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Southwestern University Fifty Years of Service IT has been more than fifty-four years since Dr. Francis Asbury Mood came from South Carolina to Chappell Hill, Texas, as President-elect of Soule University. This institution had been pro- jected by the Texas Methodists in 1856 and operated with growing prosperity and great promise until it succumbed to the disasters of the Civil War. Dr. Mood was expected to resuscitate this institution and to this end he opened the first term after his arrival, January 2, 1869, closing with appropriate exercises the following June. The opening of the second session the following September was encouraging, but in a week or two Yellow Fever appeared at Galveston, soon extended to Houston, and because only two years before Chappell Hill and other towns in that section had been decimated by this fearful epidemic, Dr. Mood, the students and citizens were in the greatest anxiety, and when the report came that it had reached Hempstead, only seven miles away, the community and school were thrown into a panic. It was in the midst of these conditions, while Dr. Mood was constantly in prayer, that a plan, which ultimately became South- western University presented itself to his mind. He carefully committed his plan to paper and at once called a meeting of the Trustees of Soule University. The Board met October 4, 1869, an unusually full attendance being present, and he laid his plan before the Board. The paper began by setting forth the vital importance to Southern Methodism as well as to the general interests of religion and education in Texas, of establishing an institution of learning that would command general confidence and patronage. The paper invited the Conferences of the State to call an Educational Convention to which should be committed the duty of arranging for the organization, location and endowment of a university for the Southwest, to be under the patronage and control of the Texas conferences and of such other conferences as may hereafter desire to co-operate with them. Under existing conditions this paper meant the death of Soule University, but under Dr Mood ' s elequent appeal it passed the Board of Trustees with only one dissenting vote. Dr. Mood attended each of the Texas annual conferences that fall and presented the call for the Edu- cational Convention and it was approved and endorsed by each of them in turn. The Convention, which was to consist of the delegates elect to the ensuing General Con- ference, met at Galveston, persuant to call, April 20, 1870. Rev. Robert Alexander was called to the chair. His commanding form had led the hosts of Texas Methodism for a third of a century, and by his person this movement was connected with the heroic days of the young Republic. This convention moved carefully and therefore slowly. The conferences called it to meet next at Waxahachie in April, 1871. Here it was favored with the presidency of Bishop E. M. Marvin, which as a benediction to the movement. This Convention appointed a Board of Commissioners of Location and finally adjourned to meet at Corsicana, November 1, 1871. Bishop Marvin, who had remained in Texas throughout the year, also presided at the Corsicana meeting. Page 1
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