Once in Austin, he settled into a room at a boarding house just west of campus, at 2002 San Antonio Street, and then promptly dived deep into University life Engineering Dean Thomas Taylor described Phillips as, “the smoothest and easiest political boss that ever hit the campus. He readily...
As something akin to higher education missionaries, they canvased the state, especially small towns, where they spoke about their own collegiate experiences. As John Lomax later remarked, “These men were carefully selected, and the hope of what they could accomplish lay in the fact that they ...