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	Kansas and Kansans p.1019-1035 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		College instruction during the first ten years was for the most part not very different from that of the ordinary classical college of that period, but as early as 1866-67 agricultural and scientific and military curricula were organized.
		Agricultural facilities, equipment, and experimentation were advanced greatly, being under the administration of one of the ablest and most forceful men ever connected with the college, Prof.
		The college buildings are constructed of beautiful cream-white limestone, obtained from quarries in the vicinity, and, although of simple architecture for the most part, they constitute, with their setting of trees and shrubbery, one of the most effective groups of college buildings in America.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/1019.html (5696 words)

	Mallmann Recollections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		After the governor had vetoed a bill authorizing a $35,000 building at the University of Michigan for the Michigan Hygiene Laboratory, these three men went to the legislature with the result that the bill was passed over the veto and the building was completed in 1888.
		This was the first departure by the college from an applied institution, although the Master of Science Degree had been granted to students in bacteriology, botany and chemistry for a number of years.
		Although the college was founded in 1855 as a school for teaching agriculture, no agriculture was taught in the classroom until 26 years later.
	www.msu.edu /unit/mic/micdept/mallmann.htm (7759 words)

	MSU Ag Econ - History of the Department
		Shaw, Professor of Agriculture at M.A.C. since 1902 was appointed Dean of Agriculture to succeed C. Smith, who had resigned to become president of a college in South America.
		Teaching in agricultural economics was initiated by Wilbur O. Hedrick, of the Department of History and Economics, for degree students at M.A.C. with a two-credit course, "Agricultural Economics." M.A.C.'s 56th year.
		Merger of the Agricultural Economics Section of the Economics Department, Division of Science and Arts with 20 staff members, and the Farm Management Department with 11 staff members into the Department of Agricultural Economics and located in the College of Agriculture.
	www.aec.msu.edu /AGECON/history/historical_highlights.htm (1465 words)

	College Symposium - Philosophy, Chemistry, Horticultural, Botanical, Mathematics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With the removal, in 1875, of the College from the old quarters on the "hill" to the present location, and with the increase in the number of students, the need of a chemical building led to the erection of the present Chemical Laboratory in 1876.
		With the establishment of the Experiment Station in connection with the College, in 1888, the Chemical Department of the College became also the Chemical Department of the Station, and J. Willard was chosen assistant chemist of the Station.
		In the early days of the College this department included, at various times and in various combinations, the branches of botany, zoölogy and entomology, but at present it merely includes the latter, which is, from its nature, intimately, almost inseparably, connected with horticultural work.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/statewide/schools/ksu/1891/51.html (1458 words)

	AN HISTORICAL TOUR OF CAMPUS Olin Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There are addresses before County Agricultural Societies, the State Board of Education, the House of Representatives of the Michigan Legislature, etc., in addition to others which are quite lengthy and exhaustive on the subject of agriculture and chemistry involved in the knowledge of successful development of the farm in all its aspects.
		Colleges must have perennial growth; when they have passed beyond growth they are struck with death and a speedy burial is desirable.
		At a Commencement dinner at the University of Michigan, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the medical college, he was one of the principal speakers.
	www.albion.edu /library/specialcollections/PresFiske.asp (10694 words)

	The East Lansing Area (MSU) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The institution's name was changed from Agricultural College of the State of Michigan to State Agricultural College in 1861; to Michigan Agricultural College in 1909; and, by a 1925 act of the Legislature, to Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science.
		In 1855 the Michigan Legislature passed Act 130 which provided for the establishment of the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan and appropriated ‘‘twenty-two sections of Salt Spring Lands for its support and maintenance.
		Michigan State University was the first agricultural college in the nation, and the prototype for 72 land-grant institutions later established under the Morrill Act of 1862.
	www.msu.edu /~hausmeli/MyMSU/msuhistory.htm (227 words)

	MAC - Michigan Agricultural College
		Michigan Agricultural College was established by the Michigan legislature in 1855).
		MAC was almost always spelled with periods after each letter, which not only reflected early 20th Century spelling practices, but also let readers know that the title was not to be used as an acronym...
		Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science was created as a compromise, but MSC rarely used the "Agriculture and Applied Science" part of its name.
	www.cqql.net /mac.htm (3355 words)

	East Lansing, Michigan 48823 - InfoMI.com
		Michigan Ave., (M-43), the city’s main road bordering MSU campus on the north, is known for its many unique shops and restaurants which serve the student population.
		In 1855, Michigan Agricultural College, (the world’s first agricultural college) was founded through the Land Grant Act by the national legislature.
		The college was eventually renamed Michigan State College in 1925, and later Michigan State University in 1955, at the 100th anniversary of the Land Grant Act.
	www.infomi.com /city/eastlansing (184 words)

