历史与传统
10月1日, 1872, Addison “Add” Caldwell walked 26 miles from Craig County to enroll as the first student at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College. Ever since then, 弗吉尼亚理工大学 has been fulfilling its role as a leading land-grant university. 小学院, originally housed in the old Olin and Preston Institute near what is now 校友 Mall, 已经发展成为世界一流的大学.
Discover 弗吉尼亚理工大学’s rich history and 传统 through our heritage as a leading university from 1872 to the present.
什么是“Hokie”??
在19世纪90年代，一个名叫O.M. Stull, Class of 1896, won a $5 prize for coming up with a new spirit cheer, now known as “Old Hokie.原文是这样的:
Hoki, Hoki, Hoki, hey.
技术人员，技术人员，V.P.I.
Sola-Rex, Sola-Rah.
弗吉尼亚理工学院.
Rae, Ri, V.P.I.
Later, an “e” was added to “Hoki” to make “Hokie,” and “团队! 团队! 团队!这句话附在结尾.
名字有什么关系?
Significant academic changes in 1896 ushered in a new name more befitting the university’s higher profile — Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 俗称弗吉尼亚理工学院, 或新品.
- 1944: The shortened Virginia Polytechnic Institute became the official name.
- 1970: 弗吉尼亚议会授予大学地位, and the formal name of the university became Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
- 今天: 弗吉尼亚理工大学 is the university’s official nickname, used in all but the most formal situations.
颜色和吉祥物
弗吉尼亚理工大学的颜色
在1896年, a committee was formed to find a suitable combination of colors to replace the original colors of black and gray, 是什么让运动服看起来像监狱服. The committee selected burnt orange and Chicago maroon because no other college was using that particular color combination.
Burnt orange and Chicago maroon was first worn during a football game against Roanoke College on October 26, 1896.
弗吉尼亚理工大学吉祥物:从Gobbler到HokieBird
Hokies were once called “Gobblers,” a nickname whose origin is widely disputed. One story claims it resulted from the way student athletes would “gobble” up their food.
弗洛伊德·米德这个名字已经很流行了, 当地居民, trained a large turkey to pull a cart at a football game in 1913. Throughout the years, trained turkeys would continue to gobble on command and perform stunts. In 1962, a student raised $200 for a costume; the result was an unusual turkey with a cardinal-like head, 被称为Gobbler和Fighting Gobbler.
当Gobbler这个绰号失宠的时候, student George Wills sketched new designs for a class project. The updated mascot appeared at a football game in September 1981. The current HokieBird, which conveys power and strength, debuted in September 1987.
你知道吗?? 学生 who dress as the HokieBird remain anonymous until commencement, when they reveal their secret by wearing HokieBird feet during the procession into Lane Stadium.
体育传统
战斗之歌
“Tech Triumph,” the university's most popular fight song, was composed in 1919 by Wilfred P. Maddux(1920届)和他的邻居Mattie Eppes. It was officially adopted by the student body in December 1919.
技术人，网上赌博网站十大排行是技术人，拥有真诚和忠诚的精神，
用永恒的希望支持网上赌博网站十大排行的团队;
技术人员，技术人员，网上赌博网站十大排行今天要赢，
展示“活力”和网上赌博网站十大排行正在努力的生活;
V.P.，老V.P.你知道，网上赌博网站十大排行的心与你同在
网上赌博网站十大排行的幸运似乎永不消逝;
无论输赢，网上赌博网站十大排行都会高兴地迎接你，
你是V的骄傲.P.I.
合唱:
看看网上赌博网站十大排行的人是多么强壮和活跃
支持橙色和栗色乐队. 走吧，技术人员.
网上赌博网站十大排行知道网上赌博网站十大排行的屁股和屁股更强壮，
有了胜利的希望，网上赌博网站十大排行就不再害怕失败.
看着网上赌博网站十大排行的队伍冲过防线，伙计们.
决心取胜或死亡的:
所以给我一个Hokie, Hokie, Hokie, Hy，
Rae, Ri，老V.P.I.
“母校”
“母校”诞生于1939年春天，当时欧内斯特. 斯帕克斯(1940届)作曲.G. 蔡斯(1941届)为一次学生比赛写歌词.
诗:
歌颂母校，亲爱的，
V的.P.I. 网上赌博网站十大排行永远欢呼;
来吧，提高你的声音，让歌声更加动听，
网上赌博网站十大排行对她的忠诚属于.
合唱:
所以站起来歌唱，向你致敬.
VT .向你致敬.
诗:
橙色和栗色，你看，
那是为胜利而战;
网上赌博网站十大排行的斗争不会持续太久，
因为光荣就在战斗中.
诗:
所有忠诚的儿女，一个，
网上赌博网站十大排行向太阳升起旗帜;
网上赌博网站十大排行的座右铭带来了一种真实的精神，
网上赌博网站十大排行将永远为您服务.
