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JOSEPH WEIL l-l. R. TRUSSLER Deon ot the College ot Engineering Deon ot the College ot Low ln l906, the tirst student body, less thon lOO rnen, wos enrolled, two skeleton militory companies were torrned, ond educotion begon under the wise leodershio ol the lote President Dr, Andrew Sledd. . . . And so begon the University ot Florido. From so modest ond comoorotively recent beginnings, there grew o lovely Southern cornpus, groced with toll ond stotuesgue pines, ond royol polms, blonketed with wide expense ot grossy green ond tlorol coloring, ond ceilinged with bright blue Southern skies ond storry nights when the heovens ore iomrned with glowing goloxies, ond o tropicol moon, ln the midst ot this noturol borodise rise stotely Collegiote Gothic buildings ot red bricls ond white stone, spires ond pointed orchwoys, leoded gloss windows ond intriguing gorgoyles. Teddy, mony o once-red Gothic woll now weors o cool green cloolc-o covering ot clinging ivy vines This is Florido todoy, honne ot the Oronge ond Blue, where her loyol sons sing, os they hove lor so rnony yeors, the Beoutitul Alrno lvloter. .. There's No Other Nome So Glorious All lrloil, Florido, l-loill 3, R. S, ATWOOD - 'Peter ot the institute of HAROLD RIKER J, V. lVlcOUll TY l'l!XROl.D MOWRY Hier-Arnericon Attoirs Director ot Residence University Exoininer Director, Experiment Ste
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W. We LITTLE T, lvl, SIMPSON I3. C. RILEY Dean ol thrr General College Dean ol the Graduate School Dean ol' the General Extension Division The University ot Florida, like the proverbial oak tree, sprang from a tiny beginning. Today's 300 laculty members, 320 acres ot beautilul campus, 4,855 acres ol University land, 30 buildings, and a total investment ot 258,000,000 stock as signilicant testimony ol Orange and Blue progress 'lrom the days when our Alma lvIater's grand ancestor, the East Florida Independent Institute, vvas tounded in Ocala in H352 vvith six teachers East Florida Independent Institute was taken over in the following year by the State, being moved to Gainesville in H366 and renamed the East Florida Seminary. Then other state schools sprang up like so many mushrooms: Florida Agricultural College, ISS3, Lake City, State Normal School lor White Students, I887, De Funiak Springs, St, Petersburg Normal Industrial School, l90l, St. Petersburg, South Florida lvlilitary and Educational Institute at Bartow, IFEQS, and the Agricultural Institute, l905, Gsceola County, Weak, small, and inevitably short on tunds, these institutions, iq, 5, JQHNSQN rg, Q Tllll-MAN nevertheless, served their respec- RGQISIVOV UHIVGVSIW PIWSICIOV1 tive purposes, although Florida's higher educational record on the national scene was puny. Then came the Buckman Act, l905, re- sulting in the establishment ot three substantial state schools, one ot which was the University al Florida in Gainesville. Beginning vvith 'two buildings, Buckman and Thomas Halls, and a shop, Florida's state school tor men got under vvay.
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