Texas A&M University: A Pictorial History 1876-1996 Second Edition (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A&M University)

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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 todays 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 greatson 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 Weve 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 nations largest and most active teaching and research institutions. Gov. Richard Cokes admonition of October 4 1876 has governed the schools 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 challengesexcelling not only in agriculture and engineering but also the sciences medicine education and research relating to space and the sea. A&Ms 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.