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HISTORY OF SCIIOOI li’ranrafii m HEN the pressure lets up there is always a revulsion from the thing—-good or bad—which individuals, severally or as a people, have l»een forced to do for any length of time. So that, in its early history, Prairie View being designed as purely an agricultural college, was largely an experiment, the race not having thrown off the incubus incurred from the horrid effects of slavery upon the mind, being just a few years removed from such long-lived and inhumane institution. It will have been thirty-eight years the 19th day of this coming April since Ciovernor Oran M. Roberts approved and signed the Legislative Act creating and establishing Prairie View as a branch of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. The Legislature only ordered the school located and established; the duty of determining and securing a place for same rested with some one else just whom, available records fail to show. W’e do know that V. E. Minor, a native black of Mississippi and first principal of the school, was delegated by some authority, presumably and logically the Board of Directors, to seek out the spot. Among other places lie visited this site, then known as Alta Vista, or Lofty Vision; formerly the old Kirby slave plantation, having been transformed into a private school for white lioys. Richard W ells—Dick W ells, as lie is frequently called; “Dad Wells,” as he is more familiarly known was with Mr. Minor. They climbed into the attic of the old Kirby Hall and “took a view. as I have often heard “Dad” say. of the surrounding territory, and beheld such a beautiful view of prairie about here, they called the place Prairie View, which name it has borne ever since, except for being lengthened into Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College. Statistics are usually very dry but often very valuable. This historical sketch would be more interesting to readers of the “Annual if the school had reliable v 17 . pi
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