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

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BOARD OF CONTROL. P. K. Yonce. Chairman------------------- Pensacola. T.B. King... Arcadia. F. P. Fleming. Jr.....................Jacksonville. E. L. Waterman..............................Citra. W. D. FlNLAYSON......................... Old Town. J. G. KELLUM. Secretary to the Hoard---Tallahassee. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Park Trammell, President....................Governor. H. Clay Crawford .................Secretary of State. J. C. LUNIXG State Treasurer. Tuos. F. West.......................Attorney-General. W. N. Sweats State Supt. of Public Instruction„

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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.

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UNIVERSITY COUNCIL. ALBERT A. MURPHREE, LL.D. President of the University Jas. M. Farh. Ph.D Vice-President of the University. P. H. Rolfs, M.S. . Director of the Experiment Station. JAS, N. Anderson. Ph.D. Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. J. J. VERNON. M.S.A. Dean of the College of Agriculture. J. R. Benton. Ph.D. Dean of the College of Engineering. Thos. W. HUGHES. LL.B.. Dean of the College of Law. J. A. Thackston. Ph.D. Dean of the Teachers’ College.