The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-03

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modern language1, leading to the de-
gree of the Bachelor of Letters. A
law course OF two years, emitting to
a diploma of Bachelor of Laws. Five
special courses of advanced or post
graduate studies leading to the
degree of Master of Arts,
either one or all of which may
be pursued by graduates. The special
directions of these studies are: Ad-
vanced mathematical studies, ad-
vanced classical studies, advanced
studies of modern languages, philol-
ogy and literature, advance meta
physical and political philosC ply, and |
the advanced sciences of physical |
observation and experiment.
Thorough instruction to meet the |
wants of every applicant so far, t |
is already offered by the PRESENT fac
ulty, but the regents are fully resolved
to enlarge it, just as fast as the needs
of the institution require, ard inn
portant additions will no doubt be
made before the beginning of next
season.
But it requires two things to make
great school: Good teachers and
good pupils. OF course a state like
ours, which until this year has not
had such an institution, cannot
have very many advanced
and well trained students.
And the most important y fact of
the case is-that so many of these
have left their own university to go
abroad. A somewhat careful inquiry
shows that there are to-day one hun
| dred and sixty young men from Texas
studying in colleges and universities
out of the state carrying abroad, for
| one item, not less than $4,000 of
| Texas earnings annually. These
| young men in these colleges are the
very elements which help to give sup
port, eclat and thoroughness to the
classes they attend, and to enhance the
reputation Of those institutions to the
| prejudice of our own university, and
| while in our own Institution the
learned professors are in place to offer
the most thorough instruction, its adj
vanced classes are almost fatally Grip
pied for want Of advanced material.
And so people cry, "Look at the
Texas university il has very few adj
vanced classes. Unjust be but sorry
affair"
How thorough is the injustice of
this? Whose fault is it that she has
few advanced classes? How can she
repair this defect, when Texas own
SONS refuse to give her chance to do
it? This reproach demands Of her to
make 'bricks without straw yea, we
may say, without clay. But let US be
understood: We cannot blame our
sons for desiring the best possible in
struction, and it is an honorable aspi.
ration. We have no right to demand
of them that they shall sacrifice any
part of their own mental advance
ment and professional future to mis-
guided state pride. If their state is
not offering them as good advantages
as are offered abroad, we have nc
right to complain of their going
abroad to seek better. But the mod
est demand we make of the sons OF
Texas is this: that they will
consider fairly whether their
mother state has not offered
them advantages which, if they will
only accept them, will be found as
good as those offered abroad? People
are very apt to argue that, as every
hing has to have beginning and
time to grow, our new university can
not be as good as an old one until q
number of years pass over its head.
But the very thing the regents claim
to have done is to have made their
university an exception from the first
to this slow rule. The venerable pres.
ident, in the elegant discourse with
which he opened the school Septem.
Der last, said their aim was not to pre-,
sent the state with an infant nurse
upon which we must wait twenty
years for it's growth; but with an
adult virgin, spr1nging like Minerva
| full grown and full armed, from the
head of Texas. We repeat, if this
grand boast is not true, is it thetault oil
, the regents? Have they not applied
their income generally to provide the
noblest buildings and fullest inStruc
ton? Did they collect a faculty Of
untried men to make their reputation
in futurity at the expense of the com
munity? No, they culled out the
most experienced talent from the very
institutions which our young men ad
mire so highly, and combined then
into a harmonious faculty; while they
gave all the inducement which liberia
and handsome salaries can present
Why is it, that the very men whose
learning and talent were the attraction
of the older institutions, can not make
in Texas as good a one, which neet
not be crude because new? Doe
Texas air injure the brain? The enc
of our homily to our young men i:
simply this: Be just enough and loye
enough to your own state to come
home and give your own university {
trial. FRIEND OF OUR OWN STATE
Notice to Members of the Texas
Veteran Association.
We have been requested to publish
the following letter from Mr.. Bryan
secretary of the Texas veteran associ
alton for the benefit of those member
living in Austin and vicinity. Thi
we most cheerfuliy do. The letter il
as follows:
INDEPENDENCE. Texas, March &c
The annual reunion of the aSsocia
: ton will be held in the city of Paris
Lamar county, on the twentieth da,
of April next. United States Senate
Sam Bell Make will deliver the ad
dress of the occasion on the twentieth
of April-the forty-eighth ami versa
: ry of the battle of San Jacinto,
1 have heard by letter from the fol
, lowing list of railway companies thai
are willing to give free transportation
| W Ull0 VI GllO doOOC1clUlOh VI
presentation of their certificate to thu
conductors of the several roads:
Houston, East 81 West Texas, Gulf
. Colorado & Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific
railway company, embracing the In
ternational e Great Northern and the
Texas & Pacific railways, Galveston
Harrisburg & San Antonio railway
system, which includes the Star &
Crescent railway, from the Sabine to
the Rio Grande, Houston 81 Texas
Central railway company, New York
Texas & Mexican railway company
from Rosenberg to Victoria, Fort
Worth & Denver City railway compa
ny, Gulf, West Texas & Pacific rail
way company.
hope the Mexican National Rail
, way company, from Corpus Christi tc
Laredo, will be as generous as the
above. mentioned roads, and give
free transportation to the few ole
Texas veterans who live on or near its
railway, on presentation Of their GER
tificates to the conductors. l hope
the Texas & ST. Louis Railway com
pany will give free transportation tt
lhe few members of the association
who live on or near its road.
The supervisors of the Texas Vet
eran Association will please send tC
me the names of the old veterans that
have died in their district since the