5 s V3W Bulletin of the University of Georgia Vol. XI. ISSUED MONTHLY BY THE UNIVERSITY 1\]^ f. ~ FEBRUARY 1911 Facts About the fefeqjpsiUijNu i wwwTMifrfifeorgia ACADEMIC BUILDING Entered at the 1'ost Office at Athens, Ga., as second-class matter August 3rd, 1905, under Act of Congress of July 16th, 1904 SERIAL NUMBER 148 i / - 1: I lis UNIVERSITY o ILL***, Facts About the University of Georgia Through the efforts of its founder, Abram Baldwin, the Univer- sity of Georgia was chartered in January 178 5, though an act giv- ing 40,000 acres of land for the support of a state institution was passed in February, 17 84. It was thus the first chartered State University in America. In the words of its charter its high purpose Is thus defined: "It should therefore be among the first objects of those who wish well to the national prosperity to encour- age and support the principles of religion and morality, and early to place the youth under the forming hand of society, that by instruction they may be moulded to the love of virtue and good order." The institution was opened to students in 1801. * During 110 years, the University has enrolled over 8,000 stu- dents. Nearly 4,000 degrees have been conferred for work done. The history of its students is largely the history of the state. As President Taft said of it, "There is gathered about this institution a wealth of memory that in itself, with the ideals formed here, is ever to maintain, as it always has maintained, the civilization of the imperial state of Georgia." The Christian ministry has been strengthened by the useful careers of one hundred and ninety of the University's sons. Ninety- four officers of the U. S. Army and Navy and five hundred and three officers in the Confederate Army, besides thousands of privates have defended their country in times of need. Over a hundred have oc- cupied the bench in this and other states, and one has just been appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. Six alumni have served in the United States Senate and about fifty in the na- tional House of Representatives. Ten have served as governor of the state and over four hundred in our General Assembly. In statesmanship the University men are most illustrious in Georgia history. Graduates of the University fill chairs in colleges and univer- sities all over the South as well as in institutions of the North, while scores are found among superintendents of city and county systems and in the teaching force of high schools. Eight hundred doctors, over a thousand farmers, more than two hundred engineers, and hundreds of others in finance, manu- facturing and journalism have helped build the state. No man can study the list of the University alumni without being profoundly impressed with the manner of men that have gone out from its halls. It is a high privilege for a Georgia boy to be graduated from this, the most venerable of the state universities and enroll his name among the illustrious alumni — men who have made glorious Georgia and the South. * ■ In recent years the teaching; staff has been more than doubled in numerical strength, and the material equipment has been en- larged in an even greater proportion. In spite of the institution of entrance requirements equivalent to those of the best colleges and universities in the North and West, the attendance has steadily in- creased. * During the last ten years the University has made remarkable vogress. The attendance on the long courses has increased 100 per cent, and if the short course students be added, the increase is 2 60 per cent. The institution is now giving annually instruction at Athens to nearly a thousand students. * In this same decade nine new brick buildings have been erected, increasing over 200 per cent the physical equipment. The campus has been enlarged to twenty-four times its size ten years ago, so as to make room for the agricultural college and the increased de- mands of a growing state. * For the entire University, the total available income has been increased in ten years by 2 60 per cent and the number of courses offered by about 125 per cent. During this same decade over $200,000 have been given to the University by friends and the state has contributed as much more for the development of the agricultural department while an increased maintenance fund for the other departments of the University has been made. While the University is still inadequately equipped for the training of the youth of a state with more than two and a half mil- lion people, yet it offers the youth of today the best advantages in THE LIBRARY GIFT OF MR. GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY LeCONTE HALL (1905) A brick building, two stories and basement, occupied by the School of Biology, named in honor of Dr. John LeConte, Professor of Phvsics, i846-1855, and Dr. Joseph LeConte, Professor of Geology, 1852-1866. all its history. With additional appropriations from time to time by the state and gifts by friends of education, the University will be made to serve the people to a still greater extent. * Expenses at the University are very low. A room in one of the college dormitories costs two dollars a m:onth; board in the college dining hall costs $10.00 a month; fees for the year amount to fr#m ten to twenty dollars. For about $150 a student can get board, fuel, lights, room, fees, laundry and books; in private homes the cost will be increased to two or three hundred dollars. The rich can get nothing better; the poor can secure the best. No single institution has made a deeper impress upon the life of the state than the University Law Department. During the half century of its existence nearly one thousand graduates have left its halls, whose lives and achievements in peace and war have blessed the state. There is scarcely a town or