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 ORGANIZATION 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 ENLARGEMENT 
 
 AND EXTENSION BY 
 
 THE STATE OF THE 
 
 UNIVERSITY PLAN OF 
 
 HIGHER EDUCATION 
 
 IN TEXAS 
 
 ANNOUNCEMENT 
 
 OF 
 
 ORIGIN AND PROGRAM 
 OF WORK 
 
 OFFICE OF 
 
 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 
 
 AUSTIN. TEXAS 
 FEBRUARY lO, 1912 
 
 Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., Printers, Austin, Texas. 
 
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 ORGANIZATION FOR THE ENLARGE- 
 MENT AND EXTENSION BY THE 
 STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY 
 PLAN OF HIGHER EDU- 
 CATION IN TEXAS 
 
 ANNOUNCEMENT 
 
 OF 
 
 ORIGIN AND PROGRAM OF WORK 
 
 This Organization had its origin at the 
 annual meeting of the Alumni Association 
 of the University of Texas that was held in 
 Austin, Texas, on June 12, 1911, at which 
 meeting the following resolutions were 
 unanimously adopted : 
 
 RESOLUTIONS. 
 
 "Resolved, That the President of the Uni- 
 versity of Texas, Dr. S. E. Mezes, and the 
 President of the Alumni Association, Mr. 
 E. B. Parker, and such another gentleman 
 as those two may select, be and are hereby 
 appointed a committee of three to fonnulate 
 and adopt for this Association by-laws or 
 rules defining the purpose of the organiza- 
 tion of the permanent standing committees, 
 and such by-laws and regulations adopted by 
 the subcommittee of three herein authorized 
 are hereby adopted and made a part of this 
 resolution as if read and carefully considered 
 at this meeting. Be it further 
 
 "Resolved, That a committee composed of 
 the President of the University of Texas, 
 the present President of the Alumni Associ- 
 ation, the President of the Board of TJegents 
 of the University of Texas, arc hereby in- 
 structed to proceed, in their own way, to 
 
the selection of a permanent standing com- 
 mittee of nine of ways and means for the 
 enlargement and extension of the University 
 plan, and that the first meeting of said com- 
 mittee, if possible, be convened in the city 
 of Austin on the first Saturday in October, 
 1911. Be it further 
 
 "Resolved, That the President of the Uni- 
 versity of Texas, the present President of 
 the Alumni Association of Texas, and the 
 President of the Board of Eegents of the 
 University of Texas be requested to select 
 and authorize some suitable individual who 
 will undertake, without any remuneration or 
 expense, to provide a fund of not less than 
 $25,000 per year nor more than $50,000 per 
 year during the period of five years, payable 
 in advance, in five equal annual installments 
 of not less than $25,000 per year nor more 
 than $50,000 per year, on the first day of 
 November, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, and 
 1915." 
 
 BY-LAWS. 
 
 Pursuant to resolution 1 mentioned above, 
 Messrs. Mezes and Parker selected the Chair- 
 man of the Board of Eegents of the Uni- 
 versity of Texas, Mr. Clarence Ousley, as the 
 other member of the committee; and the fol- 
 lowing by-laws for the permanent organiza- 
 tion were formulated and adopted : 
 
 "1. The name of this undertaking shall 
 be: Organization for the Enlargement and 
 Extension by the State of the University 
 Plan of Higher Education in Texas. 
 
 "2. The objects of the organization are: 
 
 "(a) To stimulate thought and arouse as- 
 piration for higher education in Texas. 
 
 "(b) To secure the best thought and 
 counsel of competent persons engaged in ed- 
 ucational work throughout the United States 
 and Europe. 
 
"(c) To investigate and to advise the peo- 
 ple of Texas what the scope of the higher 
 educational institutions should be, and what 
 method and adequate means of maintenance 
 should be provided. This will be accom- 
 plished by the application of modem busi- 
 ness and scientific methods of investigation 
 and determination. 
 
 "(d) To elaborate and present a program, 
 thoroughgoing and modem in its details, 
 responsive to the various activities of a great 
 Commonwealth. 
 
 "3. Standing Committee. — The Standing 
 Committee provided in the constituting res- 
 olution shall be composed of the Chairman 
 of the Board of Eegents, ex-oflficio ; the Pres- 
 ident of the University, ex-officio ; the 
 present President of the Alumni Association 
 of the University of Texas, and six addi- 
 tional persons to be selected by them, at least 
 four of whom should preferably be alumni 
 of the University. Members of the Stand- 
 ing Committee shall serve for a period of 
 ten years. Vacancies shall be filled by the 
 remaining members of the committee. 
 
