Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Bugle Yearbook (Blacksburg, VA)

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irl i a N I r. fo E- 1' ' - . Mill L IT seems to be a very fitting thing that the BUGLE this year should be called The Book of Achievement. On looking back, not over such a limited time as our four years at school, but over the Whole time of existence of the school, we find a most outstanding progress from the small Preston and Olin Institute of the 1870's to the large plant of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute of the present day. We refrain from dwelling in too much de- rail on the growth of the schoolg it is a story of progress that is told to us from the time we enter to the time we leave, and never does the story seem less miraculous, nor the sacrifices men have made for the good of the school less wonderful with each telling. ' We turn from the history of the school to view the progress of the World over a similar period, and find industry taking longer strides with each passing decade. ,Industrial plants have grown from what today would be no more than small shops to the large factories we see everywhere. To be specific, there is elec-

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