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... Lamar's statements just quoted in my opinion he made only because in fact a public educational system... that in these statements President Lamar was in large part in error. A person even with a brief experience in education can... of the development of public higher education in Texas. President Lamar was of course an ardent advocate... of the establishment of a state university or universities, and it was upon his insistence that the Congress
... president, Ohio University; past president, Southwestern Political Science Association . Chicago..., professor of English, former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. Cambridge... Board . . . . . . . . Lufkin LAMAR, LucIus MIRABEAU III, vice president..., executive vice president and dean in charge of medical education, University of Texas; past president..., president, Southern Methodist University; past president, Southern University Conference . . . .
... December 5, 1837, in the Capitol of the Republic of Texas at Houston, by MIRABEAU B. LAMAR, ASHBEL SMITH
..., in 1839, President Lamar, another founder of the Society, uttered these words 5
...; the facts are that the cash appropriation for the University was transferred and used for the defense... of the State, and the plans of establishing the University were necessarily abandoned for the duration..., they expressly commanded the Legislature to establish and maintain a university of the first class... and central Texas, which had been set aside for a university endowment fund under the act of 1858... at the time they were given to the University had a much lower value than the lands for which they were
... The Philosophical SADLER, MCGRUDER ELLIS, president, Texas Christian University; president..., ELIAS HOWARD, director, Bureau of Economic Geology, and of the Texas Memorial Museum, University... SMIT, A. FRANK, Bishop of the Methodist Church; chairman of the trustees, Southern Methodist University... . . . . . . Houston SMITH, HENRY NASH, professor of English, University..., professor of philosophy, Syracuse University; former Member of Congress . . . . .
..., lawyer; member, Yale University Council . Dallas WEBB, WALTER PRESCOTT, professor of history, University... of Texas; former Harmsworth professor of American History, Oxford University . Austin WHITE, WILLIAM... RICHARDSON, president, Baylor University; former president, Hardin-Simmons University . . .... professor of mathematics, University of North Carolina . . . . Chapel Hill..., University of Texas . . . . . . . . . . . Austin WOODWARD, DUDLEY KEZER, JR
... Society of Texas 9 pleas for a university. Mr... objects in successful operation, such as Baylor University, at Independence; Tyler University, in Smith... County, Forshey's Monumental Institute at Rutersville; Marshall University, Aranama College . . . Bastrop... opposition, the Legislature in 1858 passed "An Act to establish the University of Texas" and provided... for an apppropriation of one hundred thousand dollars to establish and maintain a university and the accumulation
... Austin MCCORMICK, CHARLES TILFORD, professor of law, University of Texas; past president, Association...; professor of English, Southern Methodist University . . . Dallas MCGREGOR, STUART MALCOLM, editor..., GEORGE WASHINGTON, Rumford professor of physics, emeritus, Harvard University . . . . . . .... Cambridge, Massachusetts PITTENGER, BENJAMIN FLOYD, dean emeritus of the School of Education, University... University; past president, Texas Conference for Social Welfare, and of Southwestern Social Science
... CALDWELL, CLIFTON M., hanker; trustee, IIaLdin-Simmons University . Abilene CARPENTER, JOHN WILLIAM... University; president, Dallas Historical Society . Dallas CASTANEDA, CARLOS EDUARDO, professor of history..., University of Texas; past president, American Catholic Historical Association . . Austin CHANDLER, ASA... professor of English, University of Texas; former lecturer in American History, Cambridge University . .... San Antonio EAGLETON, CLYDE, professor of international law, New York University; vice chairman
... in a chair of the University of Texas, except upon a high ground of high merit for the place... . Four years... later the University was again called on to defend itself against the charge that its professors were... of Political Science at the University and later Secretary of the Treasury in President Wilson's cabinet... in 1917, Governor James E. Ferguson was so bitterly opposed to the University that he undertook to veto... the whole University appropriation. Among other reasons, he charged that "The University is controlled
... ALLEN, WINNIE, archivist, University of Texas Library . . . Austin ANDREWS, JESSE, lawyer . ...., University of Texas . . . . . . . . . Austin BATES, WILLIAM BARTHOLOMEW, lawyer..., WILLIAM JAMES, professor of classical languages, former dean and acting president, University of Texas... Association, professor of history, Vanderbilt University . . . . . . . Nashville, Tennessee..., American Historical Association; Sather professor of history, emeritus, University of California .
... of the Institute of Latin-American Studies at The University of Texas. Son of James Franklin and Mittie Maude Greer... he entered The University of Texas from which he received his B. A. degree in igog and where he spent... in Latin-American history. He followed Professor Bolton to Stanford and then to the University of California, where... year career as a member of the history faculty of The University of Texas and a productive scholar... for the University library the rich Genaro Garcia, Garcia Icazbalceta, William B. Stephens, Gondra and other
... GAMBRELL, HERBERT PICKENS, professor of history, Southern Methodist University; president, Texas State... Dallas GEISER, SAMUEL WOOD, professor of biology, Southern Methodist University . . . . . ...., University of Texas; past president, Texas State Medical Association . . . . Houston GREEN, LEON..., Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Texas; former dean of the School of Law, Northwestern University .... . . . Austin HART, JAMES PINCKNEY, chancellor, The University of Texas; former Associate Justice
... criticisms being that the University and other higher educational institutions are harboring critics... of the established economic system and are dangerously liberal in their teaching. Once more the University... by the brief review I have given of incidents from the history of The University of Texas, justifies at least
... university, much less two. Even when the financial situation of the State improved, sentiment in favor... of a state-supported university was by no means unanimous. In fact, Governor P. H. Bell, in his message... to provide for the establishment of a university, "which shall afford to our youth all those opportunities
... of the arguments may interest you. Mr. Palmer, one of the proponents of the bill to establish a university, gave... a State university because it will build up a class of aristocrats in the country. The object.... The Legislature in 1855 and again in 1856 failed to provide for the establishment of a university, but Governor
... of the new University of Texas when his father became first professor of English there. The elder Leslie... of literature, first at Bethel College and then at the University of Texas, both of which institutions he served... of the University of Texas; and after completing preparatory studies at the Webb School in Tennessee, he entered
... of the Supreme Court to become the first Chancellor of The University of Texas.
... the public college or university must not be used for the promotion of any religious sect or doctrine
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