Excerpt from Facts About the University of Georgia During 110 years, the University has enrolled over stu dents. Nearly 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from A Historical Sketch of the University of Georgia The surroundings were unpromising, but nothing daunted, President Meigs set to work with zeal and vigor to organ ize a school in the woods. He had a clearing made for the campus, a street was laid out, lots were staked off and a town projected. Several citizens from other parts of the State, among them the Rev. Hope Hull, came with their families and settled in the village. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Presentation of Facts in Reference to the Appropriations Asked for by the University of Georgia and the Branch Colleges, 1920 The total number of scholars of school age in Georgia in 1919 was the total enrollment was and the average attendance was The total number of teachers was 15, 753. If we but consider this great army of teachers and measure by experience the number that die or quit this work, either from choice or other circumstances, it cannot fail to be less than ten per cent. Teachers like other people die, and it is reasonable to estimate that a number of these teachers pass out of this work in other ways. In any event, the teaching force must be kept up, and it would be a low estimate to say that from one thousand to fifteen hundred new teachers are needed every year. The Statefrom all its institutions, at the present rate, cannot hope to fur nish from the graduates of its institutions properly qualified more than seven or eight hundred as replacements. It can fur nish comparatively few who have completed a four-year college course to take work as teachers in the high schools. Since the teacher should be thoroughly educated and have the ability to impart the knowledge that is required, it would seem to be the most important consideration of all that the State should so support these institutions that the common schools and the high schools could look to the University and its branches for a first class teaching force. The key to the educational system of Geor gia is the University - the oldest state University in the Union. This institution occupies the capstone of the State's educational system. Upon its vitality and efficiency the intellectual and ma terial life of the State is largely dependent. If you should tear the record of the University from the history of the State, if you should remove the influence of those minds trained in the Uni versity, much of the State's history would have to be re-written. In the great war just passed, the University had more than twenty-two hundred of her Alumni in the service. Nearly nine hundred of these served as commissioned officers. This record, based upon the number of students matriculated, is unequaled by any civilian college in the United States. Of these patriotic young Georgians, who in response to the call of duty went across the seas, forty-six of them gave their lives, and hundreds of them came back with honorable scars received in the service of their country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Factual and entertaining, compact and easy to follow, A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia takes the reader on a leisurely tour of the campus, its history and heritage. When the Georgia legislature chartered the nation's first state university in 1785, the town of Athens was a wilderness. The first university classes, in 1801, were held in a log cabin, and no permanent structure was built until Franklin College--now Old College--was completed in 1806. Since that time, the university has expanded vigorously. The buildings of the University of Georgia--spread over several miles and encompassing many architectural styles--range from the federal style of Demosthenian Hall and the classical design of Brooks Hall to the glass dome and marble of Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall. F.N. Boney's A Walking Tour of the University of Georgia guides the reader through the entire campus, offering easy-to-follow maps, photographs, and histories of most structures, as well as information about former students, college life, and the city of Athens.
Excerpt from Handbook of the University of Georgia: Containing Illustrations and General Information The training they received is given in richer, fuller measure today, in the laboratories, society halls and libraries of the old, and yet ever new, University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from General Information and College of Arts and Sciences: May, 1940 This concise bulletin of The University of Georgia contains such material as will prove helpful to graduates of accredited high schools or prospective students and their pet/rents. Complete information as to entrance requirements, to fees, living conditions, to organizations, to degree requirements, and brief summarized statements of the courses of study of fered, together with the degree to which each leads, are given. It is believed that such a bulletin will prove more useful to prospective students and parents than a catalogue or special bulletin. It is sent out on request, for such help as it may give young men and women who are thinking of coming to the Univer sity. For further information, address the Regis trar, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Relates the early history of the University of Georgia from its founding in 1785 through the Reconstruction era. In this history of America's first chartered state university, the author recounts, among other things, how Athens was chosen as the university's location; how the state tried to close the university and refused to give it a fixed allowance until long after the Civil War; the early rules and how students invariably broke them; the days when the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian literary societies ruled the campus; and the vast commencement crowds that overwhelmed Athens to feast on oratory and watermelons.
Excerpt from Four Years at the University of Georgia, 1877-1881 About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Report and Memorial of the Trustees of the University of Georgia, to the General Assembly of the State, 1855 The Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia feel called upon by an enlightened public sentiment, to present some facts for the consideration of the Representatives of the people in Gen eral Assembly met, in connection with the interest of our State University, and consequently with' the interests of the people themselves. It is not to be disguised, that without the effective and early co operation of the people and the Legislature, Franklin College cannot accomplish all the work and fully carry out the objects of its noble and patriotic founders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
