Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — Education in Texas. [ARTICLE]

Education in Texas.

Texas is better provided for the furthering of education than most of the other Southern States,* and the State has ever been most generous jn that direction. Its permanent school fund consists of 21,000,000 acres of surveyed land and half the vacant domains, which amounts to about 15,000,000 acres. There is to the credit ot the fund in the treasury nearly $4,000,000 of State and railroad bonds, and the annual sale of land is rapidly enlarging the account. The least for which the dedicated lands may be sold is $1.50 an acre, so that Texas has set apart to the cause of education the sum of $54,000,KX). This is] not for public-school training alone; but the foundation has been laid for a complete university education, a fund of $2,000,000 in lands having been set apart for the putpcse. The university will be at Austin. How wise we are in thought! How weak id practice! Our very virtue, like our will, is—nothing.— Slijrley.