01-21-2006, 15:17
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Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Buckingham, Pa.
Posts: 1,746
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Originally Posted by longrange1947
One of the reasons that Texas A&M is so conservative is that it was one of the several military schools in the US as are The Citadel (EL Cid), VMI, and Norwich. Anyone know what A&M stands for, can't remember, believe the A stands for Agriculture though.
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From the TAMU website:
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Texas A&M, the state’s first public institution of higher education, was opened on Oct. 4, 1876 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. The school owes its origin to the Morrill Act of 1862, which established the nation’s land-grant college system.
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