This is designed to provide visitors to texas a m an understanding of what we are all about. It explains its history and some of the traditions that we have. Texas a m was opened on october fourth, 1876. Unfortunately they did not have the student population that day to start classes. 6, 1876, 2 days later, it opened its door to 40 students. From that point to today where we are not only the Largest University in the state of texas but we started that year is the Largest University in the united states. We have approximately 60,000 students on campus of which 2300 of those were members of the corps of cadets. From 1876 for the next 24 years, and am had to texas a m had to struggle in order to maintain. It was not until the former governor of the state of texas came here in 1890 that the university took off. At that point, his reputation allowed the mothers and fathers of the state of texas to want to actually send their sons here to the university. Because it was established under the
When this area was selected as the side of the university, there were no town or village here. There were neighboring farms, a chapel located on what is now the side of the caroline in, but there was no town to speak of. On the day they laid the cornerstone for the First University building, they also had an auction of town lots. They understood that if the university was going to succeed, there needed to be a town around it to provide businesses, places for people to live. The town of chapel hill and university were born on the same day. In university was chartered 1789. The ground broke for the first building in 1793, and about a year and a half later, in 1795, when the university opened, they january, 1790y five. They had events on campus here, no students showed up. It took them a few weeks before the First Student arrived. He came over 100 miles from the coast of North Carolina. He was the entire student body for about two weeks before more students gradually drifted on to campus.
Been someone i been covering for over a decade since he first ran for the u. S. Senate back in 2010, senator rubio thank you for being here. Good morning thank you for having me. We are 49 days away from the election, you serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence from that seat, what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference. I think first we have to break up foreign interference in the two categories, one is meddling in the architecture and mechanics of the election and the other is a message and psychological operations and warfare designed to get us to divide against each other, let me talk about the second one in terms of putting out messages and the like, that is yearround and what the adversaries basically do, they look at all the preexisting fractures in our society and they push on that, they use social media increasing what they are using to create a website somewhere and maybe hire americans to ride on the webs
Future an interview that comes from the Washington Post. Good morning i am bob costa, National Political reporter at the Washington Post, welcome to Washington Post live in another special interview for the Texas Tribune festival. My guest is senator marco rubio republican of florida, he has been someone i been covering for over a decade since he first ran for the u. S. Senate back in 2010, senator rubio thank you for being here. Good morning thank you for having me. We are 49 days away from the election, you serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence from that seat, what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference. I think first we have to break up foreign interference in the two categories, one is meddling in the architecture and mechanics of the election and the other is a message and psychological operations and warfare designed to get us to divide against each other, let me talk about the second one in terms of putting
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