Today the liberal arts form the core courses for such programs as nursing, business, and education. From its inception the school also stressed the fine arts; it offered a diploma, as distinct from a degree, in music, art, and elocution. From the s through the s the college's Conservatory of Music won national acclaim and such recognition as the gift of an arts building from the Presser Foundation, the first such award granted in the Southwest.
Three publications originated early in the century and are still being published: the Bluebonnet Yearbook , ; The Baylorian , a literary magazine, ; and in , The Bells , a weekly newspaper.
The journalism department, organized in , was granted a chapter of Theta Sigma Phi in Baylor Female College was one of the founding institutions for Alpha Chi , at first known as the Scholarship Society of the South. The period of twenty-five years coinciding with the presidency of John C. Hardy —37 saw the greatest growth in enrollment, which peaked at 2, in — This growth necessitated an expensive building program of dormitories and classroom buildings and plunged the college into debt.
Economic pressures threatened or delayed some accreditations that were contingent on improved faculty salaries and fireproof buildings. The Great Depression , plus a disastrous fire in that required the immediate construction of still more buildings, brought the college to the edge of bankruptcy.
It was saved by a generous gift from Mary and John G. In gratitude the college changed its name to Mary Hardin-Baylor College in By the college had been reorganized as a university with five schools: arts and sciences, creative arts, business, education, and nursing. It was renamed University of Mary Hardin-Baylor at this time. Its students take a four-year course leading to the bachelor of science in nursing.
Since the admission of male students, the university has been affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. In the fall of the enrollment was 2, UMHB had a library of approximately , volumes, a campus of ninety acres, a physical plant of twenty-one buildings, and a teacher-student ratio of about one to twenty. The university offered about forty undergraduate majors and conferred five graduate degrees, and was divided into five schools: business, education, fine arts, sciences and humanities, and the Scott and White School of Nursing.
Jerry Bawcom was the president. The Handbook of Texas Women project has its own dedicated website and resources. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style , 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry. James Huckins and Rev. William M. Tryon were sent, and soon after, Judge R. Baylor came to Texas as a teacher, lawyer, soldier and preacher.
These leaders inspired the desire for Christian education in the area and, at a meeting of the Union Association in , recommended forming an education society. War prevented action until , when the Texas Baptist Education Society was organized. Tryon and Baylor were appointed to prepare a charter to establish a Baptist university. On February 1, , a charter was granted by the 9th Congress of the Republic of Texas, approved by President Anson Jones at Washington-on-the-Brazos, and the long awaited Baptist university became a reality.
The school initially included a Preparatory Division in addition to co-educational classes for college students. In , under the same charter, a Female Department and a Male Department were created, ending co-education. In , the Female Department obtained a separate charter and its own board of trustees. In , due to changing transportation and economics in the area, it was deemed necessary to move both schools. Since the move to Belton, the school has undergone several name changes including: , Baylor College for Women; , Mary Hardin-Baylor College named in honor of a benefactor ; and , University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.
In , the oldest college for women west of the Mississippi became co-educational.
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