The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-12-16

A VlSltOr TO Jn6 university VIII nnu IL
the basement thoroughly equipped
chemical department, consisting of lecture
room, store room, general laboratory, assay
room, professors labatory, etc. On the
first floor he will find the physical depart
ment and the library. The former COM
prises lecture room with seats arranged
in the form of an amphitheatre, museum
containing a complete equipment OF lee
ture apparatus and measuring instru-
ments, costing $4,000, general labora-
tory, etc. On the same floor is the library
and reading room. The library already
contains 5000 well-selected volumes, and
Que wall of the reading room is covered
with files of wspapers, which are sent
regularly from all over the state. The
visitor will find ON the second floor a
nicely furnished room-there the young
ladies assemble during the intervals be-
tween lectures, under the charge of the
lady assistant. On the third floor he will
find two carpeted rooms containing fur
niture which indicates that they are the
halls of two litersry societies-the Rusk
and the Athenaeum. There is scarcely
any finer sight to be seen within the uni
versity than these two halls ON Saturday
evening when debate is going on. The
young orator gets an audience which puts
him on his metal, for not only do the
young ladies, who are students, attend in
force, but also quite number of the
ladies and gentlemen of the city.
AS yet only the academic and law de-,
partments have been organized. The
number of students at the time of writing
is 225, of these ~ are law students. OF
the academic students AZ are young ladies.
To the University of Texas has fallen the
task of solving the problem of co-education
in iversity studies; the success already
achieved is remaEk able. Many of the young
ladies have attained great proficiency in a
variety of studies, and already the univer
sity has capped one sweet girl graduate.
A candidate for admission to the univer-
sity must be 16 years of age; the average
age of the students is 20b years.
The endowment of the University of
Texas consists of 100000 acres of land
and permanent fund of $634,000. Its
annual income at present is $4,000. The
professors are paid fixed salaries, ranging
from $4,000 to $4,000. A student pays no
tuition fee, only $40 matriculation fee, if
academic, and $40 if law student. A
students principal expense is for room
and board. The rate per month is now
Sl3 to $40. A mess club has been sue
;essfully instituted to reduce the expense
to $12 per month.
A course of public lectures is given
zach winter, one by each member of the
faculty. These lectures have diffused
aste for literary and scientific culture.
How we'll this university of the southwest
las started in its career can best be seen
oy perusal of the following account of
The professors who have already been APP
pointed.
THE MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY.
LESLIE MAGGENER.-C Chairman of the
faculty, 1884. Professor of English Ian
,uage and literature, 1883 Born Todd
county, KY, II September, 1841. M. A.,
Har Yard, 1861. LID, Georgetown col
ege, Kentucky, 1876.
MILTON w. HUMPHREYs.-Profess of
ncient languages, 1883. Born Greenbrier
ounty, Va, Is September, 1874. A. NJ,
and Lee, 1869. Phi. D., Leip-
zig, 1874. LID, Vanderbilt, 1888.
President of the American pathological
1882.
Editor for United States of Revue des
Revues.
Works and writings: Clouds of Arts
ophanes, in college series of Greek
authors; Doctors Dissertation, on the
JUNCTION of the accent in Heroic verse;
numerous papers in the American Journal
# Philology.
HENRY TALLICHET.-Professo of mod
I'm languages, 1883. Born near Lyons,
rance, 1874. Student of Greiz gymnas-
um. Graduate Lausanne, 1861. Student
t Leipzig 1868. d. Lit, Lausanne.
lember of the Modern Language associa-
ion of America.
Author of numerous critical papers in
literary and other periodicals.
ROBERT l.. DABNEY.-PrOfessor of Phi
osophy, 1883. Born in Louisa county, Va,
500; M. A. University of Virginia, 1912:
}. D. Hampden Sidney, 1853; LII. D.
southwestern Presbyterian University,
'ennessee, 1876. Fellow of the Victoria |
England, 1880. Works: "The
sensational Philosophy of the Nineteenth |
century," New York, 1876; System of
'heoloyy," three editions, 1872; System
f Rhetoric" Richmond, Va. Author
f several works and papers in general
literature.
GEORGE BRUCE HALsTED.-Professo of |
mathematics, 1884. Born in New York
)ity November %, 1853; M. A. Princeton
ollege, 1878; Phi. D. johns Hopkins Uni
ersity, 1879. Elk. fellow of Princeton
ollege and of Johns Hopkins University;
member of the Society for the Improve
nent of Geometrical Teaching, England.
Works and writings: "Metrical Geome-
ry," GUN Heath & Co., Boston, three edi.
ions; Elements of Geometry" WILEY a.
IONS, New York, two editions, reprinted
y Macmillan & Co., England. Author of
fteen papers in American journal of
Mathematics, Popular Science Monthly,
IAN Nostrands Engineering Magazines,
tc.
ORAN M. RoBERTs.-Professor of Law.
8o3. Bon in Lawrence district, s. c.,
uly 8, 1916. NJ A. University of Alabama,
1856; LII. D. University of Alabama, 1880.
,lected to the supreme court of Texas.
S57, and several times chief Justice. /
Governor of Texas, 1888. Work:
Description of Texas" st. LOUIS, 1881.
ROBERT s. GoULD.-Professo of Law
1888. Born in Iredell county, N. c., De.
ember rs, 1926. M. A. University of ,
labama, 1874; associate justice of the :
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