The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 54, July 1950 - April, 1951 Page: 395
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A Concise History of the University of Texas
Fund is fixed by the legislature in each biennial appropriation
bill. For some years this income was restricted to the erection
of buildings, but recently it can also be devoted to general ex-
penses.
(3) The Constitution of 1876 declares that "the Legislature
shall as soon as practicable organize and provide for the main-
tenance, support, and direction of a university of the first class,"
but no money shall be appropriated out of the general revenue
"for the establishment and erection of the buildings of the uni-
versity." It would seem clear that the legislature was to provide
for maintenance out of the general revenue (though the first
appropriation was not made until 1889), but it was hoped that
the lands would yield funds in plenty for buildings. The build-
ing prohibition still holds, but appropriations from the general
revenue have long been unquestioned and are now made in ever
increasing amounts. For the biennium 1949-1951 the total appro-
priation for all branches of the University except the A. and M.
College was $22,406,935.
(4) Gifts to the University by individuals and grants by foun-
dations have been increasing in recent years. The first gift by
an individual was a plaster bust of Governor Oran M. Roberts,
presented by its sculptress, Elisabet Ney. Of her successors the
following are a few of the more prominent: Regent George W.
Brackenridge; Regent George W. Littlefield; the Sealy family of
Galveston, especially John Sealy and his sister, Mrs. R. Waverly
Smith; Mrs. Miriam Lutcher Stark; W. J. McDonald; Regent
Will C. Hogg; Benjamin Clayton; M. D. Anderson; and Miss
Rosalie B. Hite. Large sums have been raised by public subscrip-
tion for various buildings. Substantial subsidies and grants have
come from the national government and from various educational
and research organizations and foundations.
Campus. The Main University campus at first consisted of
the tract of forty acres set apart for the University when Austin
was selected for the capital of the Republic. The first addition
was an athletic field bought partly by subscription, in 1897, lo-
cated where the Engineering Building now stands, and later
called Clark Field in honor of long-time proctor James B. Clark.
In 191o a tract of 440 acres lying along both banks of the Colo-
rado River west of the city and extending as far as the Tom395
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