Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Bugle Yearbook (Blacksburg, VA)

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. . . . Her past has been a glorious one, but the greatness of her future shall know no bounds. In the fields of science, industry, agriculture, commerce, or wherever the call to duty or service may be sounded, there you shall find her sons and daughters. Imbued with her principles of personal honor and integrity, her spirit of loyalty and comradeship, they shall move ever forward as leaders in the world of tomorrow. To her future greatness and to those who have made her great — her administration, her faculty, her alumni, and her students — we humbly dedi- cate this — THE BUGLE OF 1948

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The increase in applications for admission to col- leges and universities has again made it necessary, as on two previous occasions, fo r the Board of Visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute to con- sider a plan for the expansion of V. P I. In 1872 the Commonwealth of Virginia, under the Congressional Land Grant College Endowment, ac- quired Preston and Olin Institute and established in its place Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. The year V. A. M, C, later renamed