One year later, its enrollment had increased by more than 20 percent. By October 1964, Jarvis had received $1 million in grants for infrastructure. Sadler, also a Jarvis trustee, had personally sought aid from all over the Southwest, according to an article in The Skiff. Jarvis had struggled to repay a $450,000 debt from two fires and large-scale sewage repairs. Under the agreement, TCU became financially responsible for Jarvis and assumed its academic responsibilities, including overseeing curriculum and hiring faculty. In 1964, the same year TCU became fully integrated, the TCU Board of Trustees approved a five-year formal affiliation between TCU and Jarvis. “I had heard about Jarvis Christian all my life, and to go and see what humble circumstances the campus was in at that time, it was sobering to realize it was probably just typical of the contrast between historically white institutions and historically Black institutions.” The visit to Jarvis “was educational, informative and, at the same time, slightly disillusioning,” Miller said. Its student body, around 600 people, was less than one-tenth of TCU’s student population - which was 0.1 percent Black the year of the exchange. It did not have a dedicated library and was centered on a chapel, which students were required to visit every Wednesday. Miller found that Jarvis had a much smaller campus. When Neil Daniel, an assistant professor of English, asked his Negro American Literature students to visit the Jarvis campus, Philip Miller ’70 jumped at the opportunity. The reason for TCU’s shorter visit is unclear. The exchange plan invited Jarvis students to stay at TCU for a week to attend classes and live in the dorms. At the time, both learning institutions were formally affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The same year, 17 students from Jarvis Christian College, a historically Black school in Hawkins, Texas, about 100 miles east of Dallas, swapped places with 14 counterparts from TCU.
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