East Texas brothers Addison and Randolph Clark, together with his father, Joseph A. Clark, founded what was then called AddRan Male & Female College in 1873 after the brothers had returned from service in the Civil War. The school is named after AddRan Clark, the first son of Addison. The boy died of diphtheria at the age of three years. Its name comes from a contraction of the names of the two brothers. This name is preserved in AddRan TCU College of Liberal Arts. It celebrates the link between the University and its founders.
Principles of image TCU campus in Fort Worth.
Clark is scholar-preacher/teachers was Campbellite product on the market, one of the current restoration movement in the nineteenth century American church. The Campbellites were the spiritual ancestors of the modern Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Independent Christian Churches / Churches of Christ and non-instrumental churches of Christ (non-institutional). Campbellites were also big supporters of education, and Clark ran a school, the male and female Seminary in Fort Worth, 1869 to 1874. But it also gives a higher education institution for both men and women who would be Christian in nature, but nonsectarian in spirit and open mind intellectually.
TCU students at a college in Jarvis Hall.
Statue of the founders of TCU Addison and Randolph Clark.
Plans to establish his school in Fort Worth in five streets purchased for this purpose in 1869. But from 1867-1872, changed the character of Fort Worth substantially since the commercial impact of the Chisholm Trail, the main route for moving cattle from Texas to Kansas rail heads. A large influx of cattle, men and money transformed the city from the border in a dream Cowtown thriving brawl. The area surrounding the property is acquired by the Clarks for their school quickly became Vice President of the Town, an unrelieved stretch of saloons, gambling halls, dance halls and brothels, which takes into account the taste of raw Chisholm Trail cowboys. His reputation was rough and noisy in 1872, acquired the nickname "Hell's Half Acre" heart (which is now occupied by the Fort Worth Convention Center and the Fort Worth Water Gardens).
Clark feared that this negative environment undermined the mission of the fledgling university. He began to look at alternative locations for the establishment of the university, and found in Thorp Spring, a small community care and stop 40 miles (60 km) southwest, near the border with the Comanche and Kiowa territory. It was perhaps an indicator of its sensitivity Campbellite Clark feared that the Indians are less than they feared the corrupting influence of the "Acre".
AddRan College (TCU) was one of the first common institutions of higher education west of the Mississippi River, and the first in Texas, a new stage in a time when only 15% of the national university enrollment was female and almost all were enrolled into dormitories for women. The opening enrollment in autumn 1873 was 13 students, although this number increased to 123 by the end of the first period. Shortly thereafter, annual enrollment ranged from 200 to 400 The university formed a partnership with what would be the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1889 and named AddRan Christian University. The church does not own or operate TCU, TCU's own self. The association of the church is based on a common heritage and common values disciples.
The need for a larger population base transport and led the university to move to Waco 1895 to 1910. Speaks at the welcoming ceremony at Waco was President of his local rival, the University of Baylor. The institution was renamed Texas Christian University in 1902, but almost immediately he was baptized with the unofficial nickname for what is popularly known today: TCU.
In 1910 fire destroyed one of unknown origin, the main administration building of the university. A group of entrepreneurs from Fort Worth offers the university $ 200,000 in rebuilding money and a 50-hectare (200,000 m2) campus as an incentive to move to their city. TCU This movement brought home to the historic source of its institutional roots. TCU also conducted nearly 40 years of transition from a frontier college to an urban university.
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