Excerpt from Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Baylor University at Vasco, Texas, 1890-91 Baylor University was chartered by the Republic of Texas on the lgth of February, 1845. It was located by the Texas Baptist Educational Society at Independence, Wash ington county, then on the greatest thoroughfare of Texas, and near the centre of population. For many years it was the great educational centre of Texas. Its trustees were prudent and liberal men and did all in their power in select ing competent teachers and providing buildings. But by a fatal blunder of the citizens, the towns of Washington and Independence were left off the railroads and became inac cessible. By the entire change of the old system of labor and the influx into Southern Texas of foreigners-the char 'acter of the population was changed. Dr. Burleson and the faculty foreseeing this removed to Waco and inaugur ated Waco University in 1861. The patronage of the University at Independence was diminished from 250 stud ents in 1861, to 32 in 1886, under direction of Dr. Andrews, a young and vigorous man. The removal to some healthy point in Central Texas was deemed indispensable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.