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History and Traditions. On October 1, 1872, Addison “Add” Caldwell walked 26 miles from Craig County to enroll as the first student at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. Ever since then, Virginia Tech has been fulfilling its role as a leading land-grant university. The tiny college, originally housed in the old Olin and Preston ...
The Tutelo and Monacan peoples were the traditional custodians of the area that today makes up much of Virginia and West Virginia. During the eighteenth century, the Preston family and others owned the land that would become Virginia Tech, including the Smithfield estate, the Solitude estate, and the buildings of the Preston and Olin Institute.
Timeline of the History of Virginia Tech. Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Proudly powered by ...
With that new name in hand and aided by his son, John Jr., McBryde proceeded to develop a coat of arms, motto, and seal. The motto Ut Prosim (translated from Latin to mean "That I May Serve") was also adopted in 1896. According to Duncan Lyle Kinnear in The First 100 Years history of Virginia Tech, "Unhappily, records concerning the ...
Traditions. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University officially opened on Oct. 1, 1872, as Virginia’s white land-grant institution. From that date until 1964, a key feature of the school was military training for just about all undergraduate males. The Corps of Cadets was a deciding influence on many of the traditions still ...
This site is but a small attempt to collect “a partial history of VPI.”. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University officially opened on Oct. 1, 1872, as Virginia’s white land-grant institution (Hampton Institute became the commonwealth’s first black land-grant school). During its existence, the university has operated under ...
A Short History of Virginia Tech, 1850-1974 by Dr. Duncan Lyle Kinnear Dr. Duncan Lyle Kinnear, author of The First 100 Years: A History of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University .
