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

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Graduate School m ' ' ■m I • i ; J ORIGINALLY graduate work in the L niversity was super- vised b ' a committee of the general faculty known as the Graduate Course Committee, the degrees of Master of Science and Master of Arts being the only higher degrees offered. In June, 1910, the Board of Regents createtl the Graduate School to he administered by the general facult - acting through a committee known as the Graduate Council, of which the dean of the Graduate School was ex-officio chairman. With the organization of the Graduate School the degree of Doctor of Philosophy ' was added to the list of higher degrees conferred by the University. The last legislature, generousl y responding to a request of the Board of Regents, made an appropriation for the organization of a separate graduate faculty. This faculty- was organized with forty- nine members during the summer of 1925, and met in its first formal session on November 12, 1925. Henceforth super- vision of all graduate work in the L ' ni •ersity is to be delegated to this faculty. A new era in the de% ' elopment of the graduate work of the University has thus been inaugurated with every promise of rapid and solid expansion. For the purpose of encouraging higher scholarship and research, the Board of Regents has appropriated the sum of $5,000 for each year of the biennium 1925-1927 to be used for fellowships and scholarships under the jurisdiction of the graduEite facultv. In addition to these Regential fellowships and scholarships, the following fellowships have been founded bv pri -ate citizens of the state: The W ' alden-Beard Fellowship, with a stipend of $2,000 annually, given by Mr. J. J. ' alden, General Manager of the Southwestern Engraving Company, and Mr. Roy j. Beard, President of the Star Engraving Company, both of Fort Worth; the Malcolm Hiram Reed, Jr., Fellowship, with an annual stipend of $1,000, established in memorv of their son bv Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Hiram Reed of Austin; and the Louis Lipsitz Fellowship, with a stipend of $1,000 for each of the scholastic years 1926-1927 and 1927-1928, given by Mr. Louis Lipsitz, President of the Harris-Lipsitz Lumber Company of Dallas. Dr. Henry Winston Harper, as Dean, has had charge of the graduate work in the University for the past twent ■-fi -e years. Lender his efficient guidance this work has been based upon sound scholarship, and the numbers enrolled have steadily increased. The total enrollment this year is over three hundred, of which number fifty-five students are pursuing work beyond the Master ' s degree. During the summer session of 1925 there were 481 enrolled in the Graduate School and 81 higher degrees were conferred at the August commencement. ' ii Henry Winston Harper, Sr., Bean W ' p ■ V . CAMPBELL Harper Cunningham Painter Page 19 ili «fl

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H! M ' - Board of Regents im OFFICERS Henry J. Lutcher Stark Chairman Marcellus E. Foster .... Vice- Chairman Carroll D. Simmons Secretary Stark, Chairman REGENTS Terms expire January, 1927 Mrs. H. J. O ' Hair Coleman S. C. Padelford Ft. Worth Mart H. Royston Galveston Terms expire January, 1929 Ed vard Howard Wichita Falls R. G. Storey Dallas George W. Tyler Belton Terms expire January, 1931 Marcellus E. Foster Houston Sam Neathery McKinney Henry J. Lutcher Stark Orange HF ;7) K, H K - aj II 1 P H - — H 14 1 nJ W l PiHT II I B K t Rn P ' H AIHkv w uBr. l . 1 H ' .r 1 1 i 1 K i iJ Ij 1 Bff . R ' 1 i M To ) row — Foster, Storey, Howard, Royston Boltom row — Padelford, Splawn, Stark, Ne. thery Page IS it a

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w- College of Arts and Sciences m Bi 1,1 THE College of Arts and Sciences for this session has re- mained under the general direction of Dean Benedict, assisted by Dean Parlin, and there ha e been fe ver changes of importance in its work or its polic ' than ha -e been neces- sary in the Graduate School, which has drawn its faculty largely from those who are also in the College of Arts and Sciences. Changes have come with abolition of certain departments, perhaps temporarily, with certain modifica- tions in the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Journalism de- gree requirements, and with new regulations concerning the dropping of students who fail in their courses. As a result of Go •ernor Ferguson ' s -eto of certain items in the L ' niversity Apropriation Bill last spring the Board of Regents were forced to abolish three departments, viz., Journalism, Music, and Library Science. Music and library science forthwith disappeared from the curriculum, and the teachers of those subjects went elsewhere. Two of the four teachers of journalism, including Professor W. H. Mayes, who had directed the department since its foundation, also left the employ of the university. But after strong petitions were presented by prospective candidates for the journalism degrees, the Board of Regents found it possible to retain Professor P. J. Thompson in the School of Business Administration in order to offer journalism courses, to have other courses offered by Professor Hornaday, Lecturer McGill, and the English department, and to have the degree of Bachelor of Journalism administered by Dean Benedict. These changes made necessary slight modifications in the requirements for this degree as certain required courses were no longer oft ' ered. Substitutions of courses in Economics, English or Government for former journalism courses were allo.ved for this year onh ' . Whether more radical changes are made in future years, or the department is re-established and the degree put on a firm basis, remains to be seen. At the same time the College of Arts and Sciences slightly liberalized the requirements in certain major groups for the Bachelor of Arts, and fixed definite dates for examination of seniors in the major subjects. No prospect of abandoning this examina- tion is visible. Dean Benedict : ' - Top row — C. P. P.. TTERSON, W. A. FeLSING, J. L. BOYSEN, M. R. GUTSCH, E. L. DODD, G. W. CUNNINGH. M Middle row — R. Thomas, F. L. WniTiNEY, D. B. Casteel, Mary E. Gearing, E. Griscom, J. E. Pearce, C. M. Cleveland Bottom row — J. B. Wharey, E. T. Miller, V. J. Battle, B. C. Tharp, S. L. Brown, E. R. Sims Paie 20 I