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

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I A 1 ,s gin :isis ...eg were r . ' - r' -2 J ,, - r A '- - . fr ' ix- 'I'- W 'IW QT? .499 X' 'tiff X ? ez ' Ziff 1254! i pg N- L C is a vol.. 14. CACTUSL - 1907. 1 'xg :B L . V 'if , , Sr X. A Few Facts and Fancies Concerning the - a I. History of the University. 'lisp' I .5 . K , +- i A Q Carefully concealed between the list of Faculty Committees and the paragraph iv 1 on Discipline, one finds in the University Catalogue an Historical Sketch. From this sketch and from other sources are gathered the following facts, which 5 M. have been handled as fancy dictates and not in accord with the rigor that auimates the School of History. A Like Hesiod, we begin at Chaos, finding no Bexar Archives to light our way. I 11 Here fancy reigns, and we see the noble Indian, of tribe unknown, camping under I the live oaks that then adorned our Campus hill. The Indians have gone, the live 5 37' oaks also: one is resurgent in the college yell, the other in the annexed picture. Then came the Republic with plans of mighty men for the welfare of the ' i University to be: and then the Civil War, when the live oaks were cut down to ,- ll prevent a Northern fleet from sailing up Shoal Creek. And hence arose the need . XX- of Beck in later years, and Bray cf 111 onznc gwzzfs. 0 N Bare stood our hill for nearly twenty years and silent save for the tinkling - bell borne by the sleek bovine. Then came the bricklayer, and straightway arose the West Wing, 1 t into which professors and students moved in I january, 1884. The University had opened for I -1 ' its first session on September 15, 1883, in the ' Temporary Capitol, since burned to the ground. This building stood on the vacant lot opposite M' the Travis County Court House. . jx 1, So few were the students in those days that K Ng Laws and Engineers and Academs dwelt in har- . v mony in one wing of the present building, after ,233 the fashion of dog and owl and snake in a prairie- 'X dog hole. The Laws occupied rooms 61 and 63, '11 I and the Engineers the region now sacred to Si- ' X, monides and Duessen's whiskers. In 1889 the ' ,, N central part of the main building was built, and the University, mindful of the advice to put Satan under your feet, located the Laws in the 'll region now sacred to Howser and his aerial wld N N y A K--H artists. The Library remained in the large ,, -, I V room now governed by Mrs. Kirby and the Y. l I W. C. A.,but the Engineers moved to Windsor's S I 5 2 present quarters, standing, as they thought, ' 1 ll L'. ., '57 above the Laws. In 1898 the East NVing was if built, and the upper regions thereof invaded P - by bugs and weeds and pedagogues, who have remained to this day. The Laws were moved fi? horizontally but not vertically, and continued 'QV to be the lowest members of society, as view- Wm ed by the Engineers, or the very basis of societv , ' H ee as viewed by themselves. ' V o ,,. Q , vi, . 1 . ' I R 'X E J? lxkxf' . ,n as '-as 1 ' .Y Q tx xx v 4 r L ' 'Q f, P 7,1 ll- I I - If My -fttvtiwt, - 'WJX- if - p Jw X ia-V HQ .QTVV .- IS! 1 affix Zfjx' 'LJ X4 ' ' 'VJ SQ! u -4 ., 'S We 'E K1 N' x .bi 1 .-gr .Q I . af, it 41 ,B ' fx 4231 faith :fi1!b,L':NQJ .Qs U .- A N 1. L F. , Gr. lug' - 'My 85511 l zweq JO ix . is - of A, if Q 3 , wx, 1 I X J. Li 'QE at I il 'I ' , . oi CE qv :J A 4 N, I X I' M I N - mt. J CN dit i r Qilit

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P . VOL 14. CACTUS 1907 n J V-P' Lb ' cus- av Lp Q Ju fd ' 'f' - ff' ' 4 , I I L, I Lx: If J YA J . 1-1 , 2 r l I , K 'fc .: I, ,li N! 3 mf,?I5g aff X9 lggtxxx Hfiif X gg ' 27: N infix: ' SX ,' be n u QM rf H VC: X , ffm :J If . 5 -I I K. fc, 'Q 5 ' li! I ug 0 ww. I 5' . ' '7 'A AClH11I'l1StI'I:1t1VC Qfficers. 'J ff . UF flf i w . DAVID FRANKLIN HoUsToN, M.A., LL.D., ' i, President. ' . Yu, -I 5 JAMES BENJAMIN CLARK, B.A., 3 Proctor and Secretary of the Main University at Austin. Q Xi I. x :H . L. HENDERSON, MA., B.A., 57 ' 6 X J , ,+A 1 0 N i Inspector of Affiliated Schools. ' ' Ti. WILSON WILLIAMS, 9 Registrar of the Main University. , mg 1 9 X. ' 'P Rt,JI3ERT E. LEE SANER, LL.B., 1, ,Q Land Agent. 1 LX : CHARLES B. WINN, I fig Xt . Auditor. S 0 5 , L I 'I ,gi BEN. M. BARKER, X5 A I A Bookkeeper. 547 I 2 .1 if ,fv W. L. CooK, ll I Secretary to the President. '-' N 1? F31 lx SFIOHN B. MARSHALL jx ' h X . ecretary to the Dean. JJ j. J. D. CoBB, ' N gistrar. fl A .7 I Assistant Re ' I ir .P JV! I ' ' .I X 5 lv X its If fi? if 1 vi, JOY' Qifyag s ' lf .-' 1 4 MN df Q , Q ., 14 47 .P it ., . .- - X ,L l J? W- I N 'Q V s ing.. . . A . I . .rt X Wf NQ'l?iD2S4 3 .,+,f?g' V.?6fff' ,Mg 1. wif - rf 'WJ N wi f I .ff ' If ' Jfijvx X :RJ Ib..

