University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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sor T. J. Wooftcr ami Chancellor David C. Harrow, who made the til’s! presentation to the Peabody Hoard of Trust. advocating that Schools of Education in Southern State I’niversities be favored by their fund, and. as a result, the Uni-versitv of Georgia received the first appropriation of this kind. Purposes. In this building will la conducted the courses in Education with the cooperative courses in Psychology. Philosophy, and Sociology. An office and class room will lie loaned for a while to the new School of Commerce organizing this year. During the Summer School the department of Home Science and Art will lie in rooms in Peabody Hall equipped for this purpose. George Peahodv Hall will thus he the central home of the social sciences in the University. Peahody School of Education will la a normal college for men, a school for the special study of education as the greatest social factor, and for the development of the social or human sciences. Organization for 1913-14. David Crenshaw Harrow. LL.D.. Chancellor and Lecturer in Education. Thomas Jackson Wookter. A.M.. LL.D.. Dean and Professor of Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, and School Administration. Joseph Spencer Stewart. A.M.. Professor of Secondary Education and High School Visitor. Ludwig Kkiniioi.d Geissler, Pli.l).. Associate Professor of Psychology and Education. Howard Y. Odum, Ph.l).. Associate Professor of Educational Sociology and Rural Education. Leroy Collier Hart. H.S.E.E.. Instructor in Manual Training. Professor of Farm Mechanics in College of Agriculture. Howell Hkna.iaii Peacock. H.S.. Instructor in Physical Education. Director of Alumni Hall Gymnasium. A Scholar in Psychology. (To he selected.) Other members of the University Faculty in the Pedagogy of Their Subjects.

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THIRTEEN LLUIlm y-sJ r 1 (111) vs I WTi TfJ'jl illO HIM George Peabody Hall OI K NEWEST IH’ILDING. Completed April, 1013. XX recording the history of the I’liivcrsity for the present year, we present the above picture of our latest building on the campus. It is the special building for the Peabody School of Education, a handsome, well-planned, well-equipped structure, probably the finest type of a college building on the I'nivcrsity campus. 11ISTORICAL. George Peabody Hall has cost, with equipment. $50,000. Of this, $40,000 was appropriated by the Peabody Hoard of Trust out of a fund given by George Peabody in 18(57 for the promotion of public education in the South. This appropriation was the culmination of a movement begun in January, 1906, by Profes-

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Report Of tiii-: Legislative Committee of 1912 on the Law Department OF THE UNIVERSITY OK GEORGIA. Law School of tin University of Georgia whs established in 1859. £C From this date until the present time the law school has been eontinu-l J ously in session except for the interruption during the war between the states. Today the law department is conducted in three rooms.on the second floor of what is known as the Academic Duilding. Two of these .rooms are used as lecture rooms and the third room, being about 25 feet long by 15 feet wide, is used as a library for the school. For years the state furnished absolutely nothing to the law school of this institution, not even the state publications. A number of years ago an act was passed providing that the state publications should be furnished by the librarian to the school. The law school struggled for many years without even the pretense of a library. Later on the library .consisted of 40 or 50 volumes, and this condition continued until several years ago. when the Denmark library was presented to the law department. 'Phis library was a fair working library for the average practitioner. Two years ago the Trustees of the University appropriated the sum of $1,000 with which to make some additions to the law library, and for the last two years this body has appropriated two hundred and two hundred and fifty dollars, respectively, for the purchase of books. At present the small room used as a library is filled. It is furnished with a few cheap chairs, an old table that was discarded by one of the other departments. and with the exception of tin unit bookcase in which the Denmark books were placed the shelving consists of rude, cheap shelves nailed to the walls. The The recitation rooms arc furnished with ancient desks and cheap chairs, the larger number of the chairs being of the cheapest variety. These rooms are dark, poorly ventilated and poorly heated, and are as ill-suited for the purposes for which they are used as could be imagined. Despite the abominable quarters in which the school has struggled for years, despite the lack of proper library and all modern equipment and facilities, this school has steadily improved. Its curriculum has been enlarged, it has been raised to a two years school, admission requirements have been advanced, and in every way it has grown. This year it had an enrollment of 75 pupils. Today the school is making every effort to continue upward and make its course and diploma really worth something. It seems an exaggerated statement, but nevertheless it is true, that during the existence of this school extending over a period of fifty-odd years, the State of Georgia has only contributed to it the small sum of .$4,800.69. It is remarkable that, under such adverse circumstances and with such niggardly treatment, it is alive today and doing the character of work which it is. If this department had received the proper assistance from the state which it has deserved, it would be difficult to calculate the results which it might have accomplished. As the school is situated today the so-called library will hold no more books. The room is now so crowded and unattractive that but few men can avail themselves of research work.