University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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YWWY . -.. . I , , ' 53223 l 'J flfiil Q I 14, Y gill, 11, it pg, 5, e The College steadily grew from the insides out, with the construction of Stockbridge Hall in 1914 being one of its most ambitious undertakings. During world war I, 1304 students and faculty served couragously. It was to the fifty- one who gave their lives that Memorial Hall was constructed in 1921 with an obviously well attended dedication ceremo- ny. During the thirties, despite the depression, the College continued to grow with added dormitories and improvement ofthe quaint but outdated classroom facilities.

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.-.A 1,55 'ff 1. I N fb tv L 14,3 an .nf ,-1. ' ., First graduating class of M.A.C. H8711 above. The Old Chem Lab burns to the gound on what is now Machmer Hall in 1914. AF? f11'i31'f a- fzw- Q -25-1 uufveladf- fn a.1s.r..av..:...:- v ,.-.wl The passing years brought advancement and growthg the Chapel in the mid '80s, women in the '90s, and the Campus Pond around the turn of the century. But the most burning issue of our history began in 1881 about the time of the in- troduction of new and liberalized course matter. The stu- dents felt that the name Mass Agricultural College was to blame for its small enrollment and financial problems, so they demanded it be changed to Mass State College. This outcry continued with varying intensity for literally dec- ades. As a matter of fact, the Class of '01 was forced to spend some of its lean treasury for the removal of the letters M.S.C. from some unidentified conspicuous space. By the time the change was adopted in 1931, there was al- ready a movement to change the name to The University of Massachusetts, but that didn't happen until 1947. ' C - ,fl 1-,,f,' 4-.r ' ' V. . ,v.,. . 5 I9 1 fi Efl't1'r':sf W 1-R' - H , ,v,. '

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5 i'7'-'f'W'Wi ll '39 ,QQFM N . 4' rt gy .7 3 'Qsgji X 4 1 ' i ' N55 N t Jmlkbs X T, .J ri' -6 1 ink LQX .ls- ll An aerial view taken around the '30s shows that the campus had no lack of open space that seems all to confined to the Pond area these days. After the second world war an addi- tion to Mem Hall was planned and Ike himself came to see the sketches but, mysteriously, it was never built. Then the campus began to take on its more modern shape with the construction of the Student Union in '57, our city within a city called Southwest in '66 and the Campus Center in '69 which has centered controversy over its worth to the stu- dents who pay for it. The construction of the world's tallest library is well within the memory of upperclassmen, pic- tured in 1970. ,r ggi,-A, -W'-' ' HUT'- 9 , W' BSE. Y 'J . an wx- if ,mg I 'A LF' Y