No. 3414: April 8, 1934 A LETTER TO HIGH-SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE GRADUATES PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY FOUR TIMES A MONTH AND ENTERED AS SECOND·CLASS MATTER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT AUSTIN, TEXAS, UNDER THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912 The new terrace and approach. to Main Building. Sentinels on duty, Jefferson Davis and Woodrow Wilson. Garrison and Waggener Halls beyond. A LETTER TO HIGH-SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE GRADUATES Austin, Texas, April 8, 1934. To HIGH-SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE GRADUATES OF 1934.: You are soon to graduate and I congratulate you. Now what? It is a serious problem, isn't it? In my home I have twin boys four and a half years old-the finest in the land. Yesterday about dusk a hurried call came from the yard to come and see a beautifully-lighted advertising airplane about to pass over. Later Reed said: "I couldn't get out quickly 'cause Mam ma got right in the middle of my way." But he saw the airplane. These are times when difficulties have "g<.t right in the middle of the way" of many parents who have been planning for years to send you to the University. These times, therefore, are also testing times, proving our ability to overcome and surmount obstacles. As to the necessity for an education, the "depression" has only emphasized the advantag" of the well-trained man or woman. Brains and Industry.-But boys and girls who either cannot or will not learn should not go to college; they don't stay very long at the University. Brains and industry, however, make a strong combination; moderate intelligence and much industry are also good. The University.-! want to tell you about The University of Texas, your university. There are several things you will want to know. 1. The'University is the capstone of the public school system of Texas. Its work is everywhere accepted at face value. 2. The Main University, at Au8tin, has a faculty of over 325 well-trained men and women and a student body of nearly seven thousand in residence in the Long Session. The endowment, in­cluding over two million acres of land, is now almost thirty million dollars. Thirteen new build­ing~ have recently been completed and occupied. The Campus is also being beautified. The Libra1 y, the heart of any institution of learning, is the best in the South, consisting of more than four hundred thousand bound volumes and sixty thousand pamphlets. 3. The University Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. and the churches of at least nine different denomina­tions cluster about the campus to minister to students and faculty. Track is a spring favorite The University of Texas Bulletin But baseball is the most popular sport in the spring · 4. In various forms, literary, debating, journalistic, musical, dramatic, athletic, social, recrea­tional, and other activities are fostered to meet the interests and desires of this great body of s.tudents. Substantial additions have also been made to the playing fields for. both men and woiiien students. As by-products of college life these activities are extremely valuable, but I want to warn you in advance that they cannot be permitted to absorb the major portion of a student's time without serious loss. Life at the University is crowded with intrresting things to do, and every student must learn relative values. · 5. Read the succeeding pages of this pamphlet to find out about admission requirements, living facilities, and expenses. Sending Credits.-Credits should be sent in early. Make your request to your principal or superintendent before school closes. He has the blank. Tell him which college in the University you want to enter-Arts and Sciences, Engineering, or Pharmacy. Business Administration, Law, and Medicine all require Arts and Sciences first. Be sure the quarter in which you rank is speci­fied. Don't wait until September to get your credits in. If you change your mind they can be returned. If I can serve you at any time please call on me. Very sincerely yours, E. J. MATHEWS, Registrar. FRESHMAN CONVOCATION DATES .. All entering freshmen are required to attend the convocations for new students. This year the.y will be held on September 18 and 19. REGISTRATION DATES For the Long Session of 1934-1935 the registration days are as follows: First semester: Wednesday and Thursday, September 19 and 20. Second semester: Monday, February 4. A Letter to High-School and Junior College Graduates SCHOLARSHIP REQUIREMENTS COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND COLLEGE OF PHARMACY Unit requireme·nts.-For admi$sion fifteen units, with high-school graduation (see "Methods of Obtaining Admission Units," p. 7), are required as specified below. However, world history may not be counted if early or modern European history, either or both, is offered; and biology may not be presented by a student offering either botany or zoology. A student may enter with a condition in any one subject or group, except English, provided he has a total of at least fifteen acceptable units. In no case will more than four units be accepted from Section B. Units 1. English (required of every student) -----------------------------------------···· ___ -------------------------------------3 2. From the Mathematics Group in Section A, below_____________________ ______________________________________ 2 3. Two units from each of any two of the three other groups in Section A below (Foreign Language Group, Natural Science Group, Social Science Group-) , total.______ 4 4. Additional from any group or groups in Section A__________________________________________ __ ______ __ ______ 2 5. Additional from Section A, or from Section B, or from Sections A and B together______ 4 Total --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------· ----------------------------------------15 Section A (The units column shows the number of units that may be offered in each ~ubject.) Subject Units Subject Units English Group Natural Science Group English _________ ------------------------------------------3--4 Biology --------------------------------------------------I Foreign Language Group Botany -------------------------------------------------1 Czech --------------------------------------------------------2.