The Battalion: "Sully statue to stay, per university officials"From the article:
"According to The Eagle, interim President John Junkins said it is likely more statues and monuments will be added to campus, with no removal of any present ones. Junkins said the intention of the statues is to outline the history of A&M."
If Texas A&M is going to add another statue as proposed in this article then it needs to dedicate a statue of Edward Benjamin Cushing outside the Cushing Memorial Library on the east side of the Academic Building to honor the Texas A&M graduate who in 1912 saved his and our alma mater from extinction.
Cushing--an 1880 graduate of the Texas A&M College--in 1912 while serving as Chairman of the Texas A&M Board of Regents personally bankrolled the Texas A&M College while simultaneously leading a political campaign to prevent the Texas A&M College from being consolidated with the University of Texas by state lawmakers. Cushing previously served as a Southern Pacific Railroad civil engineer and later served as a U.S. Army colonel in World War I.
Texas A&M Board Chairman Edward Benjamin Cushing and Texas A&M President (and former Texas Governor) Lawrence Sullivan Ross both literally saved Texas A&M College from being lost to the ash heap of history.
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