{"id":785,"date":"2010-05-26T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2010-05-26T08:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T12:00:53","slug":"governor-signs-bill-to-create-a-new-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/05\/26\/governor-signs-bill-to-create-a-new-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor signs bill to create a new University"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_787\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/1988-0010_ph_36251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-787\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-787 \" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/1988-0010_ph_36251.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/11\/1988-0010_ph_36251.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/11\/1988-0010_ph_36251-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/11\/1988-0010_ph_36251-1024x843.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/11\/1988-0010_ph_36251-364x300.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governor Raymond Baldwin signs bill creating the University of Connecticut, May 26, 1939<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Marking the fifth and final name change of the small school in the eastern hills of Connecticut, Governor Baldwin formally signs the bill creating the University of Connecticut with state and school officials looking on.\u00a0 Previous names reflected the changing nature of the institution as it evolved to meet the needs of the citizens of Connecticut:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Storrs Agricultural School\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1881-1893<\/li>\n<li>Storrs Agricultural College\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1893-1899<\/li>\n<li>Connecticut Agricultural College\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1899-1933<\/li>\n<li>Connecticut State College\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01933-1939<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marking the fifth and final name change of the small school in the eastern hills of Connecticut, Governor Baldwin formally signs the bill creating the University of Connecticut with state and school officials looking on.\u00a0 Previous names reflected the changing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/05\/26\/governor-signs-bill-to-create-a-new-university\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}