The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 80, July 1976 - April, 1977 Page: 327
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which reached us belatedly, is from Albert L. Fuller, who wrote in the
Brownwood Bulletin of February I6, 1976, that Havins:
was learned to the point of erudition, and his lectures were always so bril-
liantly and interestingly presented that students never deliberately missed a
class even though this was permitted without penalty or questions.... When
his subject was World War I, they were there with Dr. Havins in the muck,
mire and stench of death in the trenches. They were there to cheer with the
victories at the top of San Juan Hill and they wept with wounded rebels on
Cemetery Ridge.
Fuller avers that without Havins not only would he and others not have
graduated from Howard Payne University, but there probably would have
been no such university to graduate from. Writes Fuller:
During the early days of the depression, HPC president Dr. Tom Taylor was
notified that the Baptist General Convention could no longer support the col-
lege. Upon hearing this news, Dr. Havins requested an emergency faculty
meeting at which he persuaded his fellow teachers to join with him in offering
to teach without pay if necessary to keep the college open. This sacrificial
spirit enabled HPC to survive more than any other single factor. . . . he never
gave the college a million dollars but his contribution was greater than many
a deed.
The twelfth annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures will be
devoted to the topic of medieval civilization. The Lectures will be held
March 31, 1977, at the University of Texas at Arlington. The program
will include papers by David Herlihy of Harvard University, Richard E.
Sullivan of Michigan State University, Bernard McGinn of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, and Bede K. Lackner of the University of Texas at
Arlington. For information contact Webb Lectures Committee, Department
of History, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019.
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Monograph No. 50 in the Southwestern Studies Series is entitled A
Geographical Survey of Sinaloa, by Robert H. Schmidt, Jr. The survey
has a number of charts and maps, and is a welcome addition to this valu-
able project by the University of Texas at El Paso. Copies remain at $3
each, and can be ordered from the Texas Western Press at UTEP.
Several periodicals have published thematic issues recently. The Paci-
fic Historical Review (August, 1976) deals with "Western Literary His-327
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