Burleson , who, during his first year as president announced a course of study leading to graduation. The university granted its first degree in In , as a result of continued disagreement with the board of trustees, Burleson and the entire faculty of the male department resigned.
George W. Baines, Sr. From to Baylor University was a male school. After Crane's death in , Reddin Andrews, Jr. In the Baptist General Association of Texas and the State Convention, under the control of which Baylor had been operating since , were combined to form the Baptist General Convention, and as a result Baylor University and Waco University, which Burleson had headed since he resigned as president of Baylor at Independence, were consolidated and rechartered as Baylor University in Waco.
Under the control of the Baptist General Convention, Baylor was established on the Waco campus by the end of Burleson was made president emeritus in June Professor John C. Lattimore , as chairman of the faculty, directed the school until , when Oscar Henry Cooper was made president.
Cooper secured two new buildings and raised academic standards. Samuel Palmer Brooks succeeded Cooper in and served as president until his death in Brooks added new departments and organized the schools of education, law, business, and music. In addition, Baylor acquired four professional schools in Dallas: the College of Medicine , the School of Nursing , the School of Pharmacy established in and discontinued in , and the College of Dentistry Baylor Theological Seminary, established in , became a separate institution, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary , in and was moved to Fort Worth in During the Brooks administration the enrollment grew, the campus was enlarged, four new buildings were erected, the summer term was made a regular part of the school year, the endowment was increased, and Baylor was admitted to membership in various college and university associations.
After Brooks's death, W. Allen, dean of the college, served as acting president until June , when former governor Pat M. Neff , alumnus and president of the board of trustees, became president.
Under Neff's direction the endowment was increased and salaries were raised; the campus was enlarged and landscaped; the departments of home economics, drama, and radio were added; library and laboratory facilities were improved and extended; four new buildings were built, and the Union Building was begun. In , despite difficulties incident to World War II , Baylor celebrated her centennial anniversary.
During the war the university instructed students for the army and navy. With the influx of veterans the enrollment reached 4, in the fall of Neff resigned on December 31, , and was made president emeritus. Gooch, dean of the graduate school, was named president ad interim.
William Richardson White was elected president in January and took office on February 1. Baylor University made unprecedented growth in both capital assets and academic standards during the thirteen-year administration of President White. Between and the university departments were affiliated with the highest accreditation agencies. Library holdings increased by 93, volumes between and The nucleus of the library collection was acquired in , when the Erisophian, Philomathesian, Adelphian, Calleopean, and Burleson societies presented their libraries to the university.
The F. Carroll Library, completed in , was gutted by fire in , but students were credited with saving most of the books. The rebuilt structure housed the main library. Special collections in music, theology, law, Texas studies, and Robert Browning supplemented the general library, which in consisted of , books and periodicals housed in fifteen units on the campus.
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