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Gov. Pat M. NeffBaylor President, 1932 to 1947
From the August 1937 issue of the Baylor Bulletin.
Baylor University is a corporation, incorporated for religious and educational purposes. President Anson Jones of the
Republic of Texas signed the charter February 1, 1845, that gave to
Baylor University its corporate existence. Baylor is the only
institution of any kind--religious, education, or commercial--now in
existence that was chartered by the Republic of Texas. This corporation
now has approximately fifty thousand paid-up stockholders. These
stockholders, sons and daughters, scattered throughout the world, share
alike in the growth and the glory, the prosperity and the progress of
the institution. The corporation, in order that she may continue to
declare dividends in service to all mankind, must have, and she has a
right to expect, the unstinted support of all her stockholders who have
been enriched in life and in living, from the institution's storehouse
of knowledge and wisdom.
Baylor University is a great democratic institution, where everybody is
somebody, if they are. Students from many states and races, Jews and
Gentiles; Catholics and Protestants; the rich and the poor; the learned
and the untutored; natives and those of foreign birth, all mix and
mingle, race with race, and creed with creed, without caste or
artificial distinctions, in her classrooms and on her campus. Among her
more than three thousand students during this past year were enrolled
students from thirty-three American states and six foreign countries.
Baylor University, therefore, is a melting and a welding pot wherein
are formed and fashioned from a heterogeneous student body, scholars,
builders, political crusaders, Christian citizens of the biggest,
bravest, and the best type, imbued throughout with the noble impulse to
serve both God and man.
Baylor is a university that generates and radiates a Christian
atmosphere in which students may study all of the things that are
taught in a first-grade university. To her curriculum, she adds
culture. To her scholarship, she adds character. Students studying in
her inspirational atmosphere breathe in, for the enrichment of their
lives, much that is wholesome, not found in the text books. They are
taught to love the flag and to obey the law; taught to have a civic
conscience; taught to be religious minded; taught "self-reverence,
self-knowledge, and self-control"; taught how to translate university
ideals into the actualities of life; taught the Fatherhood of God and
the Brotherhood of Man.
Baylor University is an institution that takes an interest in the
welfare of all mankind. Nothing that is human is foreign to it. It does
not live in a vacuum; it is not a cloister; it holds constant contact
and comradeship with human beings in an ever-changing and moving world.
It does not walk with its face to the past. To it,
"New occasions teach new duties;
Time makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward,
Who would keep abreast of truth."
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