Image: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (1916)

Description: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, College Station, Texas. Identifier: bookoftexa00bene Title: Book of Texas Year: 1916 (1910s) Authors: Benedict, Harry Yandell, 1869-1937 Lomax, John A. (John Avery), 1867-1948 Subjects: Texas Texas -- Economic conditions Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page Contributing Library: Houston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: e University, the Agricultural and MechanicalCollege, the four State Normals for whites, the College ofIndustrial Arts, and the Prairie View Normal, are really apart of the system of public schools, this term is ordinarilyapplied only to the graded schools. These schools, from thehigh school down to the lowest primary grade, are under thesupervision of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction,a state officer of the same rank and salary ($2,500) as theState Treasurer, State Land Commissioner, State Comp-troller, etc., and, as are all these officers, elected by popularvote for a term of two years. In addition to the State Su-perintendents office force, other supervising officials, knownas county superintendents, are elected in each county con-taining 3,000 or more children of scholastic age. In othercounties the county judge performs the superintendentsfunctions. Although the duties of these officials are mainly those ofinterpreting the school laws or of acting in advisory and re- Text Appearing After Image: Main Building and Cadet Corps of Agricultural and MechanicalCollege, College Station, Texas Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (1916)
Credit: Image from page 454 of "Book of Texas" (1916)
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