“进入睡魔”
由重金属乐队Metallica创作和录制, “进入睡魔” has been played in Lane Stadium since 2000 as the football team enters the field. The tradition of students jumping up and down during the song started on December 1, 2001, when a Marching Virginians band member started jumping during the song and was joined by his colleagues. The tradition eventually spread to the 篮球 teams’ entrances in Cassell Coliseum.
午餐桶
The famed 弗吉尼亚理工大学 lunch pail symbolizes the blue-collar approach of the Hokies’ football defense, developed by assistant head coach and defensive coordinator Bud Foster. Foster’s Lunch Pail Defense Foundation provides 奖学金 for high school students from the New River and Roanoke valleys, as well as assisting the families of those awaiting organ transplants.
In 1995, the original lunch pail was acquired by the mother-in-law of co-defensive coordinator Rod Sharpless. 这个桶曾经属于一个煤矿工人, 在创纪录的防守赛季之后, the lunch pail became an iconic element of the Hokie football lore. 那只破旧生锈的桶, which now contains the names of the 32 Hokies who died in the tragedy on April 16, 2007, 无论北基人去哪里, 它被托付给了一个防御性的领袖.
球跑
公司管理员, 陆军后备军官训练队, 从1977年开始每年都进行比赛球跑, although the tradition likely originated with the 弗吉尼亚理工大学-VMI football games years before that.
Members of 公司管理员 run the game ball for 100 miles around campus during the week of the annual 首页coming football game and then hold a ceremony the day of the game, 其中包括把球跑进体育场.
发射大炮:船长
At a football game against Virginia Military Institute (VMI), two cadets from the Class of 1964 made a pact that they would build a cannon to outshine — or outblast — VMI’s “Little John.” The cadets, 首页r Hadley “Sonny” Hickam (of “October Sky” fame) and Alton B. “布奇”小哈珀., collected brass from fellow cadets and added it to metal provided by Hickam’s father. 第一次发射时, 急切的学员们把冲锋增加了两倍, which blew the hats off half the VMI Keydets and shook the glass in the pressbox windows of Roanoke’s Victory Stadium.
“船长”是以约翰·F·肯尼迪总统的名字命名的. 肯尼迪，他曾是一名PT-boat船长. 今天, Skipper is fired at football games and for other notable occasions.
更多体育历史
The first known organized competition against an off-campus team occurred in 1877 when the VAMC 棒球 team, 其中可能包括市民, 与罗阿诺克学院比赛，并以53比13的创纪录比分获胜.
The first effort to formalize athletic activities came in fall 1891 when the VAMC Athletic Association was established. The following year, a football team and 网球 association were added. In one long-running and affectionately remembered football tradition, Tech played VMI in Roanoke on Thanksgiving Day for nearly 75 years.
Women finally joined the athletics fold in 1970 with a swimming team. 女子篮球比赛于1972年举行.
The Hokies have been a member of several conferences over the years. 他们于2004年加入了大西洋海岸会议. 美国大学体育协会(NCAA)在理工学院的I-A级男子校队运动是橄榄球, 篮球, 棒球, 足球, 室内外跑道, 游泳和潜水, 摔跤, 网球, 高尔夫球, 越野比赛. 女子大学运动项目是篮球, 网球, 排球, 游泳和潜水, 室内外跑道, 足球, 垒球, 长曲棍球, 高尔夫球, 越野比赛.
学生运动员表演中心有利于招募, 营养, 以及所有22个校队的表现. And in 2021-22 academic year, over 350 of the university's student-athletes earned GPAs above 3.0.
弗吉尼亚理工学院学员团
网上赌博网站十大排行最古老的传统
The 弗吉尼亚理工学院学员团 became official in the 1890s, drawing from the university’s origin in 1872 and its required military training for students. 随着大学的变化和创新，军团也在变化. Mandated four-year participation in the corps for all males changed to two years in 1923 — the same year women were first admitted — and then participation became voluntary in 1964.
今天, 弗吉尼亚理工大学 is one of three public universities in the country with both an active corps of cadets and a “civilian” lifestyle on its campus.
上四
以弗吉尼亚理工大学的早期历史为中心, the university’s 上四 has long been the 首页 of the 学生军团. 弄堂口, 建成于1888年, is a state and national historic landmark originally known as Barracks No. 1. In front of the hall is an orange and maroon sidewalk that forms the largest “VT” on campus.
在最近的更新, Pearson and New Cadet halls have replaced older cadet residence halls, and a new plaza between the halls displays the Corps’ monuments, 表彰那些在过去和现在服役的人.
游行纪念考德威尔
军校学员军团 pay homage to the university’s beginnings and celebrate the progress of first-year cadets by retracing the walk Add Caldwell took from Craig County. Cadets cover the first 13 miles in the fall and the second 13 miles in the spring to mark the end to the first year of training.
校园建筑和纪念馆
Hokie石头
弗吉尼亚理工大学 exhibits its character 和骄傲 every day via its buildings, 大部分都是用霍基石做的, 维吉尼亚西南部常见的石灰岩. 1899年，它首次用于校园建筑建设, 今天, all new central 校园建筑 must bear the distinctive stone.
