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These words were in the minds of all the students of Baylor University at Waco, Tex. last week. In a hospital three miles from the quiet campus their 67-year-old president, Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks, was dying. Pain racked, his once massive frame gutted by an abdominal cancer, he was spending his remaining force for his University: putting his signature to 468 diplomas for this year's senior class...
...taught school and farmed, sometimes drove 50 miles to Dallas to get a dollar's worth of kerosene so that his family could read and study at night. Young Samuel worked on the farm, hauled wood, became a section hand on the Santa Fe Railroad, taught school. He entered Baylor in 1887, worked and studied alternately until he was graduated in 1893. One year his roommate was Pat Morris Neff who became Governor of Texas in 1921. Taking his M.A. at Yale in 1902, Samuel Brooks returned immediately to become president of Baylor University. Baptist, Texas's oldest (founded...
Last summer Dr. Brooks toured Europe. Impatiently trying to help move some baggage, he ruptured himself. He was operated upon in September. From then until January he was active in the campaign which raised $500,000 to liquidate Baylor's debts. Then he was ordered to rest. A hearty eater but never active in sports, he was wasting away. An exploratory incision last fortnight revealed the cancerous condition of his abdomen...
...Baylor's line was strong enough to keep Texas Christian's plunging backs out of the Southwestern championship they were figured to win. Baylor 35, Texas Christian...
...Baylor University (Waco...