BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.-N"o. 49. 
AusTI~, TEX.As, December 28, 1904. 
To the Alumni of the University of Texas: 
We appeal to you to urge upon your SenatorF and Representatives in the coming Legislature to vote for such an appropriation for main­tenance and support of the LTniYersity as will permit the Board of Re­gents to use the available fund derived from University revenues for the erection of a separate building for the Law Department. Such a building is indispensable. Last year there "ere one hundred and eighty­six law students and the number is still greater this session. A con­siderable increase in attendance during the next few years is expected because a recently enacted statute requires higher qualifications than heretofore for admission to the bar. This law requires a more thor­ough and systematic training as a condition of entrance into the pro­fes&ion, and the Law Department of The "Gniversity should be expected to give this training. 
Apart, however, from t11e expected future increase in attendance, the 
quarters of the Law School are wholly inadequate and unsuited for its 
present needs. The rooms now used are partly underground in the 
basement of the east wing of the main building. The class rooms, library 
and offices open upon a poorly lighted hallway. which is closed at one 
end, and there is consequently confusion and crowding to get in and 
out of the rooms at class hours. There are only two lecture rooms for 
the three classes and neither room is large enough to seat at desks the 
Junior class, nor is there an:\' practicable way of increasing the size of 
the rooms. The number of offices for the profei::sors is insufficient. 
The library room is inadequate, as it will not accommodate comfortably 
more than sixty students at a time out of approximately two hundred 
in attendance. There is no room with a capacity sufficient to seat the 
law students upon any special occasion, when it would be advisable to 
address them as a body. 
We appeal to you because we believe your interest in public .educa­
tion, as well as your loyalty to your alma mater, will cause you earnestly 
to co-operate in an effort to increase the efficiency of the teaching in the 
Law Department by affording proper facilities for the students and 
Faculty. 
A suitable building for present and future needs with proper equip-
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ment can not be had for less than $100,000, and we feel satisfied thiE building C8Jl be obtained through the concerted efforts of the University alumni and of other friends of the institution and of higher education. We ask you, as one acquainted by actual experience with the needs of the University, and inspired by her noble aims, to explain fully to your Senators and Representatives the necessity for an adequate law building, and to use your every legitimate effort to have the Legislature at the coming session to makejj; possible to relieve this pressing necessity. 
Respectfully, 
CLARENCE H . MILLER, 
W. S. SIMKINS, JOHN C. TOWNES, 
B. D. TARLTON, 
C. H. HUBERICH.