University of Florida - Tower / Seminole Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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UNIVERSITY 1912—S»pt»mb»r 17, Tuttday ....Summer Recess ends. Examinations for Admission. Registration of Students. September 18, H'edisesdoy..First Semester begins. October 5, Saturday------------Reexa mi nations. October 5. Saturday. 2:SO p. m.-----------Meeting of General Faculty. November 18, .Monday.....Farmers Short Course Re- • gins. November 27, Wtdnrtday, 5:30 p. m. ............Thanksgiving Holiday begins. December 1. Sunday, 7:00 p. m..............Thanksgiving Holiday ends. December 14, Saturday Farmers' Short Course ends. December 21, Saturday, 11:30 e. »....... Christmas Recess begins. CALENDAR 1913—January 4, Saturday. 9:00 o. m. -.........Christmas Recess end . Jnnuury 29. U'rdnrtday ...First Semester end . January 30, Thurtday.....Second Semester Itegin . February 8. Saturday, 2:30 p. m. ...........Meeting of General Faculty. February 17, Men,tay.....Spring Term for Tcaehera be- Jriiu- February 22. Saturday ....Field Day. March I. Saturday -------.Reexamination . Majr 31. .Saturday. t:S0 p. m.Mccting of General Faculty. June 1 to 3..............Commencement. June 1, Sunday.........Baccalaureate Sermon. June 2, Monday.........Oratorical Contest . June 3. Tuesday........Graduating Day. June 4, Wednesday........Summer Rcceaa begins. June G .Friday...........Kxamination for Admission.

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GREETING. To all Friends of the University of Florida. Greeting: The Board of F'ditors of the Seminole presents this volume with the hope that it will mirror the life and activities of our institution in this good year of our I»rd One Thousand. Nine Hundred and Thirteen, and of our University the Eighth. If in the years to come it serves to recall to the minds of those who go out the scenes and events, the victories and defeats, the hopes and fears, the duties and pleasures that have become inseparably interwoven into the fabric of our student life—if it cause the memory to linger in delightful retrospect upon the day that is now passing—it will have served well its purpose. If in addition it shall convey to any who know us not, a faithful conception of our environment as it is, of our life as we live it, it will have done more. The olTicial. the formal, aspect of F'lorida life must be sought elsewhere. It is the purpose of this volume to present the students as they know each other, the campus community as it looks from the inside. If it does, the editors are satisfied. They have striven for no more; they hope they have attained no less. It is yours Take it.

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SCHOOL HISTORY. In the record of time when ha appeared a school with a history such as that of the University of Florida? The first mention of such an institution was in 1821. when it was brought up in the legislative Council. Having passed thru many stages and lingered under several titles, five schools supported by the State were, in 1905, condensed by the IJuckman bill into the Florida State College for Women and the University of Florida. The latter was moved from take City. Florida, and located in Gainesville. Florida, and in 1905 took up the life which is to ultimately develop it into one of the great institutions of the country. When our present school set forth on the stormy sens of Education, there were on the campus two buildings, Thomas and Buckman halls. The ninety-acre campus, which is now becoming filled with fine buildings, was at that time bare and inhospitable. Science Hall was followed by Engineering Hall, Agricultural Hall, the Commons, Experiment Station Building, and the gymnasium. Language Hall and the Peabody Building are almost finished, while the Law and Administration buildings will soon go up. From a student body of less than one hundred, there has grown one of over three hundred, representing every part of the United States. Our faculty has grown steadily; the men added to it have always been of a high caliber, so that it would be hard to find a more scholarly group of instructors. The students, who, as always, make the school, are as cosmopolitan a body as is easily found. Their life is diverse, and every form of student activity is represented on the campus, foretelling that our marvelous growth is only a prophecy for the future.