University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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tecs of the North Georgia Agricultural College, situated at Dahlonega, by which this institution became a department of the State University. In July, 1878, by arrangement with the local trustees of the Georgia Medical College (founded in 1.8211), at Augusta, this institution became the Medical Department of the State University. In August, 1807, the Lumpkin Law School, at Athens (incorporated 1859), was merged into and became the Law Department of the State University. The Constitution of Georgia (adopted 1877) permitting the appropriation of public funds to education other than “the elementary branches of an English education” to the State University only, the following, institutions have been established by legislative enactments as departments or “branches” of the State University and under general control of its Board of Trustees, and each is maintained in whole or in part by annual appropriations from the State Treasury: The Georgia School of Technology, at Atlanta, established 1885; the Georgia Normal and Industrial College for Girls, at Milledgevillc, established 1889: the Georgia Industrial College for Colored Youths, near Savannah, established 1890; and the State Normal School, near Athens, established 1895. Tin School of Pharmacy was established in 1908. The Summer School was authorized by an Act of the General Assembly in 1897. and an appropriation was made for the same by the General Assembly of 1904. The establishment of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts as an integral part of the University at Athens, and the addition to the organization of the other institutions named, have given completeness to the system by incorporating that scientific and technical education which was needed to supplement the liberal training already provided: and the University is now, as far ns the Trustees have been able to carry out their plans, “a place where students can he trained for any and every respectable path of life and where, at the same time, the interests of higher education and science are cared for.” Tints the “foundation of the fathers,” a simple college with a close curriculum, has grown to be a complex university, planned upon a broad and philosophic system, where literature and science are taught, and liberal and technical education supplied.

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Government of the University of Georgia. Tin government of the University, l»y Act of the General Assembly, approved August 2d, 1889. is vested in a Hoard of Trustees, appointed by the Go -ernor for a term of eight years, and confirmed by the Senate. The Board consists of one member from each Congressional district of llu State, four from the State at large, and two from the city of Athens. The Governor and the Chairmen of the Hoard of Directors of the School of Technology. the Georgia Normal and Industrial College, and the Colored Industrial College are cx-ofiicio members of the Board. The immediate control and management of each of the departments of the University situated elsewhere thau at Athens is entrusted (subject to general control by the University Trustees) to a “Local Board ' or a “Commission.’ the number of members, mode of appointment and terms of office of which vary. 'I’lie University Trustees meet in stated annual session on the Thursday preceding the Uommeneemenf Sunday, and at other linns at their pleasure. The present organization of the Board is as follows: 11 is Excellency, Gov. J. M. Tkrrkll. Atlanta, cx-oftieio. Term Expires June, 1907. G. F. Gohku, .Marietta. From the Stall at Large. 'Perm Expires Sept. 1. 1907. Clark IIowkll. Atlanta. From the State at Large. Term Expires Sept. 1. 1909. V. E. Simmons. Lawreneeville. From the State at Large. Hamilton McWikirtkr. Athens. • From the State at Large. S. B. Adams. Savannah. First Congressional District. B. B. Bowkr. Jr.. Bainhridge. Second Congressional District. Term Expires Sept. 1. 1911. Term Expires Sept. 1, 191: . Term Expires Sept. 1, 1912. Term Expires Sept. 1. 191: . Iirm.KY M. H roues. Danville. Third Congressional District. Term Expires Sept. 1, 191.9. IIknrv Persons. 'fa Hint ton. Fourth Congressional District. If. I). McDaniel. Monroe, Fifth Congressional District. A. O. Bacon. Macon, Sixth Congressional District. I). B. Hamilton. Koine. Seventh Congressional District. Term Expires Sept. 1. 1911. Term Expires Sept. 1. 1911. Term Expires Sept. 1. 1909. Term Expires Sept. 1, 1909.