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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
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business of turning out officers
was underway more than ever.
Units of Navy, Air Force, Ma
rines and the Corps of Cadets
combined in a special dress parade,
the likes of which has never been
seen on campus before or since.
After the war, a San Jacinto
“homecoming” was held on Kyle
Field. Gen. 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
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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.
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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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