BULLETIN 

of 
THf UNIVfRSITY Of TfXAS 

Number .177 
Published four times a month 
By the University of Texas 
At Austin, Texas 

Press Series 8 April 1, 1911 
Entered at Austin, Texas, as sec­ond-class matter, under Act of Con­gTess of July 16, 1894. 
The Bulletin for the Press is pub­lished twice a month by the Univer­sity of Texas for the purpose of fur­nishing items of interest regarding University affairs. The press is in­vited to make free use of these items with or without giving credit therefor. 
Please forwal'cl to the Extension Department papers containing ;iny of t,his nlatter. 
PAYING TAXES TO O'l'HER 
STATES. 
Recently, Dr. Bird T. Baldwin of 
the University of Texas collected sta­
tistics from the available catalogues 
in the library, showing that 906 
Texas boys and girls are attending 
.institutions of higher learning out­
side of Texas. Estimating that each 
of these students is at an expense of 
$7 50 a year, it is seen that Texas 
contributes to other States the large 
sum of $679,500 for education. De­
ducting from this amount the money 
that would probably be spent by stu­
dents who leave the State because of 
climatic or personal reasons, it is 
seen that Texas contributes to for­
eign institutions for the education of 
students each year not less than half 
a million dollars. This money would 
be kept at home if Texas were pro­
vided with ample ec:ucational facili­
ties. It is spent abroad simply be­
cause Texas parents believe their 
sons and daughters are entitled to 
the best educational facilities. 
Were it possible to secure figures 
from all institutions of learning, the 
above estimates would have to be .).argely increased. 
Dr. Heald of the Department of 
Botany has prepared a bulletin on 
"Symptoms of Diseases in Plants," 
which is sent free to all who apply 
for it. Dr. Heald will be glad to 
answer inquiries concerning plant 
disease from any person in Texas. 
He says, in his introduction to this 
pamphlet: 
"It is highly import.ant that all persons engaged in general farming, truck gardening, fruit raising, or fioriculture should be able to recog­nize the presence of disease. In their mute way plants tell us when they are suffering from constitutional or contagious diseases if we are only able to interpret their language. It is evident that many people do not recognize the presence of disease, for it is not an uncommon thing to re­ceive replies like the following to the letters of inquiry that are sent out over the State: 'There are no plant diseases present in our rocality;' 'All the crops in our region are free from disease;' 'No diseases in our coun­try.' 
"The diseases that affect plants may be divided into three different groups: First, those disturbances of nutrition which are due to unfavor­able conditions in the environment of the plant, or to the condition in­herent in the plant itself; second, troubles due to the presence of para­sitic plants, generally either bacte­ria or fungi, but sometimes to flow­ering plants that deform, stunt, or kill the affected plant by their pres­ence; third, those caused by insect pests, which are in many cases very evident, and in other cases not easily detected. Many of these insect trou­bles are hardly to be classed as plant diseases, while many are as truly dis­eases as those produced by parasitic fungi. The first thing of importance for a farmer to do is to detect the presence of the disease and then en­deavor to find out its cause, nature, and probable outcome and the treat­ment which should be employed, by consulting those who have made the subject a special study." 
Among the most prominent of the young physicians in Texas is a man who first came to the University of Texas in the summer of 1901. He called on a University official, stated that he desired an education, that he had no money, but that he was will­ing to do any sort of work. Upon be­ing asked what he could do, he said that he was a reg·istered pharmacist. Thereupon the University official gave him a letter to the Austin drug men. The young Il:1an succeeded in securing a position that enabled him to pay all his expense bills. Through­out the next session he made a good clerk and a good student. 
On beginning his second year's work, he again called on the same University official and told him that he must have additional income or give up his education. 
" Why so?" aske<l. bis friend. 
"Well," he replied, "my father is an invalid, and I must have a sum of money each month to send to him and my mother." 
Thereupon he was assigned, in ad­dition to his clerkship, the position of runner for a large boarding house. He went energetically to work, se­cured enough boarders to fill the house, and, under his contract, re­ceived a stated amount a month. Dur­ing that year he held both positions, earning enough money to pay his own expenses, besides sending regu­larly to his parents a substantial con­tribution to their supJ;>,Jrt, and at the same time ranked high in scholar­ship. In fact, he made four A's and one B as grades in five courses-in other words, four of the highest and one of the next highest grades given to a student. His scholarship won him, the third year, a minor teaching position in the University, which en­abled him to give up his job of board­ing house runner. 
His record in the Medical Depart­ment for three years was equally distinguished. He is now in a posi­tion where he is not compelled to ask favors. 
The University of 'l'exas has bulle­tins on the tariff question and the prohibition question that are sent free to all applicants. It also sends out free traveling libraries on these subjects. 
In the fourteenth biennial report of the Regents are the names of thirty-one ex-students who are now ministers of the gospel. Six of them are foreign missionaries. 
Seven of the fifteen Texas Con­gressmen are ex-students or gradu­ates of the University of Texas. 
In the past four years the attend­ance at the University of Texas has increased 51 per cent. 
Special Agent R. E. L. Saner re­ports a total income of $227,842.35 from University lands for the past year,, The cost of handling these lands was $3,787.30, or 1.6 per cent of the income. 
The University of Texas is plan­ning to start a School of Journalism at the opening of the session in 1911. In the University of Missouri the School of Journalism enrolls each year nearly two hundred students. 
Sixteen hundred and seventy-four students have enrolled in the Main University at Austin during the pres­ent session. The increase of more than 100 students has been made in the face of the additional entrance requirements demanded to keep the University abreast of the best insti­tutions of the country. 
The fourteenth annual session of the University Summer School will open June 17 and close August 3, 1911. The work of the coming ses­sion is under the direction of 94 in­structors and officials, with Professor William S. Sutton as Dean. 
Courses of study are offered in hotany, chemistry, economics, Eng­lish, geology, history, Latin, mathe­matics, physics, Spanish, education, psychology and law. In connection with the summer school is conducted a University Summer Normal, in which instruction will be given in all studies required for a second grade, first grade, permanent primary, and permanent certificates. Special work in agriculture will be given. It is expected that not less than one thou­sand students will register for the session of 1911.