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court-house, and penitentiary within the borders of the State. Every consideration, both of interest and of duty, urges the steady upbuilding of this university. The development of our public schools, the strengthening of our professions, the diffusion of knowledge, the preparation of our youth for such duties of citizenship as require the highest intellectual and moral training, the projection of vast enterprises for the development of our material resources, the preservation of our interests in competition with other States and countries, and the development of our civilization all depend, more and more, year by year, upon the forces that go out from this university.

The legislature can at least give us the money from the general fund for our current expenses, so we can use the income from the university fund for buildings, and in this way we can add every year to our improvements.

Referring to this address, the Austin Statesman says:

The address of President Winston, delivered on Wednesday, during the ceremonies of his inauguration as the first president of the University of Texas, opened the eyes of Texans to the fact that the university is not an accomplished fact-is not finished as some seem to suppose, and laid upon the shelf to grow of its own inherent power or to wither for lack of proper attention.

A finished university is a poor thing at best. A university is like an education—it is never finished. It can not arrive at a certain excellence and stand there. There is no such thing as an institution of learning standing still. It must grow on and on in advance of public education. It must catch the first tiny germ of science in all its branches and frame it into a fixed attainment. It can not follow literature and art; it must use its plastic hand to mo'd the taste and elevate the excellence of both. It is not merely the trainer of developing minds, it is the mold into which is poured the crude material of genius in every branch of learning, fashioning it into a form and beauty that stand as a monument of the genius of a people, like the mighty stream gathering from every quiet rivulet and dashing mountain torrents into a vast volume and flowing on and on forever into the ocean of a world's thought and accomplishments.

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There is one consideration, although it is a selfish one, that should animate us, and that is that we are furnishing an institution of learning for the education of our own youth, whose lives and usefulness will be expended within the borders of this State. Other institutions in the older States are educating young men and women, not to use that education for the benefit of older States in which they are educated, but for newer States, offering fresher fields for the ambitious and enterprising. But the Texas University is not educating young people in order that they may be equipped for the battles of life in other newer States, but it is educating them for Texas; for the advantages offered by Texas for talent and enterprise will hold its growing youth as well as invite the educated youth of other States to its vast fields of employment. So that those who are educated at the Texas University will expend their energies and use the educational equipments furnished them by the University of Texas for Texas, its interests and the development of its resources and its upbuilding in all that makes a State great and powerful, and equal, if not superior, to its sister States as a great model for social government and the advance of society in all that adorns and ennobles our kind.

Other States are awakening to the necessity of providing for State universities. Missouri has donated its direct tax fund of $648,000 to the University of Missouri, and Alabama has acknowledged an indebtedness to the State University of Alabama of $2,000,000 in perpetuity, with a payment of the 3 per cent interest annually, and it behooves the legislature of Texas not to permit the University of Texas to fall behind the procession.

SUCCESSIVE OFFICERS OF INSTRUCTION.

The following gentlemen have filled chairs as professors, or associate or assistant professors, for various periods, in the university:

First faculty, elected in 1883: J. W. Mallet, William Leroy Broun, Leslie Waggener, M. W. Humphreys, R. L. Dabney, and H. Tallichet, in the academic department, and Oran M. Roberts and Robert S. Gould in the law department.

Elected in 1884: In the academic department, George Bruce Halstead, James F. Harrison, and Edgar Everhart. In 1885, Alexander Macfarlane and Alvin V. Lane. In 1888, J. R. S. Sterrett, George P. Garrison, Thomas U. Taylor, Robert T. Hill, and W. W. Fontaine. In 1889, Frederick W. Simonds, and Thomas Fitzhugh. In 1890, Morgan Callaway, jr., and Walter Lefevre. In 1891, Sylvester Primer and (in the school of pedagogy, organized in 1891) Joseph Baldwin.

In 1892 the following were elected: In the law department, Benjamin H. Bassett. In the academic department, Harold N. Fowler, Charles L. Edwards, and (ad interim) Edwin W. Fay; and in 1893 the following: In the academic department, William J. Battle; in the law department, Thomas S. Miller and R. L. Batts, and as law lecturers, John W. Stayton, R. R. Gaines, J. L. Henry, and Thomas J. Brown, justices of the supreme court of Texas, who performed the service gratuitously. Professor Bassett was about to assume the duties of his chair, but died soon after his election, in consequence of fatal injuries resulting from a fall on the steps of a hotel in Austin.

