University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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The University of Georgia welcomes at all times the generous financial assistance of its alumni, welcomes every effort they make to enlarge its facilities and secure to it advantages that money alone can give, welcomes the vigorous, enthusiastic college spirit that arouses the interest of the people in the work that is being done hen , welcomes the broad acres and the magnificent buildings that have come from the loyal hearts of her faithful sons to enable her to give to the present generation and to generations yet to come advantages she could not give to those who have already gone forth from her halls, but above all these she prizes the upright, cultured, shining liv« s that illustrate the true value of her loving can and faithful work and pointing to these, she may well exclaim, like the mother of the Gracchi, “these arc my jewels.” Hut. along with lives of faithful service and high ideals goes an abiding interest in the material welfare of those who have extended a helping hand in time of struggle. The true son attends to every material want of his parents, not as a duty hut as an act of filial affection. So do the alumni of the University of Georgia count it not only a duty and a privilege to contribute in money, in time, and in effort to the material advancement of the University, but also an opportunity to show their real love and affection for the institution whose care and training were responsible in largest measure for their success in life. The past twelve years have ! een years of special activity along this line among the alumni of this institution. The administration of Chancellor Ilill witnessed remarkable interest on the part of the alumni, tin rallying of tin; University cohorts around the standards of the institution in the great battle for the advancement of the cause of higher education in Georgia. Thc administration of Chancellor Barrow has witnessed a steady increase in this feeling of interest and a great addition to the forces that are making the University one of the greatest educational institutions in the entire country. The Georgia alumnus of to-day delights to stand shoulder to shoulder with the great Georgian and great educator who presides over this venerable institution of learning and to give freely of his time and money and effort whenever the best interests of that institution demand the service. The alumni of Georgia, several years since, realizing the need for more generous financial support, raised an endowment fund of nearly fifty thousand dollars and decided to invest it in an alumni Y. M. C. A. building on the campus, where students might get the best gymnasium training, where they might he placed under tin most careful moral supervision, where college organizations might make their headquarters, where visiting alumni might go as they would to their own homes, where the alumni of the institution might hold their rallies

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Our Alumni By T. W. Reed. The greatest service a parent can perform lies in the training of the child in such manner that through his life the advance of civilization may be made more certain, more rapid, more satisfactory. The child, so trained, falls far short of his duty and his privileges, if. after the years of manhood have arrived, he fails to render loving homage to that parent in word and deed and spirit. The greatest service a University can render to the state and to civilization is the preparation of her sons for the great battles of life, the training of their minds, the broadening of their views, the disciplining of their wills, the elevating of their ideals, the ennobling of their ambitions, the rounding out of their characters. The graduate falls far short of his duty and his privileges, if. after having received these benefits, he forgets the hand that guided him and the spirit that inspired him and the service that equipped him for his life-work, and fails to repay in active and grateful service the generous and effective assistance rendered him in his days of struggle. Measured by this standard the University of Georgia boasts a record of service that is full of glory, and her sons, in recognition of that service, have measured up and still are measuring up to their full duty of filial affection. In the pulpit, at the bar. at the bedside of the sick, in the school-room and in college halls, in the legislative assemblies of state and nation, in the great business marts, in the fertile fields, at home and abroad, in every sphere of life they have illustrated the strength and virtue, the culture and refinement, the determination and progress, the patriotism and unselfishness, the devotion to duty and fidelity to truth and honor for which their Alma Mater has ever stood. One may very largely call the roll of Georgia's illustrious sons from the alumni register of the University of Georgia, and closer investigation would reveal hundreds, yea thousands, who. though not enveloped in the limelight of public notice, have nevertheless in their less conspicuous fields of labor returned to the state and to humanity, in successful and unselfish service, full and ample payment for all they received in the years of study and training in the halls of the University. In lofty and noble living, in faithful and unselfish service to state and country, in adding to the best that is in civilization, in efforts to uplift humanity, in the struggle to make the world better, in the achievements so splendidly made in every honorable field of human endeavor, the alumni of the University have rendered their Alma Mater the greatest service possible for them to have performed.

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ALUMNI HALL