 "4. Advisory Committee. — An Advisory 
 Committee of eight persons shall be elected 
 by the Standing Committee to serve for a 
 period of five years, and shall be composed, 
 preferably, of two alumni of the University, 
 one banker not an alumnus, one railroad 
 man not an alumnus, one other man of 
 affairs not an alumnus, and three graduates 
 of other universities resident in Texas. 
 A'acancies shall be filled by the majority of 
 a joint meeting of the Standing and the 
 Advisory Committees. 
 
 "5. Corresponding Committee. — A Cor- 
 responding Committee of not fewer than five 
 and not more than ten non-resident former 
 Tcxans of national standing shall be selected 
 
by a majority of a joint meeting of the 
 Standing and the Advisory Committees. 
 
 "6. Each of the aforesaid committees 
 shall elect a chairman and shall appoint 
 such subcommittees as may be deemed ex- 
 pedient. Each committee shall meet at the 
 call of its chairman, and the chairman shall 
 issue a call upon his own motion or upon the 
 written request of a quorum. 
 
 "7. Five members shall constitute a 
 quorum of the Standing Committee; four 
 members shall constitute a quorum of the 
 Advisory Committee; three members, acting 
 either in assembly or by joint signature, 
 shall constitute a quorum of the Correspond- 
 ing Committee; and four members of the 
 Standing Committee with three members of 
 the Advisory Committee shall constitute a 
 quorum for a joint meeting of the said 
 committees. An annual joint meeting of 
 the Standing Committee and the Advisory 
 Committee shall be held on the day after 
 Thanksgiving of each year. 
 
 "8. Two members of the Standing Com- 
 mittee and one member of the Advisory 
 Committee shall be appointed by their re- 
 spective committees as the Fiuance Commit- 
 tee of the Organization ; provided, that the 
 Initial Committee of three shall appoint the 
 first Finance Committee, to have full powers 
 pro tempore, but to be subject to confirma- 
 tion by the first joint meeting of the Stand- 
 ing and the Advisory Committees. 
 
 "9. The Secretary' or Secretaries of the 
 Organization shall be elected by the Stand- 
 ing and the Advisory Committees acting in 
 joint meeting; provided, that the Finance 
 Committee may appoint the Secretary at any 
 time when that office is vacant, or engage a 
 Secretary or Secretaries, subject to confirma- 
 tion by the next ensuing joint meeting of 
 the Standing and the Advisory Committees. 
 
"10. The funds at the disposal of this 
 Organization shall be expended upon appro- 
 priations made by the Standing and the 
 Advisory Committees in joint session; pro- 
 vided, that the Finance Committee may 
 make appropriation for these committees in 
 emergencies subject to their confirmation, 
 
 "11. Such matured plan or proposals 
 affecting the University of Texas as may re- 
 sult from the deliberations and counsels 
 of the committees shall be submitted for 
 criticism to the Faculty Council of the Uni- 
 versity, and then referred to the Board of 
 Regents of the University for amendment, 
 rejection, or approval, before submission to 
 the people of Texas. 
 
 "12. These by-laws may be amended by 
 a majority of any joint meeting of the 
 Standing and the Advisory Committees. 
 
 "13. The Alumni Association of the Uni- 
 versity of Texas, at any regular meeting, 
 may remove any member or members of any 
 committee of this Organization and elect a 
 substitute or substitutes." 
 
 In due time the Standing Committee of 
 nine, to serve for a period of ten years, was 
 selected; and the Committee of Three 
 selected Mr. Will C. Hogg, of Houston, to 
 raise the proposed endowment. Mr. Hogg 
 proceeded with the work, and on October 
 28, 1911, reported to the Committee that he 
 had succeeded in raising an endowment ag- 
 gregating $29,800 per year for a period of 
 five years. 
 
 The Standing Committee, acting under 
 authority vested in it by the by-law, selected 
 the Advisory Committee of eight persons, to 
 serve for a term of five years. Membership 
 of the Corresponding Committee at this date 
 has not been completed. 
 
 The Finance Committee authorized in the 
 by-laws was selected and is composed of 
 
Messrs. S. E. Mezes and E. B. Parker of 
 the Standing Committee and Mr. Will C. 
 Hogg of the Advisory Committee. 
 
 The Standing Committee and the Advis- 
 ory Committee, as the Board of Control of 
 the Organization, held a meeting at Hous- 
 ton, Texas, on January 15, 1912, elected 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 F. M. Bralley as the Executive Secretary of 
 the Organization, Mr. Arthur Lefevre hav- 
 ing been previously elected as the Organiza- 
 tion's Secretary for Eesearch ; and after full 
 discussion unanimously adopted the program 
 of work for the current calendar year. 
 
