The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-02-03
A GREAT INSTITUTION.
ONE THAT BGILTUPA PRES
TIGE ON MERIT ALONE
IL HiII,s Business College, which
stands as IA Monument to the En-
ergy and Tact of the Man and the
Glory of the Town.

we see plenty Win tne Visual Ut
gans the daily growth of flower, fruit
and grain but the occult forces at
work for their production are hidden
from even our intellectual senses.
While we work and while we sleep
the earth the air the rains aud the
principle of life are all busted with
growth and what we see are only
effects. So with the growth of a city.
We have seen Waco grow from q viii
lage to city and we see it growing
steadily and increasingly and yet we
scarcely appreciate those silent inhl-
ences which are the potent factors of
that growth. We know in a general
way that railroads, schools, factories
and other things are elements of
growth in town but we DO not stop
to anslyze. The railroads have been
great agencies Of our growth, SO have
the great institutions Of learning, and
the artesian wells not least while the
wholesale trade the wooden mills, and
other factories and many other things
huob uOb DO SObNCh'
The citizens of Waco are not slow
to give credit to each and all of the
silent but potent agencies which are
at work to build up the city, and with
it their own individual interests, and
they have accorded to the schools
large degree of appreciation. The
Baylor University and the Waco Fe-
male College have been of immense
benefit to the city, not only in the
prestige they have given to the city as
an educational center, but also in the
foreign money which their hosts Of
students have disbursed here from
year to year, and which, falling like
other gentle dew, benefits business.
But it is fact in consonance with the
idea at the beginning of this article
that another school has grown up here
in the last few years, the importance
of which is almost out of the kuowl-
edge Of our citizens. Hills Business
College is we'll known, but the size
and importance to which it has grown,
both to the proprietor and to the city,
is wholly unappreciated. This is due
to several causes, but it is time
our people were informed
that while they have been quietly
working and sleeping an institution
of public benefit has grown up in our
midst that is immense and wonderful
1t is generally supposed that CONNER
cial Colleges are schools of small mo-
ment outside of the big cities, and it
is generally true, but this is an ex-
ceptioD that is as noteworthy a. graf
flying. 1t may be summed up in the
general remark which evidence sub
stimulates that Waco has CONNER
cial college that enjoys patronage
little, if anything, below the great
commercial colleges OF national re.
pute, and this in a city of twenty
Thousand inhabitants. The fact is a
startling one to those not familiar with
the growth of this great school. Hills
Business College had, last year, four
hundred and twenty students, visit
to the college today will show over
two hundred students actively at work,
and the increase, so far this year, is
so great as to lead to the reasonable
conclusion that this college, this year,
will not fall short of six hundred
students, and may 90 up to seven
hundred. Compare this with the
matriculation of other colleges, and
it will be seen that Hills Business
College is equal to the largest literary
colleges in the state. 1t is a great
Baylor University on Austin street,
with five or six hundred students
year, building up the fortunes of the