In the 1920s, it ventured a little farther into West Campus, where it purchased the quaint, Victorian-styled Waggener Home (above right), once owned by UT’s first president Leslie Waggener, at the corner of 23rd and San Antonio. It was here that the Association launched the Union Projec...
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...