University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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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.

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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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LeConte Hall Ills building was named after tlte IxContc Brothers, men who were famous teachers and scholar and Imth of whom at one time occupied professional chairs in the University. This was the first building ever erected in the South devoted exclusively to the teaching of Biology. Some of the foremost scientists and physicians of the State caught vision of the |M ssihilitics of their great work while students here. Its designer and one of the University's greatest teachers was Dr. John Pendleton Campbell, wjiosc untimely death in the fall of 1918, deprived this institution of the services of one of its most capable workers.