SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



better promoters than pedagogues. It is obvious that 

 the traditional absent-minded professor, be he the gentle 

 scholar of letters or the meticulous grubber for facts, is 

 rarely met on any Southern campus. It may be, too, 

 that the alert, businesslike attitude and the workaday 

 thinking in terms of local profit-and-loss which char- 

 acterize the Southern college professor, particularly the 

 younger man, has more of a political than a professional 

 inspiration. Such criticism degenerates to the captious 

 when it ignores the constructive contributions being 

 made by these hustling experts in the Southern colleges. 

 Texans enjoy bragging, and if there is a crossroads 

 in the Lone Star State that does not stake a claim to 

 being first in something or other, then I never stopped 

 there to fill my gas tank. Texans are captivated by 

 boasting for its own sake, but if you want the facts and 

 figures of that braggadocio commonwealth you can 

 have them in minute detail and scrupulous honesty. A 

 regular monthly publication of the University of Texas, 

 the Texas Business Review, is a model of all factual 

 and statistical studies of the sort. It presents a current 

 picture of the state of industry, trade, and agriculture. 

 It is more than a recorder of facts, for it prints a con- 

 tinuous succession of capital articles by men who write 

 with authority, and restraint, on subjects that range 

 from the theory of liquid assets in a period of inflation 

 to the facts of Texas' share in the synthetic rubber pro- 

 gram. This wholly admirable publication, issued under 



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