Austin College is the oldest college in Texas operating under its original charter. Founded in 1849 by the Presbytery of Brazos under the leadership of Daniel Baker and named for Stephen F. Austin, the father of Texas, it opened in Huntsville with Sam Houston, Anson Jones, and Henderson Yoakum among its original trustees. A bell donated by Houston hangs in the present chapel. For years, competence in Greek and Latin was required for admittance. In 1855 it opened the first law school in the state, and in 1856 it became the first college in Texas to award graduate degrees. It also had the first chapter in Texas of any national fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. The college remained open during the Civil War although most students joined the Confederate Army. Postwar problems and epidemics caused its move to Sherman in 1876. Its oldest building is Luckett Hall, built in 1908, after the first building on this campus was destroyed by arson in 1913. In 1911 it erected the first college Y.M.C.A. building west of the Mississippi River. In World War I it cooperated with the Student Army Training Corps and admitted its first coeds. In World War II it aided the Army Air Training Corps. Founded to serve the youth of pioneer families, it now enrolls students from all over the world and is a leader in creative Christian liberal arts education.