Archive for: J. Frank Dobie

A Letter to Frank Dobie

By Chris O'Connell

Ben Wright’s piece on Allen Reid Robinson’s letter to J. Frank Dobie, from the January | February 2016 issue of the Alcalde can be read here. For more...

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A University of the First Class: J. Frank Dobie

By J. Frank Dobie

On the occasion of the Alcalde’s 100th anniversary, we asked Longhorns what “a University of the first class” means to them. J. Frank Dobie MA ’18,...

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Frontier U

By Jeremi Suri

 In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, University of Texas Provost Harry Ransom wrote of a “counterfrontier” that challenged the stereotypical image...