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

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PAGE Dedication 1 Foreword Opposite Calendar 12 Board of Regents 15 Administrative Officers 16 The Faculty 19 The Classes 40 Fraternities.. 139 Clubs 183 PAGE Literary Societies 197 Musical Organizations 209 Student Organizations 217 Publications . 233 Final Ball 243 Athletics 249 The Swell Set Magazine 269 Literature 341 Advertisements 407

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year, he was called to the newly established University of Texas as pro- ' fessor of English Literature and Histor}-. Subsequently (in 1888) this I chair was divided, and Professor Waggener retained English Literature j only. For ten years, he was also Chairman of the Faculty, but in 1894, he resigned this position. Later, however, on the substitution of the presi- dency for the chairmanship. Dr. Waggener, at the solicitation of the Board of Regents, consented to act as President ad interim, a position that he filled in connection with his professorship during the year 1895- 1896. It was immediately after the commencement exercises of 1896 that his death occurred at Manitou Springs, Colorado, whither he had gone on account of illness. i The L ' nivcrsity of Texas is indebted to Dr. Waggener. more than to j any other man, for its present condition. The services that he rendered during these thirteen years seem really wonderful, viewing them in the light of the present day, and considering the many difficulties under which he labored. These are aptly summarized in the following passage, from an address by Judge E. J. Simkins at the Memorial Services, held at Austin in October, i8g6: This University was formally opened for the admission of students on September 15, 1883. The Legislature met, and it was not long before its hostility was clearly manifested. .. To the new Faculty, composed of strangers, the sentiment against the University was a revelation. They thought it was doomed. The chairman (Dr. Mallet) became irrevocably fixed in his purpose to leave Dr. Brown v.as then placed in the chair; but he, too, quailed before the tempest, and left the State in August, 1884. It was at this dark hour, when the hopes of this institution were trembling in the balance, that Dr. Waggener came to the front, and caught up the reins that had fallen from nerveless hands. -pjjg results of that summer ' s work were that new chairs were established, vacancies filled, new lines of policy decided upon, and the students of 1884 and 1885 gathered in their new University building under a corps of professors as able as any in the South. « -pjig Nineteenth Legislature was more hostile than the preceding one. ♦ The general hostility took the form of destroy- ing the University. In this contest none took so active an interest as the able chairman of the Faculty. As if by intuition he seemed to know where the opposition was gathering, and at all times the refutation of every charge was placed before the friends of the University. Every emergency found him ready, and when, in later years, the enemies of the University, baffled in their plans and recognizing the futility of their warfare upon it, turned upon Dr. Waggener, personally, they found him prepared. WTien they said and did all that malice could invent or slander dictate, he turned not from his chosen pathway, but moved calmly forward, in apparent indifference, until in the very hour of victory, exhausted nature gave way. The incessant mental and physical labor and worry, the cruel attacks and malicious charges that pierced to the quick a soul brave and proud, but tender and sensitive, were more than he could bear. Rallying from the first sickness of June, 1894, after two short years he laid down a life, sacrificed for the Texas University; and while its friends may glory in its present condition and the grand prospects opening before it, let them not forget that it is largely due, under God, to him who lies out in yonder graveyard, still and silent, awaiting the Master ' s call. » »

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% ' ' ' H IS ' OCTOBER. 1904 3 Session opened. 8 Football : Texas 40 ; Texas Christian Univesity o. 12 Freshman Class Meeting. 13 Contest between the Engineers and Laws for the possession of the stand pipe. 20 Grand Football Rally. 21 Football: Haskell 4; Texas o. 27 Football team leaves on its trip. 29 Football returns in auditorium : Texas 29 ; Washington o. NOVEMBER. I Fraternit}- pledge da -. 5 Football returns in auditorium : Chicago 68 ; Texas o. 12 Football: Texas -jO; Oklahoma 10. 15 Freshman Reception at the Woman ' s Building. 19 Sorority pledge day. Exodus of students to Waco. Girl ' s Baby party at the Woman ' s Building. Football: Texas 58; Baylor O. 21 Engineers Annual Banquet at the Driskill. 22 Kappa Kappa Gamma reception at the Driskill. 24 Thanksgiving, Football : Texas 34 ; A. M. 6. Thanksgiving Ger- man at Eighth Street Hall. 29 Huttuts show at the Hancock Opera House. —12—