Date: 1860

Title: Michigan Agricultural College returns to a four year curriculum

Description: T.C. Abbot and College President pro-tem Lewis Fisk polled students on their curriculum preference: the four-year scientific and liberal education program, or the State Board of Education proposal for a two-year plan, which stripped both science and humanities from course work. Students unanimously choose the four-year plan.

From The Spirit of Michigan State, by J. Bruce McCristal