University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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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 Trim is Courts arc Crowded on the First Warm Spring Afternoons. frolic, mid. as ‘many hands make 1 ijrlit work.’ tin affair once begun was soon completed. “Like all small boys, the writer was more interested in looking at the people than in listening to the speakers, and as the seats provided did little more than accommodate tlie ladies, the men and boys stood around the outside. One of the audience was particularly conspicuous. lie was a full bead and shoulders above all others near him and seemed to be standing on a chair or bench, lie attracted the larger notice of all the small boys who were amazed to find him standing on bis own proper feet. This was Benjamin Harrison, a very amiable young man, standing seven feet three inches in liis shoes. Of course the intelligent portion of the audience were interested in the orations, but the greater part looked on in stupid wonder as if on a pageant, understanding about as much of the English as they did of the Greek and Latin speeches which were delivered,—all, however, wrapt in profound attention.” The act of the Legislature which marks the legal inception of the State University was approved the 25th of February, 17.S4. One section provided that the county surveyors “lay out in each county twenty thousand acres of land of the first quality in separate tracts of five thousand acres each for the endowment of a college or seminary of learning, and which said lands shall be vested in and granted in trust to bis honor, the Governor, for the time being.” John Houston. James dents for Forty Years.