University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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Ciiaki.es M. Sxf.i.lisg Chancellor 'X'HIC purpose of the University as recorded u| on its Seal is: “To teach and to enquire into the nature of things. The institution’s first duty and highest obligation is to fit young men and women for citizenship in a live and growing commonwealth: to train them so that they may contribute their just share to the well being of the state. '1 he development of Georgia’s untold resources, human and material, can come only through education and educated men and women. Leadership must rest with the young jtcoplc trained and cquipj cd in the colleges to study the problems, whether economic, social, or spiritual, that every day press more urgently for solution. As the servant of the people whose money supports it and to whom it belongs the University’s activities must not be restricted to its campus. Through its extension agencies already in operation and others to l c set up as the opjtortunity arises, it must carry its service to every section and community in the state. Xo institution can claim to be a university that does not foster and encourage productive scholarship. Even with the limited resources at our command crcativcncss must continue more and more to express itself in the life of the University. Only as the institution conserves the things of the spirit, widens the Ixnmdarics of knowledge. aids in uncovering the secrets of nature and in adapting nature's resources to the benefi- cent use of mankind will it justify itself as a university. The end and aim of education and the goal of economic progress is the development of a social order congenial to science and art. literature and religion, and in which they all shall flourish. The duty of the University is to bring the | cop!c of Georgia to a sympathetic understanding of its mission and purjjose. • Citas. M. Sneli.inc. Chancellor University of Georgia. t'O'Jc TrerHlyone

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L'.WIO C. II ARROW Chancellor Emeritus 44 r TXCLE DAN E BARROW, for nineteen years Chancellor of the University of Georgia, was born Octol cr 12. 1852. in Oglcthorjjc county. Having grown up amid the trying Re-construction days in Georgia, he became a member of one of the first classes to enter the University after its reojiening following the Civil War. and received the bachelor of science degree in 1874. His election as chancellor in 1906 came as a natural recognition of those qualities which had been responsible for his steady advancement since he liccanic adjunct professor of mathematics in 1878. In June, 1925. the Board of Trustees of the University regretfully accepted his resignation. made l ccausc of advancing age. and elected him Chancellor Emeritus. The years of his administration of the University, numbering nearly two decades, were marked by no blare of trumpets. A quiet man. Chancellor Barrow conducted the affairs of this institution smoothly and efficiently. That achievement to which lie looks back with particular pride is the acquisition of land for the University, a course of action dictated by a far-sighted policy the wisdom of which has been justified by the years. In the time to come it will l c realized even more fully that the consolidation and expansion of land-holdings which lie fostered put all in readiness for the great university wh:ch is now in process of growth. The College of Arts and Sciences. Franklin College, which had almost alone constituted the University of Georgia, was complemented during his regime by the addition of other schools which served to make Georgia a real university. The Medical College at Augusta became an integral part of the University. The State College of Agriculture, the Graduate School, the Schools of Education, of Commerce, and of Journalism, were added. Reflecting the expansion in the concept of the institution, the enrollment increased during this time from four hundred students to sixteen hundred. • The simple l cauty of Chancellor Barrow’s life, one of unaffected piety and abiding trust, lias influenced for many years the lives of Georgia students, and of all others with whom he comes in contact. It is the ho| c of all who know him that lie may lie spared for many more years of good works. rage Ttrt t»

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fyranl{lirL- College C'RANKLIN COLLEGE, now incorporated in the organization as the College of Arts and Sciences, was the original foundation upon which has been reared the University of Georgia. Chartered in 1785, the first institution to l c supported by a state, it was named for Benjamin Franklin, the great American commoner. The institution had a varied career, several times being on the ] oint of extinction; but after these early hardships and reverses, during the first half of the nineteenth century it not only became the dominant force in education in Georgia, but was universally recognized as the peer, and in some respects the superior, of any American institution—its library and “philosophical apparatus’’ being especially noted. It faculty comprised some of the most brilliant men who have been produced in the South; and its graduates include many of those whose names arc historic. After the disruption of the South by the War Between the States and the period of demoralization which followed it. it was many years before Franklin College, now become a part of the larger institution, recovered its prestige. It offers only the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Science degrees, but many of its courses enter into the more socialized curricula, so that students in all departments arc brought into contact with its leaching. There scans to be a general reaction in favor of the cultural courses, and it is confidently anticipated that Franklin College will at least maintain its importance in the University organization. S. V. Sanfokd. President of Franklin College. rage TteriUytteo