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

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DEDICATION Men make a University. It can grow great in humble and cramped quarters; it cannot gro-w great without strong men. When Sidney E. Mezes, past president of The University of Texas, wrote those words they were probably intended to be both an ex- planation and a challenge — an explanation of the mighty strides which The University had taken since its conception, and a challenge to coming generations to make sure that the progress and development be not interrupted. Not in oil fields, not in buildings, not in lands, rests the real endow- ment of this institution, but rather in the lives and works of those who have been identified with its program and with its activity. The many thousands of its ex-students, the loyal and learned scholars who have constituted its faculty, the citizens of The State and of The Nation who have recognized its worth and have endowed it with their substance, their service, and their love — all of these have made The University what it is today. In its division pages which follow. The Cactus has chosen seven men as typical of the benefactors and servants of this institution. These men will ever be remembered for their monumental contributions to this University — their services in the interest of which death alone ended. In honoring them, The Cactus seeks to honor that unnumbered host of men and women who have contributed in great measure and in small to the success and well-being of The University. We, therefore, respect- fully and gratefully dedicate this, the 1933 volume, to those everywhere who have known The University and have loved it, who have honored it and have served it, who have bestowed upon it their wealth, their affection, and the greater gift of a life well spent. The University of Texas Today

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Laying the Corner Stone of the Main Building, Friday, November 17, 1882 FOREWORD To the makers of the 1933 Cactus comes the delightful opportunity of commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of The University of Texas, and of recording the steps in its development from the time v hen it was an inspired dream in the minds of statesmen of the commonwealth to the present when it stands as one of the great institutions of the land. To tell such a story, to portray such a growth, to evaluate such a force in the advancement of our culture has been a difficult but pleasant task. Words and pictures cannot depict the essential steps in the grow th of this or any other great University. The interesting events which stand as historical beacons, the eras in the development of a physical plant, the departments, the activities and their progress — these things have all been presented. But significant and important though they may be, they are but in- cidental to the picture as a whole — the picture of a great and increasing- ly great school — its spirit, the position which it holds as a servant of society, the loyalty that has been laid upon its altar, the love which has enveloped it, the prestige with which it has been endowed. It is to that University — to all that it has been, to all that it is, to all that it will be — that we, on its golden anniversary, propose a toast — The Greater University.

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The Completion of the Present Building Program editofCs note To record in word and picture the life of a great institution, to represent the varied activities of all its departments, to preserve in a book of memories the events of the fleeting year — this is the usual task of the editor and his staflF. On this important occasion of The University ' s golden anniversary, it has seemed proper to enlarge upon the scope of the yearbook and give a panoramic view of the passing show of the years — the Texas of yesterday as well as of today. The editor is proud of the privilege of recording on the pages that follow the romantic story or a half-century of progress and to give, as well, a picture of the rapidly developing campus of today. As we snatch these moments out from under the galloping hoofs of time and make them immortal, may we remember always our debt to The State and to The School which has made possible our participation in the fellowship of Texas men and women throughout the world.