Hampshire in the 1970s – Registration Day

The proposal for Hampshire presented in the New College Plan of 1958 was that it would make anew the liberal arts institution. The document’s authors note that “our students are capable of far more independence than they exercise in present college programs.” ¹The Making of a College explains the Fall Colloquy: a two-week intensive institute for incoming students to gain exposure to the scholarship of faculty members as well as “to give students an accurate sense that the College sees them as people” and “that education is not abstracted from life, but when right, is absolutely engaged with knowing and understanding life and the universe in which it occurs.” ²

While most of the science professors were out at a faculty meeting during Fall Colloquy in September 1971, Mayes photographed their offices on the east side of the newly-opened science center. The photos provoke a sense of excitement and uncertainty at the very beginning stages of the college’s development.

^{1. C. L. Barber, Donald Sheehan, Stuart M. Stoke, and Shannon McCune. “The New College Plan: A Proposal for a Major Departure in Higher Education,” 1958.}^{2. Franklin Patterson, and Charles R. Longworth. The Making of a College: A New Departure in Higher Education. MIT Press, 1966.}

Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.
Black and white photograph of a Cole Science Center office while faculty members moved in.

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