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chapel was eroetccl in 1831. So was the Ivy Building, used for the Law School. The year 1834 marks the completion of Phi Kappa Hall. The nucleus of the present Academic Building dates from 1859, the same having been fitted out for library purposes. Moore College (1874) was designed for practically the same uses to which it has ever since been put. Science Hall, horn in 1897. was shortlived. It was soon burned to the ground, in this way resulting in considerable loss. In it were the chancellor s headquarters and lecture ball, the faculty’s meeting place, a number of offices and classrooms. There were also the laboratories. apparatus, stock-rooms, and museum of tin chemical, geological, and biological departments. During the last fifteen years, the campus has been enhanced by Candler Hall, Terrell Hall, the Peabody Library, Denmark Hall, Lumpkin Hall. LeConte Hall, the splendid Agricultural Building, the Alumni Hall containing the gymnasium, and the new Pcahodv Hall .just completed. A great many structures of minor importance could be mentioned in this connection. In tin meantime the campus had been widening in extent by sundry gilts and purchases. The first tract met with the requirements of Franklin College in its infancy. Should, however, a member of the graduating class of 1804 find himself suddenly in our midst lie would scarcely recognize his surroundings. He might search everywhere, but the old town spring in the center of the campus would not appear. The solitary store and the hotel arc sleeping the sleep of the just; and the two highways, called respectively “Front Street’’ and the “Road to the River,’’ have been rechristened. It is thus that Dr. Henry Hull, in a series of sketches published under date of 1879 in the Southern Watchman, describes the commencement of 1806: “The writer has been present at every commencement of the College since 1804. though his memory only reaches back to that of 1806. On this occasion a large crowd of people, of all sorts, from the country and from towns, male and female, old and young, in every variety of costume, were assembled under a large bush arbor in front of the Old College, supplied with seats made of plank and slabs borrowed for the occasion from Easley's saw mill, resting on blocks or billets of wood which raised them from the ground. The stage for the faculty, trustees and speakers was erected at the side of the college building, and the speakers when called came out of the door at the east end. The whole was built mainly by the students. The poles and brush for the arbor were growing in less than two hundred yards from the place where t hey were needed; the cutting and drag- The Tablet Which Adorns Old ColUf e. ging them was a mere II !
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The University of Georgia By Ecgak Ij. Pkxxixgtox. WRITE a sketch of the University of Georgia in the space allotted is M (P quite a difficult undertaking. On the threshold we find ourselves eon-y J fronted by its very ahsorhing history which the whole life of the state has reflected for a century. Nor would our article he complete were there no mention of the various buildings and spots famous in song and story. .lust a few facts will give an outline of the origin of the institution. It was in 1801 that the Scnatus Academicu.s composed of the governor, senators, and trustees of the University, met at Louisville, the state capital, to select a location. A committee appointed for the purpose chose the present site. A tract of 633 acres was presented by John Milledge. By 1803. the Old College was finished and occupied by a few students. A single room twenty feet square served as “a temporary schoolroom,” and the grammar school and the president’s house completed the list of buildings. The old Agricultural Hall was built in 1807. The original “New College was constructed in 1823, but, being destroyed by fire, it was rebuilt (1831). The Demast hen ian Society, founded in 1801, was housed twenty-three years later. The
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