city in the state among whose leading attorneys are not found its alumni. Today the school sees her graduates in the Senate, in Congress, in the Legislature, on the Supreme Bench, on the bench of the Court of Appeals, on the Circuit and City Benches. Her sens are found among the Solicitors General and the Solicitors of other courts. No ether law school in the South Atlantic States has graduated so many eminent lawyers. It is the only law school in Georgia of which it can be said that it is a full-day law school, with professors giving their entire time to instruction in law, with standard college entrance requirements, and intimate integral connection with university life. Access to the academic schools, the libraries, debating societies, participation in literary and other University activities, wider acquaintanceship with the young men of the state, and university fellowship are invaluable to the lawyer. The full professional teaching staff has been doubled and the course covers two years, based upon fourteen units of en- trance. Many of its students are graduates of the academic depart- ment of the University and other institutions. * Since 1867, the School of Civil and Electrical Engineering has had a continuous and vigorous existence as an integral part of the University's work, and its graduates fill 'many prominent positions in city, state and national affairs, and in railroad and mining en- terprises. The ideal of the school since its inception has been to do thor- ough, fundamental work with each individual student, and to give each man the fullest opportunities to perfect himself in the work. The courses are so designed and so taught that the engineering grad- uate will find his general preparation and professional knowledge sound and adequate for rapid progress. Familiarity with field meth- ods enables the student to take right hold of the work assigned by his employer to the mutual advantage of both. The Department of Pharmacy is the youngest of the profes- sional departments but already it has taken front rank among the schools of its class. Well equipped laboratories, regular hours and teachers, with the benefit of the other scientific departments and university life make this a desirable training school for Pharmacists. The Agricultural College is fully described in a series of Bulle- tins that may be had for the asking. It is of recent development but has already grown into the most valuable agricultural educa- tional institution in this section. * ■ The honor system, a system of self-government by the students, has prevailed at the University for many years. The written pledge of honor of a student that he has neither given nor received aid on an examination is accepted without question. A student proctor is appointed by the Chancellor as supervisor over every six rooms in the dormitories for lower classmen, to aid the younger men in de- veloping self-government and for giving advice. Each student also se- lects a member of the faculty as his special adviser to whom he goes for all kinds of advice and counsel. Under this system of per- sonal honor, and student and faculty advisers, the spirit of truth and honor, of self-reliance and strength of character, is developed and the youth are returned to the state men. * Military training is required of lower classmen. Three drills a week are given. The institution is not under military discipline, but the students while under military duty are required to perform these in a strict military way. A national army officer is in charge of this department. There are five companies of infantry, one com- pany of artilery with two guns, a cadet band and signal corps. * In 1882 Governor Joseph E. Brown gave a Students' Loan Fund in memory of his son, Charles McDonald Brown. This fund has increased three-fold and over fifty young men are helped annually. Full particulars of this fund will be furnished upon application to the Chancellor. * . In all branches of Athletics, includirg football, baseball, track, basketball, tennis, the University of Georgia ranks among the first TERRELL HALL (J905) A three-story building of brick with granite and terra-cotta facings, 130 by 70 feet, occupied by the schools of Chemistry, Pharmacy, named in honor of Dr. William Terrell, who, in 1854, endowed the professorship of agricultural chemistry in the University. THE MOORE COLLEGE (J874) Offices, lecture rooms, libraries, laboratories and apparatus rooms of the Schools of Physics, Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering. in the South. A new $100,000 gymnasium and Y. M. C. A. hall will be sufficiently advanced to be partly occupied in September. The athletic training, besides that obtained from the military depart- ment, is under the direction of two college men, one a graduate of Vanderbilt and the other of "Georgia." * College classes meet six days in the week with suspension of work after two o'clock on Wednesday's and Saturday's. * Every member of the faculty of the University is a 'member of some branch of the Christian church. Bible classes are conducted by members of the faculty, for the special benefit of students, in three of the leading churches of the town. Morning prayers in the chapel are held every week-day, at which service members of the faculty officiate. * ■ There are two literary societies, the Demosthenian and Phi Kappa. These own their society halls and hold regular 'meetings on Wednesday evenings. Every student is required to join one of these societies. There are also two law debating societies, the Georgia Law and the Jeffersonian Law. Numerous inter-society and public debates are given each year as well as inter-collegiate debates. The training given in these four societies has been one of the most po- tent forces in the literary life of the University. * ■ During