Emory University - Campus Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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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. .

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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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S10,000 to Emory. This was the first of many gifts for this educational institution. The years of greatest growth and expansion may be dated from the time that Warren Akin Candler became president of Emory College in 1888 until its formation as a university in Atlanta. As early as 1891 Emory College officially went on the record with regard to its attitude toward athletics---an attitude which it has followed with con- sistency ever since, and one which was far ahead of its times. President Candler wrote in 1892 that Emory encourages all wholesome sports among its studentsv but looks with no allowance on what we call inter- collegiate sportsf, The match games tend to give excitement to a few---while they make mere spectators of the majority of the student body, thus defeating the ends of sportsf' There is little participation in intercollegiate athletics, but the intramural system is so set up that every student who desires may take part in all forms of athletics. Asa Griggs Candler is the donor who really laid the foundation for the college to become a university. In a letter to a Methodist Commis- sion he wrote, HI offer to the Educational Commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, charged by the General Conference with the duty of establishing an institution of university grade east of the Mississippi River, the sum of one million dollars CS1,000,000Q for the' endowment of such an institution . .s .v . It was decided that Emory College would prove the nucleus for its development and that the University would be located in Atlanta. As' the site for the campus a beautiful, wooded plot, in the Druid Hills section was deeded to the University. A An agreement was reached whereby the Atlanta Medical College became a part of Emory. The School of Law began operations in 1916 fand shortly thereafter the School of Theology transferred operations to the campus. The second World War saw Army and Navy training programs in- vade every portion of the campus. There were Navy and Marines with a few Army students in the Medical School. The non-service student ,,... ... :.. rem. -1. ' -a-. :gf Be, 'gif-1-.us-rf-.ze fe- -R , f if .aaeffsae-fa. .aaa fee-aaeefateee-a-M.aea aaaeaf - ' ' ..s ' ' ' '. '--- r':' -... --:..-..'- M-. '.,.4.- . . . . - Nfl ::a. i -gi:.E2,ur:1ie ,55a-.+'i-1'-fa-51--rfcfffigi' 5359 f. Ffa-::21iF'i-Trip:-:ifsszfirf--qi:-T-,...gg--was55215-:I-'5f:5:?.4' - Ea.,--3:5-fh mn- 1.. la.- . ' ' fe' I -.af f uzten- U, I .. - - - -- - - Ft.. - -'R ' 4- '. . .-. .--e.. ..... ..f?4R'f4.... , 1-1-. .--1-.3-.-t'.i'1'::..1..--.. ' ..l ..-