Editing University of Tulsa (section)

===Relocation to Tulsa===
The Tulsa Commercial Club (a forerunner of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce) decided to bid for the college. Club members who packaged a bid in 1907 to move the college to Tulsa included: B. Betters, H. O. McClure, L. N. Butts, W. L. North, [[J. M. Hall|James H. Hall (''sic'')]], Grant C. Stebbins, Rev. [[Charles William Kerr|Charles W. Kerr]], C. H. Nicholson. The offer included $100,000, 20 acres of real estate, and a guarantee for utilities and street car service.<ref name="TU">[https://www.utulsa.edu/about-TU/HistoryofTU/profiles-from-tu-early-history/tulsa-commerical-club-had-a-hunch-and-bet-a-bunch.aspx The University of Tulsa, "Tulsa Commercial Club 'had a hunch and bet a bunch.'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416210718/https://www.utulsa.edu/about-TU/HistoryofTU/profiles-from-tu-early-history/tulsa-commerical-club-had-a-hunch-and-bet-a-bunch.aspx |date=April 16, 2014 }}</ref>

The college opened to 35 students in September 1907, two months before Oklahoma became a state. These first students attended classes at the [[First Presbyterian Church (Tulsa)|First Presbyterian Church]] until permanent buildings could be erected on the new campus. This became the start of higher education in Tulsa. Kendall Hall, the first building of the new school, was completed in 1908<ref name="Logsdon. History"/><ref name="Delfraisse History"/><ref name="Henry Kendall College Bulletin"/> and was quickly followed by two other buildings. All three buildings have since been demolished, with Kendall the last to be razed in 1972.<ref>Campbell, Joshua. "TU's history highlights change." ''The Collegian''. October 16, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.utulsa.edu/collegian/article.asp?article=3450|title=The Collegian Online: TU's history highlights change|access-date=August 27, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319223219/http://www.utulsa.edu/collegian/article.asp?article=3450|archive-date=March 19, 2012}}</ref> The bell that once hung in the Kendall Building tower was saved and displayed in Bayless Plaza.

The Kendall College presidents during 1907–1919 were Arthur Grant Evans, Levi Harrison Beeler, Seth Reed Gordon, Frederick William Hawley, Ralph J. Lamb, Charles Evans, James G. McMurtry and Arthur L. Odell.<ref name = "TUAlumni 1907-1919">{{cite web|url=http://www.tualumni.com/s/1174/index.aspx?sid=1174&gid=1&pgid=381|title=TUAlumni 1907–1919|access-date=August 8, 2011|archive-date=October 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030201801/http://www.tualumni.com/s/1174/index.aspx?sid=1174&gid=1&pgid=381|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1918, the Methodist Church proposed building a college in Tulsa, using money donated by a Tulsa oilman [[Robert M. McFarlin]]. The proposed college was to be named McFarlin College. However, it was soon apparent that Tulsa could not yet support two competing schools. In 1920, Henry Kendall College merged with the proposed McFarlin College to become the University of Tulsa. The McFarlin Library of TU was named for the principal donor of the proposed college. The name of Henry Kendall has lived on to the present as the Kendall College of Arts and Sciences.