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Batts Made Address at UnveilingOf Memorial to War Dead, 1931Thememorial tablet to the Texas World War dead erected at tinn nth head of the Texa Memorial Stadium was unveiled on January It r.htl. .Judge R. C Halts in receiving the tablet for the Hoard ofh d elivered the f o I lowing address:towering haft, no marble mausoleum, no tablet of enduringehave diedeontmad1adviex-si mat? t h e asentl;Res?1* 4Rege“N hron; the(Iw h-MM■ ■()r“Buhe ret he v and# \I AI 4• ftX\it is meet their names beenrolled that we for whom d may grow in gratitude se to come may oft re memory of their deeds and i emulate their patrioticishaituW T l ,“In war’s distressful days full manv a thousand made ready ten-»lt; fc*of their lives; they passed unde V odauntdreadclimbm the dark domain where! u is ease held sway; they I aloft into the danger !laden air; thev sailed upon aseawhere unaccustomed perils laybeneath the stormy waves; they dwelt in muddy trenches, dank with fog and rain and spattered jtheir com rad led, at Zfwith t ra v*hlt;niltinblood; they I hour, from filthy■ into the blackness of the to meet the myriad messen »f death. Most have come again to us to receive our bom age and hare our love. Hut whosehere enrolled are the'VInanoarlerfor fame eternal.“To them no more the sunshine of the land they loved, no more j the fragrance of the prairie j flower, no more the joyous music bird- and rippling streams.?\ot again shall look uponcountry’s verdant hills, norher’ .plenteous rivers arid skirted meads. No more for • . I : band of T» lend no more the thrilling touchBat1 rneeiinI °I ijS-/'WmHaSaKd11.byrhit heiruponw id*thenof‘But these are they chosen foiThe late Judge R. L. Batts and the late Thomas Watt Gregory. Judge Batts, former chairman of the Board of Regents of the University, died at his home in Austin Sunday afternoon. Mr. Gregory, U. S. attorney general under Wilson, was a prominent ex-student benefactor of the University.VCMiBshi:bathVV v |I ’immortaut y.1 ves the“The v of then•» tablet does not tell; of deeds done in the flesh it makes no record; it silent •stands save of the last great sacrifice. The memory of the evil(Continued from page 1)Talt;ftrnwv:it wipes away; it leaves to other writings a recital of thegood. It says alone that these aM'( for t.he new buildings on February thev -elected for the sacrifice that j H»;p2, and made the principalstructures, erected at a cost of more than $5,000,000. He presided at the awarding of contracts1tlt;f.as no measure and no bounds, i “They filed for us, and for unnumbered millions who will fed- j low in the path our feet h a v ** ; trod. They died that liberty might jlive; t h a t 4 h e oppres - elt; I of ea rt h !might cast away their burdens;? all the world might onward Vi toward the dominion of the nee who proffered peace.But of glorious consequences!of glorious deeds the tablet • st be -ilcnt. It tells alone of IIm1 PrndyingROvtKq*ft\ grateful people have not forth - tablet they have placed all who pass this way may the names of those selected by God of battle to be ennobled their deaths.is the writ of their no* ’ bility; the Regents of The University of Texas receive it to betfitbv“Thiheld in trust for them forever. -rpnncipaddress in dedication of the build-j mgs during the llhUJ Hound-I p. j lie drafted most of the legisla-j tion under which the University! and A. M. College were able to; inaugurate their remarkable building operations in the midst of a j world-wide depression. In collab-j oration with President Benedict and members of the Board of Regents, he effected an agreement with the Board of Directors of A. \ M. College whereby the irritat-I ing problem of the division of the available fund between the two in*I stitutions was solved.! Under hi- direction, the Cavanaugh tract, upon which Bracket)*I ridge Hall and, the intramural ! play fields are now located, was ae* j quired for the University.In addition to the leadership which he furnished in these large enterprises was the significantcVt*t0Cl\\
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Austin Daily Texan
Austin, Texas, US
Tue, May 21, 1935
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