	Bailey, Liberty Hyde on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State Univ.), 1882.
		At Cornell Univ. he was professor of horticulture (1888-1903) and dean of the agricultural college and director of the agricultural experiment station (1903-13).
		1935) and Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (4 vol., 1907-9), and compiled (with E. Bailey) Hortus (1930, rev. ed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/Bailey-L1.asp (272 words)

	2005 Policy Book 043
		Michigan Agricultural College was the first college in the world to offer agriculture courses for credit.
		We support the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the College of Veterinary Medicine at MSU and their strong commitment to education, research, extension and international programs.
		Enrollment in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources has declined 17% in the past 10 years, while concurrently we hear reports of many bright and motivated young people from farm families across Michigan who are refused admission, sometimes even as they are being sought by land grant universities in other states.
	www.michiganfarmbureau.com /policy/index.php?function=fetch&year=2005&number=043 (884 words)

	Charles Ketchum Carpenter
		In 1858 he was elected to the lower branch of the legislature, and during the civil war he was an active Union man, had charge of the funds raised in his district, and contributed to the expenses of the war.
		In 1874 he was nominated as governor by the prohibition party in Michigan, and in 1876 was again nominated for the same office on the first greenback ticket.
		He was graduated at the Michigan agricultural College as born S. in 1873, and at the University of Michigan as C. in 1875.
	www.famousamericans.net /charlesketchumcarpenter (592 words)

	History of Horticulture - Hedrick, Ulysses Prentiss 1870-1951
		degree from Hobart College, Geneva, New York in 1913 and the L.L.P. from Utah Agricultural College in 1938.
		Professor Hedrick was Assistant Horticulturist at Michigan Agricultural College from 1893 to 1895.
		He was professor of botany and horticulture at Oregon Agricultural College from 1895 to 1897.
	www.hcs.ohio-state.edu /history/history/131.html (277 words)

	Michigan College Plans Wireless Telephones for Farms (1920) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		According to government records, in late 1920 the Michigan Agricultural College in East Lansing, Michigan was issued a Technical and Training School licence for station 8YG.
		Wireless telephony as a practical adjunct of farm life is to be brought before Michigan farmers this fall by the electrical engineering department of Michigan Agricultural College, Prof.
		Research work at the college this year has been aimed at determination of the minimum practical installation of apparatus which would enable a farm home to pick up the wireless communications from the college.
	earlyradiohistory.us /1920mich.htm (212 words)

	Descendants of Charles Edwin Bessey
		Charles migrated to Michigan in the fall of 1865 and worked as a surveyor and timber cruiser in Midland, Grotiot, and Montcalm counties.
		Charles received an honorary Master of Science degree from Michigan Agricultural College in 1872 and studied under Dr. Asa Gray at Harvard during the winter vacations of 1872, 1873, and 1875.
		Notes for Ernst Athearn Bessey: "Ernst Athearn Bessey, Ph.D., is the son of Charles E. Bessey '69, Michigan Agricultural College, of Mil, Ohio, and Lucy (Athearn) Bessey, West Tisbury, Massachusetts.
	history.vineyard.net /bessey.htm (1690 words)

	Portrait and Biographical Album Ingham & Livingston Counties MI - Bios Pages 191-210
		The next year he returned to the college and was graduated with the Class of '62, which was the second class that was graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College.
		Clute bears the distinction of delivering the first oration that was ever given by a graduate from an agricultural college in America at a college Commencement, the first class not having commencement exercises as the majority of the graduates entered the army, when the first call was made for troops.
		When a student at Michigan Agricultural College he was editor of the Western Rural, a journal published in Detroit, and while in Vineland, N.J. he found time to conduct the agricultural department in a weekly paper there and was a worker in the Vineland District Fair Association.
	www.memoriallibrary.com /MI/LivIngPB/bios191-210.htm (10852 words)

	Hort 306 - Lecture 30
		Bailey was born in 1858 in South Haven, Michigan and was the youngest child of a hardworking family on a fruit farm.
		In 1903, Bailey temporarily left research behind as he became dean of the College of Agriculture, which was established as a separate state-supported college within the university in 1904.
		By 1913, the road was well paved for American colleges of agriculture to fulfill what Bailey felt should be their 3 proper functions: teaching, the discovery of truth through research, and extending their work to all the population.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/history/lecture30/lec30.html (3264 words)

