El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-01
UNIVERSITY TEXAS.
Biennial Report OF The Board OF
REGENTS.

Messrs. Trezevant & Cochran o
Dallas, Texas, offer $3.50 In cash prizeI
to the students OF the University o.
Texas for the two best essays on thu
subject of fire insurance.
The departments OF law, medicine
and engineering are well attended, and
the entire university has received ar
it q peer of any educational in ,titutiou
in America.
There are now 100 Texas girls study
ing in the University at Austin Often
| they outrank in scholarship their m sic
| com petitors. The time for q milk and
water diet in the education of women
| seems to have permanently passed.
The legislature by providing proper
dOrmitOry facilities at Austin will en-
| able the boy of limited means to obtain
the advantage of q complete university
training. Board will be reduced to $40
per month. The law of the state pro-
vides that no tuition fees may ever be
charged In the University of Texas.
the main university building at Austin
has been accepted by the board of
regents, and will be at once occupied
by professors and students from tbs
over crowded rooms of the old univer-
sity quarters. The university now Of
fers accOmmoSa cations for more than
1000 students. It should grow at the
rate of 100 per year for the next 20
years.
The university regents have asket
the leg islature for an appropriation to
the medical department in Galveston.
This equipment is necessary for q
thorough investig alton of epidemics of
the grippe, dergue fever, and yellow
fever which have prevailed in Texas
during recent years, with q view to
treatment and prevention. Texas
medical students should have the best
equipments for thorough training in
their profession.
The regents also ask for an appro-
priation for building for women, to
he erected on the university campus
with construction. and equipment &C.
cording to recognized sanitary prin-
ciples. This building would afford
cheaper board for the 16O young women
now students in the university at
Austin; instruction would be offered
them in music and art; and due regard
could be paid by q proper manage
velopment. The law requires that the
university of Texas shall be open to
both male and female on equal terms,
but this Is not now the, case. In order
to remove this repr zach and do Justice
to the girls of Texas. the board earnest
ly recommend the erection of q
woman's building.
On January II Governor Savers re-
ceived the biennial report of the board
of regents of the university of Texas.
The report shows our leading educa-
tional institution to be in q PROSPEROUS
condition. The attends nee for the
past year was 800 students, represent
ing one foreign country, seven states,
and one hundred counties in Texas.
Forty-fve different trades, occupa.
tions, and professions were represent
ed by the parents of the students,
and one-fourth of the number were
sons and daughters of farmers
Nearly half the students ia the
university pay their own expenses,
either by money which they have pre-
viously earned, or by labor while they
are pursuing their studies. To aid a
larger number OF this class. the re-
gents recommend the enlargement of
University Hall, dormitory for young
men, so that board may be furnished
them at nominalsprice of $40 90 per
month. If the legislature allows this
appropriation, accommodation will be
provided for $50 young men, so that
with the free tuition offered everyone,
young men will be enable to live at the
university for year at q total expense
from 035 to $3.50.