Texas A&M University : A Pictorial History, 1876-1996, Second Edition / Henry C. Dethloff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dethloff, Henry C.

Series:

Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University

Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University ; v.63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Texas A & M University--Pictorial works.

Texas A & M University.

Texas A & M University--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, Texas : Texas A & M University, 1996.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Coyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

President's Remarks

Foreword

Chapter I: A Small Cluster of Buildings near a Raw Frontier Town

Chapter II: Farmers and Engineers

Chapter III: The War Years

Chapter IV: Peace, and a New Purpose

Chapter V: Growing, Branching Out

Chapter VI: Veterinarians, Foresters, and Broadening Services

Chapter VII: Gig 'em Aggies

Chapter VIII: Fifty Years and Counting

Chapter IX: World War II: The Fighting Texas Aggies

Chapter X: Proud and Painful Growth

Chapter XI: Challenge and Change

Chapter XII: Into the Second Century.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781623494841

1623494842

OCLC:

966854850