Every Bear who’s stepped foot on the Baylor campus knows the beauty of Baylor’s Armstrong Browning Library. It’s home to the largest collection of the works of Victorian poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is repeatedly named one of the most beautiful libraries in America, and has long been a popular wedding venue on the […]
Today, it’s a given that patients with catastrophic illnesses like cancer need help with both their physical problems and their emotional distresses as they fight their illness. This is the story of the Baylor alumna who helped make that the standard: Dr. Jimmie Holland, Class of 1948. As a doctor at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering […]
It is one of my greater regrets about my time at Baylor that I did not have the pleasure of taking a class taught by legendary Baylor professor James Vardaman, BA ’51. Dr. Vardaman passed away Jan. 31 at the age of 89. One could review his life in biographical fashion: A U.S. Marine who enrolled […]
Just in time for Christmas, we have a beautiful, never-before-told story for you about a Baylor Bear of old who did exactly what Bears do: make the world around them shine just a little brighter. If you attended Baylor, you’ve probably heard the name “Roxy Grove” before. Baylor’s Roxy Grove Hall, a 500-seat concert hall […]
Until the late 1970s, Baylor (like most schools) had no entrepreneurship program. Among academia, there was a popular notion that entrepreneurship simply wasn’t something that could be taught. But a group of leaders here thought differently, and in 1977, Baylor became one of the first universities to create a formal academic program in entrepreneurial studies. […]
A little trivia for you: Which Baylor team has won three national championships, appeared in nine Final Fours, and been a part of life here since the very earliest days of the university? The answer: Baylor Debate. When the Baylor debate team won their season-opening contest at an invitation-only tournament earlier this fall, it continued […]
In the early 20th century, Baylor had no mascot. Sports teams were sometimes called the Bulldogs, the Baptists or the Green-and-Golders, but nothing was official. In 1914, Baylor asked its students what the university’s mascot should be. Responses ranged from the “Baylor Bookworms” to the “Buffalos,” “Eagles,” “Antelopes” — and of course, the “Bears.” The […]
Starting bright and early this Saturday, the Baylor Homecoming Parade will once again be one of the highlights of the nation’s oldest Homecoming celebration. There will be floats, balloons and pageantry, but none of it can begin without the grand marshal. This year’s grand marshal is Baylor’s 15th president, Dr. Linda Livingstone. She joins a […]
On Aug. 13, 2016, April Clanton (pictured above in the Baylor shirt) graduated from BU with a degree in communication sciences and disorders. The milestone was celebrated by her brother, mom, grandparents — and, no doubt, the dozens upon dozens of Baylor alumni in her family’s history. April’s family includes more than 60 relatives who […]
It’s no secret that the world of law hasn’t always been welcoming to women. At the same time that the women’s suffrage movement was gaining steam at the turn of the 20th century, formal law schools were being created across the nation. Law had been taught at Baylor as early as 1857, making BU the second […]
