The Agricultural College of Michigan opens in Lansing, Michigan with a faculty of six led by Joseph Ricketson Williams and a student body of sixty-three. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Joseph Nathan Kane, ed., Famous First Facts (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1981), 6-7.
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This institution will eventually become Michigan State University.