University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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I Academic Building ERE. if anywhere, is the old magician. Here he will make plain for you the course of human hope and human I despair, rising and falling across time like a plotted graph. Upon these walls are legends of the vastness and the littleness of man, the hardy venerableness of him and the still blind youthfulness. Here, if anywhere, men may find the old sweet peril of being turned mad and made dreamers of, baffled by contradictions. But from this blissful hell, after headlong indecision, checked by tested license, emerge what are bound to be the sanest elements of an often vain and foolish-seeming world.

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1 New College V the liberality of the legislature of 1821 this edifice was erected. The cornerstone was laid on June 24th, 1822, A. L. 5823, by the Mount Vernon Lodge at the ------ request of the Trustees of the University of Georgia.— So reads the inscription on the cornerstone. This building has known many different uses, first as a dormitory then as an academic building, now as dormitory and the home of the military department. Many a boy whose name has helped to make the state illustrious has been sheltered within its walls. [H »TV

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1 Leconte Hall TiHIS building was named after the LeConte brothers, men I who were famous teachers and scholars and both of whom at one time occupied professional chairs in the University. This was the first building ever erected in the South devoted exclusively to the teaching of biology. Some of the foremost scientists and physicians of the state caught vision of the possibilities of their great work while students here. Its designer and one of the University’s greatest teachers was Dr. John Pendleton Campbell, whose untimely death in the fall of 1918, deprived this institution of the services of one of its most capable workers. 4