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The Way Back: Austin's Changing Skyline

The Way Back: Austin’s Changing Skyline

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The hottest topic in town—one practically impossible to avoid at a cocktail party—is how fast Austin has grown in the past decade. The hometown of the Longhorns...

 
 
The Way Back: A Poet's Love of Texas

The Way Back: A Poet’s Love of Texas

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Borges with UT professor Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth outside Batts Hall. In 1961, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was aging and mostly blind, but his international...

 
 

The Way Back: We Can Do It!

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When bombs fell on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the world changed forever—and so did life at UT. The university underwent a drastic transformation as it restructured...

 
 

The Way Back: Willie at the Armadillo

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In the early ’70s, the Armadillo World Headquarters was the epicenter of Austin’s growing live music scene and a favorite Longhorn hangout. Housed in an abandoned...

 
 
The Way Back: Pushball

The Way Back: Pushball

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The freshman-sophomore rivalry at UT back in the teens and ’20s was no laughing matter. Those boys meant business, and the unusual sport of pushball was how they...

 
 

The Way Back: Let It Snow

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In this picture from the 1966 Cactus, students build a snowman by the Tower after a rare snowfall. Troy Kimmel, UT’s incident meterologist and a senior lecturer,...

 
 

The Way Back: The Art of the Game

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For the 120 years that The University of Texas has fielded a football team, fans have entered the stadium with a football program in hand. Today the program is...

 
 

The Way Back: The Water’s Fine

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Anne Burchart Boucher, left, and Billy Sunday, ’52, posed for this photo at Barton Springs on June 5, 1952. Our city’s favorite pool hasn’t changed much in...

 
 

Judging By Our Covers

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Celebrity alumni, sports stars, iconic campus buildings, mind-bending abstract illustrations—Alcalde covers have run the gamut throughout the past century, and...

 
 

The Way Back: The First Photograph

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It’s not much to look at—just a few silver smudges. If you didn’t know its origins, you might think it belonged in a junkyard. But in fact, this 8-by-10-inch...

 
 
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