the acceptable and accepted by-word of Massachusetts men. Previously the Hatchet Oration at commencement was one of the last vestiges of Indian lore upon the campus. There were, of course, the faculty Mettawampe Outing Club and some literary references by Professor Rand. To most Massachusetts graduates, however, there was only the Hatchet Oration, and that was so meaningless to them that the wearers of cap and gown were likely to ask, Who let the Indian in? There was, however, an actual Indian, Mettawampe, not to be confused with a Quaboag chieftain of the same name. In 1674 he and other Indians, living in the neighborhood of Mt. Toby, which they called Knuckquachu, sold to the whites a tract of land lying immediately to the north of the moun- tain. He was also known as Nattawwassawet, and he had a son named Nosa- tuck. This is all that we certainly know about him, l)ut his spirit still lingers about the mountain trails. When the University officially opened its Mt. Toby campus some twenty-five years ago, it was President Van Meter who impersonated Mettawamjje in a dedicatory pageant presented at the summit.
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