Prairie View A and M University - Pantherland Yearbook (Prairie View, TX)

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. . . The first Principal of the new College was L. W. Minor, a native of Mississippi, who was selected by Thomas S. Gathright, the first president at College Station. On March 11, 1878, Professor Minor enrolled eight young men as the first Negro students to be enrolled in a state supported college in Texas. Mr. Minor was a man of fine education and excellent character, and he came up fully to all expectations in his management and qualifications . . . L. W. MINOR 1878—1880

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I Could we do better at the end of seventy-five years than pay homage to this amalgam, this spirit? Can we do less than dedicate our lives to the task of fostering it, nurturing it, stimulating it—that those who walk these grounds, these halls, will know, and be better men because of it?

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