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re: What's the most recognizable landmark on your campus?
Posted on 12/25/12 at 7:38 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Posted on 12/25/12 at 7:38 am to UFownstSECsince1950
Bridge overlooking Sanford Stadium.
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Posted on 12/25/12 at 7:41 am to scrooster
Thanks for posting the picture of Capstone. When went to Carolina, I had an office near there in Gambrell and my girlfriend lived in Capstone. OK that was 30 years ago. Maybe 32 by now.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 9:40 am to TigersOfGeauxld
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when it boasted more officers on active duty than any other institution in the nation other than the military academies.
That's actually a false statement. A&M put more officers on active duty during WW2 (over 20,000), even more than USMA. They would graduate them in one year and send them immediately to the front.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 9:42 am to CGSC Lobotomy
Posted on 12/25/12 at 12:17 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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That's actually a false statement. A&M put more officers on active duty during WW2 (over 20,000), even more than USMA. They would graduate them in one year and send them immediately to the front.
I'm going to need a link for that. As I understand it, ATM produced more than the military academies during WWII, but still less than LSU.
LSU produced over 15,000 officers, ATM just over 14,000.
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During World War II, Texas A&M even outpaced the military academies by commissioning 14,123 officers.
Texas A&M: The Military College of Texas
Remember, LSU was just as much of a military school as ATM was back then.
And every school graduated officers in one year at that time. Towards the end of the war you even had what was known as "90 day wonders"...officer candidates who graduated in ninety days.
This post was edited on 12/25/12 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:11 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Can you provide a link that says LSU had 15,000 commissioned officers? I found this which says only 5000 former students served as officers.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:18 pm to graychef
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Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:29 pm to Monsters and Men
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Can you provide a link that says LSU had 15,000 commissioned officers? I found this which says only 5000 former students served as officers.
The only link I have is this one:
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LSU's military history began more than 150 years ago when the university opened under Superintendent William Tecumseh Sherman and was never more evident than during World War II, when it boasted more officers on active duty than any other institution in the nation other than the military academies.
LSU Salutes Proud Military History
The 15,000 figure comes from “When Boys Began to Leave:” Louisiana Recalls WWII, a collection of oral histories.
Williams Center Podcast
Perhaps the term "active duty" is the difference?
As far as which school produced more, ATM only says it produced more than the service academies, while LSU says it produced the most, period.
This post was edited on 12/25/12 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:30 pm to JDM1992
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Georgia will post deceiving pictures, but their campus is so disorganized and there are so many ugly buildings.
This is the absolute truth. Traveling on that campus is a huge PITA, and outside of a couple of buildings, it's far from picturesque.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 1:56 pm to RandyVandy
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Vandy just wasn't as nice as I wanted it to be. I guess I expected an Ivy League campus for some reason, and was disappointed. I think Alabama, LSU, and Florida have the prettiest campuses
Not all Ivy League campuses are all that pretty anyway.
For example, Columbia's library is pretty and it is in a neat part of town, but the campus itself is just so so. It's nothing too remarkable. Same goes for Harvard. It has a lot of history and all that, but the buildings on Harvard Yard are very nondescript (granted, they're something like 400 years old, but that doesn't automatically make them some beautiful works of architecture).
Some of the prettiest campuses I've seen are not Ivy League campuses.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 5:09 pm to JDM1992
quote:word. that part of campus has really nice buildings. some of them i posted already:
It's really the older part of Florida's campus that I absolutely love
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the rest of UF's campus is texas a&m-ish architecture wise. it's still pretty though, since most of those buildings are hidden behind lots and lots of big-arse trees. texas a&m doesn't have trees. the campus looks like leningrad.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 5:27 pm to Tolbert1906
Not totally SEC related, but just out of curiosity, how do UF's and FSU's campuses compare to one another?
Posted on 12/25/12 at 5:46 pm to Jefferson Davis
quote:they look similar. both campuses were designed by the same architect. both campuses have ugly buildings from the cold war era. UF is just way bigger in size and has more historic buildings. FSU has a surprisingly tiny campus located in a really crappy area.
Not totally SEC related, but just out of curiosity, how do UF's and FSU's campuses compare to one another?
Posted on 12/25/12 at 5:50 pm to genro
It was built by boosters and named after George Denney to convince him not to leave UA.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 5:53 pm to genro
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On UA's campus you'll see a discolored smokestack building, it's actually kind of an eyesore. But the reason it's there is because it is the only building that survives from before the Civil War, during which the Yankees burned down Alabama's campus.
Seriously?
The smokestack was not a Civil War relic and it was torn down several years ago. The only buildings on campus that survived the war are: the president's mansion and its slave quarters, the Druid City School of Nursing Building, Maxwell Observatory, and the roundhouse next to the library.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 6:42 pm to Tolbert1906
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FSU has a surprisingly tiny campus located in a really crappy area.
451 acres, and it's in the hood.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 7:22 pm to Tolbert1906
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FSU has a surprisingly tiny campus
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451 acres
Wow, you're not kidding. That's hard to believe for a school with over 40,000 students.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 7:47 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
The "Singing Silo"
Bell tower in the chapel of memories. Built using brick from Old Main Dormatory, in which a student died when it burned down.
Second? I don't know... Maybe the cheese store.
Bell tower in the chapel of memories. Built using brick from Old Main Dormatory, in which a student died when it burned down.
Second? I don't know... Maybe the cheese store.
Posted on 12/25/12 at 8:14 pm to Tolbert1906
Awesome pics Tolbert.....good to see this thread still going strong
is this pic taken from BHG Stadium?
is this pic taken from BHG Stadium?
Posted on 12/25/12 at 8:19 pm to UFownstSECsince1950
Samford Hall
This post was edited on 12/25/12 at 8:22 pm
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