Texas A&M University: A Pictorial History, 1876-1996Texas A&M University Press, 1996 - 199 pages This expanded edition of Texas A&M University: A Pictorial History gives a panoramic view of Texas A&M, from its infancy as a college with forty-eight agricultural and mechanical (engineering) students to today's diverse campus of more than forty thousand students. Captured in full-color photographs are the modern university, its buildings, its far-reaching programs, and its students. The book is also a gallery of Aggie greats—on the battlefields of five wars; on the athletic fields; in industry, agriculture, science, and civic leadership. Historical photos show visits by Presidents William H. Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and George H. W. Bush; preparations for military actions of World Wars I and II; the 1939 national championship football team; and the campus filming of the 1943 World War II movie We've Never Been Licked. From the first day of classes, the A&M College of Texas encountered successes and setbacks that would provide valuable lessons, established traditions that would shape the university and its students, and began its transformation from a frontier educational community to one of the nation's largest and most active teaching and research institutions. Gov. Richard Coke's admonition of October 4, 1876, has governed the school's growth: "Grave responsibilities rest upon you. The excellence of the college will be determined by your progress." As new frontiers beckoned, A&M accepted the challenges—excelling not only in agriculture and engineering but also the sciences, medicine, education, and research relating to space and the sea. A&M's military program received national recognition for providing military leaders during the Spanish-American War, the two world wars, and subsequent conflicts. With growth have come a more diverse student body, administrative reorganizations, and expanded educational programs. |
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... became an acute problem . In 1893 , a former state senator wrote that he " had as soon give his boy a pony , six shooter , bottle of whiskey and deck of cards and start him out to get his education as to send him to the AMC ...
... became an acute problem . In 1893 , a former state senator wrote that he " had as soon give his boy a pony , six shooter , bottle of whiskey and deck of cards and start him out to get his education as to send him to the AMC ...
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... became available to more students . A frame. L 11 11 the depraved outlaw imagined by some critics was the typical A & M student . Financial and personnel problems plagued the new school . In 1879 , serious faculty - administration ...
... became available to more students . A frame. L 11 11 the depraved outlaw imagined by some critics was the typical A & M student . Financial and personnel problems plagued the new school . In 1879 , serious faculty - administration ...
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A Pictorial History, 1876-1996 Henry C. Dethloff. more classes became available to more students . A frame building for carpentry and woodworking stood behind Old Main . There was a blacksmith shop and a boiler house . " The Line " was ...
A Pictorial History, 1876-1996 Henry C. Dethloff. more classes became available to more students . A frame building for carpentry and woodworking stood behind Old Main . There was a blacksmith shop and a boiler house . " The Line " was ...
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... became the father of Aggie tradition . " General Lawrence Sullivan Ross , pictured here in 1863 in the uniform of a Confederate brigadier general , came to A & M with a heroic record as an Indian fighter and cavalry officer . Courtesy ...
... became the father of Aggie tradition . " General Lawrence Sullivan Ross , pictured here in 1863 in the uniform of a Confederate brigadier general , came to A & M with a heroic record as an Indian fighter and cavalry officer . Courtesy ...
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... became a single fraternity which encompassed all stu- dents at the College . Indeed , the Corps contributed singularly to making Texas A & M University a truly unique institution of higher learning . From the earli- est days of the ...
... became a single fraternity which encompassed all stu- dents at the College . Indeed , the Corps contributed singularly to making Texas A & M University a truly unique institution of higher learning . From the earli- est days of the ...
Contents
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III The War Years | 37 |
IV Peace and a New Purpose | 47 |
V Growing Branching Out | 59 |
VI Veterinarians Foresters and Broadening Services | 69 |
VII Gig em Aggies | 91 |
VIII Fifty Years and Counting | 117 |
The Fighting Texas Aggies | 129 |
X Proud and Painful Growth | 143 |
XI Challenge and Change | 151 |
XII Into the Second Century | 171 |
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Page 11 - for the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, whose leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts, * * * * in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.