He also received a Master of Science degree from Texas A & I College and a Bachelor of Science degree from Southwestern State College, Weatherford, Okla..

-- Held out of Texas Tech's sweat-suits drill Monday at Lubbock was tackle Richard Stafford, who is undergoing treatment for a leg injury suffered in the Raiders' 38-7 loss to Texas A & M Because of its important game with Arkansas coming up Saturday, Baylor worked out in the rain Monday -- mud or no mud.

The early Southwest Conference football leaders -- Texas, Arkansas and Texas A & M -- made a big dent in the statistics last week.

Arkansas combined 280 yards rushing with 64 yards passing ( on 5 completions in 7 tosses ) and a tough defense to whip TCU, and A & M, with a 38-point bulge against Texas Tech ran up its biggest total loop play since 1950.

* 1922 – The first Aggie Muster is held as a remembrance for fellow Texas A & M graduates who had died in the previous year.

* 1942 – World War II: The most famous ( and first international ) Aggie Muster is held on the Philippine island of Corregidor, by Brigadier General George F. Moore ( with 25 fellow Texas A & M graduates who are under his command ), while 1. 8 million pounds of shells pounded the island over a 5 hour attack.

* Aggie Muster ( Texas A & M University )

* logo of the sports teams of Texas A & M University

He is currently Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A & M University.

He currently works at Texas A & M University, United States, as a Distinguished Professor where he holds the College of Engineering Endowed Chair in Computer Science.

* Bjarne Stroustrup's Texas A & M homepage

In April 2007, Borland announced that it would be relocating its headquarters and R & D facilities to Austin, Texas.

Wills turned out dance tunes that are now called country rock, introducing with his Texas Playboys such C & W classics as Take Me Back to Tulsa and New San Antonio Rose ".

In addition, the Parsons ' Mounted Cavalry is a Reserve Officer Training Corps unit which forms part of the Corps of Cadets at Texas A & M University.

The Humble brand was used at Texas stations for decades, as those operations were under the direction of Jersey Standard affiliate Humble Oil & Refining Company.

In 2012 Schroeder was awarded the Trotter Prize by Texas A & M University's College of Science.

He has appeared in a large variety of films, most notably in the 1980s and 1990s in major action releases such as Lethal Weapon, Point Break, and Under Siege, as well as making guest appearances on Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, Law & Order, and Entourage.

* Casualty of War: A Childhood Remembered ( Eastern European Studies, 18 ) Luisa Lang Owen and Charles M. Barber, Texas A & M University Press, January, 2003, hardcover, 288 pages, ISBN 1-58544-212-7

In a review of Jerzy Kosiński: A Biography by James Park Sloan, D. G. Myers, Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University wrote " For years Kosinski passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own experience during the Holocaust.

He turned down the opportunity to become the first president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas ( now Texas A & M University ).

Friedman formed his first band, King Arthur & the Carrots, while a student at the University of Texas.

Along with Texas, Memphis & North and South Carolina, Kansas City is a " world capital of barbecue.

* Hernández, José M. Cuba and the United States: Intervention and Militarism, 1868 – 1933 U. of Texas Press, 1993.

With the Z-machine, Infocom was able to release most of their games for most popular home computers of the day simultaneously — the Apple II family, Atari 800, IBM PC compatibles, Amstrad CPC / PCW ( one disc worked on both machines ), Commodore 64, Commodore Plus / 4, Commodore 128, Kaypro CP / M, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, the Mac, Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga and the Radio Shack TRS-80.

According to economists Donald Deere ( Texas A & M ), Kevin Murphy ( University of Chicago ), and Finis Welch ( Texas A & M ), Card and Krueger's conclusions are contradicted by " common sense and past research ".

In June 2004, the United States Department of Agriculture, with the advisement of a federal district judge from Beaumont, Texas, classified batter-coated French fries as a vegetable under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

* In June 2005 Dr. John Clifford, chief veterinary officer for the United States Department of Agriculture animal health inspection service confirmed a fully domestic case of BSE in Texas.

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In 1910 Amanda Stoltzfus organized the Tuleta Agriculture High School, the first of its kind in Texas ; its faculty came from such prestigious institutions as Smith College and the University of Wisconsin.

* Jim Hightower, former commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture and a liberal commentator and author, was born in Denision in 1943.

Texas A & M operates two agricultural research centers in Weslaco and the U. S. Department of Agriculture operates another.

The Giddings Seed Laboratory ( previously Pieratt's Seed Lab ), a project of the Texas Department of Agriculture, is located in Giddings.

James Allen " Jim " Hightower ( born January 11, 1943 ) is an American syndicated columnist, liberal political activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture.

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Cropping Systems Research Laboratory, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Lubbock, Texas.

In 2006, the Texas A & M University System created the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture to be a premier institution for agricultural development and to continue the legacy of Dr. Borlaug.

David Fairchild of the Department of Agriculture successfully introduced the tree in 1905 in the U. S. Gulf States from Florida west to eastern Texas.

Near the end of the 1960s, West Texas State obtained its own board of regents, established a School of Agriculture, a School of Fine Arts, and created a Department of Nursing.

The Texas Department of Agriculture lists Chinese Tallow as one of the 24 most invasive plants, and includes Chinese Tallow in a list of Noxious and Invasive Plants which are illegal to sell, distribute or import into Texas.

In January 2005, he was selected by the House Democratic Caucus to succeed former Texas Congressman Charlie Stenholm as the Ranking Member on the U. S. House Committee on Agriculture.

* Agriculture in Texas

As Agriculture Commissioner, Perry was responsible for promoting the sale of Texas farm produce to other states and foreign nations, and for supervising the calibration of weights and measures, such as gasoline pumps and grocery store scales.

White received 1, 697, 870 votes ( 53. 2 percent ) to Clements ' 1, 465, 537 ( 45. 9 percent ) in a year where Texas Democrats swept all the statewide offices being led by U. S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen ( who won a third six-year term to the Senate ) and the legendary Lieutenant Governor of Texas William P. Hobby Jr. ( Hobby was first elected lieutenant governor in 1972 ) both of whom carried the Democratic Party's statewide banner which also included the elections of Jim Mattox as state attorney general, Bob Bullock, who won his third term as Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts-having been elected in 1974, Ann Richards as state treasurer, Garry Mauro as Commissioner of the General Land Office, and Jim Hightower as Texas Commissioner of Agriculture while Democrats easily maintained their majorities in both houses of the Texas Legislature.

* Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, who called Bush " a toothache of a man.

The quest of Bushland and Knipling to find an alternative to chemical pesticides in controlling the devastation wrought by these insects began in the late 1930s when both scientists were working at the United States Department of Agriculture Laboratory in Menard, Texas.