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

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If w- School of Business Administration ' ■m No, HE IS NOT the dean of the School of Busi- ness Administration. He has not even the title of Acting Dean. He holds the position of chair- man of the faculty of the school; and in the absence of a dean — the situation existing during this school year — he is ably carrying on the work ordinarily done in a dean ' s office and is succeeding so well in his duties that both the students and the faculty cannot realize anything but that he is the real dean. E. Karl McGinnis was born May 5, 1887, at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Soon after that date his family moved to Marshall, Missouri. While still a child he spent two years abroad with his father, who was studying both in Leipzig and in Paris. He took a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1907 at Mis- souri Valley College in Marshall. Because of his intense interest in student life, he studied vocational guidance courses at the University of Chicago with the intention of entering that field of work. Also, at different intervals between his teaching and working terms he took law courses at the University of Chicago and received a Doctor of Juris- prudence degree in the summer of 1923. Fortunateh ' , all the students have the opportunity of learning to know Dr. McGinnis, since he teaches the famous required course known as B. A. 23. Because he is able to inspire them to work hard, and go out to do a man ' s job, and to give all a fair deal, he is admired by all the students. Dr. E. Karl McGinnis i i Top row — FiTZGEKALLi, Kehm, Thiimpson, C ' ci.x. Stilken. Simmons, Winston, Bottom rou ' — Smith, McGill, Frazier, McGinnis, Wiliu kn, Wooduriiu.e, Lay RiBBINK li Page 22

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11 m ' - School of Law ' » THE Law Scluiol of tlie InhersitN- of Textis is now enijagetl upon its fort --second conseculi c year of sfiAirc. I- ' rom a humble beginning ' in llic fall ot 188;-5, with a facult - of only two members and an enrollment of tifly-lwo students, it has grown to the present proportions of a student bod ' numbering three hundred and a faculty of ten members. With this numerical increase has come likewise a constant raising of the admission requirements and a proportionate increase in the extent of the curriculum offered and in the standard and amount of work required of the students. Throughout its existence the Law School has been singularh- fortunate in the character of the personnel comprising its teaching staff. The memory of such men as O. M. Roberts, R. S. Gould, John C. Townes, Yancey Lewis, B. D. Tarlton, C. H. Miller, Lauch McLaurin, and many others is cherished today by all who were privileged to stud - under these learned and able preceptors of the law. These men were the pioneers in the field of legal education in the Southwest, and upon the foundation laid by them a greater law school has been erected. Colonel W. S. Simkins, anotherof these great pioneers, has been identified with this institution for the past twenty-seven years. Our beloved Dean, Ira P. Hildebrand, has been one of the leaders in the progress of the Law School for the past nineteen years, and never has this progress been more pronounced than during the past two years under his able guidance and direction as Dean. Newer members of the faculty to whom much credit is due are A. Leon Green, D. F. Bobbitt, and C. T. McCormick. The past year has seen the addition of five new members to the faculty: Professors R. W. Stayton, G. W. Stumberg, J. E. Hallen, A.ssociate Professor A. W. Walker, Jr., and Instructor F. B. Clavton. Professor Stayton was engaged in the practice of law at Corpus Christi for many years and has served as President of the State Bar Association and as a judge on the Commission of Appeals of Texas. Professor Stumberg comes from the faculty of the lTni -ersity of Louisiana Law School and Professor Hallen fro m the faculty of the ITniversity of Kansas Law School. Associate Professor Walker and Instructor Clayton are both graduates of the llniversity of Texas Law School and have practiced law in Dailas and E! Paso respectively. De. n II1LDEBR.A.ND Top roli. ' — V. LKER, StCMBERG, iMcCoRMICK, H. LLEN, Cl. ' yton, Bobbitt Bnltom row — Hildebrand, Connerly, Moore, Dodson, Stayton, Green ' i i iSI i Page 21

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m ' - School of Engineering ' M IN THE second year of the I ' niversity, session of 1884-85, a start was matle in tlie teacliing of engineering. At that time it was attached to the School of Mathematics under a subhead of Applied Mathematics. From 1S84 to 1889 Pure Mathematics and Engineering were combined into one school under the title of School of Pure and Applied Mathematics. In 1889 Applied Mathematics was set up as a separate depart- ment; from 1888 to 1896 the whole work was given by Dean T. U. Taylor, who taught all the classes in Engineering field work and drawing. In 1903 Electrical Engineering was added, but little progress was made in that subject until the Engineering Building was erected in 1904. From 1904 to 1912, degrees were offered only in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mining Engineering. In 1914 Architecture M-as added and later the Department of Mechanical Engineer- ing was created. In 1895 the General Faculty passed an order recom- mending that the regents create the Department of Engineer- ing, making it co-ordinate with the Law Department; but it was not regularh- organized into a department until the Houston administration in 1906, when Dean Taylor was made Dean of the Department of Engineering. . . When the School of Mines was located in El Paso, the University gave up the work m Mmmg Engineering in favor of El Paso. At the present time degrees are offered in Architecture, Archi- tectural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engmeering, and Mechanical Engineering. Since the organization of the School the foUowmg number of degrees have been conferred: Architecture, 63; Chemical Engineering, 46; Civil Engmeermg, 320; Electrical Engineering, 365; Mechanical Engineering, 54; Mines, 16; making a total of 764 degrees conferred. Olf this total 753 degrees were taken by men and 11 by women. In 1920 the name of the Engineering Department was changed to College of Engmeermg. One interesting feature of the history of the department is the fact that only one rich boy ever graduated with an Engineering degree. Graduates of Engineering have taught on the faculties of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, University ol Illinois, and Uni- versity of California, in addition to those on the faculties of different colleges of Texas. Thomas Ulvan Taylor Dean Page 23 Top roii)— FouRAKER, VosPER, Reming, King, Cleveland, White Second roic— McLaurin, Robertson, Gafford, Helwig, Farris, McNeill Third roii ' — Granger, Allen, Tre. t, Stewart, Rowe, Ramsay, Vallance Bottom ro ' ci ' — Finch, Bantel, Giesecke, Taylor, Weaver, Correll