These renovated quarters housed the college until the Cullen Building was ready for occupancy. The move was completed by July 12, 1943, when the Baylor College of Medicine began its Houston era in a former Sears, Roebuck and Company building on Buffalo Drive. Anderson Foundation and other Houston benefactors to move to Houston.
Baylor extricated itself by accepting an invitation from the M. Otherwise it would be excluded from the envisioned medical center in favor of a newly founded nonsectarian medical school. But Baylor faced unpalatable alternatives: in exchange for fiscal support and new quarters in a proposed new medical center to be erected on Hines Boulevard in Dallas, the medical college was expected to relinquish administrative control and denominational affiliation. Moursund, its dean from 1923 to 1953, was a Presbyterian, not a Baptist. Governance of Baylor derived its authority from the Baptist General Convention of Texas, even though the college had not required sectarian allegiances with respect to faculty appointments and student admissions. The latter year, 1943, marks a watershed in Baylor's evolution, because a severe conflict arose between civic leaders and physicians in Dallas and Baylor administrators over the denominational character of the College of Medicine.
The Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston were the only medical schools in Texas to survive Abraham Flexner's stern criticisms of low standards of medical education in his harsh and famous report of 1911. Over time, other "Baylor units in Dallas" evolved around the College of Medicine-schools of pharmacy and nursing and a college of dentistry-all associated with Baylor University Hospital (now Baylor University Medical Center). On June 29, 1903, the University of Dallas Medical Department became Baylor University College of Medicine. At the first commencement, held on April 18, 1901, fifteen diplomas were awarded, and in 1902–03 twenty-two more were bestowed. Some of these students had previously attended medical lectures elsewhere some had already been practicing medicine without degrees. Having leased the former Temple Emanu-el at what is now 1306 Commerce Street, the school enrolled eighty-one students for its opening on November 19, 1900. With three physicians as incorporators and a charter filed with the Texas secretary of state on September 15, 1900, this proprietary school was named the University of Dallas Medical Department, even though the University of Dallas did not exist. It was the first of eight medical schools to be organized in Dallas during the first decade of the twentieth century. The school was founded in Dallas in 1900, when Texas had only two other schools of medicine-the University of Texas School of Medicine, which started in Galveston in 1891, and the Fort Worth School of Medicine, which began in 1894. Baylor College of Medicine, the only private medical school in the Southwest and the first institution to locate in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, occupied the Roy and Lillie Cullen Building there in 1947.
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