the past ten years the students of the University of Georgia have engaged in eighteen inter-collegiate debates, and of these they have won two out of two from Sewanee, one out of two from Tulane, two out of three from Washington and Lee, three out of eight from North Carolina, one out of two from Vanderbilt, and one from Virginia. * . The State of Georgia extends the privileges of the University to all persons who are qualified for admission. Thus the University does not receive patronage, but is itself the patron of those who seek its privileges and honors. It is maintained at public expense for the public good. It cannot, however, be the patron of inefficien- cy, idleness, or dissipation. Its classes have no room except for those who diligently pursue the studies of their choice and are will- ing to be governed in their conduct by the rules of propriety. Ev- ery student owes to the public a full equivalent of expenditures in his behalf, both while in the institution and afterwards. « OLD COLLEGE " Erected in 1801, repaired in 1908, used as dormitory for upper classmen CANDLER HALL Erected during the administration of Governor Candler by legislative appropriation, Used as dormitory. University of Georgia Athens, Georgia THE HEAD OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF GEORGIA. DAVID C. BARROW, Chancellor. The following departments of study are represented: I. Franklin College. The College of Arts. In this College courses are offered leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Lib- eral election in the choice of subjects is allowed in the Junior and Senior classes. II. The Georgia State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Offering the Degree of Bachelor of Science, and including the following courses: (a) In the College of Science and Engineering: 1. The General Science Course. 2. The Civil Engineering Course. 3. The Electrical Engineering Course. 4. The Forest Engineering Course. (b) In the College of Agriculture: 5. The Full Agricultural Course. 6. The One-Year Agricultural Course. 7. The Winter Courses in Agriculture. 8. The Experiment Station (at Experiment). 9. The Farmers' Institutes and other Extension work. Full outfit of field instruments. Extensive laboratories for practical work in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, all phases of Agriculture, Civil and Electrical Engineering; many special courses 'for those who cannot find time for a degree course. III. The Graduate School, offering the following degrees: 1. Master of Arts. 2. Master of Science. 3. Civil and Mining Engineer. A school in which graduates of this and other colleges pur- sue advanced work, leading to a Master's degree. IV. The Law Department, offering the degree of Bachelor of Law. The Department offers a full two years' course, beginning with foundation principles, extending through a general sur- vey of the lavs based on them, and concluding with a study of the laws of the state. Daily lectures, recitations, stated examinations, exercises in pleading and practice are among the advantages offered. The library has recently received an addition of $1000 worth of books. The diploma admits the holder to the bar. The election of another professor who gives his time to the school is a long step forward. Spec- ial work is provided for students who cannot attend a full course and who are not candidates for a degree. There are moot and practice courts. V. The University Summer School. Five weeks' session, offering courses in 1. Common School Branches. 2. Pedagogy and Related Subjects. 3. High School Studies. 4. Selected College Studies. VI. The School of Pharmacy, offering the degree of Graduate in Pharmacy — a two years' course. VII. The Peabody School of Education, a four years' degree course for teachers, superintendents and High School principals. Work of College grade in the Summer School is given full credit towards a degree. Instruction in the above seven departments is divided into 22 schools offering over 180 courses of instruction. Entrance Requirements. The University requires 14 units or the equivalent of a four years' high school course for full entrance to all courses except the Summer School and Pharmacy. Graduates from accredited three-year schools may enter on certificate with from one to three conditions. Conditions in German, French and Greek may be made up at the University. The applicant must be at least sixteen years of age and successfully vaccinated. There is no preparatory department. The University expects its students to be prepared for college work in the high schools. A college is no I lace for small boys. 'JV*$VK3 k A THE CHAPEL Erected in 1831, where morning services are held, and public exercises. Walk to Moore College and LeConte Hall. ILLINOIS DENMARK DINING HALL Over two hundred students board here at $10.00 a ranuth, Gecr^ia needs the best service the young man can give. Her mines are to be developed, her water powers are to be utilized, her farms are to be improved, her manufactories are to be increased, her schools are to be taught, her laws are to be administered, her place must be filled in national affairs, her churches are to be sup- ported, and her homes are to be gladdened. But two-tenths of one per cent, of her population is taking a college course. Georgia calls upon her sons to prepare for leadership. Her University was built for them and stands ready to help them. If he will go to college to get what he can of its scholarship, its culture, its training, its friendships to use in loving service, he can not make a better vise of three or four years of his life nor a better investment of a few hundred dollars. It is no place for idlers and spend-thrifts. Send for catalogue and printed matted to THE CHANCELLOR, Athens, Ga. HlEir ° F '"JNOIS-UBBANA 3 0112110188007 % *fc