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The Exercise Afforded by Drill Three Hours a Week in I he Afternoons Helps lo Develop the Bodies of the Undergraduates. Habersham, William Few. Joseph Clay. Abraham Baldwin, William Houston, and Nathan Brownson were appointed trustees. Another bill, introduced and passed tin following year, established fully the “public seat of learning.” This constitutes the charter of the institution. The motto on the seal has evoked much favorable comment. Whence it is derived we are unable to ascertain. As it may be scanned as a part of a verse in dactylic hexameter, it is evidently a quotation from one of the poets. Et docere et reruin esquirere causas, translated “both to teach and to find out the causes of things,” eminently expresses the spirit of a true university. For further clue to its origin, it may be remarked that the infinitive of purpose twice employed is essentially a poetical construction. The first president of the school was Josiah Meigs. lie was directed to erect one or more log buildings for the college, and the trustees requested him to teach until the number of students would justify an assistant. Sufficient money was borrowed in due time to build Old College. The school room, a frame structure, cost less than two thousand dollars. A grammar school, established also, was presided over by Rev. John 1 lodge. Dr. John Brown was elected president in 1811. and two professors were elected. Two years later a third professor was added to the faculty. Dr. Brown’s ttPass in lie view”— A Well-drilled Company in I he Sprint Uniforms of the Het imcnt.
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The Hark Yanis of the (’hapier Houses Are Used lo Good Purpose—the Sif ma Chi court. successor was one of the best known educators in the South, the celebrated I)r. Moses Waddell. Probably, it was then that the I'nivcrxity may really be said to have l egun in earnest. In 1820 some interesting resolutions were passed by tin trustees. They required as board, “for breakfast, a sufficiency of wholesome Cold meat with wheaten flour biscuit or loaf bread, butter, tea or coffee. For dinner, a course of bacon or salted l cof. with a suitable portion of corubread and at least two kinds of veg- etables. and on Wednesday, to have an aftereoursc of pies, puddings or pancakes. For each supper, a plentiful supply of tea or milk, with a sufficiency of wheaten flour biscuit and butter. It was likewise declared that “students on Sabbath afternoons must confine their walks to one mile, provided this healthful and innocent indulgence is executed free from any violation of tin laws of the college. I)r. Alonzo Church was president of tin I’niversity from 1829 to 1859. He was a very st rict disciplinarian, but was known for his kindness of heart. In 1850. the number of students was seventy-nine. Dr. Church had little patience with Dr. LcContc’s scientific views. An account of the events succeeding the Civil War would not be of equal interest. So. let us imagine ourselves taking a ramble over the campus, making an occasional pause at the spots which attract us most. We enter through the archway which is easily recognized as copied from the Georgia seal, or the University seal, for that matter. The first building that attracts our attention on the right is tin? Academic Building. It is the result of t wo separate buildings, one so remodeled as to duplicate the other, both joined in front by a portico with Corinthian columns, and both connected in the rear in such a manner as to give more space for offices. Between the portico and the rear is a quadrangular court, in tin middle of which stands a bronze drinking fountain, the memorial of the class °f The faculty room, on the first floor ,.r the Tl Sphinx Club-thc High at building, is hung with some splendid portraits t■ i °u 'r 1 1 Public Inihalions.
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