John Avery Lomax earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at UT in 1897, and then spent six years as the University’s registrar before he was hired as an English instructor at the A&M College of Texas (now Texas A&M University). In 1906, Lomax took a sabbatical, went to Harvard on a sc...
In four months, he obtained enough pledges to finance the entire project. (No subscription larger than $250 per year was accepted.) Over the next five years, the Hogg Organization made an enormous impact on the state promoting a single idea: that higher education was vital to the future ...