-3 Chemistry --------------------------------------------1 French -----------------------------------------------·---2-3 1 General Science____________________________________ _ German .. -------------------------------------------------2-3 Physics ----------------------------------------------------­1 Greek _____-----------------------------------------------2.-3 Physiography -------------------------------------------112 Latin --------------------------------------------------------2-3--4 Physiology and Hygiene ___ _______ _ llz-1 Spanish ---------------------------------------------------2-3 Zoology --------------------------------------····-----------1 Mathematics Group Social Science Group Algebra ---------------------------------------------1-1llz-2 Early European History _____ __ __ ______ ________ . 1 Plane Geometry_______________________ __________________ 1 Modern European History._ __ ______ ____ ___ __ __ 1 Solid Geometry_____________________________________ 112 W(}rld history________________________________ __ _______ 1 Trigonometry -----------------------------------------% English history_________________________________________ %-1 American history____________________________ __________ %-1 Civics ---------------------------------------------------------%-1 Economics _____ ___ _____ ___ --------------------------___ _ Section B Subject Units Subject Units Agriculture ----------------------------------------------%-2 Public Speaking ----------------------------------------%-1 Arithmetic ---------------------------------------------------% Shorthand and typewriting ------------------------1 Bookkeeping -----------------------------------------------I Any other accredited subject accepted Commercial geography___________________________ _ 1h by an accredited secondary school for Commercial law______________________ _________________ _ 1h its diploma (except drill subjects such Drawing -------------------------· -------------------------------112-1 as penmanship, physical education, Home economics __________ _________________________________ %-3 military training, etc.) ___________________________ %-1 Manual training _ _____________________ _________________ %-1 Music ------------------------------------------------------------I The Union Building, housing the Cafeteria, "Chuck .Wagon" (coffee shop), offices of the Ex-Students' Association, meeting places for student organizations, reading-rooms, banquet-rooms, etc. A Letter to High-School and Junior College Gra.duates Quality provisions.-Quality, however, is more important than quantity. A course thoroughly mastered is worth more than one completed with low or even medium grades. Therefore any ap­plicant ranking in the highest quarter of his graduating class in any fully accredited secondary school and also ranking in the highest quarter of the freshman class in the scholastic aptitude test given by the University in September may enter without admission conditions. Furthermore, any conditioned first-year freshman student (but not an "individual approval" student) who makes, in the University, in his first Long Session or its equivalent, at least thirty semester hours with an average grade of C will thereby absolve his admission condition. Applicants of low rank.-As a rule students who do poor work in high school do poor work in the University. A student ranking in the lowest quarter of his graduating class is therefore strongly advised to complete an additional year of preparation before applying for admission. If, however, after due deliberation, his parents still wish to have him enter at once, he will be admitted and given all the privileges accorded any other student, but he will be placed on what is termed "special observation" and will be required to pass in the minimum amount of work expected of other freshmen to be entitled to remain in school. Methods of Obtaining Admission Units The admission units specified above are usually obtained by graduation from an accredited school or by examination or by a combination of the two. Limited opportunity is also offered by the University's Extension Teaching Bureau for units to be made by correspondence study. In addi­tion, a teacher's certificate known as a high-school certificate of the second class yields the holder a few units, depending upon the number of acceptable su.bjects taken for the certificate. (I) Graduation from an accredited schooL--No credit may be obtained without gradua­tion. Within the limits of the above list, graduates of schools on the approved list issued by the State Department of Education are credited with the subjects they have completed in which the schools are accredited. In order to determine these units, they are required to present statements of their work made out by the superintendent or principal on the University's official blank, to be had of the Registrar. It is of the highest importance that the applicant send this blank, properly filled out, to the Registrar not later than September 10. Valuable time will be lost if he does not do so, and more if he has to send for it after he an-ives. Without it he cannot he admitted at all. (2) Examination.