University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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Campus Walk HEN the campus is green in the spring, this old walk in front of these buildings is about as delectable and fine a thing as men generally have opportunity to look at. At sun-down, many a time, you must have passed here, hearing the incoherent whistlings of the boys in the dormitories -conscious of the heavy fragrance of the magnolias, believing somehow from all this, and from the deep crimson of the sky beyond the drill field—believing somehow—and justly—that you were in a rarer and higher world than you could come at elsewhere. w 38S L

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'I Peabody Hall A IT the death of the great international banker, Frances Peabody, a Georgia man, it was found that he had left a large part of his estate to the cause of education. x|,js money was administered for many years by a Board of Trustees. The special purpose for which the money was left, was the training of teachers. When the science of pedagogy had become sufficiently developed in a number of colleges, the money was apportioned among them, the University of Georgia receiving at that time fifty thousand dollars, of which benefaction tins building is the result. It has already meant much to the state.

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1 Moore College TiHIS building represents the generosity of the people of the city of Athens. An appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars from the City Treasury was made in 1874. Because of the active interest in securing this appropriation shown by Dr. R. D. Moore the building was given bis name. From the beginning- it has been the home of the engineering and physics departments. Much of the construction work in the state takes its inception here. One of the best telescopes in the South is mounted on the roof of this building. •