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a hr i uprrht0ary Olommittrr. Professor D. W. SPENCE. Professor S. E. GIDEON. Professor J. A LOMA Professor C. S. POTTS. Arimntolphgmrnta. The Editors wish to express their indebtedness to the Supervisory Committee for assistance in correcting and compiling manuscript matter. To Professors Lomax, Gideon, and Smith, “The Long Horn” is especially indebted for matter contributed.
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p-esilumt luuuitmt. R. DAVID FRANKLIN HOUSTON, the fifth 1 president of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, to which position he was elected at Waco, Texas, April 7th, 1902, was born in North Carolina, February 16th, 1866. Soon after this time his parents moved to South Carolina, where he lived until his college education was completed. Upon grad¬ uating from South Carolina College in 1887, he was appointed to one of the two tutorships open to the graduates of that year. He taught in South Carolina College for one year, at the same time doing regular graduate work. The same position was tendered him the following session, but he declined it in order to ac¬ cept the Superintendency of the Spartansburg City schools. After holding this situation for three years, he went to Harvard University to pursue graduate work in political science ' and history. During his three years of residence there he held a $500 fellowship nearly all the time. Such positions are awarded for superior attainments and excellence in scholarship. He was president of the Harvard Graduate Club for one year—1893-1894. A call came to him from the University of Texas during the same year. He was elected to the newly created chair of Political Science, and entered on his duties at Austin in the autumn of 1894. Promoted in 1897, he was advanced to the rank of full professor in 1899; and a short time afterwards was made Dean of the Main University. The duties of this position are largely executive. In their discharge President Hous¬ ton demonstrated his fitness for administrative work; through the reputation he acquired here his name was brought before the directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical College. It is hardly necessary to add that neither President Houston nor any of his close friends attempted to influence the board in his behalf. The ofifer of the presidency was spontaneous, and the wis¬ dom of the directors is being daily verified. , Many important changes and improvements have been made since his connection with the College, which we shall recapitulate—not to prove that he is responsi¬ ble for them, for there are many progressive forces at work here, but as indicative of his policy. From this outline one may be able to forecast the future lines 7
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