Interesting facts about tcu

Some Interesting facts about tcu most are ridiculous 

1. It's the only private university in Texas and one of just a few in the entire country.

2. The school is named after its founder, Dr. William H. Cram, who was born on March 7, 1839 in New York City. He graduated from Yale College in 1869 with a degree in mathematics and then went to work for the U.S. Army as an engineer. In 1872 he moved to Texas where he taught at several colleges before opening his own engineering firm in Houston.

3. He started a school for engineering in 1881 while still working as an engineer. It was originally called the South Texas College of Technology and offered classes in architecture, mechanical engineering, civil engineering and mining engineering.

4. In 1890, William H. Cram changed the name of the school to Texas Christian University in honor of his friend and former student, Colonel Benjamine Christian, who was killed in the Mexican-American War. The name was later shortened to TCU.

5. Dr. Cram died in 1905 and the school closed for a couple years so that it could reorganize itself under new leadership.

6. Enrollment grew so much under the new leadership that the university had to find bigger facilities. It built a new medical school building which opened in 1907. That same year the university purchased over 5,000 acres of land in Fort Worth and started raising money to build a whole new campus.

7. TCU started classes in the new Fort Worth campus in 1909.

8. The university's colors are Old Gold and Black. The university seal includes the words "Fortitudo et Valor. Fortitude and valor are the foundations of all that is great. Let these colors live forever. Old Gold and Black.

9) They have a mascot named the Horned Frog Man, who is actually a real person a real-life college football team from Texas called the Beavers. He's been around since 1890 and has his own museum in Fort Worth.

10) The school was originally called "Texas Christian College" but changed its name to avoid confusion with another nearby institution of higher learning. It's still known as TCC today.

11) There are no dorms at TCC, instead students live on campus or in off-campus houses. The university does offer housing for faculty members and staff.

12) The university has a large performing arts center that can seat up to 1000 people, and is the largest such facility in Texas.

13) In a interesting historical note, the university was originally located in Neches, which is now part of Texas but at the time was part of Mexico. When the war broke out between the U.S. and Mexico in the 1840s, many of the students were from families with strong political ties to the Mexican government. As a result, the university's administration was threatened and many of the students involved in government activities. In response, the university moved to its current location in 1857.

14) Another interesting fact is that the school has had at least two Heisman trophy winners. Jimablished football player Charlie Aikman played for the university and won the award in 1983. Also Roger Clemens, the former major league pitcher, was appointed as an assistant baseball coach at TCC in the early 70s and was runner-up for the award in 1970.

15) TCU has two minor league baseball teams, the TCU Gems and the Texas Twisters.

16) The university has a chapter of the Phi Beta Delta Law Fraternity.

17) The university has a large faculty of Ernest Lawrence (the inventor of the atom bomb) and Louis Pasteur (the discoverer of vaccines for rabies and chicken pox).

18) The university is classified as "Research 1" by the Carnegie classification system. This basically means that while the university does perform some practical training, it's primary function is to conduct and educate in research.

19. There are actually two campuses of TCU, one in Fort Worth and another campus in Waco.

20. In order to keep up with all the changes at the university, the original name "Texas Christian University" was changed to "The New College of Texas" in 1883.

21. The first president of TCU was an actual cowboy named John Wesley Powell who served as governor of Arkansas Territory during the Civil War.

22. The first building on campus, Old Main, was completed in 1876 and is now used as an academic building.

23. While the university was originally designed for just 100 students, there were so many demand that it took three years for the school to finally get accredited by the Texas State Legislature.

24. The school's first football game was played in 1894 and was won by Fort Worth against the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

25. Western writers once dubbed the town "little America" due to its wide range of open spaces, wide streets and numerous small shops.

26. The school's stadium holds up to 15,000 fans, making it the largest on-campus stadium in the state.

27. In 1903 the school adopted the nickname "Horned Frogs" due to a student who was sweeping out a frog pond and found several tadpoles with horns on their heads.

28. There are actually three lakes on campus that were created after the original four original ones were drained for farming.

29. The school has been known to have several ghost stories, including the head librarian who has been seen wandering the halls at night and the nurse who was stabbed to death by a deranged former patient.

30. From the 1890s until World War I, TCU was one of the most popular schools to attend in West Texas, along with Texas Technological College.

31. One famous student at the time was William Boeing, who later went on to found the Boeing Company.

32. The most famous alumnus is probably billionaire and former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole.




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