Founded as a teachers' college in 1923, the university was renamed after one of Texas's founding fathers, Stephen F. Austin. By 1828, the ruling faction in Mexico was afraid the liberal elements in Texas might try to gain their independence. [34][38] Austin's colonists, mostly pro-slavery immigrants from the south, threatened to leave Texas if the proposition passed, while prospective Southern immigrants hesitated to come to Texas until slavery was guaranteed there. [15] He spread rumors among the settlers of cannibalism and extreme violence of the Karankawa, sometimes more specifically the Carancaguases. This was the first home game against a nonconference opponent that Duke had lost in the Blue Devils' past 150 home games. During the 2017â2018 academic year, there were 2,833 degrees awarded. Houston appointed Austin as secretary of state for the new republic, and Austin held that position until his death in December 1836. [8] He made his home in Hempstead County, Arkansas. He reached New Orleans in November 1820, where he met and stayed with Joseph H. Hawkins, a New Orleans lawyer and former Kentucky congressman. [43][44][45][46] Austin –– who had been so effective in persuading the legislature, however, that the author of Article 13 (before its passage) requested to withdraw it –– helped his colonists evade the law by advising them to legally supplant the word "slave" with the words "workingmen," "family servants," and "laborers," and by working to pass a decree that banned freedmen from Texas and forced emancipated slaves to work for their former slaveowners until the accrued "debt" (e.g. It was responsible for recovering debris from Space Shuttle Columbia that fell on its premises in 2003.[9]. [9] Austin boarded the steamer, Beaver, and departed to New Orleans to meet Spanish officials led by Erasmo Seguín. In their third appearance in 2016, they upset 3rd seeded West Virginia 70â56. He was at the home of George B. McKinstry, near what is now West Columbia, Texas. The team also earned a playoff berth in 2010, marking the first time in the program's history that the team had reached the playoffs in consecutive seasons. Die Stephen F. Austin State University (auch SFA oder Stephen F genannt) ist eine staatliche Universität in Nacogdoches im Osten des US-Bundesstaates Texas. 日本語 1 229 000+ 記事. His faults I now say, and always have, were not of the heart."[10]. He made arrangements to study law with him. Austin led his party to travel 300 miles (480 km) in four weeks to San Antonio with the intent of reauthorizing his father's grant, arriving on August 12.
By late 1825, Austin had brought the first 300 families to his settlement, the Austin Colony; these 300 are now known in Texas history as the Old Three Hundred. Español 1 627 000+ artículos.
[23] Austin was a periodical slaveowner throughout his life; however, he had conflicting views about it. Lumberjacks name was chosen in 1923, when T. E. Ferguson, a professor of English at SFA, submitted name to the students and faculty assembly. A largely residential, four-year teaching and research university, college located in Nacogdoches, Texas. The Lumberjacks football team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. He wanted honest, hard-working people who would make the colony a success. In 1828, Austin petitioned the legislature to guarantee that slaveowners, immigrating to Texas, could legally "free" their slaves before immigrating, and contract them into a lifetime term of indentured servitude, thereby avoiding recognizing them as slaves. Fully aware of the political philosophies of American Freemasons, the Mexican government outlawed Freemasonry on October 25, 1828.