Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-08-31

DusIuiuB iEVul compietluB INC same
within the time specified In the con.
tract. The board OF regents, at their
late meeting, made arrangements for
completing and furnishing the base
lment rooms, and several OF the large
rooms of the first story. la time for a..
cupancy and Use of the university on
the fifteenth OF September. They
have also got permission from his ex-
celency, the governor, and also the
commissioner Of statistics, whu has
charge of the public state building. to
use, for the university. the chamber of
the senate and the aal of the house
OF representatives, when they shall
not be needed by those bodies. respec-
lively. The judge of the high courts
have also generously rendered to the
professor OF the law department of the
university their court rooms, until
proper rooms shall be made rendy In
the university building.
Suitable furniture of excellent man
ufacture, ordered from the large house
of Andrews Il Co., Of Chicago, the re-
gents have been assured, will be i'm
Austin in time to be in. place for use
use on the opening of the university.
The apparatus and material and gen
crai equipment for the department of
chemistry ana physics. ordered md
selected by Professor Mallet. will be
on hand in Austin ut the opening of
the university.
After most careful adviselnent. the
board of regents unanimously decided
to change the requirement. IN their
preliminary announcement, which
fixed the age for the admission
of young women to the university at
not less than seventeen years, aud TO
place the same ut sixteen years. estab.
fishing the same age for students of
either sex.
The time fixed for the opening of
the university draws nigh, when in
structions1n the several departments
under the eight professors will for
mally and practically commence.
The regents cannot contemplate with
out solicitude the launching into ac-
ton of the university Of Texas, an in
stitution of the first-class in the full
sense of the phrase an institution
firaught with gigantic, never ending
blessings for Texas-blessings on ali
our people in their dearest Worldly in
terest and for JAIL time to come j: and
they are cheered by the reflection that
everything looks suspicious for vast
measure of triunphant success.
In closing this memorandum ii |
may not be out of place to |
state that the regents hive, in all |
their action, conformed strictly /
to the requirements of the constitution |
of the state, and to the laws relating |
to the university. A full record has |
been regularly kept of all their pro- |
ceedings, which record, as we'll as
every act OF the regents, has been |
thrown open to the world, to every in |
dividual, be he u stranger or citizen.
without the least delay or the least |
hesitation. The regents have found I
that there has unavoidably devolved
on them an amount of labor with a
consumption of time very much |
greater than would he readily sus-
pected. These labors and these en-
croachments on their time have com. |
PEELED several gentlemen appointed as |
regents eventually to resign, Us inter
ferrlng materially withltheir respective
private business, an office without sal
AIRY or emolument, and of which the
actual expenses exceed the reasonable |,
expenses allowed by law.
The people Of Texas determined to
establish an university of the first |
class, one worthy of the lofty aspira-
lions OF tDelf Imperial state, an lnStl- |
tuition which shall bring the fountains
of all knowledge, and the power which |
springs therefrom, within the reach of
its humbest child. The obstacles to
the organization ofsuch an institution
are very great. the labors are difficult.
The regents Of the uni ersity, in their /;
work, have perfect confidence in the
generous justice of the goodly state of
frayaS ASuRET NINTH
President nf the Board of Regents of
the University of Texas.
Note. Austin, August 2o.-The |
sickness of the gentlemen having |
charge of the work on the university, |
the death of sub-contractor, and the
strike of the masons have retarded a
few days the progress of the WORK. |
Everything is now proceeding favora-
bly,, and the building will be completed !
with the least possible delay. In the
meantime, some arrangements have
been made. and others will be made,
for securing rooms for the use OF the
faculty and students of the university.
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