The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 62, July 1958 - April, 1959 Page: 419
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B Hall of Texas
editor and publisher of the original Alcalde. No one was hurt.28
This anti-Beck spirit survived until "Dr." Beck retired late in
1895 to give his full time to the care of sweeter flowers on the
Forty Acres.
There were also complaints about the heating in the Hall, and
to prove that it was inadequate all windows on the north side were
opened about an hour before the investigating visit of Judge
Clark. A swift norther was blowing. The boys proved their
point.29
Beginning on January 15, 1896, a Students' Club was formed
which operated the Hall. The association paid out a small debt by
June.30
From 1898 to 1900oo Mrs. M. E. Hicks was the manager of the
Hall.31 But the Hall was apparently no place for a lady. She quit
after less than two years.
The matter of building another Hall or enlarging B Hall was
discussed at the Regents' meeting on June 16, 1897.3*
In the spring of 1897 the records show the Hall lost its metal
roof to a severe windstorm. The roof wrapped around a near-by
cottage was of no further use to the University.33 The sleeping
inmates were soaked.
The marked increase of University students from 1890 to 19oo
greatly increased the need for a larger men's dormitory, and on
July lo, 1899, the Regents appropriated $20,000 to add two wings
to B Hall. This amount had to be increased by the Regents since
the bid for constructing these wings came to $23,ooo. The re-
quirement was that the wings were to be completed by Decem-
ber 31, 1899.34
On February 27, 1900, the Regents voted an appropriation of
$5 to repair University Hall furniture.
28Brown, B Hall, Texas, 145.
29Ibid., 45-46.
solbid., 53.
l8Minutes of the University of Texas Board of Regents, July 11, 1900oo (MSS.,
Office of the Board of Regents, University of Texas), B, 404.
32Ibid., June 16, 1897, p. 133.
33lbid., May 15, 1897, p. 125.
s4Splawn, The University of Texas: Its Origin and Growth to 1928 (typescript,
University of Texas Library), 97.419
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