Sully Had Colorful History
Before Coming To A&M
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
. . 1838-1898, soldier, statesman
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This the
first in a series of two article:
to appear in The Battalion concern
ing the anniversary of the death
of Lawrence Sullivan Ross. The
second and final article will be
published next week.)
Sixty four years ago this month
A&M’s . “Soldier, Statesman and
Knightly Gentleman,” Lawrence
Sullivan Ross, died at the age of
60.
He was the third president of
A&M, serving from 1891 until his
death in 1898.
Ross, born in Bentonport, Iowa,
Sept. 27, 1838, came to Texas
when his father became an Indian
agent in a settlement on Little
River.
Ross won his spurs as a Texas
Ranger and the title of “the bo>
captain” in 1858 in a desperate
battle with the Commanches in
which 95 Indians were killed, 350
head of horses captured and a cap
tive white girl rescued.
Short Courses Range From
Growing Eggs To Dancing
In the last twenty years short
lourses at A&M have ranged from
i clinic for commercial egg grow
ers to a square dancing school.
There are courses offered in
torse management, plant protec
tion, insect control, and a munici
pal police school. Attendance at
the courses last year varied from
!,829 for the fireman’s training
lourse to seven for a short course
in turkeys.
In 1944, the Short Course Office
»as created to handle the arrange-
nents necessary for the meetings.
When the first course, the fire
men’s training school offered by
the Engineering Extension Serv
ice, was held in 1930, the arrange
ments were carried out through
the Student Placement and Special
Services Office. There were 27
m attendance.
Not all the courses are handled
by the Short Course Office. The
Engineering Extension Service
handles its own and the Agricul-*
tural Extension Service handles
most of those it conducts.
The Short Course Office per
forms many services for these
courses, including registration,
collecting of fees, selling tickets
to dinners and other functions,
and providing a schedule of events.
In addition, the Short Course
Office handles all the bookkeeping
and maintains a bank account for
expenses incurred by the group
attending the course. At the end
of the year, the office sends out
a statement to the sponsor. For
many groups who hold annual
courses, money not used the pre
ceding year is applied to the ex
penses of the next year.
Arrangements for a short
course are made through the Me
morial Student Center for time,
date, and place. The MSC then
sends a notice to the Short Course
Office, which in turn sends con
firmation of the course to the
chairman of the group.
The chairman then requests the
services he will need for the
course. The Short Course Office
provides the visitors with a cam
pus guide, as well as scratch pads
and folders for scheduled func
tions.
The newest course beginning
this year is one in county roads,
offered by the Engineering Ex
tension Service to instruct county
officials on the building of new
roads and the maintenance and
improvement of present county
roads.
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During the battle Ross was seri
ously wounded and, after his re
covery, returned to the Florence
Wesleyan University of Alabama
where he graduated the following
summer.
When Ross returned to Texas
n 1859, Gov. Sam Houston placed
him in command of the frontier
areas. Ross led an expedition which
led to the decisive defeat of the
Commanches, the capturing of 400
head of horses and the rescuing
of Cynthia Ann Parker, who had
been captured by the Indians as
an infant.
With the beginning of the Civil
War, Ross entered the Confederate
Army as a private at the age of
25 had become a brigadier general.
Ross had seven horses shot from
under him during the 135 engage
ments in which he participated.
Later Gen. Dabney H. Maurey
named Ross the most distinguish
ed soldier at the battle of Corin
th.
In 1875, Ross began his politi
cal career by becoming a member
of the constitutional convention
and later, a member of the state
senate.
After many requests, Ross final
ly. consented to run for governor
and was elected in 1886. Ross ran
again in 1888 and was re-elected
by a 152,000-vote majority.
While he was governor, A&M’s
enrollment was on the decline and
it appeared the young school was
dying a slow death. However,
Ross, nearing retirement, made a
deal with the state legislature:
“Don’t* close A&M, and after I
finish my term of office, I’ll
take the presidency.”
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‘Man Needs Knowledge To Achieve
What He Wants,’ Times Editor Says
WACO, Tex. Man needs
knowledge and understanding
more than anything else today if
he is to achieve what he wants—
peace, security and the fruits of
his labor and ingenuity—Turner
Catledge, managing editor of the
New York Times, said Thursday
at Baylor University.
“Information — the facts and
their meaning — is the lubricant
which smooths a man’s adjust
ment to civilization,” said Cat-
ledge.
His talk is one of a series Bay
lor is sponsoring to bring top lec
turers in various fields to Central
Texas.
Catledge’s talk Thursday night
was mainly devoted to the dual
roles of freedom and responsibil
ity in all areas of communications, of their consent.
including academic freedom of the
classroom.
“I could perhaps justify the
metaphor that information—freely
sought, freely given and freely
(received—is the very life blood
of a free society,” he said.
The revolution of the era of
communication took the man of
the not-too-distant past out of
isolation and put him into a posi
tion of importance. At last what
he believed and felt and wanted
became important, said Catledge.
“I don’t think we have to be
labor this idea. All of us who
are privileged to breathe the
blessed air of Democracy know
that the people ultimately shape
our institutions and government,
and that national policy rarely
ventures beyond the circumference
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What is she thinking about, as she watches
the flickering candle flame? There is a far away
look in her eyes that makes one wonder. Yet, if
she were offered a penny for her thoughts, she
woujd probably only shrug and say, “Oh, nothing,”
in that maddening little way children have.
Watching her absorbed in her reverie is like
an illustration of how closed one mind is from
another. No one can ever know completely what
another person is thinking. A thought expressed
out loud all too often leaves something out of the
telling. And most thoughts are never expressed
at all.
Even should we wish to, we cannot entirely
share our minds with one another. But we can
share them with God. In the Church we can find
the way to tell Him all our hopes, our fears, our
loves, our angers, our pride, our pain.
Go to church this Sunday—and turn your own
thoughts into prayer.
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