	AllRefer.com - Michigan State University, United States (Colleges, U.S.) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Michigan State University, Colleges, U.S. Related Category: Colleges, U.S. Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855.
		From 1925 to 1959 it was known as Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, and in 1964 its present name was adopted.
		The state agricultural experiment station and an agricultural technology institute are there.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MichStU.html (188 words)

	An Historical Perspective On Significant Accomplishments in Dry Bean Research --The First Hundred Years--
		Muncie of Michigan Agricultural College suggested in 1917 the growing of beans for seed in the semi-arid Wester n states in order to control seed-home diseases.
		Michigan Agricultural College, the first of the Land Grant colleges, was also the first institution in the U. to employ a full-time plant breeder.
		In the middle 1960's, Dean Cowden of the College of Agriculture at Michigan State University set before the faculty the task of forecasting the shape and status of agriculture in Michigan as it might appear in 1980.
	www.nal.usda.gov /pgdic/Beans/hytime/histor1.art (3517 words)

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		It was natural that at the age of 19, Bailey entered the Michigan State (Agricultural) College, where his genius for plant study was soon recognized by William James Beal, a former student of Asa Gray and a pioneer in the laboratory method of teaching botany.
		This College of Agriculture was not established to serve or to magnify Cornell University.
		Another significant contribution was Bailey’s determination to carry the college of agriculture to the farm and not to restrict its facilities to the student in residence.
	www.bsp.msu.edu /Background/BaileyBio.cfm (5909 words)

	Hillsdale Collegian- Michigan's Oldest College Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As the Hillsdale College athletic department navigates program cuts, financial adjustment, and changes looming on the horizon, there is no better time to reflect on the rich heritage that has shaped Hillsdale's modern athletic department.
		Although the College was founded in 1844, it took several decades for the school to formally recognize the need for any kind of physical education classes or athletics.
		It was the first college gymnasium in the state of Michigan, and it was filled with $196.33 worth of equipment, according to Moore.
	www.hillsdale.edu /collegian/128_13/sports/sportshistory.htm (487 words)

	Michigan Historical Marker: Alice B. Cowles House
		The Alice B. Cowles House, built in 1857, is the oldest building on the Michigan State University campus.
		Built as a "Farm Cottage" on Faculty Row from bricks made of clay from the banks of the Red Cedar River, it was originally the official residence of the president of Michigan Agricultural College.
		Cowles House was centrally located on the campus of the nation's oldest land-grant institution, Michigan Agricultural College.
	www.michmarkers.com /Pages/S0572.htm (257 words)

	Michigan Agricultural College - Introduction
		The State of Michigan anticipated the Morrill Act by several years, and the institution that became Michigan State University served as a model for the Morrill Act and all land grant colleges that followed.
		The 676.57 acres originally purchased under the authority of this act straddled the border between Lansing and Meridian Townships — and straddled the Red Cedar River — and fronted on the Lansing-Howell plank road.
		Three campus buildings — College Hall, a dormitory, and a brick horse barn — were begun in an oak opening in 1856, and classes commenced on 13 May, 1857.
	kevinforsyth.net /ELMI/campus.htm (361 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For fourteen years he was the secretary of the Massachusetts Highway Association, and is now an honorary member of that organization; he has recently been chosen as a director of the American Road Builders' Association.
		Entered Michigan Agricultural College in 1858, from which he received the degree of B.S. in 1862, M.S. in 1865, and D.Sc.
		Author: Beekeeper's Guide, Injurious Insects of Michigan, The Silo and Silage, Maple Sugar and the Sugar Bush, Birds of Michigan; sponsor for Pomona College Journals of Entomology and Botany, and of Laguna Laboratory Report; appointed State Commissioner of Horticulture of California in 1911.
	www.cagenweb.com /archives/Biographies/state/offic-20.htm (555 words)

	This date in Michigan History
		Joseph R. Williams is appointed the first president of the newly created Agricultural College.
		On February 12,1855, at the urging of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, the Michigan Agricultural College was created.
		Williams, a merchant and miller from Constantine, had been active in the state promoting scientific agriculture and a leader in the agricultural college movement.
	www.michiganhistorymagazine.com /date/january03/01_14_1857.html (115 words)

	Memorable Moments in 100 Years of MIAA Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The game had been played on Friday; Wisconsin was playing at Michigan the next day, and Albion and MAC agreed to have the issue settled then.
		A three-man panel consisting of coach Fielding Yost and trainer Keene Fitzpatrick of Michigan and coach Arthur Curtis of Wisconsin ruled that the MAC extra point was legal, and the tie game and tie for the title remained.
		Maulbetsch later transferred to Michigan, became an All-time All-American and is in the College Hall of Fame.
	www.miaa.org /100 (4377 words)

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