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interests in the state that they assumed to be diverse and have
therefore supported in the spirit of rivalry. Many an appropria-
tion for it has been cut, and many a fierce attack made on it for
no other reason. Some of the earliest assaults of its enemies were
made in the name of the common schools; others were inspired
by an undiscriminating zeal to serve the Agricultural and
Mechanical college; and others still grew out of a mistaken fancy
that to strengthen the University was to weaken the denomina-
tional institutions.
Between 1883 and 90o8 the population of Texas has more
than doubled and its wealth has grown fourfold; but its advance
in civilization would be hard to measure, or even to estimate.
Better than all the added value of land, the ever swelling prod-
uct of farm and pasture, busy manufactories, and laden trains
are the increase of culture, the finer ideals, and the higher life
that have come to all. Hundreds of those among us who have won
an honest competence go forth yearly to see the world and return
with a keener sense of beauty, and a better understanding of men
and things, and a deeper appreciation of their own duties and re-
sponsibilities. But it is not only on such as these that this quarter
century has bestowed its favors. The uplift has been felt in every
part of the state and from the remotest hamlets and rural districts
young men and women have come to the University with stories
of increasing wealth, better schools, and better things for the poor-
est. Just recently the longest step in advance that has been made
in Texas for many a year was taken when the constitutional
amendment was adopted raising the limit of local taxation for
country public schools and abolishing the two-thirds majority
required for its imposition. In 1885, or even a long time there-
after, such an emancipation would have been impossible; but
the persistent enthusiasm of a brave minority has finally levened
the whole lump, and henceforth there is to be no constitutional
discrimination against the betterment of the common schools.
This fact should put a new note of rejoicing in our trimumphal
song today; for none could show more clearly how much ground
has been gained.
Do not understand me to be claiming all the credit for the
progress of which I have spoken to the University. Some of it
means nothing more than material prosperity. Even in its more115
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