1859
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| East Alabama Male College, located in Auburn, opens its doors on October 1, 1859 with enrollment of 193 and a faculty of six. |
1871
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Forced to close in 1862 because of the Civil War, the college transfers its property for the establishment of a Land-Grant college, Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College. |
1883
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Old Main, the predecessor to Samford Hall, as it appeared to Alabama A&M students in 1883. |
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1893
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Charles A. Cary
brought physiology and veterinary medicine to the agricultural curriculum. |
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1910
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Comer Hall was
named for Governor
B.B. Comer after it
was completed in
1910. It was described as a "handsome and commodious buidling." |
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1912
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Frances Camp Duggar
was identified in the
1912 Glomerata as
Auburn's "first
agricultural coed." |
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1916
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Chemistry and
Pharmacy were
part of the College
of Agricultural
Sciences. Many
agriculture courses were taught in the newly formed Department of Agronomy. |
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1918
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A 1918
entomology
class posed
aboard an open
truck before
leaving Ag Hill
for a field trip to Opelika. |
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1921
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Bennett B. Ross,
the first Dean
of Agricultural Sciences,
served from
1908 to 1921 |
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1933
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H.S. Swingle and
E.V. Smith were
project leaders for
the first farm pond
study conducted in the 1930s. |
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1937
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Lack of funds made
teaching difficult
during the depression years. These students borrowed microscopes from Comer Hall to
take to their classes. |
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1946
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Ninety-three war-
surplus tugboat
deckhouses, set up
with a central bath
house, provided
living space for 186 male students following World War II. |
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1950
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Under the leader-
ship of W.D. Salmon,
left, the Department
of Animal Husbandry
was rated next to
the University of Wisconsin in biochemistry. |
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1954
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Auburn's
Soil
Testing
Laboratory
went into
operation in a basement room of Extension Hall. |
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1972
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R. Dennis Rouse, who
served as Dean from 1972
to 1980, established the
Ag Alumni Association,
added many agricultural
facilities and programs,
and helped to write the
1977 U.S. Farm Bill. |
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1983
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A marker on the
huge rock known
as "Buck's
Boulder"
recognized the
centennial year of the establishment of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. |
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1984
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Fisheries Department Head Wayne Shell, left, and AU President James Martin were at the United Nations press conference to announce the establishment of an international fisheries information
network at Auburn. |
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1988
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The "Old
Rotation"
experiment,
established
on the
Agronomy Farm by J.F. Duggar in 1896, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. |
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1990
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Auburn-developed
McLean Deluxe
hamburger gets
a taste test at the
Auburn McDonald's. |
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