re: Tonight, Texas A&M's campus will darken for Silver Taps

Short on time, so I haven't read since page 1. This has probably been said, but A&M was small, all male, and all military for 90 years. The environment in which these things developed is very different than the big, somewhat generic, state school that A&M is today.

My grandfather, L.M. "Diddy" Welch, was class of '25. Not only was A&M small, rural, all male, military, but he went there during prohibition. I can't imagine how boring that must have been. Actually, he had a guy in Navasota who would load a train car with whiskey for them. They apparently were good and loaded much of the time.