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When the University of Houston was founded in 1927 as Houston Junior College, the first organized extracurricular activity was the student newspaper. John Bender, a physical education instructor, suggested “The Cougar” for the paper’s name. He thought the cougar symbolized…
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Elisha Marshall Pease, Texas’s 5th and 13th governor and public servant, was born to Lorrain Thompson and Sarah (Marshall) Pease on January 3, 1812, at Enfield, Connecticut. After attending Westfield Academy in Massachusetts, he clerked in a general store and…
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