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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1971)
. U i • ««« 35^1^5?r * -*■* w-r r r r- * * * * r. Aagw* 4. Iffl — THE JATTAIION Oldest state university v T«u»AftiriN«oiy atMadsd Um tchooTa Am d fci tht faD of 1876 * 40 stu<WnU 15,000 tad as ttrocturc of was authorized the offer each state a for. jumped from to house a student body of mots than 60 depertmsota. la July of 1862 Pn Mocrttl Act pamittinf the Federal jovei (mat of pubttc lands idikh could be used coOeps spedaUzfct| la apiculture and the la the first year of its existence. AiklTs 40 on Oct. 4, to 100 In January and 331 in the la these early yean, accommodatiom were ii&i! fflcient for snythine like this number. The secosrd and third floors of Gathri|ht Hall and the second, third and pert of the fourth floor of the Main Building were used for barracks. Dunne cold winter months, students kept these rooms warm with fire wood. Each student had his own axe, cut his own wood at the common wood pile and canted it to his room in his arms. Wood piles were kept outside each building with the owner’s name above each, rou^riy on this order, “This is John Jones' wood pile. Keep your htids off of it!” The first floor of Gathright Hall was used is s dining hall with claaatt held on the first floor of the Main Building. As for the actual campus in these early days, one professor aid: “The campus was such a wild waste that it eras not considered safe for children to be out at night. The howling of wohres provided nightly serenades. On one occasion a wild animal wandering over the campus threw the whole community In a frenzy of exert ament. An alarm wus given and the whole battalion of students and some profeaeors turned out to kill it but in the high weeds of the campus it easily escaped.” The conduct of the professors aha left room for improvement during the memorial *76. Following complaints from throughout the state the Board of Directon» fired the entire faculty. •A mathematics professor showed his contempt for bem^ fired by *1 can’t ha bothered,” he aid. la the late ’TOTs the ndd ’BQTs, Garland Jones succeeded Gathright as president, four buildings wars constructed and the entire curriculum MERE’S 1 r > I , • * y | DRIVE IN WINDOW BANKING OPEN 7:30 A.M.-6:00 P.M. MONDAY - FRIDAY The school stamped barfly In the SQTs until Lawrence Sullivan Rom was named president in 1890. Once the state legislature even considered abandoning the college, with buildings to be used as s Negro imam asylum. Rosa literally saved the school from destruction. During his eight-year reign, enrollment increased tremendously, the first Corps trip was held in Houston, property value reached S389,50164 and most of all. the college for the first time acquired a good name among citizens of the stats. During the first years of the century such events as a cane rush between freshmen and sophomores caused Quite a stir. One morning mysterious notices had been tacked up at various places forbidding any freteunen to cany a cane past the bandstand between 4:30 and 4:45 p. m. At the blast of a bugle, at the proper hour, groups of freshmen and sophomores emerged from erery hall, clad in old clothes. A freshman, attended by a bodyguard, attempted the feat and the struggle was on. Reinforcements arrived and the battle raged for two hours, but without success on either side. President H. H. Harrington’s administration was rocked by a student strike. After several days, most of the students went home. One student, crossing the Brazos, was met by his father with a shotgun. He returned. Harrington resigned. The same fate befell the administration of Col. R. T. Milner, and he resigned. Two tragedies enabled the campus to first take on its present appearance. In 1911 the mess hall burned and in 1912 Old Main was gutted by fire. Soon afterwards Sbisa Dining Hall and -the Academic Building Sprang up. Also, not long afterward, Guion Hall was built. A&M attracts National Merits scholars Texas AAM University will en roll this fall approximately 60 National Merit Scholarship win ners, nearly five-fold increase over the 1070-71 school year. The scholars are selected by e Nations! Merit Scholarship Corp. committee of college end school counselors from finalists drawn from a 260,000 students who took the NMSC qualifying test In serly 1970. About 1,000 unrestricted Na tional Merit 11,000 Scholarships and approximately 2,000 spon sored four-year Merit Scholar ships ranging from $100 to $1^00 a years have be4n made xo stu dents across the U. S. in the 16th annual program. “Over the last several years, Texas AAM has definitely at tracted a much higher number of scholastic achievers among graduating high school seniors,” noted Robert M. Logan, director of AAM’s student aid office. "Students, high school seniors, counselors, parents and people over the state hpve learned of the exceptionally fine quality edu cation obtainMde at AAM,” Logan added. f NATIONAL f bank; C0LLC6C STATION. TEXAS 77840 Member FDIC on the Side of Texas AAM 713/846-8761 FOR ‘ it BEST TRY TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIED TEXTBOOK RENT SCHEDULE (USED BOOKS ONLY) * ..•.ANOTHER WAY FOR LOUPOT TO HELP YOU. Jk -, ‘ ■ : New Price r $5.00 $6.00-18.00 , $8.00 - $12.00 RENT . Total + 95c *$3.45 + $1.95 1 , $6.00 + $2.86 $8.00 will b. rrtuxM upon iwturn provkM book to TT l t M l *TI ttl lj foUowtoo omortor And No Revision Announced LOUPOT'S Nurtli GaU % 'JOtSfiSH ^ * FRESHMEN POLISH statue of Lawrence Sullivan Roes. Each year different groups compete to see whose freshmen will be the first to polish the former A&M president. .»>rt> i ■ AM/PM V ■ ..... $248.96 I 1