Then, the United States had its fattest president, William Howard Taft. Now, it has its first African-American president, Barack Obama. Then, ketchup was 10 cents a bottle. Now, it’s between $1.12 and $4.29, depending on the type, size of the bottle and brand of ketchup. But none of those comparisons affect TCU students like the difference between TCU in 1910 and TCU now.

In 1910, as TCU was in transition between campuses. It went from a 15-acre campus in Waco to a 50-acre one in Fort Worth. The campus had only two dorms, one for boys and one for girls. The city of Fort Worth had reached a population of 73,312, according to the 1910 census. And out of the 367 students that attended TCU at that time, 15 graduated that year.

And now, in 2010, there are 8,853 students. Last May, 1,468 people graduated. There are 126 undergraduate majors offered, but there also are now 43 master degree plans and 17 doctorate plans. The TCU campus spans across 272 acres with 13 residence halls. All but Colby are co-ed. Fort Worth’s population was estimated to be 727,575 by 2010 census estimates.

One hundred years ago, there wasn’t any endowment fund left 8212; all of the money was spent, along with insurance money and other donations, to pay off the debt caused by the fire. The $200,000 from Fort Worth didn’t have to be used to pay that debt off at all. It was able to be used to develop the new campus. In June of last year, the endowment fund was $974.7 million dollars, and the annual fund surpassed its collection goal of $250 million by Sept. 12.