The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, July 1951 - April, 1952 Page: 444
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
depends on the pride and generosity of a progressive, enlightened
people.
Referring to the University of Texas, Governor Hogg said:
The University is within, a part of, and belongs to the public free
school system of this State-a fact that can be admitted with pride.
The Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for the main-
tenance, support, and direction of this institution so that it shall be
first class for the promotion of literature, the arts, and sciences.
To the ambitious of both sexes who aspire and wish to become
educated in general literature and the arts and sciences connected
with the professional as well as agricultural and mechanical pursuits,
the University and its branches (including the Agricultural and
Mechanical College) ought to afford, in a great State like this, all
opportunities and facilities they may desire. They are both the
creatures of the pride of a great and generous people and deserve to
be maintained to the full standard fixed by the Constitution.
At the end of his administration, in his message to the legisla-
ture in 1895, Governor Hogg closed his discussion of the Uni-
versity of Texas with these words:
... this great institution of learning, now fast reaching the hearts of
the rich and poor alike, should receive that legislative encouragement
and support commensurate with its inestimable importance in the
educational fabric of our State.
Parenthetically, I think it is appropriate to say here that the
sons and the daughter of Governor Hogg have repeatedly mani-
fested their intense and entirely unselfish interest in the Univer-
sity, and it is deeply indebted to them for their munificent gifts
which have greatly broadened and extended and for many years
will continue to broaden and extend the scope of the service
which the University is able to render to the people of Texas.
Aside from his devotion to the welfare of the people of Texas
generally, and his special interest in the University, the most
notable and perhaps an even more fundamental characteristic
of the administration of Governor Hogg was his outspoken
devotion to our constitutional form of government. The Consti-
tution was for him a living guide for the conduct of our govern-
ment, in bad times as well as in good, and even in the face of
overwhelming popular clamor demanding in effect that it be
disregarded. The tone of his whole administration in this respect444
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