The Baylor Bulletin (otherwise known as the university catalogue) always gives us great insight into the many changes that have occurred down the years at our university. Join us as we explore “Baylor by Decade,” a periodic series in which we look at the changing campus community.
1955
- In this decade, the university started charging tuition based on the number of hours taken in a quarter. It cost $9 per quarter hour, and the average total cost of attendance was $265.
- The library had a collection of approximately 227,000 volumes. (Compare that to the approximately 68,000 volumes twenty years earlier in 1935–that’s a big increase!)
- The School of Business had an Electronic Tabulator available to accounting majors, an IBM 405 punch card system (see above).
- The dormitory buildings had many of the latest styles and amenities, including:
- all were built of stone and brick and were fireproof
- steam heated
- partially sound proofed
- furnished with Venetian blinds, desks, chests, beds, mattresses and chairs.
1975
- By this point, the university switched from a quarter system to a semester system. The average total cost of tuition was about $600.
- Moody Library served as the primary library on campus (having moved out of Carroll Library in 1968). It housed 500,000 volumes, as well as 2,500 magazine and periodical titles.
- Chapel was now called “University Forum.” Students were required to have three semesters of University Forum to graduate (reduced from four semesters), and they had to attend 75% of all meetings to receive credit.
- The normal course load for students was 12-18 semester hours. The Bulletin suggests that for students who work three+ hours daily, this should be reduced by one course.
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