Opening of College
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Signing the Matriculation Book with President James Stacy Coles,1966
The tradition of signing the matriculation book began in 1841 with the class of 1844 but was abandoned in 1852. It resumed in 1872 and continued until 1902. Again abandoned, the custom was revived by President Sills in 1937. It has continued, unbroken, through the present.