University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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New College |V the Iil crnlity of the legislature of 1821 this j edifice was erected. The corner-stone was laid : on June 25th, 1822 A. L. 5823 by the .Mount • Vernon Lodge at tlie request of the Trustees of the University of Georgia. So reads the inscription on the corner-stone. This building has known many different uses, first ns a dormitory, then ns an academic building, now ns dormitory and the home of the military department. Many a l»oy whose name has helped to make the State illustrious has been sheltered within its walls. 9

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Moore College HIS building represents the generosity of the people of tlie city of Athens. An appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars from the City Treasury was made in 1S74. Because of the active interest in securing this appropriation shown by Dr. K. I). .Moore the building was given his name. From the beginning it lias been the home of the Engineering and 1’hysics Departments. Much of the construction work in the State takes inception here. One of the best telescopes in the South is mounted on the roof of this building.

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Academic Building m Kit K, if anywhere, is tin- old mngit-inn. Here lie will make plain for you the course of liuiimn hope nml human despair, rising and falling across time like a plotted graph. I'pun these walls are legends of the vastness and the littleness of man, the hardy venerahleness of him and the still Idind vonthfuloess. Here, if anywhere, men may find the ohl sweet peril of being turned mad ami made dreamers of, battled by contradictions. Hut from this blissful bell, after headlong Indecision, checked by tested license, emerge what arc l»om»d to l e the sanest elements of an often vain and foolish-seeming world.