Scope and Content: The Massachusetts Agricultural College was established in Amherst through a board of trustees mandated by St 1863, c 220, to promote branches of learning relating to agriculture and the mechanic arts, for the benefit of the industrial classes so-called.  The college admitted its first students in 1867.  Reflecting its increasingly inclusive liberal arts curriculum over the next seven decades, the institution was reorganized and renamed the Massachusetts State College in 1931 (eventually becoming the University of Massachusetts in 1947).
Notes: Transferred to Archives, Feb. 1996, from State Library of Massachusetts, Special Collections
Related Catalog Records:

Archivegrid
OCLC