April 17, 1871: Legislature approves funding for Texas A&M College

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April 17, 1871: Legislature approves appropriation for Agricultural and
Mechanical College

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/daybyday/04-17-003.html

On this day in 1871, the state legislature approved a bill providing
for the organization of the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
(now Texas A&M University) and appropriating $75,000 for the
construction of academic buildings and suitable accommodations.

A committee selected a site near Bryan, now known as College Station,
following the donation of 2,416 acres by local citizens. The college,
the oldest public institution of higher education in the state, opened
in October 1876 with 106 students and a faculty of six under President
Thomas S. Gathright.

By the year 2000, the College Station campus was the fifth-largest
university in the nation, with more than 44,000 students, and the Texas
A&M University System included nine schools across the state.

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