sentences:  The new curriculum no longer reflected the name of the college and in 1896 the Virginia General Assembly changed the college's name to Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, shortened in popular usage to Virginia Polytechnic Institute and then to VPI.The new name also brought new colors, which still stand as Chicago maroon and burnt orange, a school motto, "Ut Prosim" (That I May Serve), and a new college yell which prompted the nickname Hokies.During his tenure, V.P.I.