Baylor University - Round Up Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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I ...A- '+Tdl..! - was that the blank he filled in with the name Tryon University. Reverend Tryon in- sisted that it be called after the eminent scholar, Judge Baylor. Each of these men was seeking to get the school named for the other. lor each declared that he it as not worthy of the honor. The controversy of avoiding honor was prolonged until it was agreed by the Board to name the school Baylor University, until some definite settlement could be reached. The definite settlement was never made and Reverend Tryon was all the more pleased. Though the school was not named for him, it will not detract from his fame as one of the pioneer educators of Texas. The Charter was applied lor and issued by the llepublic of Texas, February first, 1845. Ltater in the year. the ltepublic became a state, and it is interesting to note that the year saw the birth of this powerful state, likewise saw the creation ot a university whose influence has spread further than even the limits of the great state. Independence made the largest subscription oiler and this together with the tact that it was already an intellectual center, determined its choice as the location. The following are some ot' the subscription otlers and tell their own story of how anxious the citizens were to be near an educatiolial insti- intien. one bale of cotton: one con and calf: one section ol lziutl, one yoke of oxen: twenty days' hauling. ur Henry L. Graves, a graduate of the University oi North Carolina, was elected first President of Baylor ttnversity and seried until 1851. Baylor had a modest Uwgllllllllg, when it opened its first session with twenty-four pupils and Professor H. F. Gillette as the only teacher. ine sessions were held in a frame building already on the -. - ground until 1549 when a two-story stone structure was trected. After an efficient Presidency. Ur. Graves resign- - eu in 1551, and the young zealot, llufus C. Burleson was N-1 .t....... - elected President. Dr. Burleson was educated at Nashville University, but when he chose his field for work. the mind of the young scholar turned to Texas, the place of untold possibilities. Alter a day of prayer, he wrote in his diary, This day 1 have solemnly consecrated iuy life to Texas -and it was no idle statement for his later years proved not only his consecration, but even self-sacrifice to the welfare of his chosen state. Hereafter the attendance increased so that a second building in the form of an octagon was added, built from money derived from the sale of the presidents own property. With this addition, there were two chief buildings about one thousand yards apart, one being for the women and the other for the men. lt is said that when the girls' dormitory was finished, the boys carried their benches across a little decline to the new building and thereafter the branch was called the Jordan, After serving as president for ten years at Independence, and getting the insti- tution well on its feet. Dr. Burleson resigned the presidency of the institution and came to Waco, where in 1881, he organized the Waco University. The two Baptist institu- tions represented two different denominational factions, which were to continue in par- tial disharmony in educational lilies until the merging of the Baylor of Independence and Waco University to form the great Baylor L'niversity of Waco in 1886. Succeeding to the presidency at lndependenct was Reverend William Carey Crane, D. D.. L. L. D., who for twenty-two years saw the university prosper and develop. After the death of Dr. Crane, Dr. lleddin Andrews succeeded to the presidents chair and served faithfully until the consolidation in 1886 of the two instistutions to form the present llaylor. When the merger was effected, Dr. Burleson was again made president, which position he held until he retired as President Emeritus , Since then, --.NX several changes have occurred until now bv the labors of AQXRTF 5. x the past and through the nntiring zeal of the present Pres- 5 STY4 ident, Dr. S. P. llrooks, Baylor stands today as an insti- -I 1'Ex4y ,U o QFQQ 1 'en 4'. 4H X 1 x '0 i ,I ..... ,M 7- 'Q' I x fr' ,X ' J K' I -, 9 5 5: , 1 0 I f E'-1 5 Q E ' t Ir rw 1 o A '-'P .- 1 0, 'f 1 Q 9 , K , 1 Kx o 1 u , ,' BT it - i 41' E a ,- 'A '- s M 5 in 0 N i K gb i 'wx-.-s.-+-' t ' 3 o 'c if -. lution of unnieasured power and influence. A comparison of the first catalogue telling of the opening of the Univer- sity with twenty-four students and one teacher, with a oi-v catalogue of today would show an academic and medical sf NY' -B 6' sr is 6 department having together over one thousand students, CL and ovcr fifty teachers. We believe with one of Baylor's own sons, the eminent Dr. George W. Truett: Her past x 1356 furnishes a record that. for daring faith, inspiring example and courageous achievements. can not be excelled if equal led by any other American institution of learning. K Kxxs ,. . ,.. . -, . 0 12 B na fil .1 4 I Q ,I 5 la if lf tt 11 ti IZ ff' J ll if Wifi ts I t t t t t tt.. 9 . I I 3, Pi tl ti' lf 'vt if .L V 'A s . if tg' f it u i

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.1 .equi 5 13' s ' gig. ge. no uND - UP g -1916 clover, the maiden wah-wah-Tee, daughter of the Chief of the Huecos, wandered far afield from the Big Spring and gathered the blue flowers away up on the banks of the Brazos. With her trained ear, she heard the rustling of the leaves near her. When she saw a brave of the Apache Tribe slyly creeping to her side, she started to steal from the place like a frightened doe, because he was of a foreign tribe. But it was Springtime, and the Indian maiden had been dreaming dreams and he came as the embodiment of her lougings, and so she wavered. The Brave knew the value of speed and before the afternoon shadows were long, Wah-Wah-Tee, the Hueco maid, had prom- ised to meet the Apache on the cliff at the junction of the Bosque and Brazos. Fleet of foot the maiden sped home and with her head full of her new love asked neither for food nor counsel. lteafeiied with her own emotions, she heard not the om- nious quiet which betokened the preparations for the coming danger. She did not realize that the Apaches were over on the East side and at any moment might cross the river, nor did she see the wary guard that noted her stealtliy flight from the camp of ber father. Light of foot, she sped like a frightened deer until she was close beside her brave. The Apache knew that they must haste to the camp of his brothers and so they found their way up to the Bosque woods. In the meantime, the guard, following Wah-Wah-Tee. had seen the meeting of the lovers, and returning told the father of the daughters duplicity. and thereupon the Huecos followed in quick pursuit, When the lovers saw that they had been discovered, without a moment's hesitation, brave in death as in life. they sprang from the cliff into the maddened torrents below. An eddying current cast them ashore, still in love's embrace, near the spot where first the Apache wooed the little Hueco maid. It is said now that when the river rages below. when the Indian can hang his shaft of arrows on the new moon. and when the air is heavy with the fragrance of the buffalo clover, that one may see on the cliff the flitting figures of a youth and maid. Well does the spot deserve the name of Lover's Leap and many are the visits made thitherward to relieve in all but its tragic ending. the fate of the red-faced lovers who loved just as passionately as do the pale-faces . And always the lovers shed a tear of sympathy over the fate of the Indian maid and her brave. Beside the Big Spring, the springs ol the present Cameron Park must have been an added cause for the selection of Waco as a settlement for the Indians. Should the latter chance upon their Upper Springs, as the springs in the present park were called, much would be unfamiliar to them. The art of the landscape gardener has added to the natural charm. The Hueco Maids own trail from the Big Spring to the Bosque has been transformed into a driveway where passage is made more quickly than even on the fleetest of ponies. Where the Huecos were wont to row their canoes across the Brazos, four bridges connect East Waco with the city proper. The Suspension Bridge is interesting as being an unusually long single span bridge and as having once been a toll bridge. By yet another link we are bound to the natives, for we have perpetuated another of their landmarks. .lust as their fortifications were necessarily for self-protection to 14