University of North Texas - Yucca Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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ith bonds voted and land donated, bow- ever, the building plans for the Texas Normal Eollege were dogged by delay at every step. Bond attorneys struck the final blow by a decision that the City of Denton had no legal power to sell bonds tor such a purpose. The determined Denton citizens, still tired by Ehiltons eloguence, refused to give up plans lor building and shrewdly evaded the legal tecbnicality by changing the term Normal Eollegen to Public School, an institution for which they could legally vote and sell bonds. City council records today show the changes made in the minutes of meetings concerning the school, substi- tuting the term Public School. BF8 tA9 AGFVL Mfg 0 y fe y i5 coufokal wilfd, ide Joie ce 0 lfomo 0 ..Tbe Science Hall

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eptemher, lflfdfl, and a few hundred students drifted into flenton for enrollment in the new college-to find no college huilding. Though advertise- ments sent out concerning the College had set September as the enrollment date, the unforeseen hond difficulties had delayed huilding. ln the emergency, President Chilton had transformed the second floor of a Denton hardware store into temporary classrooms, and there the Texas Normal College, with President Chilton and a faculty of five, held its first classes. Included in the student hody during the first year were thirty lndian students sent to the school hy the federal government from the nearhy lndian territory. Sfafeg, ahgnweag Ai ao gde is A af i .. The Presidenfs Home