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History Highlights

Massachusetts Agricultural College MAC opened in the autumn of 1867 with four faculty, 56 students, and a handful of buildings.
Football Team
Early South College Dorm Room
Annual Rope Pull at Campus Pond
Women Enrollment
Stone Chapel in the distance
Stockbridge House, built in 1728.
Cranberry Experiment Station
Mullins Center opens in 1993
Institute for Holocaust, Genocide and Memory Studies opens in 2011
Polymer Science faculty members
Minuteman Marching Band
Southwest, 1966
Stop War Dollars - Vietnam
Transit system in 1970s
University Without Walls Commencement
Goodell Library, 1962
Studio Arts Building
AIDS Quilt Project
Candidates for queen of Military Ball, 1961
Permaculture Garden
Integrated Sciences Building opened in 2009

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