Arlington State College - Reveille Yearbook (Arlington, TX)

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90 Eager Students - U T Arlington in I 8.95 With a minimum of ingredients-one block of land, a two-story frame building, 85,000 capital, 90 eager students and a handful of faculty-L. M. Hammond and H. W. Trimble fashioned Arlington College in 1895. Seventy- four years and seven name changes later, the college has emerged as The University of Texas at Arlington with 257 acres of land, 338,000,000 worth of facilities, over 400 teach- ers and 12,500 students. As a private school, a military school and finally, a state-supported institution, the school has grown with its sur- roundings. Located in an area whose population has grown from 75,000 to over 2,000,000 in the 74 years of the school's history, UT Arlington can claim a proud heritage of change and growth as well as a promising future as a vitally modern university. In 1970, the school will celebrate its 75th anniversary as an in- stitution of higher learning and its third an- niversary as UTA. E. H. Hereford Student Center was named Ln memory of a former prestdent of what was then Arlington State College The Unwerszty of Texas name was adopted Ln 1967 g I , . .

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Z ' g 2 vi.. pgmp. ,lu Students pause to chat before classes in the Science Building, completed in 1962. The department offers degrees through the Master of Science level.