Archive for: The Way Back

 

The Way Back: Old Mane

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Tucked away in a collection of Civil War miscellany at the Briscoe Center, this lock of hair was taken from Old Sorrel, the horse that Confederate general Stonewall...

 
 

The Way Back: Turtle Power

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There’s no evidence to suggest that the inhabitants of Turtle Pond ever met Tessie, a giant mechanical Franken-turtle built at UT in 1954, but at roughly 4 feet...

 
 

The Way Back: Mr. Frank and Me

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Many Texas Exes pine for the Forty Acres, but Allen Reid Robertson, BJ ’52, Life Member, had more reason than most. The 21-year-old’s studies were interrupted...

 
 

A Letter to Frank Dobie

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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...

 
 

The Way Back: Over the Top

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In 1974, ZZ Top rocked Memorial Stadium. By the time the music began at 3 p.m., it was 90-plus degrees and Memorial Stadium was packed with 80,000 people. The barbeque...

 
 

The Way Back: Life Before Lycra

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When the UT women’s athletics program was formalized in the 1920s, Lycra hadn’t been invented. And considering the attitudes of the day, that’s probably just...

 
 

The Way Back: The Peregrinus

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The story of the peregrinus, the mascot and so-called patron saint of the Law School, stretches all the way back to the Roman Empire. Sort of. Around the turn of...

 
 
The Way Back: Lady Bird's Eye View

The Way Back: Lady Bird’s Eye View

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As the film pops and flickers, a young woman with arched eyebrows, warm eyes, and an ever-so-slightly lopsided smile is tearing into her companion. The man, in...

 
 

The Way Back: Office Space

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Workspace replicas are fairly common exhibits. People love to revel in the personal spaces of vision-aries like Julia Child (the Smithsonian) or President Lyndon...

 
 

The Way Back: Cirque du Longhorn

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In 1906, the UT baseball team was in debt, so students created an event dubbed the Varsity Circus to raise money to get the baseball team out of the red and back...

 
 
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