Edwin Smith Savage UT Lantern Slide Collection, 1942.
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University of Texas at Austin.
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The University of Texas at Austin (UT) opened in 1883 with eight professors, four assistants, a proctor, and 221 male and female students. The first set of graduates, consisting of thirteen law students, attended UT commencement on June 14, 1884. By World War I, enrollment rose to 2,254 and by World War II to over 11,000. African Americans were admitted in 1950, and by 1966, there were 27,345 students. Over the next 40 years, the university continued to expand. In 2009 e...
Savage, Edwin Smith.
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Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Edwin Smith Savage (1893-1964) attended the University of Texas, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering in 1920. Although he subsequently held jobs in various states, he maintained his involvement with the University. During the 1940s he was President of the New York City/northern New Jersey Texas Exes. In 1942 he drove to Austin with a friend and took extensive slides of the university campus and buildings. He showed these s...