手工采伐的，从灰色变化的, 布朗, 从黑色到粉色, 橙子, 和人们, 没有两块石头是一样的颜色. Since the mid-1950s, the university has operated its own quarry.
塔塔和战争纪念教堂
校园里最重要和最具象征意义的建筑之一, The Pylons above War Memorial Chapel bear the names of every 弗吉尼亚理工大学 student and graduate who died defending our nation’s freedom, 从第一次世界大战中失去的人开始. 塔塔唤起了弗吉尼亚理工大学的核心价值观. 从左到右, 他们代表着兄弟情谊, 荣誉, 领导, 牺牲, 服务, 忠诚, 责任, 和Ut Prosim.
在纪念中心, the cenotaph displays the names of 弗吉尼亚理工大学’s seven Medal of 荣誉 recipients.
四月十六日纪念
4月16日纪念, 位于钻场, remembers the 32 university community members who lost their lives on April 16, 2007.
霍基石象征着网上赌博网站十大排行不屈不挠的精神, 网上赌博网站十大排行勇往直前, 以及网上赌博网站十大排行永不忘却的决心.
石像鬼和怪诞
Their hunched bodies and contorted faces are the stuff of Hokie legend. At least 15 “gargoyles” at 弗吉尼亚理工大学 fit right into our neo-Gothic architecture. And for some students, finding every one of them before graduation is a rite of passage.
Functional gargoyles are waterspouts that move water away from the roof of a building. So while the “cowgoyles” of Saunders Hall might not function as waterspouts, 它们是一种深受喜爱的装饰元素.
已知的石像鬼名单:
- 艾格斯顿大厅4号
- Hillcrest Hall 4号
- 史密斯大厅3号
- 桑德斯大厅4号
弗吉尼亚理工大学校训、印章和校徽
In 1896, 这所大学采用了Ut Prosim, 拉丁语的意思是“我可以服务”,作为它的座右铭, 大学的校徽也随之诞生. The 弗吉尼亚理工大学 Board of 访问ors did not officially adopt the seal, 现在还在使用, 直到1963年.
In 1991, 弗吉尼亚理工大学采用了校徽, which incorporates an image of the War Memorial with its eight pylons, 每一种都代表一种不同的美德.
数字“1872”的加入,这所大学的建校年, reinforces the 传统 of more than a century of service to the Commonwealth of Virginia, 这个国家, 这个世界.
In 2017, a new brand platform and accompanying logo were launched. The new 弗吉尼亚理工大学 mark is grounded in tradition, yet focused on the future. 这些字母反映了网上赌博网站十大排行vt形的教育经历.
T的竖线代表学科深度, while the horizontal bar reflects the ability to work across disciplines. The arms of the V represent experiential learning and the spirit of Ut Prosim. The logo’s openness and shape highlight 弗吉尼亚理工大学’s identity as an inclusive community that thrives at the intersection of disciplines.
这所大学还有一个运动标志:一个流线型的“VT”,，仅用于体育和体育商品. 1984年面世, the athletic logo is a composite of designs submitted by two 弗吉尼亚理工大学 students to a competition sponsored by the university’s art department.
更多弗吉尼亚理工大学历史
加固和建立基础
约翰米. McBryde laid the foundations for modern-day 弗吉尼亚理工大学 in the 1890s, including the development of B.S. 学位和研究生学习, 授予学生军团永久地位, 开始田径项目. 麦克布赖德和他的儿子还制定了这所大学的校训: Ut Prosim (我可以服务).
T. 小马歇尔·哈恩. transformed VPI from college status to a major re搜索 university in the 1960s and 1970s. He championed the development of a university education and led the movement to create the re搜索 division. The student body tripled, and eight residence halls and 10 other major facilities were added.
查尔斯W. 大学校长 expertly guided the university’s growth and scope during the first 14 years of the 2000s. 研究经费和私人集资增加. He established the 弗吉尼亚理工大学 Carilion School of Medicine and 研究 Institute and a school of biomedical engineering. He was a visionary leader for the Moss Arts Center and in elevating 弗吉尼亚理工大学’s presence in Northern Virginia.
弗吉尼亚理工大学的"巨大"戒指
大学 across the country offer students the chance to buy a class ring, but very few annually redesign the ring to be unique to each class. 这一传统始于1911年至1912年的弗吉尼亚理工大学, 而最终的戒指总是会唤起记忆, 传统, 和骄傲.
每年, the sophomore class selects a Ring Committee to design their ring collection, 总是包括尖叫的鹰吗, 美国国旗, 校园建筑, 表圈周围还有一条连锁链条. From there, the Ring Committee incorporates characteristics unique to its class.
自1934年以来, couples have exchanged rings at the 弗吉尼亚理工大学 Ring Dance to the tune of “Moonlight and VPI,” written specifically for the Ring Dance by composer Fred Waring and lyricist Charles Gaynor.