DRIVEN: THE FIRST DECADE OF HOUSTON LAW REVIEW

The University began life, under the leadership of enterprising Houston public school superintendent E.E. Oberholtzer, in 1927, and became a four-year institution seven years later. In those days, the University of Houston offered a chance to obtain, but clearly not the guarantee of, a post high school degree on a shoestring. Not surprisingly, at a school which continually has faced significant financial challenges in advancing its mission, academic quality was, generally speaking, less important than tuition income. A.A. White, the founding dean of the College of Law, a top-ranking law graduate at SMU, saw no reason for the law school Oberholtzer had engaged him to begin to be anything less than first rate. White had in mind a quality law school. Dean White apparently operated on a short leash. On the one hand, he set high standards. Here, Joyce features the history of the University of Houston.