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

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To the Students of the UniA ' ersity: Another year has gone. For some of you it has been your first year in the University. For many of you it has been another year of growth and progress. For those of you who are graduating it has been perhaps your last year at school. Whatever may be your class or school, each individual among you has contributed something toward the record of the year 1926-1927. Some have contributed little; others have contributed more. Just what has been done and just who have been the doers, you, yourselves, have undertaken to set down in your own way and in your own book. So much is contained in your book that for each of you it will have a different meaning. What one will pass over, another will dwell upon in happy memory. What one will ignore, another will cherish. Looking to the time when you will use your Yearbook to assist you in reminiscences of your University days, I can but wish for all of you a future of increasing usefulness and happiness. Sincerely yours, Walter M. W. Splaw , President. Page 17

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PRIOR to 1528 very little was known of Texas. None but Indians had seen or explored tkis vast region, and tKe buffaloes and Indians ruled tbe land which was to become Texas free from any interference of the white men. In 1528, a part of an expedition under Narvaez sent to subdue and govern Florida lost its way, and was shipwrecked on the coast of Texas. Cabeza de Vaca, the leader of this detachment, and several of his companions were taken captive by the Indians. For seven years de Vaca and his associates lived among the different Indian tribes as captives, and during this time they had many opportunities to visit parts of the vast region and to learn a great deal about this unexplored country. At the end of that time, four of the men managed to escape to the Christian settlements in Mexico, where they unfolded tales of privation, suffering, and hardships like none that had ever been heard before. The tales of the country, brought by these adventurers, together with a detailed account of the expeditions written by de Vaca shortly after his arrival in Mexico, caused interest to be aroused in the great country to the northwest. Niza, a Span- ish priest, Coronado, and De Soto lead expeditions to Texas from time to time but no settlements of a lasting character were made. The Indians re- mained in undisputed control of Texas until near the close of the seventeenth century.

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M, 1 1 iti lioard of Ti gents OFFICERS Henry J. Lutcher Stark Chairman R. L. Batts Vice-Chairman Carroll D. Simmons Secretarv vv REGENTS Terms Expire 1929 Edward Howard Wichita Falls ' ' tl B R. G. Storey Dallas Terms Expire 1931 Sam Neathery McKinney Henry J. Lutcher Stark Orange Marcellus E. Foster Houston Lutcher Stark Chairman Appointed 1927 R. L. Batts Austin Will C. Hogg Houston Robert L. Holliday El Paso Mrs. H. J. O ' Hair Coleman m Top row — SiM.MONs, Holliday, Storey Sitting — Batts, Foster, O ' Hair, Stark, Neathery, Howard, Splawn It Page IS