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l' LXF5 P139 RARE BOOK COLLECT ION 1911 THE LIBRARY OP THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA net Pandora I9II VOLUME XXIV ffiubltafteb fry tljc &tubentg of tljt Untoergitp of anb tfte Jltebical department at giugugta Georgia THE UENEHnL LlkiHA.'^Y THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS, GEORGIA jo xtyayf KUI)^ ano oj (jjniu 09 For o DE< DR. WILLIS HENRY BOCOCK TNK QENERAU LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS. Editors of Pandora Volume XXIV, 1911 Editors-in-Chief. Evans V. Heath, A T O Arthur K. Maddox. Associate Editors. George G. Blanton. Henry Newnian, X * Pope F. Brock. W. J. Xorthen. Jr., <J> A 0 J. L. Deadwyler, K 2 Howell B. Peacock, K A J. H. Foster. II. D. Russell. Malvern Hill, 5 N C. S. Small, P K A W. S. Jones. 2 X A. O. B. Sparks, 2 A E B. C. \Vright, X * COMMITTEES. Art Committee. Athletic Committee. Club Committee. II. B. Peacock. J. H. Foster. \V. M. Hill. P. F. Brock. A. K. Maddox. B. C. Wright. A. O. B. Sparks. W. S. Jones. C. C. Small. Record Committee. Wit and Humor Committee. G. G. Blanton. W. J. Xorthen. H. D. Russell. H. Xewman. J. L. Deadwyler. K. V. Heath. Howell Brooke, Business Manager. _ K. V. Carter, Assistant Business Manaycr. \ ASSOCIATE EDITORS. The University A Historical Sketch HE University of Georgia is often referred was considered enough to allow the board to begin work, to as the oldest State University. This and accordingly the subject of erecting a building was title, however, is disputed by South Caro taken up at the next meeting. lina College a|i<l Pennsylvania University. In the spring of 1801 the Board of Trustees appointed The facts are that while Pennsylvania is a committee to select a site for the University, with instruc among the oldest colleges in the I'nited tions that it be in Jackson County. On this commitee was States it was started and operated for John Mil ledge, the man for whom Milledge Hall (common some time on the private endowment of ly known as Old College) was named, and from whom while South Carolina opened some years William Penn; Milledgcville. the old capitol. Milledge Avenue, and the Georgia. Georgia's charter antedates hers by several before Milledge Chair of Ancient Languages take their names. Georgia therefore deserves the title of the oldest vears. John .Milledge. ever ready to advance the interests of the State I'niversity. I'niversity. bought 1>:W acres of land and presented it to As early as 1874, only a few months after the State was the University on condition that it be selected as a perma free from British troops, the University of Georgia was nent site. This land situated then in Jackson County, now chartered. Though the public men of the time were con in Clarke. was accepted by the Board in July of 1801. fronted by the manifold difficulties of forming a new gov Josiah Meigs was elected the first President and from that ernment, they put these aside for awhile and turned their time on the University passed from the "prospectus stage" attention to Education. Realizing that democracy and to a stage of permanent and active benefit to the State. education go hand in hand, and that "the existence of free Though Old College was not completed for some time governments very much depends upon suitably forming the University was formally opened to the young men of the minds and morals of their citizens." the legislature of the State in the Fall of 1801. For these first few years the 1S74 set aside 20.000 acres of land in each of the two new instruction was carried on under the trees of the Campus counties (Franklin and "Washington) to be devoted to a and in temporary log structures, without the aid of ap public seat of learning. paratus or library. This, the sole endowment of the I'niversity. was placed The growth of the I'niversity was slow during these in the hands of a board of trustees and a board of visitors. first few years, the graduating class varying from four to. and from that time on the University was at least an institu nine. By 1861. however, the enrollment had reached 125. tion "on paper." The author of this bill and of the During the ante-bellum period the University was run by charter of the University was Abraham Baldwin, whose rules which Josiah Meigs drew up. based on the strict rules efforts for the University in its early life have gained him of the Hnglish Schools. The students were required to stay the name of the Father of the University. in quarters assigned to them, they were required to keep The boards of Trustees and Visitors failed to meet be fixed hours, to eat at "commons" (that is, were