The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-07-13
HIS GREAT WORK IN TEXAS
HE is BROAD GAUGED, RE
SOURCEFUL, AND PRO
GRESSIVE."
GREATLY DEVELOPED TEXAS UNIVERSITY
The Board Of Fegenis Think he Has Accomp
Iished ,Great ..aad Enduring Work
in that State.

TO the Editor: | enclose you ii copy of
a letter received by me from Hon. w. l..
prathcr of Waco, Texas. Judge Prathcr
is one of the regents of the Uni
that institution is in the hands of seven
regents, Judge Prather is one Of his
States foremost citizens. | found his
letter at home on my return from the
late meeting of the Trustees of the North
Carolina College of Agriculture and Me
chanc Arts.
The distinguished scholar. so recently
elected President of that college does not
need any endorsement before the people
off his native State.
1t will be a pleasure to the people who
are so soon to feel the inspiration of his
work to know that in a distant State he
has won the confidence and esteem that
characterized his life while President Of
our own University.
Waco, Texas, July /, 1899
Mr.. j. Il. Stokes. Windsor. y. c.:
My Dear Sir: Replying to your letter
of Both ulto, just received, / would say
DR.. Geo. L. Winston. a president of the
University of Texas has done more to
make known to the people of Texas. the
University within the short time he has
been here than all other instrumentalties
have accomplished since its Organiza
ton. | regard him. take him all around,
as the hest equipped man within my
knowledge for the head of an institution
of learning. He is broad gagged. re-
sourceful. progressive and has the capa-
city for doing quickly and well an enor-
nous amount of work. He seems to be
well posted on almost every line. Last
year at n banquet during commence
ment at the Agricultural and Mechanical
College Of Texas. in response to toast
proposed to the college, DIR. Winston in
ten minutes speech made the wisest
most comprehensive, most attractive and
in every way the happiest presentation of
the importance of agriculture j ever
heard.
DIR. Winston has greatly, developed the
University of Texas and increased its eff
ficiency in many directions. He is
quick to see and ready to utilize oppor-
tunities. The conditions here in new
country. where the people coming from
every State and almost every nation are
strangers in Il sense to each other. are
entirely different from those in an old
settled State like North Carolina or Vir
ginia, and no man can be transplanten
from one environment to the other and
not make mistakes or incur opposition in
Il measure. Still with these new I'M
tried and trying surroundings. DIR. Win
ston in my opinion. and / think in the
opinion o. every member of the Board
of Regents has accomplished a great and
enduring work for the University of
Texas.
He has not been engaged in teaching
here, nut his work has been admimstra-
tive. lie has wonderful capacity to dis
Germ quickly the objective and controli-
ing point and great readiness in selecting
and adopting means to reach the same.
DIR. Winston has great self-poise and
self-command and is an exceptionally
pleasant man to deal with. He is always
reasonable, obEging and ready to under
take difficult work that others would
feel inclined to avoid. He has one facut-
ty | have often envied-he can devote
himself exclusively to the thing in hand
with all the powers of his well trained
nature until it is accomplished and then
can Immediately and completely dismiss
it from his mind and take up the next
thing and give it in like manner his
undivided attention. This. with his self
poise and admirable physique, gives him
his enormous capacity for work.
The Board of Regents esteem DIR. Win
ston as an unusually able. manly, frank
and accomplished gentleman.
Trusting | have covered the points Of
your inquiry. / am,
Most respectfully yours.
WIN. l.. pRATIER.
Regent of the University Of Texas.
.he traits Of character enumerated in
this letter are those that are needed
to make am ideal presiding officer around
our college, where mechanics, artisans
and farmers and skilled laborers are to
be educated and where the dignity of
work is to be fostered and inculcated.
J. Il. STOKES.
Windsor n c. July - 1899