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LL. D., conferred by Tulane University in llldB. Its effect on the State at larj e is shown by the fact that the hist year of President Houston ' s adniinistriition tlicre were seventy moi ' e apphcants for admission than could be accommodated. No wonder that friends of the A. M. regi-etted to lose a head so active and yet so sane. President Houston has been tco much concerned with administrative work to have time for extensive reseai-ch, but he has nevertheless made publications that have received commendation in the highest quarters. The most considerable is a monograph entitled A Study of Nullification in South Carolina : New York, l Oo. His latest is a paper on Cotton Production, read befoi ' e the American Economic Association in 11104. President Houston was married December 11, 1K95, to Miss Helen Beall, of Austin, a grand-daughter of ,?udge E. B. Turner, long federal judge of the Austin district. They have two children living, David Franklin, Jr.. and Helen Elizabeth, having lost their first child. Duval, at the age of two. President Houston on returning to the University of Texas found it in good condition. To (luote from the University of Texas Record for February: The institution was in a condition of greater solidarity and its wheels running more easily than ever before. The conservative yet progressive administration of President Prather had at once given confidence to the existing Faculty and student body, laid the foundations for active expansion, and brought home to the people of the State a feeling of proprietorship and pride in the University as a real factor in the commonwealth. The path of the new- President, whoever he might be, was marked out for him and, to a great degree, made easy. Pi-esident Houston for his part posses.sed manifest advantages for the vacant post. He was a Southern man, of botli Sdutlicin and Northi ' rn training: a man acquainted with the best University work in America, and withal of large and successful administrative experience. Better yet, he was thoroughly familiar with conditions at the University of Texas, and possessed the regard and confidence of both Faculty and student body. Most of the former had been his colleagues before he went to College Station; the latter still preserved the tradi- tion of his capacity and fairness as Dean of the Academic Department. He did not have to waste time studying the situation, or employ the politician ' s arts to win the University ' s confidence. He began at once therefore to di- rect the institution ' s affairs with a sure hand and the end of his first term shows no false step. He continues the quiet, business-like methods of his predecessor; has introduced no startling novelties; has been ready to hear ad- vice, yet the fruits of his careful thought on educational problems are already beginning to appear. A full an- nouncement of his policy may be expected in his coming inaugui ' al address. In the meantime one thing is .sure: Never were the confidence in the President and hopetullness about the future of the University .so widespread or so d( eply felt as now.
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he was in ett ' ect made dean of the Academic Faculty, but his duties were not clearly detined rmr the title u:iven till IMi--. In those days associate-professorships were for five years, but Pi ' ofessor Houston was niadc lull professor wiien he liad served only two years as Associate. In 1900 came a further recognition of his woilc in lijs appoint ment as Visitor to West Point, along with such men as Congressman Slayden, of Texas, Senator Carter, of Mon- tana, Ex-Senator Manderson, of Nebraska, and General Anson J. McCook. In this capacity he wrote the i-eport of the sub-committee on changes in entrance requirements, making recommendations that subsequently found their way into law. Spoken of for President of the University when President Prather was elected, he continued to hold his double position of Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty till .Tuly 1, IDOi ' . when lie re- signed to become President of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at College Station. Into the details of President Houston ' s work at College Station we cannot enter, but it is worth while to note the progress of the institution in general during his three years ' administration. The legislative appropriation for maintenance when he went to College Station was twenty-five thousand dollars; by the next legislature it was made sixty thousand. The total appioiniation for the two years, ]903-190. ' i, was fixed liy the legislature at three hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars, and, though the Governor cut out one huiiihed thousand of this amount the net sum was far in excess of any previous biennial appropriation. Thoroughgoing repairs were made in the buildings; four new professors ' houses, a new dairy barn, and a textile building were erected; the textile building was provided with twenty thousand dollars worth of machinery, largely without cost to the State; laboratories were equipped in entomology, farm crops, soil physics, electricity, civil engineering and drawing, chemistry and veterinary science, at a total cost of sixty thousand dollars. The new departments were added of animal husbandry and daii-ying, of farmers ' institutes, of textile industry. The teaching staff was increased by the addition of four- teen new professors and instructors. Moreover, the sum of ten thousand dollars annually was secui-ed from the government at Washington for co-operative work in cotton and other crops, bringing the total annual national ap- propriation to fiftj -two thousand five hundred dollars. In all this improvement of plant and facilities the other in- terests of the institution were not neglected. The courses of study were completely overhauled; the general science course was abolished and technical courses only retained. The admission requirements were made equal for all courses, being brought to the standard of the engineering cour.se, which had itself been raised a full year shortly before President Houston went to the college. Last, but not least, student welfare was looked after with great care; sound standards of work and conduct were enforced, and athletics were provided for by the appointment of a Physical Director. One result of this last movement is the rise of the A. M. to be our chief Texas competitor in football. It is needless to comment on such a record of progress. It was recognized in the honorary degree of i
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