The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-08
AsTATB UNIVERSITY.

Abil has been introduced in the legislature
for he establishment eta state university to
BIO styled according TO the bill, "lhe Uni
versity OF Texas" We have not seen the
bill, and knowing nothing of its provisions,
cannot therefore discuss It, but we are glad
to know that this legislature is taking action
In this matter. The establishment Of astate
university by the seventeenth legislature will
msko it memorable in the history of the
state, even if il does nothing more, and ii
will b. momory, too, NEST honorable in
deed, and that the descendants Of its men,
bers may well be proud Of The establish
ment OF q state university was the concep
ton of the fathers of the state
of ths republic, indeed of the earliest
Legislators, AMI to that end they made provi-
sion for the ultimate success of the idea by
liberal land endowments. The idea has
never been lost sight Of and the state has not
only continually cherished it, but has built
upon IL rs it could, until now the university
fund.-" by the sale of lands, has reached those
proportions that tho state justified ia in
auguratng tho movement for the establish
ment OF such an institution of learning,
With her more than million and Il hnlf Of
population snd tho tide Of immigration rap
idly setting toward her shores; with her long
lines Of railroad already built and in course Of
construction; With all her rapidly developing
resources, her growing Interests OF every
description and her elevated civilization.
Texas neeus An institution of learning NJ
which the youth Of the land can find cur
rcllum equal to tho best 10 be found any
whore; within whose walls and upon whose
a'tars will blaze the light of educational fires
that will penetrate every shadow that re-
search has investigated, and that will show
in all their beauty tho gems that there lie
hidden to the gaze of tho student; an insti.
tuition to which the STATE can point with
pride and boast of, as the grandest monu-
ment Of her liberalty, her progress and her
duty to postariiy. In another decade Texas
will, in all probability, have doubled her
population. While she now has but about
some three thousand miles of railroad,
she will then have twice or three times rs
many miles. Hemles will have grown to be
thriving towns; towns will have become
Aourishing young cies aud her cities will
have Developed into grand proportions, busy
in ail the branches Of trade, commerce aud
industries Seaports on our coast will be
crowded with the merchant marine Of all
nations, and on every hillside and in every
valley will there teem churcheJ and acad.
emies and semnaries, and without spleuuid
ceatre ofiearning, such as state university,
where Iho flashing courses of an education
can be secured, the state would indeed be be-
hind the age and deraics in ono Of the most
important of all her obligations.
Connecticut has her Yale and Harvard col.
leges New Jersey her Pfincoton New Yolk
her Cornell University; Virginia her Univar-
sity and Washington and Lee college; Ken
lucky her Military Institute, each one the
honored alma mater of host of sons whose
minds have been stored with the riches they
garnered in their harvest feds OF learning,
and the fame of whose mental achievements
will live through all time, and why should
not Texas have her university, too, in whose
bosom shall be nourished those of her intel.
lectual youth whose manhood deeds will
add lustre 10 her name and to
her glorys Grand in extent of do.
msin; grand in her resources and
grand 10 her natural advantages, why should
not Texas be grand as well in her educa-
tional faciliioss No state 10 the union has a
common, school system SO magniGcently en-
dowed, and with these primaries of eduea.
ton, soon to be so thorough and complete in
the facilities they will offer for the culture of
the minds Of the children of the state with.
out money and without price, the temple
would would be shorn of its beauty and IFS
chief usefulness without state university 20
crown the whole.
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