San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-26
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.
To the Sunday Light.

To the Sunday Light.
Austin, Texas, September U.s.
The University of Texas has com
menced its fifteenth session under
favorable circumstances. The entrance
examinations have been in progress
since Wednesday and the formal open
ing of the university will occurr the
middle of the coming week.
Many changes have been made in
the buildings and adjacent grounds
since vacation began. The appearance
of the campus is much improved with
the care of the gardener and the side
walks look much neater after their
much needed general re-fixng. The
interior of the main building has been
altered cleaned and reprinted and
many of the departments have been
moved. The vast library of $4,000
volumes has left it's former crowded
apartments for the engineering room
under the assembly hall. Three stu
dents, under the direction of the new
librarian, Mr.. B. Wysche, have been
constantly at work during the past
summer re-arranging the library, but
another month will be necessary before
all the books are in complete order.
The engineering department has NOV
ed to the room formerly occupied by
the lady assistant, and the history
school will take the apartments made
vacant by the change of the library.
The Cooperative Society bookstore
owned and controlled by the students,
and professors, has been enlarged and
arranged for better service. This CO.
operative society has succeeded in
materially reducing the expenses of
the student body by purchasing all
the stationery directly from the pub
fishers and retailing them to the stu
dents at very low prices. This organ
ization is patterned after the one at
Harvard and is the only society of it's
kind among the universities of the
south.
Many changes have been made
among the personnel of the faculty.
OF the fifty seven profess
sors in the Austin department twelve
are new. Last years increase in at
tendance made an increase in the
number of teachers a necessity. Prof.
sutton, formerly superintendent of the
Houston public schools, is in charge of
the pedagogy department with Prof.
Ellis as assistant. Prof. NJ. H. Liddeu
is appointed associate professor of En-
glish literature; Prof. Bray will in
struct in botany. Twelve of the grad
yates have been chosen to act as in
structors and tutors in the various
schools
The athletic and social outlook is
more encouraging than 1t has ever
been before. This is partly accounted
for by the fact that the university has
employed Prof. Hancock a B. S. and
Nj. d. from the University of Pennsyl-
wanna to be gymnasium instructor and
FOOT ball coach for the ensuing year.
Capt. Parker of the foot ball team,
has arrived and is preparing to get
his boys in line early. Prof. E. Schoch
OF San Antonio, now assistant profess
sor in chemistry, will combine the var
| ious vocal elements into that once
very popular Glee Club, and another
very popular student will try hard to
De the first man to introduce the game
| OF golf formally into the state
AT this early date it is impossible to
| form a reasonable estimate of what
the university attendance will be.
IL was expected that the enforcement
OF. the new requirements for admission,
viz, satisfactory examination in En-
| glish, history, and mathematics, with
out years public notice would debar
many students who had not had
either the advantages of a high school
training or the opportunity to prepare
for the test, from matriculating, but
/ IL is not So In fact the number of
students standing the entrance exam
| ination is very gratifying to the man
agement and President Winston is
satisfied with the fiattering prospects