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

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w LFD m X ± r XIT CO 96 e- (X r X. T 7K CD 1 -rv. f §a OC X-0 e DX XXX A- e- x-x MO DD AX GD B- A ' H- lll- X9 33 =X D= GUTSCH DODD Miller Sims Battle BOYSEN Pearce Thorpe an Brown Casteel )Cieiices Griffith LOCHTE The student body began in 1883, divided into Academs and Laws, 58 Academic girls, 111 Academic boys, and 52 Law boys. There were six Academic professors, and two in Law. What is now called the College of Arts and Sciences was called Academic Department, 1883- 1891, and Department of Literature, Science, and Arts, 1891-1906. College of Arts was the next name until Sciences crept into the title in 1920-1921. From six (what are now called) departments in 1883, teaching eight subjects, there have grown 19 departments in 1928, teaching about forty major subjects of human knowledge. Phi- losophy, Psychology, Economics, Government, Sociology, Business Administration, and An- thropology, for example, have all grown out of one original department. From six professors, the voting faculty has grown to 115, plus 75 instructors and 127 tutors and assistants; and the student body from 160 to nearly 3,500. These last figures do not include Engineering, Education, and everything else except Law that grew out of the original Academic department. In the LInited States, only nine other Colleges of Arts and Sciences are larger. Since 1883, excluding Law, the enrollment in English and Public Speaking has remained close to 16% of the total hourage. The foregin languages have fallen from 32% to 12%; Math- matics from 20% to 8%. The enrollment in the social sciences has grown from 15% to 17%; in the natural sciences from 16% to 21%. Educa- tion, Engineering, Business Administration, and Journalism have gained about what Math- matics and foreign languages have lost. Since 1883, the following degress have been conferred: B. A., 4,731; B. J., 48; B. Lit., 190; B. S., 245; B. S., in H. E., UicA.N Parlin 195; B. S. in Medicine, 78. % BRAND AL M M«FAODEN RANCH fag II

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Cunningham Gray Painter Battle Harper Barker Campbell Graduate School For many years the graduate work in the University was supervised by the Graduate 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-officio Chairman. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was added to the list of higher degrees conferred by the Uni- versity after the organization of the Graduate School. Three 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 faculty. This faculty met in its first formal session on November 12, 1925, after its complete organization in the summer of 1925. Now supervision of all graduate work of the University is under the jurisdicition of this faculty. A new era in the development of the graduate work of the University has thus been in- augurated with every promise of rapid and solid expansion. For the purpose of encouraging higher scholarships and research, the sum of $4,000 for each year of the biennium of 1927-1929 was ap- propriated by the Board of Regents to be used for fellowships and scholarships under the jurisdiction of the Graduate Faculty. In addition to these the following fellowships have been founded by private citizens of the state. The Malcolm Hiram Reed, Jr., Fellowship, with an annual stipend of $1,000, established in the memory of their son by Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Reed of Austin; the Louis Lip- sitz Fellowship, with a stipend of $1,000 for each of the scholastic years 1927-1928 given by the late Mr. Louis Lipsitz, President of the Harris-Lipsitz Company of Dallas; and the Texas Portland Cement Company Fellowship with a stipend of $600 for the scholastic years 1926-1927 and 1927- 1928. The Advisory Board of the Graduate School for 1927-1928 consists of the following members: Professors Harper, Barker, Battle, Campbell, Gray, Painter, and Splawn Dean Harper W LfO ini m dr. XIT CO 96 B- CX ■r T IK n r 1 10 QQ C3 Ct -d oc X-0 ax XXX A- v9 x-x MO DO AX QD B- A° B- W- X9 33 =X Page !I

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Miller Stayton Moore Smith Clayton BOBBITT Brewer DODSON Walker Hildebrand Stumberg Hallen Scliool of Law The School of Law was begun in 1883. During the fifty-five years of its existence, 2,278 graduates have gone out to practice law in every part of Texas, the United States, and other countries. They are to be found in the Texas Legislature, the Governor ' s office, the appellate courts, the United States Senate, House of Representatives, and presidential cabinets. The present school is the result of the thought and planning of faculties and deans who have had the determination to place this school in the class with the half dozen best law schools in the United States. The enrollment for ' the first year was fifty- two. The growth for the next ten years was slow, but the registrat ion now reaches three hundred and twenty-five. The entrance requirements have been raised from time to time, from the beginning when anyone nineteen years old with the equivalent of a high school educa- ation could enter, to the present requirement of three years of college work, including ten pre- scribed courses selected as those best suited for the foundation for legal training. The course of study has been extended from two years to three and the standards for passing examinations made more rigid, until the student who now survives the three hard years of the course and graduates goes out with a knowledge of the principles of law and the ability to do legal thinking that it took a graduate of thirty years ago five or ten years of practice to acquire. The present faculty consists of Ira P. Hildebrand, Dean; W. S. Simkins, D. F. Bobbitt, R. W. Stayton, John E. Hallen, George W. Stum- berg, Leo Brewer, Bryant Smith, A. W. Walker, Jr., Frank B. Clay- ton, and Lucy M. Moore. p Hildebrand W LfO m m ± T O XiT OO 96 a- x r T IK J ' io ' oc x-o e DX m A- e- x-x MO QQ AX QD B- X9 33 =X D= • g gessss