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shall be permitted in University Hall, and that students having
rooms therein shall pledge themselves to abide by this rule.""
Also as the University grew in numbers the total percentage
of men accommodated by the Hall decreased, and by i912 only
io per cent of the male students lived there.45 Problems of wear
and tear on the building, and also problems of discipline in-
creased, demanding more attention from the Regents.46 The furni-
ture was in extremely bad condition and student dissipation also
needed refinishing. But while the Regents were wrestling with
the Hall's problems, a song was born.
Wherever Texans congregate throughout the world, one is
likely to hear the strains of "The Eyes of Texas." This "National
Anthem" was born in Room 301 of B Hall and made immortal
on the stage of the Hancock Opera House on May 12, 1903."7 John
Lang Sinclair, that writer of parodies, encouraged by Lewis John-
son, had unwittingly penned an immortal epic.
Carrie Nation came to Austin in the fall of 1903.48 Her hatchet
appeared on the campus of the University shortly thereafter.
D. A. Frank said she made speeches in the classrooms, corridors,
on the front steps of the Main Building, and anywhere else she
could get an audience on the campus.
She reviled Judge Clark for his tobacco chewing, and Judge
Simpkins, whom she called a "long-haired duck," for his cigar
smoking, Judge John C. Townes, that renowned abstainer, for
his beer guzzling, and Adrian Pool for every vice in the calendar.49
Not even President William L. Prather escaped her caustic wrath.
It was a mistake originally to invite her to Thanksgiving
dinner at B Hall, for there she was gratuitously prompted about
the evil habits of many famous characters on the campus. From
44Splawn, The University of Texas: Its Origin and Growth to 1928 (typescript,
University of Texas Library), 97; Minutes of the University of Texas Board of
Regents, January 25, 1900 (MSS., Office of the Board of Regents, University of
Texas), B, 25.
45Splawn, The University of Texas: Its Origin and Growth to 1928 (typescript,
University of Texas Library), 97.
48Ibid.
47Lewis Johnson's account of "The Eyes of Texas" appears in Brown, B Hall,
Texas, 71.
s8Brown, B Hall, Texas, 91.
49Ibid., 91-96.422
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