-Any or all scholarship requirements may be met by passing the admis­sion examinations. To obtain credit in any subject, the applicant must make a grade not lower than D. In grading papers in all subjects, account will be taken of the applicant's use of English. Excellence in one subject will not make up for deficiency in another. Every natural science examination paper must be ac,companied by a laboratory notebook. Admission examinations are held twice a year, late in April and in the fall. The April series is given under the direction of the State Department of Education at accredited schools and at other approved places. Application to take these examinations should be made to the State Superintendent of Pu.blic Instruction, Austin. The fall series is held only at the University and begins on September 12. Requests for full information in regard to this series should be addressed to the Registrar of the University. It is strongly urged that applicants desiring to enter the University in September attempt the April examinations. Students from Other Colleges A student seeking admission from another college must present: (1) A letter of honorable dis· missal; (2) a vaccination certificate; (3) an official transcript of his entire college record, includ­ing his admission units. Much trouble and time will be saved by sending this official record to the Registrar not later than September 10. Students are not allowed to register until the proper certificates are presented. The University of Texas Bulletin Between halves the Band and Cowboys parade Students in other institutions who desire a degree from the University should not wait until their senior year to transfer. If they do, they may not be able to complete all remaining require­ments in one year. A student who has failed in his work at another institution and is not entitled to continue there will not be admitted to the University. Others who have failed may be refused admission, or may be admitted on "special observation" or "final trial," or on any other condition that may seem desirable. Inasmuch as undergraduate students taking all their work in the University must have a C aver­age for a degree, only such work completed in another institution as altogether averages the equivalent of our grade of C will be accepted here. An applicant who has attended another collegiate institution is not at liberty to disregard his c.ollegiate record and apply for admission to the University on the basis of his high-school record, but is subject without exception to the regulations given above. All credits given ·students from other colleges are conditional. If their work here is of low grade, the amount of credit given to individual students may be reduced. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING The unit requirements for admission to the College of Engineering are as follows : Units 1. English ··--·-·--·-------------·----------------------···---------··-------------------------------·--------------------------------·----· 3 2. Mathematics 3 ii~~ri::;~·:::=::::::::::=::::=::::::::::=:::::::::_::::: ~:}------------·---------------------------·------------------­ 3. Two units from each of any two of the three other groups in Section A (Foreign Language Group, Natural Science Group, Social Science Group), total ·-----'----·----------4 4. Additional from any group or groups in Section A ----------------------------------------------------1 5. Additional from Section A, or from Sec.tion B, or from Sections A and B together ____ 4 Total --------------------··------------------------·-·····-···-··--·--·---------------·-···--·····-····--15 Under 5 above as many as two units each may be offered in drawing and manual training. All other provisions with reference to admission to the College of Arts and Sciences (pp. 5 to 8) apply also to admission to the College of Engineering, except that neither the English nor the mathematics requirement may be absolved under "Quality provisions," page 7. A Letter to High-School and Junior College Graduates An applicant for admission to the School of Business Administration must satisfy the admission requirements of the College of Arts :rnd Sciences and have sixty semester hours of completed courses to his credit. Among tht sixty semester hours presented for admission, the student should. include: English 1, and 12 or 13; six semester hours in mathematics; six semester hours in history; twelve semester hours in the natural science>, .-,r six semester hours in the natural sciences and Psychology 310 and 316; Economics 312 and ~113; Government 3]() and 311; at least two semester hours in philos­ophy or P"Ychology (for those who do not take Psychology 310 and 316); and Business Adminis­tration 811. ' : SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Fulfillment of the requirements for admission to the College of Arts and Sciences (pp. 5 to 8) and credit for thirty semester hours of completed courses are required for admission to the School of Education. Freshmen, howevt:r, may take six semester hours in education. SCHOOL OF LAW Applicants for admission to the School of Law must be at least 19 years old, and must present evidence (1) that they have met the requirements for admission to the College of Arts and Sciences (pp. 5 to 8) ; and (2) that they have credit for sixty semester hours of completed courses as listed below, except that admission may be had on sixty semester hours of completed courses, not including all here required, the remaining ones to be absolved by summer work before the senior year. A student holding a bachelor's degree from The University of Texas or from any other school of equal rank may enter without condition. Transfers from other institutions apply for admission with advanced standing. as directed under "Students from Other Colleges," on pages 7 and 8, and under the restrictions there stated. The new Physics Building One of thirteen new buildings now adorning the Campus The University of Texas Bulletin Littlefield Dormitory, one of six residence halls for wome11 First Year-Pre-Legal Second Year-Pre-Legal English 1 English 12 or 13 Six semester hours in mathema tics Government 310 and 311 History 4 Economics 312 and 313 A natural science History 15 An elective Business Administration 811 or any course in any department of the College of Arte and Sciences which requires sophomore standin g or completion of a freshman course as a prerequisite. SCHOOL OF MEDICJNE For admission to the School of Medicine, applicants must satisfy the requirements for admission to the College of Arts and Sciences and complete sixty semester hours of colfoge w