T. U. TAYLOE — SCIENCE AND THE STATE. 
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I would not be understood as intimating that our State has done 
nothing for science. It has done much., and yet I can not say that the 
fatted calf has been killed. The State has performed part of its duty to 
industrial education in partially equipping and maintaining the Agri- 
cultural and Mechanical College; it has estalished and partly equipped 
a medical department of the University at Galveston; and has established 
the main University at Austin. But one of the foremost and most 
brilliant factors or subjects, the one that has contributed as much as 
any other to civilization, to the material wealth and comfort of the 
people, namely, electricity, is still without home within the borders of 
Texas. A biological station should be established on our coast. The 
harvest is ripe, and reapers are needed. Our State and the Legislature 
must see to it, and that speedily, that no institution of learning fostered 
by it should ever have to repeat the experience of the Agricultural and 
Mechanical College a few weeks ago. Instead of having to use the pub- 
lic prints to bring students to the College, President Foster was forced 
to advertise to keep them away. Texas, one of the most influential States 
in the Union, should be first in educational facilities. The Agricultural 
and Mechanical College is full to overflowing, and there are students un- 
provided for. As long as there is not enough room in any State institu- 
tion (created for scientific purposes) for the students, science can not be 
considered a favored child. Here in Austin we need special buildings 
for science. Texas can not afford to have any other university superior 
in anything. Until this is the case the State’s duty has not been ful- 
filled to the fathers of Texas, who laid the foundations for a University 
of the first-class. 
