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

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=ccngncu= ARCHIE D. GRAY President of the Student Body OKe CACTUS)]

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ADMINISTRATION ROBERT ERNEST VINSON, B. A., D. D., LL. D., President of the University of Texas, is known to all students of the University, to all others in Texas, and to most of the United States, as an adminis- trator and educator. Ernest Vinson, the man, is little known. A lover of sports, he drops his fly accurately when he fishes for a trout or grayling in a clear stream, and on the golf course his opponent must be at the top of his game if he is to win. While he has been heard to address a hooked trout in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, and English, he has also been seen to keep a profane silence when, as the best golfers may, he misses an eight-inch putt. A lover of books, his taste in read- ing is catholic, ranging from the penny dreadful to the deepest polemics of theology; his judgments thereon are accurate and dis- criminating, and what of value they offer is his for all time. A lover of life and of the true things of life, he weighs and values their phrases accurately and justly, and, with a smile on his face, goes in the way of a gentleman simple and pure. A lover of men, he gives, with infinite tact, all that he has and all that he is, to forward the highest ideals of thinking and of living in those with whom he can find a point of con- tact. An humble lover of his Master and minister of His gospel, he meets the daily adventures of living firm in the conviction of the cer- tainty and justice of that Master ' s judgment, and content to have them passed on him. As he would be judged he judges others. So does he live for what he is, a Christian gentleman of the best type. —W.A. R.

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THE Students ' Assembly is the legislative branch of the Students ' Associa- tion, an organization composed of every bona fide student of the Main University for the purpose of self-government. The Assembly represent ' - the student body, and consists of the president and vice-president of the Students ' Association and twenty students elected from their respective departments and schools. The Assembly enacts all laws pursuant to the Constitution of the Students ' Association for the general welfare of the student body, and is subject to the will of the students by virtue of a provision for the initiative and refer- endum on any of its measures. Among other important measures, it provides for a Social Calendar Committee, which controls all student celebrations and social functions and stipulates that all new organizations other than those ot national character must be approved by the Assembly before their formal appear- ance. Thus the Students ' Assembly provides lor practically all the exigencies thai have arisen in the past and foresees those likely to arise in the future, removing responsibility from the faculty and placing it in the hands of the stu- dents themselves. Archie D. Gray .... President Ira I. Allen . Katrixa Kirby H. H. Allen Bruce Bledsoe Robert G. Bledsoe Katiiryx R. Cochran Robert A. Collins Anne I.. Dennis Howard P. Green Henry A. Handrick Bennie W. Kempe Wiii i wt I.. Kemper . Vice-President Secretary | M k Logan Hi wrick I.yit.h Kenneth M. McCalla I ' .l GENl M VRSH 1.L John S. Mavi iei.d Richard W. Pettwa |. H. POL! Kl R. B. Prai i M rii Smi ni Carrie Bell Thomas Top row: Collins, Ilamhiek. Allen. Green, McCalla, Kemper Middle row: R. Bledsoe, Pratt, Pollard, Allen, Kempe, B. Bledsoe, Mayfield Bottom rmo: Thomas, Marshall, Cochran, Gray, Lytle, Smith, Kirby