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

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IIIK GROWTH OF THE I NlYKRSm K M M H r N «• M M W H N ■» M M M M rS kH H M M M r kW QS FAK HACK as 1821. while Florida was still a territory, die idea of a stale university was discussed in the legislative Council, and when the territory became one of the states of our nation, the Federal Government granted the state one hundred thousand acres of land, the proceeds of the sale of which were to go to found two seminaries, one Fast, and one West of the Suwannee Kiver. The Fast Florida Seminary was established at Ocala in 1852, but soon after the Civil War. was moved to Gainesville, while that of West Florida was founded at Tallahassee in 1856. In 1870 the State legislature passed an act to establish the Florida Agricultural College, but two years later amended the act so as to receive the l enefit of the Federal “Land Grant College Act, thereby acquiring ninety thousand acres of land to he used for the support of the institution. After several changes in site, the new college wn finally located in Like City, where it began to function in the fall of 1881. In this same year the Agricultural Experiment Station was added as an integral part of the new institution. The name of this College was changed to “The I niversity of the State of Florida in 1908. By 1905 the system of higher education of the stale was in a complete slate of demoralization. The legislature was providing for i institutions, some of them competing with each other, and others were of only high school rank. The curriculums were very uncertain, the expenses exceedingly high, which caused the legislature to pass in that year the “Burkinan Act consolidating the school into two stale supported institutions: The I niversilv of Florida at Gainesville; and the Florida Female College at Tallahassee. The I niversilv opened its first session with only three buildings, Thomas Hall. Buckman Hull, and the present Wood-Shop, and with a faculty of only twenty-four, and a student body of one hundred and two. Dr. Albert A. Murphree succeeded Dr. Andrew Sledd as President in 1909. and the subdivision of the colleges was made. Also, in that year, the College of I .aw was established, ami Science Hall and the Agricultural Experiment Station added to the original buildings. The student body had increased to one hundred ami eighty-six. Under the direction of Dr. Murphree “Florida has grown by leaps and bounds. In 1911 the Engineering Building was erected, and the following year the Agricultural Hall, George Peabody Hull, language Hall, and the Commons Building were added. A building for the Law College was put into service in 1911, and in 1918 a gymnasium was erected. At present the first unit of the Administration Building i nearing completion, and plans have been made for a $250,000 Student Activities Building and a library to cost $100,000. The faculty has increased to eighty-two, and the student body to almost fourteen hundred at the present writing. In athletics the I Diversity of Florida ranks among the best in the South, and in scholarship among the foremost Universities of the world. Florida has only begun to grow. In age she is the “Baby State I niversity of the South”; but she is lay ing aside her swaddling clothes and taking on the appearance of the “strong man . The trail has been blazed for us by those who have gone before. Our goal is an ever greater and belter “Florida”. I.et us carry on! M If 924 PACK 26

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 M. n M H M s M :rr: rvU)Z] EM i nme:xc» HKOlUiC W. MILAM. “Three Do pet”. Jacksonville. Law. Juris Doctor . Sigma Nu. Phi Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Phi. Scabbard ami Blade. lpha Phi Ep«ilon. Blur Key. Theta Kildiou Society, Acacia Club. Duval County Club. Junior Member Hootenanny Twin ’ , Literary Editor Seminole 3 . Chairman Honor Committee. Bulled Committer. Prr i«lent Combined Senior Class tit. President of Junior I .aw Claw (3t, ice President Student lUh Ml, Nice President John Marshall Debating Society (3t, Nice President Southern Federation College Students tit. Pan-Hellenic Council 4 years). CARROLL NV. Fl'SSFI L, u Car roll”, Webster. Arts and Sciences .B. Sigma Epsilon. President Nlpba Phi Epsilon. Phi Nlpha Delta. Blue Key. Sumter Citrus County Club. Farr Literary Society. John Marshall Debating Society. Tennis Team (It. Nice President Combined Senior Clas , Varsity Debating Team Ml. WILLI M S. MIDDI.KTON. Fea er . Pomona. Nrts and Science A.II. Tbeta Chi. Farr Literary Society. Secretary-Treasurer (It. Putnam County (dub. Secretary 2f, President (It. Dmal County Club (It. College Baseball (3), Cla«« Football Ml, Assistant Managing-Editor of the Seminole (3). Secretary-Treasurer Combined Senior Class Ml. Y. M. C. N. Cabinet (3, -It, Florida Astronomicul Society (2l. B. 0. T. C. Bifle Team (2». JACOB II. WISE, “Jake”, Callalin. Trnn. Arts ami Science .B. Sigma Epsilon. Phi Kap|U Phi. Nlpba Phi Epsilon. Blue Key. Farr Literary Society. Beporter (2i, N ire President (31. President Ml. Critic Ml, Peabody Club. Reporter (Summer 19231. Honor Representative Mi, Board of Control Nledal for Oratory (31. Inter-Society Debate (11. Triangular Debate 41, Alternate (1). M H1924