The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964 Page: 348
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... I have wanted the cooperation of Professor Garrison, of the
State University, which is due to sickness, and I do not think I
should offer anything crude and incomplete on this subject. I
would propose a course in elementary law, common and statutory
law, in evenings, having in my library most of the books in my mind.
Books of historical reading I have not yet been able to get from
Professor Garrison. Your own suggestions will be father of the
thoughts I am now about to offer. Of course, in political economy
nothing can be read better than Mills, supplemented by Dr. Walker
and Professor Ely. There is another book recommended to me,
Work on Practical Banking, by Mr. Patten, which has recently been
issued in New York, by Bradford, Rhodes 8 Co., and any man who
reads that, if he be not up on the law of political economy, will
certainly be up in the knowledge of banking, as it is thorough and
complete.
Levi then said:
The reason that prompted me to recommend a course of reading
and a school of finance and economy was because I was forcibly im-
pressed with the plan adopted at the University of Pennsylvania
under the separate patronage and encouragement of one of the most
prominent bankers in Philadelphia, William H. Rown, of the Na-
tional Bank of the Republic, and was approved by the American
Bankers' Association. Every one who wishes to have a perfect knowl-
edge about banking and economy, and especially the young men
who are to succeed us, should be taught in our schools methods of
public and private accounting, economics and sociology. There is
not a Texan, I suppose, who would not be pleased to see the Texas
University succeed as well as any in the United States, and to
encourage such schools and have them inaugurated I mentioned
them in correspondence to the Regents and to Professor Waggoner,
who seemed to be very favorably impressed with the idea. We wish
to impress upon the world that this Association is not formed for
a mere admiration society, but that we are organized for defined
beneficial purposes ...
It was at this meeting that Wooldridge was elected second
vice-president of the association, another step up the ladder to
responsibility, and in the following year, 1892, the association
elected Wooldridge president. The chief financial concern of the
bankers was the surprisingly progressive interest in crop control
7'Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Convention of the Texas Bankers' Association
Held at Austin, Texas, May 7, 8, 9, 189r (Galveston, n.d.), 51, 53, 125, 126.348
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