Kenneth Starr in the “Athens of Texas”
…nearly a decade ago, I learned that the city of Waco billed itself as the “Athens of Texas.” High praise indeed, some would sniff, but Baylor itself had high aspirations. The university’s president at the time, Robert Sloan, sought to turn “the largest Baptist university in the world” into a “Protestant Notre Dame.” Let’s set aside for a moment the possibility that, with the appointment of such scholars as George Marsden and Mark Noll and the fact…
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