As the University of Texas at Austin celebrates its 125th
anniversary, it can justly claim to be a "university of the first
class," as mandated in the Texas Constitution. The university's
faculty and student body include winners of the Nobel Prize, the
Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur "genius award," and Rhodes and
Marshall Scholarships, as well as members of learned societies all
over the world. UT's athletic programs are said to be the best
overall in the United States, and its libraries, museums, and
archives are lauded in every educated part of the world. Texas
alumni have made their marks in law, engineering, geology,
business, journalism, and all fields of the sciences, arts, and
entertainment. The Texas Book gathers together personality
profiles, historical essays, and first-person reminiscences to
create an informal, highly readable history of UT. Many fascinating
characters appear in these pages, including visionary president and
Ransom Center founder Harry Huntt Ransom, contrarian English
professor and Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie, legendary regent and
lightning rod Frank C. Erwin, and founder of the field of Mexican
American Studies, Americo Paredes. The historical pieces recall
some of the most dramatic and challenging episodes in the
university's history, including recurring attacks on the school by
politicians and regents, the institution's history of segregation
and struggles to become a truly diverse university, the sixties'
protest movements, and the Tower sniper shooting. Rounding off the
collection are reminiscences by former and current students and
faculty, including Walter Prescott Webb, Willie Morris, Betty Sue
Flowers, J. M. Coetzee, and Barbara Jordan, who capture the spirit
of the campus at moments in time that defined their eras.
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