Catalogue of the University of Texas (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SUMMAKY OF STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, 1893-4, DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ARTS. Graduates 10 Seniors 21 Juniors 19 Sophomores 36 Freshmen 153 Specials 10?249 DEPARTMENT OF LAW. Graduates 3 Seniors 36 Juniors 69?108 DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE. Third year 9 Second year 7 First year 98 Special medical students 2 Pharmaceutical students 11?127 Names repeated 2 Grand total 482 HISTORICAL SKETCH. To the honor of those who founded the State of Texas, be it said, the idea of a University for the promotion of the arts and sciences was no afterthought. The idea of a University was part of the very organized foundation of our State itself, incorporated from the first into its very life, and vitalizing its best hopes for the future. In holding fast to the University with the same tenacity as to the common school, we are but carrying out a policy conceived and born with the State itself. Our heroes knew that the lower is dependent on the higher education. " Elevating educational influences, like the showers, come from above, and not below." Extract from the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Texas, made March 2,1836: "It [the government of Mexico] has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources [the public domain], and although it is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self-government.' It was provided in the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, in 1836, that " it shall be the duty of Congress, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law a general system of education." (Gen. Prov., sec. 5, Hartley's Di...