The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957 Page: 108
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
tions of a committee of the State Teachers' association which was
appointed at the meeting at Mexia in June, 188o, and of which
Dr. Oscar H. Cooper, now president of Abilene college, was
chairman. Among the members of the legislature who distin-
guished themselves by their hearty support of the University
interests were Senators Terrell of Travis, Buchanan of Wood,
Gooch of Anderson, and Wynne of Rusk, and Representative
Hutcheson of Harris. Of these six, all except Messrs. Buchanan
and Gooch are yet alive, and to each of them, the living and the
dead, every friend of the University owes a deep and inextin-
guishable debt of gratitude.
The provision which has resulted in the separation of the
medical branch from the main University originated as an
amendment offered by Senator Stubbs of Galveston, which was
at first defeated, but later adopted.
Many places in different parts of the state sought to obtain
the University, and there was a sharp contest over the location.
The election resulted in favor of Austin for the main University,
and Galveston for the medical branch.
In obedience to the statute, the regents were convened in
Austin November 15, 1881. The members of the first board
appointed were Ashbel Smith, T J. Devine, R. B. Hubbard,
N. A. Edwards, Smith Ragsdale, J. W. Throckmorton, J. H. Hall
and J. H. Starr. The board, however, which met and organized
the University consisted of the first five of the list given, and
instead of the last three T. M. Harwood, T D. Wooten and
J. L. Camp.
The cornerstone of the main building was laid November 17,
1882. The amount then available for building purposes was
not sufficient to erect more than the west wing of the structure
planned; and even this part was not finished when the formal
opening of the University took place, September 15, 1883. The
exercises of the occasion were held in the unfinished building;
but classes met, until the end of the year 1883, in the temporary
capitol, which stood on the lot now vacant at the head of Con-
gress avenue opposite the county court house. On January 1,
1884, they were transferred to the University building.
The initial organization of the University, as judged by the
standard "first-class" fixed in the constitution, was almost asio8
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