Emory University - Campus Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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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 ..-

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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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.W V 0 vow body declined in numbers and the ratio of uniforms increased' in every department. The end of the war has seen a rapid reconversion and readjustment to the problems of peacetime and the returning veteran. New degrees are being offered in such subjects as nursing and theology, making requirements more practical in nature so as to help the prac- ticing nurse and minister.