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ew assi as ati? as Lf T NTL. v 4 J f T Xxx '- T I -' E 1 ' V - 5 1 5 ' . ff- Q .Dy Ji X 'I 'All X' - I 1 A : I K - A 'A QQ A 'gan XS? 'if X7 59 X ref' X X as as 494' A J a ,gf f .li . fy t 'f fa Q-' if 'D r HT ffllfill 1 all 6 ix I A , 2 tit, l M lf '. 1 'H N I 01 I limi lt! ily.. X , ii. 4. 1' uf 'lf 5 at lillll 1. xii L gl. . .1 ll . L 9, x ,u v - 1- -1- L NN, gk 19652 if 3 lt. fill xi, VOL. 14. CACTUS. 1907 In 189o I5 Hall was built, being opened in December on the European plan with Beck as steward. To accommodate an in creasing swarm of P. E. C.s and Rusty Cuggeg this building was enlarged in 1899. A' , into its history it is not proper for masculine eyes to pry. To accommo date the Engi -., 1 ne e rs, growin' great collectivelj and individuallj tin their own estimationj, the Engineering Built' i11g was built in 19o4. Steam, smoke, gas, ant hot air are there studied in great detail. 'r ' ,'-fe-8-4 ., - Jie' i Q. I . . V To accommodate the increasing hosts of th' tribe of Leges, an elegant building is now being constructed on the southeastern corner of the Campus. This building will be ready for occupancy during the session of 19o7- 1908 As memory turns to days long past, it is recalled that Chemistry used to dwell in those lower regions where Mather now dashes backwards and forwards, but the odors that it generated so affected the upper floors that a compassionate Legis- lature built the Chemical Laboratory in 1892. Since then Schoch has made H. S by the wholesale, and enjoyed himself exceedingly. In ancient times the Literary Societies flourished greatly, and it was quite the v thing to take a girl to hear the pre-Shurterian orators howl. There beinff neither oysters nor ice cream near the University, this was a comparatively inexpensive form of amuse- ment, rivalling VVednesday night prayer-meet- lllg. 15' The question often comes to the student Er: f ' I I -ia t X, 1 I I F7 '+ 1 u ai Y X I I I Y ,jf 1-ig? ,gf A X . 1, Q A 5 .' fx uf ':L.v. Ag.. ' , r 4 T? '-2' .- ' 1 ' 1 I T if N' - 4- , l 1 l 14.4 -H' :Lg .,J-1'- 'T .' 57' lg -,f flu. fi 1 ,. . if V ' r 1 x . 7. 1 v s 'X f I fl . ff 411 ' P I 1? 'ix X 1- , , .3 ' - ' -1 , ,x I ,fi 1 ., fl ffl .1 In 19113 the lVom1n's Building Yarosef but .f I F If E :Q-. ygylli E M . rfb ., N ' ,E all gf -6 2 . ff I A mga O 7 of to-day, VVhat is the origin of THE C1xcT11s, the yell, the 'Varsity colors, the Peripatos, etc.? The first CAcTL's was planned for 1893, and named by Frank VVeleh, of Taylor, the Editoreineehief. This edition, however, failed to appear, so 1894 marked the first production of this important annual. The'.'Varsity colors and the Hullaballoo yell were adopted in 1891. The T. U. Taylor T-Y-ty yell first saw the darkness one night on Twenty-second Street in 1892. The far-famed Peripatos, the moonlight walk of lovers, was begun and nam- ed by Prof. Thomas Fitzhugh, Dr. Fay's pre- decessor. Dr. S. C. Red, of Houston, was the first graduate of the College of Arts, 1885. He was the whole cheese that year. Miss Jessie Andrews, now Instructor in German, was the first woman graduate, 1886. 16 f? 'vi-, J 5. ,v FE: ,,r , M 1. I. . rf l AJ- , 3 :fl 5 '1 gf 'J - l '1 l. if, f .F 1' 3 . Q -, -Q n K In A -K A P ...E -936. if is itz A Qfvfwq lliiil at X It ...ff is ,iw fe 4 flex we w'Q:.1ff-' T A 'If' If' iv 1' ' J , I' fff .7121 i .fi .6 S .