Texas State College for Women - Daedalian Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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trials of future years. By much persuasion, the different legis- lators were convinced that even “a little here, a little there,” was not only appreciated but needed, and as a result we now have seven buildings instead of one. With this increase in buildings came also a development and beautifying of the college grounds, for which nature had already done so much. Six of the original faculty remain, while the number of members composing that body has increased considerably. The curriculum has been broadened, and has made possible the offer of various kinds of work to students. The entrance requirements have been raised, and an additional year has been added to the regular college course. Within the last four years the course in education, the trades, and the summer courses have been added. But after all, what are all these things without students? And it is the student body which has grown so wonderfully. Not only in number—that is certainly not the greatest thing to be considered— but in dignity, in power and in intellect has growth been manifested. The Y. W. C. A., the Athletic Asso- 12

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A 3u'iu Jffafts (Umirmting tin' tCnUnu' of Industrial Arts © a cold, dreary day in January, eight years ago, the cor- ner stone of our college was laid. Tradition tells us that five thousand people listened to addresses by Hon. A. P. Woldridge, Hon. A. C. Ousley, and President C. T. Work, all of whom pictured the future of this college in colors so bright, that they were almost dazzling. In the anticipation of such a future for the girls of our great State, the dreariness was completely for- gotten, and was never to be recalled in connection with this col- lege. The girls of Texas had a future, an opportunity not real- ized even today. What a splendid movement! Since that time, year after year, changes and improvements of various kinds have been made. In the fall of 1903 the college building opened its doors to one hundred students. It is needless to say, that the first year was a very trying one for the President, but if “the task set before him was one for a giant, he was a giant for the task,” and a strong foothold was secured for facing the ll

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ciation, the Chaparral Literary Society, the M. Eleanor Bracken- ridge Club, the Students’ Association, and the College publica- tions are a few examples of the development steadily going on around us. In 1910 a change occurred in the presidency of the College, and a man whom we have grown to believe in to the fullest ex- tent came to guide us. Under his leadership we can not do other than make a rapid growth, and, most of all, gain the favor and loyal support of the public, on whom the success of our College depends. 13