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

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m 4t; it ' j! Top row, Ic t to rigk — J. D. McFarland; M. B. Reed; Banks McLaurin; M. A. Thomas; J. L. Bruns; C.J. Eckhardt. TliirJ row — M. S. Bowen; S. P. Finch; L. Barclay; B. N. Gafford; Read Cranberry; H. L. McNath. Second rou -R. L. White; W. T. Rolfe; P. M. Ferguson; J. W. Ramsay; J. A. Focht; W. H. McNeill. Bottom row — H. E. Degler; E. C. H. Bantel; R. Everett; T. U. Taylor, Dean of the College; Goldwin Goldsmith; J. A. Correll. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Prior to its establishment as a separate school by the Board of Regents in 1895, engineering courses in the University were given as a branch of the Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences. Engineering was first taught in the session of 1884 ' ' 85, and until 1903 the only course available was that in Civil Engineering. In that year Electrical and Mining Engineering were added, and the following yea witnessed the erection of the Engineering Building, so that a great impetus was given to the growth of the school. New departments have been added from time to time in the following order: Architecture, 1909; Mechanical Engineering, 1914; Chemical Engineering, 1916; Aeronautical Engineering, 1927; Petroleum Production, 1928. In 1914 the College of Mines and Metallurgy was opened in El Paso, and there- after the course in mining was discontinued at the Main University. The title Department of Engineering was changed to College of Engineering in 1922. Among the honorary and extra ' curricula organizations of the school may be listed the following: American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Sigma Xi, and Alpha Alpha Gamma. The University of Texas Engineer made its initial ap- pearance in January of this year. It is published by the faculty and students of the school four times a year, and is their official organ. Became associated with the school in 1888. Became Dean in 1906. The Cactus IQSI Page it

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m m Top row, left to right — A. W. Walker; D. F. Bobbitt; M. G. White; Bryant Smith; E. W. Bailey; H. G. Chandler; G. W. Stumberg. Bottom roif, left to riglit — Mattie Dodson; Lucy Moore; I. P. Hildebrand; R. W. Stayton; Helen Hargrave. LAW SCHOOL Dean Ira Polk Hilde- brand, A. B. , LL. M. Became associated with the Law School in 1907. Became Dean in 1924. The Univeristy as well as the people of Texas at large can justly be proud of our Law School. Founded forty-seven years ago at the time of the founding of the Main University, it has ever since striven not only to make its graduates recognized as being in the front rank of the legal profession of the country, but has also looked to the ultimate better- ment of our judicial system by virtue of better informed lawyers and judges. To Dean Hildebrand is due no small amount of credit for the progress that the school has made, for through his earnest and untiring efforts it has grown from just a good law school to one of the five best in the country. This is attested to by the fact that there are enrolled in it not only students from every section of Texas but also from many other states as well. The law library is probably the best in the entire South, and can compare very favorably with that of any of the older northern or eastern lav schools. A very material acquisition was made to it this year by the will of the late Judge John C. Townes, former Dean of the school, who left his entire private library, consisting of more than six hundred volumes, to the Texas Law School. The official publication of the Law School is the Texas Law Review, started in 1924 by A. W. Walker, now a valued member of the law faculty. It is published five times a year by the honor students of the school, and in its short history has come to be widely recognized and cited both in Texas and in other jurisdictions. In order to give future la vyers practice in appearing on their feet in a courtroom atmosphere, two law societies, the McLaurin and the Hi ldebrand, hold weekly mock courts presided over by members of the faculty. -J On the basis of ability and industry in legal study, Phi J Delta Phi elects to membership those having an average grade mJb of eighty-five per cent. Chancellors, membership in which H is the highest honor the Law School confers, is composed H of those who combine personality, scholarship, and achieve- j B ment to the highest degree. Ttie Cactus 1931 II t Y I ;t,. Page !0

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m m r i 1 ! Toj ' roiv, left to nglit — John Arch White; Henry Albert Handrick; Robert V. Shirley; Mildred Disch, Mrs. Martha Ann Zivelev; Leo Cecil Haynes; Carl A. Rehm. Middle row — Elmer Harrison Johnson; Charles Aubrey Smith; Henry Rehm; William Paxton Boyd; Herschel Chester Walling; Everett G. Smith. Bottom roiv — George Hillis Newlove; Carroll Day Simmons; Edward Karl McGinnis; Dorothy Ayres; J. Anderson Fitzgerald; AiONZO B. Cox; Ambrose P. Winston. SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION The School of Business Administration was founded as a department of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1912. In 1917 a distinctive degree was first offered, and in 1922 the department had shown such an increase in enrollment that a separate school was created. Work in business administra- tion is now offered which leads to the degrees of Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy. The School, which has been confined to the shacks and Brackenridge Hall since its establishment, will move into Waggener Hall, the new classroom building, in the fall of 1931. The School of Business Aministration presents a group of courses which are concerned with those business facts and situations having a comparative- ly direct bearing on the efficient conduct of business. The chief purpose of the School is to train men and women for executive and professional positions in business. All of the subjects are re- lated to some phase of the administration of private business or v ith the business side of the conduct of public affairs. Three to six months of actual business experience is required of every student before he finishes his last semester of work. The increased enrollment of the recent years assures the School a high rank in the w ork of business ad- ministration in the future. Dr. J. A. Fitzgerald A. B., Georgetown Col- lege 1901. A. M., Univeristy of Chicago, 1907. Ph. D., Marshall College, West Virginia, 1925. Became Dean of School of Business Adminis- tration in 1926. iiiie Cactus 1Q31 Page 2!