College Monthly

The short-lived, 4 page College Monthly was the first newspaper published by students at Massachusetts Agricultural College. The whole has been scanned and is available through the Internet Archive.


Complete run (through the Internet Archive): College Monthly, 1887-1888

Vol. 1, no 1 (March 1887)

  • Not available

Vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1887)

  • Capital advice
  • A voyage to the Bahamas (H.T.F.)
  • Editorial
  • Local items
  • A midnight tragedy
  • New York letter (Uncle Ben)

Vol. 1, no. 3 (May 1887)

  • College sports
  • Crabs
  • Editorial
  • The class of eighty-seven
  • Commemorative exercises
  • Local items
  • Siftings
  • Commencement exercises

Vol. 1, no. 3 (Commencement supplement)

  • New York letter
  • Siftings

Vol. 2, no. 1 (September 1887)

  • Letter from Germany (H. J. Wheeler)
  • Local items;

Vol. 2, no. 2 (October 1887)

  • Man and his shoes (poem)
  • Agriculture of Japan (Y. Mishima)
  • Local items
  • Poem (A Hampshire Country Poet)
  • College Organizations

Vol. 2, no. 3 (November 1887)

  • A Minute with Abraham Lincoln (C. G. Morehouse)
  • The Grange
  • Local News
  • College Sports
  • A Sleeper
  • The National Grange

Vol. 2, no. 4 (January 1888)

  • The Junior and his sweetheart
  • M.A.C.
  • Local news
  • The spelling class (poem)
  • Excuses
  • The Grange

Vol. 2, no. 5 (February 1888)

  • Agricultural education
  • Local news
  • A chronic liar and a chronic truth-teller (Uncle Ben)
  • The Grange

Vol. 2, no. 6 (March 1888)

  • Who shall spend the fifteen thousand dollars? (C. S. Walker)
  • College news
  • Noon at the college boarding house (poem, with illustration)
  • Bay State Agricultural Society prizes for essays
  • The Grange

Vol. 2, no. 7 (April 1888)

  • Stock at the M.A.C. barn
  • The Grange
  • Amherst College
  • M.A.C. news
  • The office cat (poem)
  • Stop thief!!!

Vol. 2, no. 8 (May 1888)

  • The Amherst Grange store (E.F.M.)
  • The Grange
  • M.A.C. news
  • Amherst College
  • To whom it may concern (poem)
  • The cow

Vol. 2, no. 9 (June 1888)

  • Objects of interest at the Mass. Agricultural College
  • The Grange
  • Amherst College
  • M.A.C. news
  • The class of eighty-eight
  • The senior class (poem)
  • Commencement exercises at M.A.C.
  • Commencement exercises at Amherst College
  • Siftings
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