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...none of these superlatives catch even a whiff of the Aggieland spirit. When A. & M. opened 86 years ago, it was smack in the population center of Texas. Today it is 100 miles from anywhere-Austin, Houston or Waco-and though the site is called College Station, the trains that go through the 5,200-acre campus will stop only for hogs or horses, not humans. People who fly or drive there can see why critics call it "Sing Sing on the Brazos." Looming out of rlatland where the lowly "post oak" grows, the school is a cluster of penal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Texas Athletic & Military | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

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