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

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Miriam A. Ferguson Governor, State o{ Texas Governor Miriam A. Ferguson To THE Members of the Class of 1933: I am very glad indeed to accept the invitation of the editor of the Cactus to extend greetings to the members of the class of 1933. You have finished an important era in your life. Your four years in The University have extended your horizon, broadened your vision, and enriched your personal living. Your university experience has in many w ays been unique. Most of you entered The University as freshmen at a time when Texas had felt no financial and economic pressure. In every- day parlance, times were good. You are leaving school to face conditions which are altogether different. Excepting the dark hours faced by the pioneers in their struggle for independence from Mexico and by our grandfathers in the troublous Civil War days and Reconstruction period, never have the people of Texas been called upon to solve problems of so grave a nature. All Texans have cause to be proud that the problems are being faced by our citizens with the courage and common sense of a great people, awed but unafraid in the presence of threatening disaster. Opportunity for personal advancement and for great financial gain will be few indeed for the next few months. Opportunity for service will be un- limited. Fresh minds and hearts, youthful courage and confidence will be greatly needed. To the graduates of 1933 of The University of Texas, I, as your Governor, extend an expression of my con- fidence. I believe you are going to return to your communities admirably equipped to render con- structive, unselfish service to your State. With cordial good wishes, I am, incere ly. Qawntor of Texas. Page?

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H. Y. Benedict Presiimt, The University of Texas President H. Y. Benedict Existing in dreams only for nearly fifty years The University comes now to the fiftieth anniversary of its existence in fact. Growing out of the same ideals that created state universities first in the South, later in the North, our University has become one of the great state universities of the Middle West and the record of its performance during the last fifty years shows that it is destined to become one of the great universities of the world. If Texas but half takes care of her University, and Texas will, gifts from patriotic Texans, already to be counted in millions, will, during the coming century, pro- vide all those things that are required to make a university really of the first class. The immediate future is not very bright because of w orld ' wide conditions that threaten to make things worse by damaging education, which is the hope of the future. Happily, The University is not specially threatened: a fortunate combination of cir- cumstances has provided it with a fairly adequate collection of buildings, its cost per student is very low considered in connection w ith the fact that it is one of the twenty-nine highest ranking universities that form the Association of American Universities, its various details are such as to stand fair criticism with much more pride than shame. Why a state university? Why taxation of the many for the teaching of a fewf Not to make doctors for the benefit of the doctors, but to make do ctors for the benefit of the sick; not to make teach- ers to draw salaries, but to make teachers qualified to teach children. Inevitably those who come to The University must prepare themselves to make a living. The vocational element, both in its private and public aspects, should be and will be forever prominent. This is a world where work must be done and livings earned. But over and above this essential ftinction rise the two dominant tasks of The University: to train for citizenship, leadership, statesmanship so that our State and Nation shall grow better and not worse, so that men can live to- gether helpfully and not harmfully; and to make finer living possible, a living that will know how to use and not to abuse the leisure that is coming, a leisure that will open the beauties and intricacies and glories of a great universe to those with eyes to see. ( y - . ' - OT President, The University of Texas. Pane 6

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Board of Regents Since the founding of The University 50 years ago and the appointment by the Governor and the Senate of the first Board of Regents, 116 men, lead- ing citizens of Texas, have, as members of this body, striven for the progress of The University. Supreme governing body of The University, re- sponsible to the State for all that pertains to The University, this group of nine men has a large variety of duties. Given them by law is the power to determine all University policies, subject only to Federal and State constitutions and laws. In ad- dition they have the following specific powers: to establish the departments of a first-class University, determine the officers and professorships, appoint a president, professors and other officers, fix their respective salaries; enact by-laws, rules, and reg- ulations for the government of The University; reg- ulate the courses of instruction and prescribe, by and with the advice of the professors, the books and authorities used in the several departments; confer degrees and grant diplomas; remove any professor, tutor, or other officer when the interest of Th e Uni- versity requires it. The Board of Regents carries on its business through its regular meetings on the third Tuesday in January, March, May, and October, through special meetings called by the chairman, and through 11 standing committees: auditing, buildings and grounds, College of Mines and Metallurgy, complaints and grievances, executive, finance, land, land leasing Beauford Jester Chairman, Board of Regents board, legislative. Medical Branch, public relations. Members of the Board are appointed in threes for terms of two years each. Regents whose terms ex- pired in January, 1933, were: R. L. Batts, Edward Crane, Robert L. HoUiday. Succeeding Regents are K. H. Aynesworth, H. J. Lutcher Stark, L. J. Sulak. Judge Batts served as chairman until January, 1933; at the February meeting of the Board Beauford H. Jester was named the new chairman. Regent Wilmot Odell resigned September 19, 1932, two months before his death, November 14. Charles I. Francis was appointed to fill the vacancy. Top row. J. T. Scott, W. M. Odell, R. L. Holliday, R. L. Batts, M. F. Yount, L. J. Sulak Bottom row: C. I. Francis, Edward Randall, Leslie Waggeneb, K. H. Aynesworth, Edward Cranb, Lutcher Stark Page 8