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418 TEXAS ALMANAC.-1949-1490.
Universities, and Senior and Junior Colleges
Table below is from data assembled from these institutions early in 1949. Enrollment fig-
ures are for the 1948-49 regular term and the 1948 summer term.
Enrollment.
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Name of Institution, Location. Ownership, Date of Founding, President- u .
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Abilene Christian College: Abilene, Ch. of Christ; 1906; coed; Don H. Morris. 91 1,689 6851 273
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas: College Station; state; 1871;
men; President, M. T. Harrington. (Chancellor of A&M System, Gibb I 1
Gichrst)........................................................ 8,540 3,995
Gilchrist) .. 533 850 ,9
Allen Academy: Bryan, private; 1886; men; N. B. Alien Jr ................. 40 5001 ...
Amarillo College: Amarillo; municipal; 1929; coed; A. M. Meyer. .. 44 685 . .
Arlsngton State College: Arlington; state: 1917 as North Texas Agricultural 1
College (name changed in 1949); coed; E. H. Hereford ............... 110 1,9231 504
Austin College: Sherman; Presbyterian, U.S.; 1849; coed; W. B. Guerrant...1 371 6311 290 ...
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary: Austin; Presbyterian, U.S.; 1902; I
(successor to Austin School of Theology, established min 1884); men, David I
L. Stitt ...10 89
Baylor University: Waco; Southern Baptist; 1845; coed; Dr. W. R. White.... 224 5,102 2,302 75
Baylor University College of Dentistry: Dallas; Baptist; 1904; coed; Dean, 4
Dr. George L. Powers............................. .................. 75 244 I... 60
Baylor University College of Medicine: Houston; Baptist; (Dallas, 1903; moved I
to Houston min 1943), coed; Dr. W. R. White, president of Baylor Umniversity, I
Waco; dean, Dr. W. H. Moursund.......... 4241 3061
Baylor University School of Nursing: Dallas; Baptist; 1909; women; Zora I
M. Fiedler. dean ..................................................... 29 105.
Bishop College: Marshall; Baptist, 1881; coed; Joseph J. Rhoads............ 541,138 948 298
Blinn College: Brenham; county junior college; established as academy in
1883, Jumnior college 1927; coed: Dr Thomas M. Spencer ................ 20 390 210
Borger City Junior College: Borger, (See Frank Phillips College, which is
new name ................................................I
Brownsville Junior College: Browns ille; (See Texas Southmost College, to
which name changed)................................................
Butler College: Tyler; Baptist; 1905; coed; R. W. Puryear............. ...... 251 3871 258
Cathedral School for Boys: Dallas; Episcopal; 1946; (successor to Terrill
School, 1906); boys; headmaster, Rev. Canon Alfred L. Alley.............. 121 105 1
Cisco Junior College: Cisco; municipal; 1940; coed; O. L. Stamey........... 20 400 250
Clarendon Junior College: Clarendon; municipal; 1927; coed: H. T. Burton.. 9 1051
Clifton Junior College: Clifton; Lutheran; (1896 as academy, 1922 Jumnior col-
lege), coed; Rev. O O. Brandt .. 12 125 96
College of Industrial Arts: Denton; (See Texas State College for Women)...
College of Marshall. The: Marshall. (See East Texas Baptist College).......
Corpus Christi Junior College: Corpus Christi; (See Del Mar College, new
name) ..........................................................
Dallas Theological Seminary: Dallas, nondenom.; 1924; men; Lewis S. Chafer 12 168 ..
ftDaniel Baker College: Brownwood; Methodist; 1889 as Presbyterian insti-
tution; became branch of Southwestern University (Methodist) In 1946;
coed : Dean, R. E. Mendenhall ......................................33 303 185
Decatur Baptist College: Decatur; Southern Baptist; 1891; coed; J. L. Ward 11 165 53 ...
Del Mar College, Corpus Christi; municipal; 1935; coed; E. L. Harvmin ... 163 2,270 862 ...
DeMazenod Scholasticate: San Antonio; Catholic; established in 1903; in
present location since 1927; men; Very Rev J. Nicholas.................. 7 50
tDurham Business College: Austin. private, 1937; coed; G D Durham 5 135 168
Durham Business Junior College: Fort Worth, private; 1940; coed; E. F. Gau 18 385 360 ...
East Texas Baptist College: Marshall; Baptist; (1914 as College of Marshall,
changed to East Texas Baptist College 1944); coed; H. D. Bruce ....... 40 648 357 92
East Texas State Teachers College: Commerce; state; (1889 as private insti-
tution, 1917 as state); coed; Dr James G Gee...................... 112 2,118 2,5531 317
Edinburg Junior College: Edinburg, state, 1927, coed; R P Ward.......... . 35 555 1651 28
Fort Worth Conservatory of Music; Fort Worth; private; 1924; coed; Miss 1
Jeannette Tillett ................................................. 11 150 100
Frank Phillips College: Borger; municipal; 1946; coed; C. A. Cryer . . 18 308 ...
Gainesville Junior College: Gainesville; municipal; 1924; coed; Roy P. Wilsonl 15 88
* Hardin College: Wichita Falls; municipal; (1922 as junior college. 1946 as
senior college); coed; James B. Boren ... .......... .......... 1081 2,7021 2,300
Hardin-Simmons Univ.: Abilene, Baptist; 1891; coed; Rupert N. Richardson 1141 1,9301 1,091 245
Henderson County Junior College: Rusk, state; 1946; coed; Orval Pirtle.... 16 300 2491 ..
Hillsboro Junior College: Hillsboro; municipal; 1923; coed; W. Read Dawson 20 375 84
Hockaday School, The (junior college, college preparatory and lower school) :
Dallas; private; 1913; women; president, Hobart F. Mossman; president
emerita. Miss Ela Hockaday ............... ...... .........I 951 4351
Holding Institute: Laredo; Methodist, 1880. coed; Anton Deschner. . . . I 15 275
Houston College for Negroes: Houston; (See Texas State University . for
Negroes, to which name was changed in 1947.) . ce. .. . 1
Houston Conservatory of Music: Houston; private, 1917; coed, Mozart B.
Hammond ........................................................ 26 50 277
Howard County Junior College: Big Spring. County, 1946; coed; E. C. Dodd 22 347 1021
Howard Payne College : Brownwood; Southern Baptist; 1890; coed. Thos H.
Taylor ......................................................... 50 838 525 685
Incarnate Word College: San Antonio; Catholic; 1881, women; Sister M. 6
Columkille ... ... ..62 562 485 74
Jacksonville Baptist College: Jacksonville, Missionary Baptist, 1899; coed,
Gerald D. Kellar ... ..12 159 72 84
Jarvis Christian College: Hawkins; Disciples of Christ; 1912; coed; John B.
Eubanks ........................................................ 17 200 121 ...
John Tarleton Agricultural College: Stephenvile. (See Tarleton State
College, to which name changed) .>.M5
Kilgore Junior College: Kilgore, municipal: 1935, coed, B E. Masters 53 1,035 261
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