University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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The Pandora EDITORIALS. f|K)LUME III of the Pandora is presented to our patrons in a new shape and under a different management from I that of our former volumes. The initial volume of our annual was edited by a board composed of two representatives from each of the fraternities at the University, and Volume II by editors from all the fraternities except the Sigma Alpha Epsilon. The first volume, although laboring under the many difficulties attendant upon novel undertakings, was a very creditable edition, and established the fact that the University of Georgia would support a first-class college annual. The second volume, while hardly as successful as the first, was well supported, and its typographical work was exceedingly tasty. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon is ably represented in this Volume III, and the Phi Delta Theta fraternity has withdrawn from its support, leaving only seven fraternities represented on the editorial staff. In this connection wc deem it proper to offer a suggestion for the welfare of future editions of the Panimdra. All the members of its editorial board are equally responsible for the success of the publication, and the labor necessary to ensure success should be shared by all. It is a fact to be regretted that the present Pandora officers have not received the support from their staff that they had a right to expect. Some of the editors have not contributed one thought to brighten our pages, others have helped us but slightly, while others still, have assisted us most materially in our difficult work. The fraternities represented in the Pandora have a right to expect more from their representatives, and it is due the purchasers of our

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Preface U sympathy, and the sincere hope that in their final attainment of the printers’ paradise they may find a case in which the insurmountable difficulties of Greek type shall be nameless evermore. We congratulate the University that she has given birth to another Pandora; we congratulate the Pandora that it has fallen in the hands of friends, and we congratulate ourselves that the work so gladly begun is with such infinite pleasure concluded. So here’s a glad year and successful session to our Alma Mater and her friends, and unlimited prosperity to the next Pandora.

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Editorial 13 annual that the editors discharge the duties they were elected to fulfill. We hope future editors of “volumes yet unborn” will need no further suggestions to stimulate them in the performance of their duties. The board of visitors, appointed by authority of Governor Gordon, recently made a thorough investigation of the University and its operation, and their report was clear and exhaustive. Among the recommendations of the board was a strong resolution iavoring a sufficient appropriation from the Legislature to repair the college dormitories. The two large buildings now in use by the students as dormitories are utterly unfit for the purpose, and unless they arc at once repaired will soon become inhabitable only by bats and bugs—which even now begin to assert their claims to the comfortless rooms. The board of visitors gave the condition of affairs at the University a thorough investigation, and their report was highly complimentary. It is true, they were somewhat hampered by the senseless objections of one of their number, but the spleen of the “imported pedagogue” was vented in vain. Governor Gordon cannot be too careful in his appointments, especially those connected with the educational interests of the State. His appointment of Lyman H. Ford as one of the board of visitors was an unfortunate mistake, and has created much unfavorable comment.