http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/ 2026-04-13T04:14:37+00:00 http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/ http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2024-07-12T15:44:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:abigail_adams_house&rev=1720799062&do=diff Abigail Adams House Constructed: 1919-1920 Architects: ---------- Design and construction Although women were first admitted to Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1903, it was several years before a dormitory was erected to house them. By 1917, the thirty women who were enrolled at MAC were housed in two fraternity houses leased for them by the college, but with the enrollment numbers rising after the First World War, text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:academic_overview&rev=1630687673&do=diff Academic Overview Currently, the University of Massachusetts Amherst consists of six college and three major schools. The colleges include the College of Education, College of Engineering, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, College of Natural Sciences, College of Nursing, and College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. The Schools include the Isenberg School of Management, the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, and the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. Additionally, there are two de… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:advisory_council&rev=1630687673&do=diff Advisory Council of Women The Advisory Council of Women was established by President Kenyon Butterfield in 1921 to prepare Massachusetts Agricultural College for the reception of female students. It consisted of “representatives of various women's organizations and such other women as may be helpful in furthering the interests of women's work at the College and in the interpretation of the work throughout the State. text/html 2024-06-05T17:47:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:african_american_students&rev=1717609671&do=diff African Americans at UMass Until the turn of the twentieth century, students at Massachusetts Agricultural College were nearly all male and nearly all came from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Racial and ethnic diversity in the small student body was minimal, but neither were there any formal policies barring the admission of women or people of color. What diversity there was came in the form of a steady stream of text/html 2025-02-03T19:25:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:agricultural_engineering_north&rev=1738610736&do=diff Agricultural Engineering North Constructed: 1915 Architects: Unknown ---------- Design and construction The Agricultural Engineering Building North is a large one-story utilitarian building with a concrete foundation, brick walls with projecting brick piers and a flat roof. The building has no ornamentation except for the bracketed door hood over the main entry and the concrete blocks that are set into the projecting brick piers at a height that appears to be the level where the roof tr… text/html 2025-02-03T19:23:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:agricultural_experiment_station&rev=1738610592&do=diff Agricultural Experiment Station Constructed: 1923 Architects: ---------- Design and construction The Agricultural Experiment Station is a two-story, eleven-bay wide, wood frame structure with a hip roof and a rectangular footprint. The building has a one story, six-bay wide, two-bay deep, wood frame wing at its west end, which has a visible concrete block foundation. This wing, which appears to be less than 50 years old, has a side gable. The overall building is covered with vinyl sidin… text/html 2024-07-09T19:04:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:alexander_charles_paul&rev=1720551873&do=diff Alexander, Charles Paul Entomology, 1922-1959 b. 1889 d. 1981 ---------- [Image of Charles Paul Alexander] Charles Paul Alexander, a professor and head of the Entomology Department from 1922 until 1959, was the international expert on the crane fly (Tipulidae). Alexander was born in Groversville, New York in 1889, earned his B.S. (1913) and Ph.D. (1918) from Cornell University and joined the Massachusetts Agricultural College faculty in 1922. Alexander became the head of the Entomology Dep… text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:allen&rev=1630687673&do=diff Allen, Lilly Bertha Lilly Bertha Allen of Amherst, class of 1903, was noted affectionately in the yearbook’s Freshman Class History: “[the class] has the very distinguishing honor of being the only class in college that can boast of strength, strong and powerful, but not all masculine. It contains a noted woman. We have a lady in our class. On our roll her name stands first. text/html 2024-07-15T19:00:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:apiary&rev=1721070047&do=diff Apiary Constructed: 1911 Architects: Unknown Address: 149 Clark Hill Road ---------- Design and construction The Apiary Laboratory is a 1½-story brick and stucco vernacular building with a gambrel roof that has flared ends. The building is three bays wide and three bays deep, with a rectangular footprint, a brick foundation and an asphalt shingle roof. The building is set into a hillside, with its main entry on its (east) uphill side. The rear (west) downhill side has a fully expo… text/html 2024-07-15T19:04:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:arnold_house&rev=1721070241&do=diff Arnold House Constructed: 1954 Architects: Louis Warren Ross ---------- Design and construction Arnold House is an approximately 43,000 square foot student administrative building on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts. The building is one of ten structures that comprise the Northeast Residential Area. The complex was uniformly designed in neo-Georgian style between 1935 and 1959, and laid out in a bilaterally symmetrical site plan surrounding an open grassed area … text/html 2021-09-03T16:47:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://scua.library.umass.edu/youmass/doku.php?id=a:astronomy&rev=1630687673&do=diff Department of Astronomy The Department of Astronomy is an independent, active, and vibrant department that offers undergraduate and graduate instruction, unique among New England public institutions. Astronomy at the University began in the 1960s within the Department of Physics and Astronomy. After more than 30 years of steady growth and progress, Astronomy became an independent department in 2000. It collaborates with Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Hampshire Colleg…