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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1961)
r/e, WE BATTALION Tlmrsdny, October H, 10(!1 Collopre Station, Texas Pa^e >wshi Pi ; °unda ilLL” L” I i” COLLEGE SEEKS FURTHER PROGRESS g like if (Continued from Page 1) the band stand between 4:30 and L45 p.m. At the blast of a bugle, at the proper hour, groups of freshmen and sophomores emerged from every hall, clad in old clothes. A freshman, attended by a bodyguard, attempted the feat and 'the struggle was. on. After a few minutes, the sophomores were suc cessful in getting the cane to the guardroom, but then decided to give freshmen a second chance. Reinforcements arrived and the battle raged for two hours, but without further success on the part of either side. Things progressed successfully ! under President H. H. Harrington until 1908, when college activities fexploded with a roar heard across (be state. 1 .Barrington had been at odds F with the college physician and an elderly professor, when suddenly the student body went on strike. After several days most of the students had gone home, taking their bags with them. One stu dent, crossing the Brazos, was met at the river by his father with a shotgun. He returned. Harrington resigned and was replaced by Col. R. T. Milner. Another student strike rocked the flimpus during Milner’s reign over the dismissal of 27 students for hazing and the suspension of 4CG others for insubordination. Again the Board of Directors supported Milner, but he, like Har rington, soon resigned. Also in Milner’s regime the cele brated “tent row” grew to large jpportions and extended from the area now occupied by the YMCA Building to the present tennis tourts and as far back as Mitchell Hall. Prior to 1909 sentinels guarded dormitories during meals and the piard changed every morning. Ak in 1909 A&M for the first time became a military college recognized by the U.S. War De partment. Two tragedies enabled the cam pus to first take on its present appearance. In 1911 the mess hall burned and in 1912 Old Main was gutted by fire. Soon afterward Thomas Gathright . . . first A&M president Sbisa Dining Hall and the Aca demic Building sprang up. Also not long afterward, Guion Hall was built. World War I gave A&M its first test as a military school. In 1917 the entire senior class en listed as a body. They were sent to Leon Springs training camp, where they were given their di plomas in special commencement services. More than 2,000 A&M graduates served in the war, f>2 of them giv ing their lives for democracy. After the war the Reserve Offi cers Training Corps was estab lished and A&M immediately be came a ,member. With this change, the fumed Aggie “greys” also were abolished, in favor of khaki and olive drab. In 1922 A&M’s best-known tra dition, the twelfth man, was es tablished at the Cotton Bowl game with Centre College. A student, King Gill, came out of the stands to suit up for action, thus prompt ing the practice of standing throughout all football games. That same year, 1922, however, one of the college’s darkest days occurred during the Corps Trip to Baylor. Fisticuffs broke out after the game, with one Aggie killed and the state militia called to quell the disturbance. For many years after World War I students still lived in tents and shack-tents in front of the YMCA Building, -known as “sheik city.” Law, Puryear, Walton and Hart JHall* were soon erected to ease this problem, with another group of dormitories erected near the north gate during the 1980’s. The building program was just in time, for in 1939 the Aggie football team, led by John Kim brough, copped the national cham pionship. This national title, coupled with the war buildup, filled all the new dorms to capacity. They have seldom been vacent since. Meanwhile a little four-footed creature descended upon the cam pus and captured the fancy of the entire Corps of Cadets. In her heyday Reville would romp in front of the band as it played during halftime. She was accorded more special privileges than many whose seniority was unquestioned and was made offi cial college mascot. She died in 1944 and was ac corded military honors. Her grave is at the north entrance to Kyle Field, facing the scoreboard. World War II also found A&M very much iu the middle of U.S. defense plans. On campus, the Check your opinions against IfM’s Campus Opinion Poll %7 f ay St IB J! °WhocI wake the best wife? <7 I I O W0MAN EXECUTIVE Q FASHION MODEL □ NURSE □ SECRETARY Q TEACHER O Isifbetterfo warty in eolleqe-or wail fill lafer? 0 How wany cigarettes do you swoke a day? ; ? □ MARRY IN COLLEGE Q WAIT TILL LATER □ LESS THAN 8 □ 8-12 □ 13-17 Q] 18-22 Q OVER 22 Mfresh ky fresh with PM Any way you look at them-L & M’s taste bet ter. 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Dwight Eisenhower, the principal speaker, paid tribute to the dead A&M servicemen and presented six Congressional medals of honor to former A&M students. In 1948, the college Board of Directors formed the A&M Col lege System, with A&M as one of the component units. The first chancellor of the system was Gibb Gilchrist. Dean F. C. Bolton was named college president. The, college celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1951 with several prominent occasions during the school year. A former student, Tom Harrington, was inaugurated president, with Gen. Eisenhower delivering the principal address. Also in 1951 the Basic Division was organized for freshman test ing and guidance. This was the first such experiment in the south west. A&'M students and faculty mem bers celebrated Muster in a special way that year—the Memorial Stu dent Center, the “living room of the campus,” was officially op ened and dedicated to those stu dents who had died in World Wars I and II. The Biological Sciences Build ing was also finished in ’51, with construction beginning- on the Richard Coke Building, Engineer’s Lawrence ^Sullivan Ross . . . saved face for college Library and two other new engi neering buildings. Soon afterward the dream of students and faculty members for many years—a field house to seat the entire student body—was com pleted when G. Rollie White Col iseum was dedicated and officially opened. Since then continued new build ings have been springing uo on campus. Last spring the W. T. Doherty Petroleum Engineering Building was opened and next fall the Plant Sciences Building will be ready for use. Other changes in general stu dent life saw Corps participation first made optional and then again required. In the fall of 1959 branch Corps units and military science was abandoned and this fall a thml brigade was added to the Corps of Cadets. , A&M’s thirteenth president was inaugurated in the spring of 1960 —Earl Rudder. A reserve gen eral and former A&M student, Rudder was the second “Aggie ex” inaugurated president. During Rudder’s regime contin ued growth has marked A&M’s history. Enrollment this fall is the highest since 1949 and a Cen tury Council has been established to study the college and suggest improvements for the next 15 years. FOUNDING (Continued From Page 1) dences for- professors were com pleted. In 1875, the first meeting of the college was held, and the presidency was offered to former president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, who refused. Thomas S. Gathright took the job, and Texas A&M College opened its doors. Opinions of the majority of solid, patriotic Confederate Tex- aps when the college opened its doors were that it was “silly and Yankee-instigated.” Since it fea tured military science and tac tics, others called it a “nest for a military aristocracy.” But despite these criticisms, A&M opened with 40 students, six faculty members and four courses, Oct. 4, 1876. 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