In 1894 several important changes were made in the faculty on account of some of the professors resigning and others being retired by special action of the regents, and as a result the following gentlemen were elected to fill the vacancies: Sidney E. Mezes, David F. Houston, Austin L. McRae, H. W. Harper, W. W. Norman, and L. R. Hamberlin.

In 1896 Dr. George T. Winston was elected president of the university and Edwin F. Northrup was added to the faculty in the academic department and John C. Townes to the faculty in the law department.

In 1897 Mark H. Liddell, William S. Sutton, Alex. C. Ellis, and William T. Mather were added to the faculty in the academic depart

ment.

Appointees as instructors and to minor positions, not including those promoted to higher duties, were J. J. Atkinson, E. E. Bramlette, I. H. Bryant, and J. H. Ray, appointed in 1883; Charles F. Gompertz and Mrs. Helen M. Kirby, in 1884; Carlo Veneziani and John P. Nelson, in 1886; Sam J. Jones, in 1887; J. Magnenat and A. C. Jessen, in 1888; Miss Jessie Andrews, in 1889; Gillespie Lewis, in 1890; A. C. Hamilton, J. R. Bailey, H. Y. Benedict, G. H. Wooten, L. G. Bugbee, R. A. Mathis, D. A. Penick, and J. F. Clark, in 1891;

G. W. Pierce, J. F. Etter, and B. S. Brown, in 1892; R. A. Thompson, L. E. Dickson, J. E. Pearce, E. P. Schoch, J. S. Ford, and J. A. Taft, in 1893; Arthur Lefevre, W. A. James, Donald Cameron, and Stephen Gregory, in 1894; Charles T. Yeiser, Fritz Reichman, Charles D. Oldright, and A. C. McLauglin, in 1895; Constance Pessels, Miss Lila M. Casis, Ben F. Hill, H. O. Neville, and Evan S. Easton, in 1896; Milton B. Porter, William L. Bray, Miss Augusta Rucker, Miss Hattie V. Whitten, Carlo C. Rice, and Henry G. Howard, in 1897.

In 1895 Victor Lee Brooks was appointed instructor in law and served one session.

In 1896 Benjamin Wyche was appointed librarian and Swante Palm and Miss A. E. Moutelin assistant librarians of the main university, and A. Morsund and John C. Saner assistants for the law library. John C. Lomax was appointed registrar of the university and W. F. Kelly director of the gymnasium. Thomas J. Lee was appointed agent of the board of regents for selling and leasing the university lands. James B. Clark is secretary of the board and proctor of the university.

Appointees to the various professorships in the medical department since it went into operation in 1891 embrace the following gentlemen: J. F. Y. Paine (first dean of the faculty), H. A. West, Edward Randall, William Keiller, A. G. Clopton, Seth M. Morris, Allen J. Smith (second dean), James E. Thompson, James Kennedy, R. R. D. Cline, James W. McLaughlin, William S. Carter, Henry P. Cooke (present dean), George H. Lee, and George P. Hall.

Appointees as demonstrators or lecturers embraced George H. Lee, R. C. Hodges, R. W. Knox, David Cerna, Thomas Flavin, Cary H. Wilkinson, William Gammon, I. M. Cline, Louis E. Magnenat, John T. Moore, Thomas L. Kennedy, William F. Starley, jr., Robert L. McMahon, Adolph Bernard, and Conn L. Milburn.

T. J. Ballinger, Robert G. Street, and R. Waverly Smith were successively lecturers on medical jurisprudence. Miss C. Josephine Durkee had charge of the newly organized traming school till Miss Hanna Kindbom was appointed superintendent of the school and "clinical instructor of nursing."

Chapter IX.

ADMINISTRATION OF THE UNIVERSITY.

AFFAIRS OF GOVERNMENT.

Following is the existing [1897-8] organization of the government of the university:

Board of regents.-T. D. Wooten, chairman; F. W. Ball," Fort Worth (term expires January 1, 1899); T. D. Wooten,' Austin (term expires January 1, 1899); William L. Prather, Waco (term expires January 1, 1901); T. C. Thompson, Galveston (term expires January 1, 1901); Beauregard Bryan, Brenham (term expires January 1, 1903); R. E. Cowart, Dallas (term expires January 1, 1903); G. W. Brackenridge, San Antonio (term expires January 1, 1905); T. S. Henderson, Cameron (term expires January 1, 1905); J. B. Clark, Austin, secretary.

