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Well and equipment, 82,5000; Dwelling's for Professors,
$6,500. To the following- were given, each per year for
two years: Student Labor Fund 85,000; Beeville experi
ment station $2,500 and Repair fund 82,500.
The total appropriation for all purposes for the first
year is 8103,900 and for second year 830,000.
The new building's will provide room for almost 200
more students on the basis of the number heretofore as
signed to a room.
We owe a debt of warm gratitude to this Legislature
for the recognition of the claims of the A. & M. College
upon the people of the State. Our thanks are no less due
to the Governor for his thorough appreciation of 'the im
portance of the measures passed, and his consequent en
dorsement of these liberal appropriations. It lies with us
now, as his Excellency said at the Alumni Banquet, to
prove that we are worthy of the generous confidence of the
State. Upon our use of this bounty * depends its con
tinuance; and the increased and increasing usefulness of
the A. & M. College will insure not only its continuance,
but its augmentation also.
Let a people once recognize in industrial education the
source of their wealth, and they will spare no expense in
deepening the foundation and broadening the area of the
edifice.