THE COLORFUL HISTORY of Fort Worth's major university began over a century ago in the city's Hell's Half Acre. After brief periods in the Texas communities of Thorp Spring and Waco, the school moved to its present campus in 1910. Today it occupies 243 acres, has a faculty and staff of over 1500 and a student body of 7000.

Hidden on its campus and in its history are an internationally renowned piano competition and a pioneer undergraduate program in ballet, champion athletic teams, a unique ranch management program, the William Luther Lewis Collection of rare books, including a seventeenth-century "Pavier Edition" of several Shakespeare plays.

Take a campus walk . . . observe the commemorative plaques in sidewalks, the cornerstones and names on buildings, consider who Colby Hall, Winton and Scott, Shelburne, and Sadler, and Waits, and Beckham, and Brite, and Meyer, and Moudy, and Neeley were and are, and what they did to be so honored . . . Climb to the top level of the west stadium, stand and look out over the campus to the east, and see just how far TCU has come.