University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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rPeabody School of Education T N 1903 the department of metaphysics and ethics of the University was changed to philosophy and education. A movement l cguu in 1905 led up to a gift of $40,000 in 1910 from the old Peabody Hoard of Trustees to be used for a sj ccial building for a school of education. George Pcalxxly hall, thus made possible, was erected and occupied in 1911-12, the department of philosophy and education expanding to Ijccome the Pcalxidv .School of Education. Its origin explains that it is more than a school of education. It includes the older classic department of philosophy and has developed the modern departments of psychology and sociology as well as education. The s|)ccial degree of the School of Education is the bachelor of arts in education. This has the same entrance requirements and freshman courses, and in many respects the same general courses, as the general bachelor of arts degree. Its students arc eligible for Phi Heta Kappa and arc accepted for graduate standing in our great universities. The School of Education has this year enrolled in its classes 645 students not including freshmen. In extension classes it has twice that number. It is striving to make its contribution to a progressive University and a greater Georgia. T. J. Wooktf.r, Dean of the Peabody School of Education.

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States Collegeof (Agriculture ' p HE Georgia State College of Agriculture was reorganized in June, 1907. under the terms of the Conner Bill, which was passed l y the general assembly of the state in the summer of 1906. The institution has dcvclo| ed its initial staff of three individuals to the point where the resident corps of workers locate ! upon the campus at Athens now numbers one hundred and fifty-two. The building, equipment, and plant have been developed to the point where their replacement value would approximate $2,000,000. Last year, 940 students received collegiate instruction upon its campus exclusive of the men, women, boys, and girls who attended the various s] ccial and short courses. Instruction is now provided through the medium of fourteen highly socialized collegiate divisions. The College has an excellent technical library and forty efficiently equipped and modern scientific and field lalxiratories. It also made direct contact last year through the agency of its Extension Division with more than 323,000 citizens of the state. A new research division employing some fourteen specialists has recently been organized. The courses in forestry, agronomy, animal husbandry. | ouHry husbandry, veterinary medicine, home economics, and physical education have also been greatly enlarged and strengthened. Provision has also been made for instruction in fine and applied arts, weaving, and jwttcry making. A new division of child welfare, the first of its kind in the South, is now being organized and will be supported during the next five years through the medium of an appropriation received from one of the great eastern foundations. A new degree course in landscape gardening has also been authorized by the trustees. A gymnasium, to cost above $100,000. is now in process of construction. It will provide adequate accommodations for the physical training of five hundred women. Andrew M. Soule, President of the State College of Agriculture.

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School of (Commerce np UK School of Commerce of the University of Georgia was established in 1913. The objcc-live of the school is to provide a type of education which will do for the prospective business man what the School of Medicine and the I.aw School do for those who choose those fields as their life work. The ultimate aim is to prepare the students for executive positions. The University authorities came to realize that, with the huge increase in enrollment that has characterized the twentieth century, large numbers of youths were seeking collegiate training who had no intention of entering any of the learned professions. The majority of college students become business men and the demand was strong that college curricula l c extended so as to include subjects of a vocational nature. At the same time the l c!icf has been kept firmly in mind that not all the time of the student should be spent on technical or vocational subjects, but that, on the contrary. ample room should be provided for subjects of a cultural character. In the University of Georgia School of Commerce only about one-half of the total number of required hours is given to business subjects, courses in Knglish. mathematics, physical science, modern languages anti history occupying an important | osition in the course prescribed. R. P. B KOOKS, Dean of the School of Commerce.