At K-State a section of town is called Aggieville even now.

DrZ said:

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At K-State a section of town is called Aggieville even now.

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Riveting.

It started as the East Alabama Male College and was part of the Methodist Church, it was next known The Agricultural & Mechanical College of Alabama, then Alabama Polytechnic Institute and finally Auburn University.

greg.w.h said:

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There were two Morrill Acts. The first was originally vetoed by James Buchanan then successfully passed in 1862 by the remaining states with Lincoln's signature as in effect an inducement to the remaining states for remaining faithful. The earlier one had military tactics added to the supported curriculum prior to passage after the veto.

The latter in 1890 was passed with Reconstruction support and extended the original to segregated universities for blacks and was intended to force the former secessionist states to provide higher education for blacks.

Those all in effect instantly were historic black colleges and universities from the moment of founding and that led to efforts to preserve those institutions by leaders like Lawrence "Sul" Ross and then later to survive the rejection of "separate but equal" segregation by the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954.

Florida A&M, Alabama A&M, and our system member university Prairie View A&M all were founded based on the 1890 extension of the original 1862 Morrill Act.

You're welcome...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Acts

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Prairie View A&M was founded based on First Morrill Act in 1876 and as a land grant university. Second oldest state university in Texas.

achooooo said:

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Texas was actually named Texas A&M-Austin for the first 5 years of its existence. Little known fact.

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I'm pretty sure that's not accurate.

UF is Florida's land grant/Ag school

Florida A&M is a land grant college also- albeit from the second Morrill Land Grant Act (~1890?).

Dario said:

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So are you saying our rivalry with them was Aggies vs Swamp Aggies all along???

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Highland vs lowland

DrZ said:

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At K-State a section of town is called Aggieville even now.

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It's their version of Northgate and a great place to hang out for memory (blurry as it was)

I know that North Texas State University in Denton tried to change to just Texas State for years (in addition to trying to expand) but was always opposed/rejected. In 1988 they changed to The University of North Texas.

When SWTS changed to Texas State in 2003 there were more than a few pissed off people at North Texas.

Colorado State's mascot's name is CAM the Ram as in Colorado A&M. You can still buy Aggie stuff at CSU in the old Orange and Green colors.

There was a huge push a few years back to change i to "The University of Texas A&M University where many talented folks can take their talents"

And you can buy Old Aggie Beer from New Belgium Brewery in certain areas of Colorado

The reason is is named that way is Louisiana State University and Louisiana State University Agricultural & Mechanical College were separate schools at first. The state of Louisiana finally opened a land grant college in 1874 and put the campus in New Orleans. 3 years later the state decided to move the A&M College to Baton Rouge and merge it with Louisiana State University so the school was renamed to Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College to reflect that both schools were now one.

Kerrigan87 said:

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I know that North Texas State University in Denton tried to change to just Texas State for years (in addition to trying to expand) but was always opposed/rejected. In 1988 they changed to The University of North Texas.

When SWTS changed to Texas State in 2003 there were more than a few pissed off people at North Texas.

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There were plenty of SWT people pissed off too.....they weren't too keen about changing the name. Frankly, I kind of miss the old SWT.