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The Texas Cowboys is an honorary student service organization at the University of Texas at Austin. The organization was founded in 1922 with the purpose of serving the University of Texas and maintaining Smokey the Cannon. [1] [2] It is considered one of the "oldest and most elite student organizations" at the university.
"Free Public Schools of Chicago" Eclectic Journal of Education and Literary Review (January 15, 1851). 2#20 online; Havighurst, Robert J. The public schools of Chicago: a survey for the Board of Education of the City of Chicago (1964). online; Henry, Nelson B. “Financial Support and Administration of the Chicago Public Schools.”
Cowboys at the XIT Ranch in 1891. The XIT Ranch was a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle which operated from 1885 to 1912. Comprising over 3,000,000 acres (12,000 km 2) of land, it ran for 200 miles (300 km) along the border with New Mexico, varying in width from 20 to 30 miles (30 to 50 km).
University of North Texas Press, 1990. ISBN 0-929398-15-7. Slatta, Richard W. (January 1990). Cowboys of the Americas. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300056710. Slatta, Richard W. The Cowboy Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, California, 1994. ISBN 0-87436-738-7. Ward, Fay E.; The Cowboy at Work: All About His Job and How He Does It. University of Oklahoma ...
The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. University Of Chicago Press. (1996). Rudolph, Frederick. The American College and University: A History (1962), a standard survey online; Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education. (Johns Hopkins UP, 2004) online; Veysey Lawrence R.
Student governments in the United States exist in both secondary and higher education. [1] At the collegiate level, the most common name is Student Government, according to the American Student Government Association's database of all student governments throughout the United States. The next most common name is the student government association.
When the Republicans came to power in the Southern states after 1867, they created the first system of taxpayer-funded public schools. Southern Blacks wanted public schools for their children but they did not demand racially integrated schools. Almost all the new public schools were segregated, apart from a few in New Orleans.
On February 11, 1858, the Seventh Texas Legislature approved O.B. 102, an act to establish the University of Texas, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds toward construction of the state's first publicly funded university [15] (the $100,000 was an allocation from the $10 million the state received pursuant to the Compromise of 1850 ...