El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-27
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS NOTES
AUSTIN, September "a, 1900.

AUSTIN Septem Der ~, ISOO.
Dr.. Pierce Butler has been elected
instructor In Euglisn In the Univerei,y
of Texas. DR.. Butler Is q native Of
New ORLEANS and is at present editorial
assistant on Worcester's Dictionary
He was graduated from Tulane uni
versiiy in 1892 with the degree oil
bachelor of arts. Two years later he
received HE masters degree AZ the
same university. He then spent OF c
year OF study 81 the Sorbonne. Paris,
and another year of travel in Europe
Returning to- America, after three
years of study, he was awarded the
degree of Doctor OF Philosophy in the
johns Hopkins university, Baltimore
During his graduate year he held a
paying fellowship in English. DR..
Butler held q scholarship in Tulane
and has spent two years In the teach
ing of English.
Mr.. A. M. Ferguson, assistant hor-
ticulturiss and mycologist, In the
A. & NJ. college, has been ap-
pointed Instructor In botany in the
University of Texas. Mr.. Ferguson
was graduated with the degree OF
bach { or of scientific horticulture from
the A & NJ. college in 1894, and receiv-
ed his masters degree from the same
Institution In 1896. Since that time
he has pursued his fsvorite subject,
botany, at the Missouri botanical gar
den, 81. Louis. He is q native of Bel
ton, Texas, and comes highly recon-
mended by his associates in the A. &
M. College.
The entrance examinations to the
university will commence Wednesday,
the 26th, and will continue three days.
Inc matriculation OF new students
begins on the same day. The lectures
of the regular session will commence
on Monday October 1st. A large num-
Der of new students are already on toe
boarding places and taking short re-
views upder university coaches In
preparation for the examina atoms.
Nearly one hundred applications for
rooms have been filed at University
Hall. The hall will be filed to its ut
most limits before she opening day.
About twenty candidates for the
football team are already on the
ground and daily practice from four to
six D. m. is had under the direction of
Coach Thompson and Captain Schrei-
ner. Manager Barton hopes to have
the team play a number of preliminary
games efore the game with Wander
bilt at Dallas on October 14tn-Uni-
versity day. The university will send
q large delegation to Dallas to cheer
the boys on TO victory on this occasion
L
tie, as inform alton has come that Van
derbilt has been engaged in active
practice for almost q month past. The
conditions both of latitude and climate
are strongly in Vanderbilt's favor,
but the team here will make the fight
of its life TO wipe out the disgrace Of
defeat At Nashville the past season.
So far a number Of very promising
candidates have presented Themselves
for practice. Leslie OF Fannin County
Smith of Fit Worth, Kinder, of Mic
romisinR mep. It Is also hoped that
Mccall, of Weatherford, may be in
duceo to try for q place on the team
All OF his friends are certain that be
would make q successor to Overshiner.
Schreine, the two McMahors, ex-Cap-
tain Jim Hart, Moutietb, are among
the old men who have returned
Through the generosity of 8 friend
of the university arrangements have
been perfected for the opening OF the
medical department Nov emb,r Is. II
for the reception of students at that
time, and that the attendance for the
current session will not be greatly de-
creased on account of the food disaster.
Quite q number of the present student
body of the medical department have
written letters endorsing the action OF
the regents In not removing even tenn
Dorarily the medical college away from
Galveston. Uotil the storm there was
every promise of a larger atteudar oe
tt an usual. While the attendance will
now probably be cut down the presence
O. the large and strong faculty, which