Emory University - Campus Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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dists of Georgia should notvsend their money up to Virginia, but should found a college of their own. A committee, composed of Ignatius A. Few, Thomas Mabrey, and john Howard, was appointed, and they decided to open a school adopting the manual labor plan. In March of the year 1835, a small group of students trudged through the newly-opened doors, of an institution called the Georgia Conference Manual Labor School, just outside the little town of Covington in 'Newton Countyf There, in ten crude school buildings, the Methodist Church was beginning an experiment in education. .That experiment did not work, but it was the start of an endeavor that has culminated today in the great, modern campus and far-reaching scholastic attain- ments of Emory University V Dr Ignatius A Few became the first president of the institution and seeing that the manual' school was failing, appealed for an enlarge- ment of the operations The Georgia Conference authorized Dr. Few to apply to the Georgia Assembly for an extension of the charter to allow the founding of a college Before the grantmg of the charter, 'ie proposed school was named Emory College, in honor of Bishop john' Emory I A It was in December of 1836 that the pen of Georgia Governor Wil- ham Schley scratched into history the first chapter of the story of Emory with the signmg of the charter of Emory College The college opened its doors to students on the seventeenth of September 1888 Wlth fifteen studcnts entering as members of the freshman and sopho more classes In 1840 the trustees of the College took over the affairs mostly habihtiesl of the Manual Labor School Meanwhile the town of Oxford had been mcorporated bv the legislature with Dr Few as its first c1t1zen The name Oxford was selected at the suggestion of Dr Few The year preced1ng the War Between the States were ones of un ceasing struggle for the staff and faculty of little Emory College and of the manual labor system under which the students by their work 111 the fields would contribute to the financial support of the school The decision therefore in 1841 was to sell the farm lands and to con centrate on teachmg In those early days Emory s curriculum was largely classical The emphasis was sohdly placed on the study of Greek Latin and mathe matics Most popular of all extra curricular act1v1t1es was forensrcs debating and the art of public speaking The two principal groups and mtellectual hfe on the campus During the bitter years of the VVar Between the States the buildings of the camnus at Oxford were used to house Wounded soldiers Weeds I r ,I C I . S ' . 7 '- a ' n cc . - C n I o n P7 n 1 I l CK 73. ' I 7 . Y 3 . 7 . A ' I I 5 A 1 l 2 - ' I ' . 3 a 0 I X , . . . n . . I H , , , -i : . ' . ' . . . .. . . , the Phi Gamma Society, and the Few Society, became centers of social . I C n . . , . .I

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grew across the lawns and there was- considerable doubt at the close of the War as to whether the college would ever reopen. Thewounds of conflict had struck deep into the life of the South, and' it looked as though such things as education would simply have to suffer. How- ever, in Ianuary, 1866, the bell rang which summoned the new students from their homes and the old students from the battlefield.. We 'ed 4hQh Q I' On 1 Sunday in November 1880 D1 Atticus G Haygood then President of hmory preached an extrfmordinaiy sermon at the OXfO1d Methodist Church Dr Haygood declared that the South should be grateful for the resumption of relat1o11s with the national government and for the abolition of slavery A New York banker Geoige Leney read this speech and donated 3' ' . I A xl .I V QXWLZ , , R1 Ad V V . . V V I. . A-.Q Lu N ., -in . f , 'J -' - - f . ' 1 . . - - . ' ' - V V w . ' , x. ,, , 'H 1 ' , , 1- s' gpms' ' , - V V' Y ' 1 ,, . P :. . hd ' '- Ll ' ' 'F' 'sf ff .wx ,IVV 7 - 'K , ' , 4, , W I , Y '. '. ' Y. '. JA- . , . , ' , -4.,,' ', - u., V 'B , K K. 5-it ' I me-. XL I Y . K: Y H . N., '- fur '. V ,, J. 1 . 'Tv - - A' ' j Vj V-v.-- N -- 1-. ,V . 'N-nr V , V 1 ' -f N, . i' V:: ' - vi 2 ., ' -Y VT V , fr' 'M , -. -, -.s- A - at N - , A. A 3 .' .xp , . V .. Q . . . w 4 V' V V -2 V a e . 1 V . V ' ' I 'Wil s --, . , ' V -e,.V H . VA , N N J V ,, , -X., ,V K. , 1, ,V, - . V Q. .f,, e.- 6 , vvniJ:f2gg1i'.WuAi ,Wjw I- x ' :uawE.2, JW? lv . Y. I 3, ' 'V ,. ':, hr I -.sp r if R, - 0 A. ' C 7 , a u , . -1 , 2 C ' . N, . V I I I . . A . . . ' c L I ' ' r I . , ' ' ' ' 9 7. .