I don’t believe “Dallas University” and Southern Methodist University (SMU) have any connection other than their home city. SMU was founded in Dallas in 1911 but did not hold its first classes until 1915. “Dallas University” was most likely a Catholic college called the University of Dallas, which began operating under that name in 1910 after being founded five years earlier as Holy Trinity College. It closed in 1928, and its charter changed hands a pair of times before a new University of Dallas was opened in 1956.
Yes, that is exactly right. Dallas University was founded by the Vincentian order of the Jesuits as both a college and a prep school (called Dallas University Academy). The schools foundered in the late '20s, and the charter was basically put into hibernation for a couple of decades. In the 1950s, the Jesuits re-activated the charter as the University of Dallas in adjacent Irving, TX, where it remains as a very fine Catholic four-year college. Coincidentally, the building that housed Dallas University was an enormous, beautiful structure in the "Uptown" area of Dallas, but was torn down in the 1960s to make way for a shopping and office complex called Turtle Creek Village. In 1942, the building was the original campus of Jesuit High School, moving to North Dallas in the early '60s and renamed Jesuit College Preparatory School.
I don’t believe “Dallas University” and Southern Methodist University (SMU) have any connection other than their home city. SMU was founded in Dallas in 1911 but did not hold its first classes until 1915. “Dallas University” was most likely a Catholic college called the University of Dallas, which began operating under that name in 1910 after being founded five years earlier as Holy Trinity College. It closed in 1928, and its charter changed hands a pair of times before a new University of Dallas was opened in 1956.
Corrected. See the postscript.
Yes, that is exactly right. Dallas University was founded by the Vincentian order of the Jesuits as both a college and a prep school (called Dallas University Academy). The schools foundered in the late '20s, and the charter was basically put into hibernation for a couple of decades. In the 1950s, the Jesuits re-activated the charter as the University of Dallas in adjacent Irving, TX, where it remains as a very fine Catholic four-year college. Coincidentally, the building that housed Dallas University was an enormous, beautiful structure in the "Uptown" area of Dallas, but was torn down in the 1960s to make way for a shopping and office complex called Turtle Creek Village. In 1942, the building was the original campus of Jesuit High School, moving to North Dallas in the early '60s and renamed Jesuit College Preparatory School.
Corrected. See the postscript.
Cool piece of history, thanks. The pinned 5 dollar bills were NIL 1.0