 TO INFORM THE PEOPLE. 
 
 "1. That this Organization distribute as 
 widely as possible throughout Texas infor- 
 mation on the following points : 
 
 "(a) The present plants, activities, and 
 amounts and methods of support of the 
 University of Texas, the Agricultural and 
 Mechanical College, the College of Indus- 
 trial Arts, and the State Normal Schools. 
 
 "(b) The needed improvements of and 
 additions to the plants and activities of 
 these institutions, and the increased income 
 and support necessary to make these im- 
 provements and additions, based upon a 
 study of similar institutions elsewhere. 
 
 "(c) The value to the people of Texas 
 of the present services of these institutions, 
 and the increased benefit to them of the serv- 
 ices that could be rendered with improved 
 and additional facilities. 
 
 "2. That the Organization employ the 
 following means and methods, among others, 
 with such modifications as may prove ex- 
 pedient: 
 
 "(a) Bulletins and special articles to be 
 sent to United States Senators and Con- 
 
gressmen. State Legislators, Judges of the 
 Appellate Courts, County and City School 
 Superintendents, Presidents and Secretaries 
 of Commercial and other Clubs, jSTewspaper 
 Editors, High School Principals, Subscrib- 
 ers to the Fund, Members of the Faculties 
 of Colleges and Normals in the State, and 
 other suitable persons. 
 
 "(b) Charts to be posted in courthouses, 
 public libraries, chambers of commerce, and 
 other suitable public places. 
 
 "(c) Special articles and other matter 
 in the leading daily papers, also appropriate 
 matter in country papers. 
 
 "(d) Attendance in person or by deputy, 
 and addresses, at all important teachers' and 
 other public meetings and fairs in the State. 
 
 "(e) Special mailing cards to be sent to 
 a list of several thousand selected persons. 
 
 "(f) Suitable exhibits for the State and 
 principal county fairs, accompanied where- 
 ever sent by some person competent to ex- 
 plain them. 
 
 "campaign committee. 
 
 "3. That this Organization invite the 
 governing boards of the University of Texas, 
 the Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
 the College of Industrial Arts, and the State 
 Normal Schools to co-operate with it in its 
 campaign of education ; that each of the 
 said governing boards be requested to ap- 
 point a suitable person to represent its in- 
 stitution or body; that the said four ap- 
 pointees, the General Agent of The Confer- 
 ence for Education in Texas, and two rep- 
 resentatives of this Organization shall con- 
 stitute an Educational Campaign Commit- 
 tee to formulate methods and provide ma- 
 terials for publicity for the current calendar 
 year; that one of the said two representa- 
 tives of this Organization shall be its Execu- 
 
tive Secretary, and also the Executive Sec- 
 retary of the said Educational Campaign 
 Committee." 
 
 The General Agent of The Conference for 
 Education in Texas was elected to serve as a 
 member of the Educational Campaign Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Education is fundamental to the welfare 
 of the Commonwealth, and Texas has under- 
 taken to maintain an efficient system of edu- 
 cation, beginning with the common public 
 schools and extending up to and including 
 the University of Texas. The State insti- 
 tutions of higher learning are therefore in- 
 tegral parts of our system of education, and 
 all patriotic citizens and friends of education 
 in Texas believe that they should be in all 
 respects the equal of the best institutions of 
 their kind in the entire country. 
 
 The sympathetic and active co-operation 
 of the people is hereby solicited, to the end 
 that our educational facilities may be made 
 equal to the demands of present-day civili- 
 zation. 
 
 S. E. Mezes, Austin, Texa?, 
 Clarence Ousley, Fort Worth, Texas, 
 
 E. B. Parker, Houston, Texas, 
 R. L. Batts, Austin, Texas, 
 
 M. Sansom, Fort Worth, Texas, 
 George A. Eobertson, Dallas, Texas, 
 John W. Hopkins, Galveston, Texas, 
 
 F. C. Proctor, Beaumont, Texas, 
 W. H. BuRGES, El Paso, Texas, 
 
 Standing Committee. 
 
 S. P. Brooks, Waco, Texas, 
 Will C. Hogg, Houston, Texas, 
 Frank Kell, Wichita Falls, Texas, 
 C. LoMBARDi, Dallas, Texas, 
 
 E. 0. LovETT, Houston, Texas, 
 Charles Schreiner, Kerrville, Texas, 
 Ed. C. Lasater, Falfurrias, Texas, 
 
 F. M. Bralley, Austin, Texas, 
 
 Advisoiy Committee. 
 
For further information, address 
 F. M. Bralley, 
 
 Executive Secretary, 
 
 Austin, Texas. 
 
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