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

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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

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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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Qradiiatc School FOR many cars the tiraduatf work in the Uni -ersity was siiperxiscd h the riracliiate Course Committee which was organized from the general faculty. The degrees of Master of Science and Master of Arts were the only higher degrees offered. In June, 1910, the board of Regents created the Graduate School to be administered by the general faculty acting through a committee known as the Graduate Council, of which the Dean of the Graduate School was ex-ofticio Chairman. The degree of Doctor of Philosophj ' was added to the list of higher degrees conferred by the Universit - after the organization of the Graduate School. Two years ago the legislature, responding to a request of the Board of Regents, appropriated a special sum of money for the organization of a separate graduate facult)-. This faculty met in its first formal session on November 12, 1925, after its complete organization in the summer of 1925. Now super- vision of all graduate work of the University is under the jurisdiction of this faculty. A new era in the development of the graduate work of the University has thus been inaugu- rated with ever},- promise of rapid and solid expansion. For the purpose of encouraging higher scholarships and research, the sum of .f5,000 for each year of the biennium of 1925-1927 w as appropriated by the Board of Regents to be used for fellowships and scholarships under the jurisdiction of the Graduate Faculty. In addi- tion to these fellowships and scholarships, the following fellowships have been founded by private citizens of the state; The Walden-Beard Fellowship, with a stipend of $2,000 annually given by Mr. J. J. W ' 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 11,000, established in the memory of their son by Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Hiram Reed of Austin; the Louis Lipsitz Fellowship, with a stipend of .$1,000 for each of the scholastic years 1927-1928 and 1928-1929, given by Mr. Louis Lipsitz, President of the Harrls-Lipsitz Company of Dallas; and the Texas Portland Cement Company Fellowship with a stipend of $600 for the school year, 1926-1927. i De. n Harper Page 19 Top row — Cunningham, Gray Middle row — Painter, Campbell Bottom row — Battle, Harper, B. rker