Standing committees.-Finance committee, G. W. Brackenridge, T. S. Henderson, R. E. Cowart; executive committee, T. D. Wooten, Beauregard Bryan, T. S. Henderson; visiting committee, R. E. Cowart, William L. Prather, F. W. Ball; committee on complaints, F. W. Ball, T. S. Henderson, William L. Prather; auditing committee, T. S. Henderson, F. W. Ball; committee on medical department, T. C. Thompson, Beauregard Bryan, T. D. Wooten; committee on buildings and grounds, William L. Prather, G. W. Brackenridge, T. D. Wooten; committee on university lands, G. W. Brackenridge, William L. Prather, T. S. Henderson.

Thomas J. Lee is agent of the committee for selling and leasing university lands.

The board of regents meets in Austin on the Tuesday before the third Wednesday of January and of June of each year, and during the last week of April in Galveston.

THE FACULTY AND OTHER OFFICERS.

George Tayloe Winston, A. M., LL. D., president; George Bruce Halsted, A. M., Ph. D., professor of pure mathematics (A. B., Princeton University, 1875, and A. M., 1878; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins Univer

aT. W. Gregory appointed in place of Regent Ball.

Dr. Wooten reappointed.

Dr. Thompson died April 17, 1898, and on May 11 Maj. Frank M. Spencer, of Galveston, was appointed to fill the vacancy.

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sity, 1879); George Pierce Garrison, Ph. D., professor of history (L. A., University of Edinburg, 1881; Ph. D., University of Chicago, 1896); Thomas Ulvan Taylor, M. C. E., professor of applied mathematics (C. E., University of Virginia, 1883; M. C. E., Cornell University, 1895); Thomas Fitz-Hugh," M. A., professor of Latin (M. A., University of Virginia, 1883); Frederic William Simonds, M. S., Ph. D., professor of geology (B. S., Cornell University, 1875, and M. S., 1876; Ph. D., Syracuse University, 1879); Morgan Callaway, jr.," Ph. D., associate professor of English philology (A. B., Emory College, Georgia, 1881, and A. M., 1884; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University, 1899); Sylvester Primer, Ph. D., associate professor of Teutonic languages (A. B., Harvard University, 1874; Ph. D., Strassburg, 1880); Joseph Baldwin,' LL. D., professor emeritus of pedagogy (B. A., Bethany College, Virginia, 1852; M. A., 1856, and LL. D., 1890); William James Battle, Ph. D., associate professor of Greek (A. B., University of North Carolina, 1888; Ph. D., Harvard University, 1893); Sidney Edward Mezes, B. S., Ph. D., associate professor of philosophy (B. S., University of California, 1884; A. B., Harvard University, 1890; A. M., 1891, and Ph. D., 1893); David Franklin Houston, A. M., associate professor of political science (A. B., University of South Carolina, 1887; A. M., Harvard University, 1892); Henry Winston Harper, Ph. G., M. D., associate professor of chemistry (Ph. G., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1881; M. D., University of Virginia, 1892); Wesley Walker Norman, A. M., associate professor of biology (B. Sc., University of Indiana, 1885; A. M., De Pauw University, 1894); Lafayette Rupert Hamberlin, B. A., adjunct professor of English and expression (B. A., Richmond College (Va.), 1892); Edwin Fitch Northrup, Ph. D., associate professor of physics (A. B., Amherst College, 1891; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University, 1895); Mark Harvey Liddell, A. M., associate professor of English literature (A. B., Princeton University, 1887; A. M., 1889); William Seneca Sutton, M. A., professor of pedagogy (B. A., Arkansas Industrial University, 1878; M. A., 1883); Alexander Caswell Ellis, Ph. D., adjunct professor of pedagogy (A. B., University of North Carolina, 1894; Ph. D., Clark University, 1897); William Tyler Mather, Ph. D., associate professor of physics (A. B., Amherst College, 1886; A. M., 1891; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University, 1897); Jules Magnenat, instructor in French (Brevet, Normal School of Lausanne, Switzerland; examiner at the University of Lausanne, 1863-1885); Jessie Andrews, B. Lit., instructor in German (B. Lit., The University of Texas, 1886); Arthur Lefevre, C. E., instructor in pure mathematics (C. E., The University of Texas, 1895); Lester Gladstone Bugbee, M. A., instructor in history (B. Lit., The University of Texas, 1892, and M. A., 1893); James Robinson Bailey, B. A., Ph. D., instructor in chemistry (B. A., The University

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