Texas Christian University - Horned Frog Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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,,,.: 5 'ft R 'UQ 4 1 l 1' as E 32 31 xii, , H2 1 It started in the minds of two men, this University of yours. Ad- dison Clark and his brother, Ran- dolph Clark, were ready that fall of 1869 to begin education work. Citizens of a frontier town, Fort Wtmrtli, invited them to locate there. Came the railroads, came boom town evils to Fort Wtmrtli. One thing was clear, writes Randolph, that was not the place to build a school to bring studentsf' Randolph and his father, J. A., had their eyes on a cool green valley near Comanche Park, forty miles southwest of Fort Wcxrth. He and his father bought a substantial building from old man Thorp on a hilltop near Thorp Spring. Ran- dolph opened the school the first Monday in September, 1875, with 15 pupils. Before 1874, the school which boasted an unusual co-educa- tional status had 117 enrollees. Addison, convinced by then that the move from the bustling railroad and cattle center would not jeopardize their venture, joined his brother at Thorp Spring that summer. By December 30, 1875, AddRan College was adopted and endorsed at a convention of Christian church congregations as a college for the Christian Brotherhood of Texasfl The brothers moved from the hill to the valley and near the spring, after a financial dispute with old Mr. Thorp, A new rock building went up, paid for with sale of Clark family property. The college became AddRan Christian University in 1889, and the board of trustees, with J. Jarvis as chairman, assumed more responsibility for university policy. Finances were a gnawing worry to the Clarks. Educating young peo- ple was no profitable undertaking, college tuition was S40 to S50 a year. And the catalogue proclaimed of AddRan, lt is retired . . . away from the alluring vices of the city, free from the evils about railway stations. Wlitit took the school away from Fort Wtirtli took it to Wztco, though, One of the reasons for mov- ing to Wfaco was the seven rail- road outletsf' As Colby D. Hall ex- plains in his T. C. U. History, the 0 Architecf's plan for Thorp Spring Building. 0 From the porch of the Girls' Home. U The Thorp Spring columns, 1877.