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THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PREFATOKV REMARKS £HK .u ' cntk ' ro.idcr may iidt L ' xpcct tci lind licrcin an accurate analysis of the forces and spirit tliat ti o to make up the personality of the University of Texas. For if one sets about to define a I ' niversity, he is driven at last to confess that it is not the lioard of Reg-ents, not the Faculty (thoug-h wlio docs not recall individual members vh i have lieliexed tliat they consti- tuted it in cifc ct In (» •!; it is not the buildinii-s, e |uip- ment, laboratories; it is not e en the students them- selves. It is neither one nor all of these. It embraces while it transcends them. It is the unification around some one great idea — often embodied almost in perfec- tion in a single commanding- personality — which is a touchstone emitting- the white light of truth, a magnetic center of attraction, overwhelming in power, and moving always in straight lines of resistless persistence. The University of Texas has developed its bent. Its ideal object can hardly be said to have been individ- ualized. Our hero stands revealed only in misty out- lines. Possibly he is wise in thus slowly revealing him- self. He is very young — seventeen, come September. These last few years he has grown fast. ' IMie safest vent for his g-reat strength has not been found. He often mistakes enthusiasm for high purpose, sound for sense, noise for arg-ument. But one may feel sure that some day he will stand, clean of limb and possessed of high ideals, in clear and beautiful perfection, worthy of our devotion, because love and sacrifice gave him birth; and when he comes he will have his lips touched w ith the fire of truth and honor, and in his heart there shall be a fountain of perpetual youth. W, h-ure until it is m lave said witii some 1 flairs at the I ' niver- -oiiiiwliat proud and ■rlt, the University accuracy represents the tat sity of Texas. Young and 1 arrogant, tinctured with sc spirit, which does g-ive personality to this academic body, has developed more or less definite lines of growth that serve to indicate what it will become when its sinews are streng-theaied by timi ' . its character hardened by the fire of criticism, and its s iul ]iui-)4-e(l in the crucible of experience. If hints w ill serve, tlespile the close per- spective from which the subject must be viewed, we hope to show in brief outlines what characteristic feat- ures individualize the personality of the University of Texas. If we succeed in doing this, you will have seen the University ; for a personality is only a collection of ideas endeavoring to find comjilete realization in one trreat master ideal. LOCATION AND HISTORY Bel the field of description it may be well to refer brielly t i the location and history of the University. l ' orty years before the foundations of the Main University were laid. President Lamar selected the present site at Austin. The hill on which now stand the Main Building, University Hall, and the Chemical Laboratory was then covered with large liveoak trees. During the Civil war, when the Federals had captured ston, a body of Confederate troops cut down these (ialv because th; of an army engineer much of beautv and gi the listructions to the efense of the city. :1 have been added
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VTIV ' Hi M mpus b 1- 1ki The g-erm from whiL-b tlir rni cr it y c budded and bloomed a plaiiU ' il in the 1 )L ' Llai-atlMn of Texas Independence, jn-onuiljiated on tbr secdiid day ni March, 183(), wherein the Mexican (nnernnient wa-- in- dicted for failing- to establish a system of imhlic ed- ucation. The vicissitudes in the growth of this idea reached their final culmination in 1881, when the crown of the system — our beloved University — was estab- lislu-d and it- maintenance provided for. To us who realize the henelils ,.t coeducation it seems stran.ye that our fathers should have been so fearful of the results of an institution for both sexes. For a long time it was argued that Texas should have two Universities, one for each sex, and that one should be located in the western and the other in the eastern portion of the State. One man at least lived then who saw truly. He successfully fought liotb these ideas in the State Senate, and thus forever wiped out sectional lines in Texas; besides se- curing to the sexes that freedom which is essential to the larger and nobler development that comes from in- tercourse untrammeled bv restrictions which find their home in tlie prai Minien of the insti it- i rowtb. prou lor- over their ma val alumni; Ibev s Tht :es of the dark ages lion have materially contrib- — . and glory. They have competitors; they make our lid for wliat is pure and liolv; and in all things they have demonstrated their right to equal privileges with men. Their number has always ct)nstituted about one-fourth of the matriculates. Seventeen years ag-o the University opened its doors to 200 students. The enrollment for the current session has reached 908; and if one adds to this number the ma- triculates in the summer school of 18 ' )9, it is found that almost 1100 students have attended some branch of the University durini - the past twelve months. Its instruct- ors and administrative officers have increased from 13 to S3. IJuildinys have sprung up; laboratories have been ei|ui| ]ied; two larg ' e College dormitories have been jn-oxided; ] iil)Hc sentiment has been centered and uni- fied, until what bad Ijeen regarded as a mere accident in the ]ii-oi;-ress of the State has come to be looked upon b - the people as an integral and necessarv part of the great Commonwealth of Texas. Instruction is offered in the following departments: Literature. Science and Arts, Law, Medicine, Engineer- ing. In the Department of Medicine are included the Schot)ls of Pharmacy and Nursing. This Department is located at Galveston. The Academic, Law, and En- gineering Departments are located at Austin. The principal part of the instruction at Austin is given in the main building of the University. It contains nearly loo rooms, and is one of the handsomest buildings in the State. The urgent need of a building for young women, providing gymnasium facilities, and where in- struction can be offered in music, painting, sculpture, the domestic arts, and allied subjects; a fire-proof library building; a gymnasium for men; special build- ings for the Schools of Engineering and Physics, — these are only a few of the material equipments which a generous hearted people will shortly supply for the usl- of its sons and daughters in their efforts to in- crease the standards of citizenship. CONTROt AND GOVERNMENT For thirteen without a head. ' the responsibilitii ing powers. Thi Leslie Wagener. In 1896 the Board of Regents called ars the University was practically ' be Chairman of tlie Faculty had all . of a j)resident without correspond- position was long ably filled by Dr.
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