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

 - Class of 1978

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Page 10 text:

Since 1887 Serving Texas—. of Her Gre a Throughout its 100 year history. Prairie View ha attempted to Serve Texas at the Points of her Greatest Need. The Founding of the college in 1876 and its establishmen in 1878 met specific needs of Texas to provide a school fo Colored Youth.” in the same fashion as The A M College a College Station. Again in 1870. Prairie View answered the state’s need fo Teacher Education to supply the new public, common schoo education being introduced throughout the south. The 16tl Legislature established the Sam Houston Normal Institute and The Prairie View Normal Institute. Friends of Negro education launched in 1881 a drive fo l the creation of the constitutionally provided Negro branch o the University of Texas. A public election was held and Aus tin was selected as the site, but despite promises to endow and build, all that the state was to do for higher education fo: its Negro Citizens was to be concentrated at Prairie View, until 1947. Prairie View served the needs of Texas when it established an Agricultural and Mechanical Department and set up branch Experiment Station at the Little Normal. Texas Negroes in 1895 called for some form of the Booke: Members of Ihe Class of 1901 relurn to the Campus. ROTC dates back to 1918 on campus. Agriculture dub in 1917. The Waiters dub in 1916-17.

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Odyssey of Pantherland - at the Points test Need” Washington brand of “industrial education in the state their public school. As a result the A M Board author-d such Practical education for Prairie View. The 26th •islature changed the name to Prairie View State Normal I Industrial College and in 1901 authorized it to offer a ir-year course. 'he Cooperation Extension Service came to Prairie View 1918 the same time the first recognized ROTC was estab-led on campus. ’rincipal W. R. Banks was the first to describe the mission Ihe college as Serving Texas at the points of her Greatest eds. He sought to develop Prairie View as a center or al point for all efforts at social and economic advance nt. Serving Texas needs brought the designation of Uni-•sity to Prairie View in 1946. and back to its original title j mission of A M Ihe very next year. ’rairie View has continued as a full fledged, productive mber of the Texas A M System until this lime. As in the ny long years of adjustments over the past, the University 1 attempts to serve a special need in the states' system of iher education. Class of 1928 held reunion during Centennial Year. Nursing Education was added to the Curriculum to meet special health needs in the Southwest. YWCA Cabinet in 1916-17. Ajj Faculty in 1951. Ilitl .ri .il II..I.I from PftAIRIK V1KW — The Kira Sr «nly-H«r Year.' RyCntfurR Woultolk and C. A Wood

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