You are wrong about name . A&M College at Auburn later became Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) before before officially becoming Auburn University in 1960. Congratulate Auburn for leading the way for ladies to attend college in Alabama.
I am proud that my mother was a freshman in 1924 and continued our family Auburn tradition. My grandmother preceded her as a student and later taught in Auburn city school.
Auburn University was first “East Alabama Male College”, a Methodist Institution. It then became the “Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama” at Auburn > Then later “Alabama Polytechnic Institute” and finally “Auburn University”. There is a corner stone showing the name A and M. on Samford Hall.
1892 was a good year for Auburn – admitted women and football! For those disagreeing about the name, it didn’t become API until 1899, so when women were admitted it was still Agriculture and Mechanical College of Alabama.
The University of Alabama admitted its first women students in the fall of 1893. Julia Tutwiler, the founder and president of Livingston, then a small teachers college for women, had been lobbying the board of trustees for years on the issue. In 1892 the board was presented with a petition by Tutwiler and at last agreed to allow women as “special students.” In 1895 the university awarded its first degree to a woman. It seems both Auburn and Alabama were on a similar trajectory toward coeducation — slow, grudging, and complicated by ridiculous ideas. A pattern that would be repeated with racial integration.
When the school was transferred from the Methodist to the State as a land grant college it was named the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama and remained that until 1899 when it became API.
My grandmother went to, what was then, Alabama Polytechnic in 1918, when she was 16. She did not finish because they recruited her to be a teacher and sent her to a one room school house near Goodwater.
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The year was eighteen ninety two
Yes.
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn. I never heard it called Alabama A&M.
Alabama A&M is in Huntsville.
I haven’t either, but this was the way it was written in the news article. It was probably a mistake by the news paper.
Ian Velasquez your school has always been first!!! War Eagle my friend
You are wrong about name . A&M College at Auburn later became Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) before before officially becoming Auburn University in 1960.
Congratulate Auburn for leading the way for ladies to attend college in Alabama.
Not all-inclusive, but not wrong.
Charles
Charles Turnipseed, “wrong ” was incorrect description. I stand corrected.
Hang in there Cayce.
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
I am proud that my mother was a freshman in 1924 and continued our family Auburn tradition. My grandmother preceded her as a student and later taught in Auburn city school.
Auburn University was first “East Alabama Male College”, a Methodist Institution. It then became the “Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama” at Auburn > Then later “Alabama Polytechnic Institute” and finally “Auburn University”. There is a corner stone showing the name A and M. on Samford Hall.
1892 I think was the year!!
Wa
WAR EAGLE for all the women who benefited from Auburn’s forward thinking.
1892 was a good year for Auburn – admitted women and football! For those disagreeing about the name, it didn’t become API until 1899, so when women were admitted it was still Agriculture and Mechanical College of Alabama.
Veterinary programs were also started in 1892!
Patricia Edwards
Thank you.
Enjoy yr day 🙂 yr welcome
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Interestingly the name Agricultural and Mechanical College appears in a earlier Pioneer article about Auburn University nearly being at Greensboro.
The University of Alabama admitted its first women students in the fall of 1893. Julia Tutwiler, the founder and president of Livingston, then a small teachers college for women, had been lobbying the board of trustees for years on the issue. In 1892 the board was presented with a petition by Tutwiler and at last agreed to allow women as “special students.” In 1895 the university awarded its first degree to a woman. It seems both Auburn and Alabama were on a similar trajectory toward coeducation — slow, grudging, and complicated by ridiculous ideas. A pattern that would be repeated with racial integration.
When the school was transferred from the Methodist to the State as a land grant college it was named the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama and remained that until 1899 when it became API.
What Flag is that I see?
U. D. C. Meeting
My grandmother went to, what was then, Alabama Polytechnic in 1918, when she was 16. She did not finish because they recruited her to be a teacher and sent her to a one room school house near Goodwater.