Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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under his skillful manaegment the college continues to run without friction in any of its parts, and to widen its circle of friends, to extend its influence, and to fulfill its exalted mission. Everything connected with the school justifies me in forming a happy forecast of the future. No school, however well equipped, can succeed unless the students have the right attitude toward its activities. My recollections of past years give me such assurance of industry and loyalty and curtesy on the part of the students that I feel free to antici- pate almost any good thing that can come to an institution of learning. I have often said that the mere discipline of this College had cost me scarcely an hour ' s anxiety, and that college discipline, as the term is usually applied, was a thing almost unknown, and I have accounted for this state of things on the ground of a high sense of personal honor among the students, their devotion to their duties, and their loyalty to the College. I think I could utter no better wish for the Institution in its history down the ages than that this tradition of noble conduct should be held sacred and inviolate and should ever have the force of a real, though unwritten, law. Happy is the school that is bound by such traditions! Happy they who direct its destinies, and happy the young women who have aided in forming its history and can say in after time that they are its children!

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During the Christmas holidays of 1 906, West Hall, which was used as a dormitory and for music and art studios, and domestic science laboratories, was burned. The difficulties arising therefrom seemed well night insuperable. But by the prompt action of the Board of Control, a number of private residences near the campus were rented for the accommodation of the students and teachers. Notwithstanding this disaster, every student but two remained and the college opened after the holidays without the loss of a day. The College was not to suffer this handicap long, for the legislature of 1907 appropriated the present spacious new dormitory, completed August 1, 1908 and named for our late and lamented Senator, W. J. Bryan of Jacksonville. While this building provided room for I 60 young women, it has already become inadequate. The rapidly increasing attendance has again rendered it necessary for students to secure board in private homes in the city. The new academic building, whose corner stone was laid on March 8, was provided for by the same act of the legislature which made the appropriation for Bryan Hall. This building will meet a long felt and vital necessity of the College. The present administration building has, from the very beginning, been painfully inadequate for the demands of this new educational enterprise. It is gratifying to the friends of the College that the most conspicuous and crying need of the Institution is so soon to be fully supplied. While the buildings were insufficient, the State College for Women inherited some invaluable equipment from the Florida State College. The library which was so carefully selected by the faculty committee, of which Dr. S. M. Tucker was chairman, includes about seven thousand volumes covering every field of human knowledge. It has less dead wood, and contains more excellent and useful volumes, than any college library in proportion to its size that I have ever known. 1 he physical, chemical and biological laboratories were, also, well equipped with useful apparatus necessary for the courses offered in the new institution ; and, like the library, they have been indispensible factors in the education of our young women. After my appointment to succeed Dr. Andrew Sledd as president of the University of Florida, April, 1 909, the Board of Control elected Dr. Edward Conradi, then of the St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School, Florida, as president of the College. President Conradi is a man of wide experience and broad scholarship, having received his pre- limenary college training and the Master ' s Degree from the University of Indiana and the degree of Ph. D. from Clark University of Massachusetts. Mr. Conradi has adapted himself to the administrative work of the Institution with admirable tact, and

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Editor-in-Chief Elise Partridge Annual ISoarti Assistant Business Manager IVA TOWNSEND Business Manager Mary Baird ASSOCIATE EDITORS Literary Editor Art Editor Athletics Editor Fine Arts Editor Cuts and Grinds Editor Staff Artist Assistant Literary Editor Eva Dean Mary Murphree Cedora Futch Annie Lee Coles Susie McGriff Mary Fries estelle roege