Baylor University - Round Up Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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the Indians, so is the public school essential to us today and. as if decreed by fate, our splendid High School stands today where in earlier days stood the rude but efficient fort of the tribe. Major George Erath has the distinction of being the first white settler of the the Indian village-he having been stationed here in 1837. A little later the town of Waco was laid off with the main street beginning at the spring and soon running into the trail of the cow-boys. Today one can wend his way down a crowded street for five miles westward and three eastward from the never-failing Spring. On this magnificent thoroughfare stand thriving storts of eyery kind, indicative of the demands of the large population: the magnificent Amicable Building proving by the selection of Waco as its site. that the city is not only il State but a Southern metropolis: splendid hotels that testify to the large number of travelers xx ho have intercourse with the city: yet a little further out stand the Public Library and many churches, each a token of culture: still further OIII do the comfortable homes iii-iicate to us the character of the citizens. To the north and south of the main street, one can find repetitions and additions of that which adorns the principal street. Even as a pioneer. was Baylor University founded and gathered strength with the years, she stands today as a monument to the city and its people. Very lil-tely on the same trails that guided the Indians to their settlement, the tracks of four railroads now lead into Waco. Although the whites drove out the natives from their fair camping grounds, the spirit of the Indians seems to hover over the land and breathe an indefinable charm anti ever call their successors in the possession of the Big Spring to be invincible. QU I6 RO UN I5 9T! E 3g..iQSfififf2.f

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