The University Record. EDITORIAL BOARD: President WM. L. PRATHER, Professor A. C. ELLIS, Dr. PIERCE BUTLER, The UNIVERSITY RECORD is published quarterly; subscription, one dollar a year; single copies, twenty-five cents. Advertisements, one page, $15; half page, $10; quarter page, $74, with 25 per cent. discount on contracts for a year. Address business communications to JOHN A. LOMAX, Austin, Texas. [Entered as second-class mail matter at Austin, Texas.] THE UNIVERSITY RECORD. THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT AND THE GALVESTON FOURTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF General Notes-The Texas Academy of Science, 70; Res- olutions on the Death of Dr. E. P. Becton, 72; The Affiliated Schools, 73; Contributions from the Zoologi- cal Laboratory, 74; The Texas State Historical Associ- ation, 74: The Lancet on Dr. Harper's Address, 75; AUSTIN, TEXAS, December 1, 1900. To His Excellency, Joseph D. Sayers, Governor of Texas. SIR: The Board of Regents have the honor to submit the following report of the University of Texas for the years 1898-'99 and 1899-'00: GROWTH OF THE UNIVERSITY. The growth of the University during the past two years has been gratifying. The number of students in attendance during the session of 1896-'97 was 751; session of 1897-'98, 800; session of 1898-'99, 800; session of 1899-'00, 911. If to the number of students registered for the regular session, 1899-'00, there be added the 130 enrolled in the summer school, it would make 1041 individuals who have enjoyed the benefits of University instruction during the past session. The enrollment at the Main University at Austin at this date is 756, exceeding the enrollment, on the same date last year by 114. A detailed statement of the student, enrollment is given in "Exhibit A." The area of student patronage has also been increased until it now includes nine States and 119 courties in Texas. The growing popularity of the University and its greater adaptation to the needs of our people is shown not only by the increase in the number of students, but also by the fact that its patronage represents a greater number of trades, occupations and professions than ever before. About one-third of the students of the University pay their own. *Reprinted from the official text. expenses with money which they have previously earned or by labor performed while they are pursuing their studies. The educational advantages of the University should be made accessible to the largest possible number of youths of the State, and especially to those who, through financial inability, are least able to secure them. It has been the cherished design of our people since the days of the republic to the present time that there should be established within the limits of Texas "an institution of learning for the instruction of the youths of the land in the higher branches of learning, and in the liberal arts and sciences, and to be so endowed, supported and maintained as to place within the reach of our people, whether rich or poor, the opportunity of conferring upon the sons of the State a thorough education, and as a means whereby the attachment of the young men of the State to the interests, the institutions, the rights of the State, and the liberties of the people might be encouraged and increased." This desire on the part of the people of Texas is beginning to be realized. While the University has grown rapidly in the extent and area of its patronage during the past two years, there has been still more gratifying advance in the standards of scholarship. The requirements for admission have been raised to as high a point as seems compatible with the present condition of our secondary schools; and the requirements for graduation have been strengthened by specific additions and by proper subordination and correlation of studies. Certain fundamental studies essential to mental culture, and certain informational studies essential to good citizenship, have been prescribed in all courses leading to degrees. With these restrictions, and subject to approval by the Faculty, students are permitted in the later years of their courses to select their studies with reference to their aims in life and their individual tastes and talents. ENTRANCE AND GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS. The revision made during the past year of the admission requirements, to go into effect in September, 1902, and the modification of the requirements for graduation, made also at the same time by the Faculty, as well as the leveling up of the requirements for the three Academic Degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Litera |