buffalo gap college

[Erik P Conard]

where is it? Is it the precursor to Baylor ?

[dzandiloo]

Unless I'm thinking of the wrong thing, Buffalo Gap College was a Presbyterian college, founded in Buff. Gap, TX...it doesn't exist anymore...Baylor was founded in Waco 1845, BGC not until 1885 or something like that...

[g41965]

Buffalo Gap is near Abeline Texas college closed a long time ago, no relation to Baylor.

[Tex1899]

Baylor was actually established in Independence, TX, which is about 30 minutes southwest of College Station. It moved to Waco several years later.

I've read that FIJI's chapter (Kappa, I think) at Baylor was first established when the school was in Independence.

[Erik P Conard]

While thumbing thru Baird's I saw where SAE had an early chapter at Buffalo Gap. Catchy name, kinda like Slippery Rock
which I pioneered for TKE in '57. Interesting in that some of our
nationals have entered a school they were at a century before.
And there were a lot of girls' finishing schools which had greeks
but most transformed into bonafide colleges later. A good example is Ward-Belmont (Minnie Pearl's alma mater) now known
as Belmont in TN. Beta Sigma Omicron was strong in the women's
area at the outset. Co-education was a long time coming, tho.
Moteesir? Often times the girls would have a 'brother-sister' relationship and a 'sponsor' to guide them as they were deemed
incapable of running their own shop, same reason the girls were
not allowed housing in some cases, even today. But makes sense, doesn't it? Har har har de har har.

[Firehouse]

There was a series of essays - written about 100 years ago and printed in the SAE magazine in the 1970s - titled, "When We Came Up From Dixieland." One of the pieces referred to SAE's expansion to Buffalo Gap. It was considered a very bad expansion choice, and described as a "normal school", i.e. a high school. It was presented as an example of how and why SAE develped a much more selective expansion policy at that time.