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Buildings being constructed in the future home of the Quad. Writing at the top of the photo reads: The beginnings of T.P.I. [Tennessee Polytechnic Institute] June-1916 in the middle of a wonderful daisy field.

Around 1916, a Tech committee chose our school colors and the letter writer from the corresponding document that accompanied this scrapbook page was on that committee. The committee dismissed black and gold because of Vanderbilt and chose green and…