required to tween the time of their appointment and the year 1798, a eat at the "beanery"), and to conform to other rules period of fourteen years, with the exception of one time which would be very galling in this day and time. Tn short, when nothing was done. In the meantime, however, parts there was strict supervision over the students, with the of the 40.000 acres of land were being leased, and at the faculty as police. This system caused a dissension in the meeting of the trustees in 1798 the treasurer reported faculty. In the fifties some of the young professors began $600.00 cash on hand and about $7000.00 in notes. This to hold modern ideas of self-supervision for university Government of the University of Georgia V ACT of the General Assembly, approved CLARK HOWKLI,. Atlanta. August 2'.i. 188!). the government of the From the State at Large Term Kxpires Aug. 1:5. 1917. 5 iy v. University is vested in a Board of Trus- \Vii.i.i.\.\i K. SI.M.MOXS. Lawrcncevillc. ~~"~1 tees, appointed by the Governor for a term From the State at Large Term Kxpires Aug. 13. Mill. of eight years, and confirmed by the Il.\.Mii/rox McWiioRTER. Athens. Senate. The Hoard consists of one mem From the State at Large Term Kxpires Aug. 13. 1913. ber from each Congressional District of the State; four from the State at large, SAMTKI. B. ADAMS. Savannah. District Term Expires Aug. 13. 1913. and two from the city of Athens; and the following are 1st Congressional ex-officio members: the Governor of Georgia, the Chairman BVROX B. BOWER. Bainbridge. of the Hoard of Trustees of the North Georgia Agricultural 2nd Congressional District Term Kxpires Aug. 13. 1913. of the College, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees Drm.KY -M. HruiiKs. Danville. Board of Direc School of Technology, the Chairman of the 3rd Congressional District Term Kxpires Aug. 13. 1913. tors of the Georgia Normal and Industrial College, the Columbus. President of the Commissioners of the Industrial College HENRY R. GoETcmrs. Term Kxpires Aug. 13. 1911. for Colored Youths, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees 4th Congressional District of the College of Agriculture, the Chairman of the Board HENRY D. MC!)ANIEI,. Monroe. of Trustees of the State Normal School. oth Congressional District Term Expires Aug. 13. 1911. The immediate control and management of each of the ArcfsTrs O. BACON, Macon. departments of the University situated elsewhere than at (5th Congressional District Term Expires Aug. 13. 1917. control by the Uni Athens is entrusted (subject to general .1. LINOSAY JOHNSON, Rome, "Commission," versity Trustees) to a "Local Board'' or 7th Congressional District Term Expires Aug. 13. 1917. of which the number of members, mode of appointment and terms of office vary. JOHN T. NEWTON. Madison. 8th Congressional District Term Expires Aug. 13. 1911. The University Trustees meet in stated session on the Thui'sday preceding the Commencement Sunday, and at HOWARD THOMPSON. Gainesville. Aug 13. 1915. other times, at their pleasure. 9th Congressional District Term Expires The present organization of the Board is as follows: BOWDRE PHINIZY, Augusta. Aug. 13. 1915. His EXCELLENCY, Gov. JOSEPH M. BROWN, Atlanta, ex-officio 10th Congressional District Term Expires GEORGE F. GOBER, Marietta. JOHN "\Y. BENNETT, AVaycross. From the State at Large Term Fxpires Aug. 13. 1915. llth Congressional District Term Expires Aug. 13. 1915. students, and consequently refused to act as police. Dr. est, to prepare themselves for the grapple with the carpet Alon/.o Church, then the Chancellor, was a staunch up baggers and scalawags, and it was these students who con holder of strict discipline, and consequently made it warm tributed largely to the triumph in the long run of the for those who did not hold his views. whites over the blacks backed by Northern arms and money. Though the South was desolated completely, men came for Among those who severed their connection with the education. In 1StiS the number of students reached '2'2-. University on account of this were the two LeContes. John and the tuition fees amounted to $1 ">.000.00. and Joseph. These men were scientists of groat ability, and had the University management been broad enough to keep From that time on the I'niversity has prospered. Up them at this time they would have reflected great credit on to 18.">4 the sole endowment of the University hail been the institution afterward, for they both became men of the proceeds from the 40.000 acres of land. In 1854. how note, being among the first to adopt the modern scientific ever. Dr. William Tern-11 endowed the Department of theory of Evolution.