University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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XLhc XHuivcveitv of tTcvae OU have here, patient reader, brief glimpses of what is and what ought to be at the University of Texas — pressed leaves and flowers, as it were, from the college herbarium. If you wish to note a few salient features of the environment, foundation, development and present characteristics of this institution, you may find your interest engaged by the outline sketches and epitomes herein contained. If you care for any insight into the student heart, you may get it from thi- liopi-s ami ft-ar- iuvs .nul sorrows, plans and achievements, songs and jests recorded in this volume. Every expressed aspiration is a flash light upon character ; every jest even, a critL-rioii uf temperament and ability. To youth the past is golden-hued, the present significant, the future glorious ; and youth, the wise tell us. is often a truer seer than old age. B-nvivonniciit In the momentous council at which Thomas Jefferson unfolded his plans for the Tnivensity of his State, he maintained the claims of Cliarliitlesville as the site of the pro- posed institution by cxhibiliiig an imp .sing list of octogenarians living in the neighbor- hood. I ven so, the salubrity of Austin might l e manifested in accordauix- with the more piecise statistical methods of to-day, by citiug ofticial rei«)rts which show its death rate to be one of the lowest in the I ' nitetl States. intli.lll INIM nili •TUIUMT HNABI