North Georgia College - Cyclops Yearbook (Dahlonega, GA)

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1876 Court granted right to award degrees to all

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En March, 1871, Price and Georgia Senator Joshua HiSI sponsored a bil! in Congress which petitioned the Secretary of the Treasury, to turn over the former Branch Mint building to the town of Dahlonega and the Trustees of the North Georgia College of Agriculture. When the entire course of action associated with the foundation of North Georgia Agri- cultural College is taken into account, it ap- pears quite clear that the intentions of the Board of Trustees was to establish the College as an independent and self supporting institu- tion. North Georgia Agricultural College, rather than becoming an independent institu- tion as originally proposed, was forced to be- come a department of the Georgia State Col- lege of Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts in Athens. According to the minutes of the University of Georgia Trustees, the branch school of Dahlonega had no degree granting power and appealed the matter to the Lumpkin County Superior Court. The 1876 session of the Court granted North Georgia the right to award Bachelor ' s, Master ' s, and Honorary degrees to all students, including women. DOLLEGE North Geobgia riciflAuraC (SlotUge,