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Looking for the Lone Star Legacy: Higher Education in Texas - Southern Methodist University: Founding and Early Years, by Mary Martha Hosford Thomas. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1974. 224 pp. $12.50. - Evolution of a University: Texas Tech's First Fifty Years, by Jane G. Rushing and Kline A. Nall. Austin, Texas: Madrona Press, 1975. 207 pp. $9.95.
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1. E.g., Sale, Kirkpatrick, Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment (New York: Random House, 1975); see also, “Americans on the Move,” cover story for Time (March 15, 1976), and the special “Texas” issue of Atlantic Monthly (March 1975).Google Scholar
2. Figures gleaned from Brewer, Anita, “Education in Texas,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1975) pp. 79–81.Google Scholar
3. See esp. Michener, James A., Centennial (New York: Random House, 1974). Although Centennial deals primarily with the local and regional history of Colorado, much of the text discusses the history and legends of the greater Southwest, including Texas. Important to note that after a thousand pages of detailed description of the frontier heritage, Michener closes with a sad and critical account of the resources and attention which state universities devote to intercollegiate football; the author's tone and commentary imply that this is an insult to and an abdication from the spirit, skills, and accomplishments which characterized the Southwest frontier—contrary to contemporary coaches' glorification of the “character-building” nature of football.Google Scholar
4. Johnson, Lyndon B., quoted in Newsweek (November 23, 1964) p. 66.Google Scholar
5. E.g., “Hooking Horns at UT,” Newsweek (February 1, 1971) p. 46; “Bushwacked in Texas,” Time (October 28, 1974) pp. 104–105.Google Scholar
6. Incident cited in Brewer, , op. cit. , “Education in Texas.” Google Scholar
7. See, e.g., Woodrow Wilson's comments and reform proposals in Slosson, Edwin, Great American Universities (New York: MacMillan, 1910) pp. 75–109, 502–508.Google Scholar
8. Paros, Lawrence, The Great American Cliche: Our National Experience, So To Speak (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1976); Jensen, Oliver and the Editors of American Heritage, A College Album: Or, Rah, Rah, Yesterday (New York: Flare Books of Avon, 1974).Google Scholar
9. E.g., Freeman, Denne H., That Good Old Baylor Line and Hook ‘Em, Horns’, and Evans, Wilbur and McElroy, H.B., The Twelfth Man. These deal with specific Texas institutions; other books in the series include Great Moments in Southern Football, and The Wildcats. See booklist for The Strode Publishers in Huntsville, Alabama.Google Scholar