#3 McBryde Hall & Mechanical Arts
The precursor to the incredible engineering school now in place at Virginia Tech all started with mechanical arts. Old McBryde Hall was the location of much of the modern facilities used to start the engineering program. At the time Virginia Tech was called the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC). (The 1st McBryde Hall was completed in 1917. The college’s name at the time was Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, known popularly as Virginia Polytechnic Institute, or VPI. By then, engineering (mechanical arts) had been taught at the college for 45 years. In function, McBryde replaced the Preston and Olin Building, which had burned.
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Land Grant @ 150
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act and created the land-grant university system. With the sweep of his pen, Lincoln made education more accessible, shaping the future of a young United States.
Virginia Tech celebrates this land-grant heritage 150 years later.
Calendar of Events
2012 Exhibits
The Morrill Act and Virginia Tech
Reception and opening
July 11, 4:30 pm
Newman Library, 2nd floor
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
September 5-October 19
Newman Library, 1st floor
2012 Lincoln Lectures
A Man Called Lincoln
James I. Robertson
September 6
The Age of Lincoln, Then and Now
Vernon Burton
September 11
Saving the Last Best Hope on Earth: Lincoln and the Constitution
Charles Hubbard
September 27
An Inestimable Jewel: Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Era Constitutional Amendments
Thomas E. Mackey
October 8