Over at College, Volume 124: A Texas A&m Campus Kid in the 1930s

ISBN-13: 9781623493851 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 128 str.

James Knox Walker

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In 1926 James Knox Walker, staff civil engineer in charge of building at A&M, and his new bride moved onto the campus of what was then known as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. The greater community, of which this small on-campus neighborhood was a part, was known simply as College. There was no such place as College Station, and the city of Bryan stood six miles away.
James Knox Walker Jr., the couple s oldest child, recollects the days when professors, staff members, and their children formed a small, closely knit society over at College. The campus served as the children s playground and the scene of their adventures. It also served their educational needs at A&M Consolidated School, founded in 1920. This community flourished from its beginnings in the late 1890s until 1938, when the college informed residents that it would no longer provide on-campus housing.
Over at College is a charming stroll through the past that also captures fascinating glimpses of the social structures, institutions, mores, and daily lives on the A&M campus during the 1920s and 1930s."