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

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T H T U S Jjoard ol Xvegents OFFICERS R. L. Batts Chairman Edward Randall Vice-Chairman Leo C. Haynes Secretary MEMBERS Terms Expire January, 1933 R. L. Batts Austin Edward Crane Dallas Robert L. Holliday El Paso Terms Expire January, 1935 W. M. Odell Fort Worth Edward Randall Galveston Beauford Jester Corsicana Terms Expire January, 1937 John T. Scott Houston Leslie C. Waggener .... Dallas M. Frank Yount Beaumont Ross S. Sterling Governor of Texas STANDING COMMITTEES Auditing: Odell, Scott, Waggener. Buildings and Grounds: Yount, Randall, Jester. Complaints and Grievances: Jester, Odell, Waggener. Executive: Batts, Randall, Yount. Finance: Waggener, Odell, Scott. Land: Holliday, Crane, Yount. Land Leasing Board: Crane, Holliday. Legislative: Crane, Holliday, Jester. Medical Branch: Randall, Odell, Jester. Public Relations: Scott, Odell, Yount. Scott Jester Waggener Yount Page II

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T H U -9 R. L. Batts Chairman, Board of Regents xSoard ol Xvegents THE law makes it the duty of the Regents to estabUsh The Departments of a First-class University, to appoint a president, other officers and professors, to fix their salaries, to enact by-laws, rules and regulations, to prescribe (with the advice of the professors) the books to be used, and to confer de- grees and diplomas. The right to fix salaries is limited by the legislative appropriation bills. The Regents have authority to remove professors and officers when in their judgment the interest of the University requires it. The University lands are under the control of the Regents, ex- cept that the oil and gas leases are made by a Board composed of two Regents and the State Land Commissioner. In addition to the two million acres of land thus controlled, the Permanent Fund owns approximately eighteen million dollars in bonds and cash invested by the Board under the terms of the constitution and the statutes. The activities of the Board for the past four years have been largely confined to securing the needed legislation for properly administering the lands and funds of the University and develop- ing the physical plant, and to action under these laws. To enable the further expansion and development of the campus and the erection of necessary buildings, the constitution was changed and the Board authorized to borrow four million dollars. The unpledged part of the Available University Fund, the money to be secured by the legislation referred to, and four hundred thousand dollars paid and to be paid by the Ex-Students Association have made it possible to erect the Gregory Gymnasium, the Women ' s Gymnasium, Waggener Hall and a much needed building at the Medical School, to acquire about twenty-five acres of land adjacent to the campus, and to make the contracts for the erection of nine additional buildings. The completion of these buildings will permit the removal of all shacks, and will meet most of the pressing needs of the University. The Board in its work has received the invaluable assistance of a great President, an exceedingly capable Comptroller, and is under obligation also to the Ex-Students Association, the Faculty Building Committee, and other faculty members who have given time and thought to the problems presented by the building program. Randall H DLL ID AY Odell Crane Page lo

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T H E- C A C T US 1-9 3 2. ! t 2 SIDNEY EDWARD MEZES X resioent Emeritus For twenty years the late Sidney Edward Mezes served the University: first as professor of philosophy, then as dean of the College of Arts, and finally as President. In 1894, Ur. Mezes came to the University as adjunct professor of philosophy. Fourteen years later the Board of Regents chose him to succeed Presi- dent Houston as head of this institution. President Mezes created many new departments, some of which are flourishing today. The depart- ments of Institutional History, Business Training, Domestic Economy, General Literature, Architecture, Journalism, Music, Semitics, and Extension, and the Bureaus of Economic Geology and Municipal Re- search were established between 1909 and 1913. The Graduate School emerged from the College of Arts. In 1914 Dr. Mezes went to New York where he remained until 1927, when he resigned the presidency of the College of the City of New York because of ill health. During this time Dr. Mezes served his country at the 1917 Peace Conference in Paris. Following his resignation in 1927, Dr. Mezes and his wife, Annie O. Hunter, lived abroad. In 1929 Dr. Mezes was elected President Emeritus of The University of Texas and returned to the United States, dying in Pasadena, California, September 10, 1931. Distinguished as an educator, as a philosopher, and as an executive, Sidney Edward Mezes, President Emeritus of the University and professor emeritus of philosophy, by his death has left a place in the hearts of his colleagues and the students who knew him that cannot be filled. Page 12