[Cincinatus' Wife]

James Earl Rudder: ....." Rudder vowed as president of Texas A&M College to transform it from a second-rate school with declining enrollment into a first-class university."

[Exactly the "elevation" of the university and the "system" over the students and their education, that Trowbridge explains in his essay above]

[Clara Lou]

Do you know who James Earl Rudder is? I mean before he came to Texas A&M? Do you know Texas A&M’s condition when Rudder arrived? [This is not a challenge. This is about the “big picture.”]