University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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THF. most pressing need of the University is the same pressing need of every university—ample funds. If I were asked to name the four buildings so badly needed at once, I would unhesitatingly answer: a modern library, a physics building, a magnificent chapel large enough to scat the student body and an equal number of visitors, and an administration building. That we shall have at no distant day a modern library building and a physics building is imperative. This year the University has raised the entrance requirements, the graduation requirements, and has established an Honors Day—all looking to higher scholastic attainment. Nothing, however, has such a profound inllucncc on scholarship as the prosecution of research work. We should develop our graduate work without further delay. It is also my great desire to see the citizens of the state look more and more to the University for help in solving practical problems. If our citizens would ask for this information, problems of all kinds would be studied more and more thoroughly, teaching would be greatly stimulated, and the career of a college professor would be more attractive. The University was established to render service to all the people. It has done much in the past; it stands ready to do more in the future. Ask and it shall be given. Since the Commerce-Journalism building has such excellent housing facilities, it is my desire to sec the Henry V. Grady School of Journalism collect a large file of southern newspapers. To carry on research work, more and more students must have access to newspapers. Here is an opportunity and what alumnus will furnish the money to make this suggestion possible? The essential characteristics of a university arc the advancement, the conservation, and the dissemination of knowledge. A university pres; is, therefore, as fundamental and as essential, as a library or provision for research. The function of a university press is to publish in dignified and stately form those important contributions to knowledge which, for one reason or another, fail to command a sale that would justify the publication in the case of ordinary trade. Here again is a great opportunity and what alumnus will give the necessary funds with which to conduct a university press? No state university can exist on state support alone. Certain projects must rest with loyal friends for support. Finally may our alumni and friends continue as faithful and loyal in the future as they have in the past. As a testimonial of their loyalty and faith in the University of Georgia stand Memorial Hall, the Commerce-Journalism Building, the new Law Building under process of construction, and in a large measure the Stadium. Those who have been active and who have contributed of their means seem to say with true reverence: We shall perish, but thou shalt endure. We shall wax-old as a garment, and as a vesture shall we be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.” Dean S. V. Sanford. r»c« 27 Dr. S. V. Sanford, Dean of the I'niversily. President of Franklin College, and Head of Henry ft'. Grady School of Journalism.

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T T is the hope and ambition of all those associated with the Georgia State College of Agriculture to make it so aesthetically beautiful within the new few years that it will become a center of attraction to the heauty-lovers not only of Georgia but of the state and eventually the nation as a whole, 'l itis is a wholesome and worthy ambition and one that can be gradually brought into being without the expenditure of an unusually large sum of money. Since the perfection of the plan of this character will take much time, this project has been set out as among the first and most important of the objectives we arc Striving to attain. What is needed primarily is the development of a spirit of appreciation of nature at her best. This will naturally call for a very complete study and utilization of the great variety of grasses, flowers, trees, and shrubs native to our state. An adequate and desirable habitat must be found for them on our campus, and they he given that loving consideration and care which will enable them to attain to the highest degree of perfection in the shortest possible space of time. It is our desire to stimulate a full and ccmplete appreciation and understanding of nature, which, after all. is the “Giver of every good and perfect gift.” She is also man's stronghold and refuge in periods of trial and stress as well as his inspiration ami his guiding star in moments of rejoicing and exultation. To unfold this objective we will soon need equipment capable of taking care of a minimum of fifteen hundred students in the regular courses and five thousand in the short courses. Our facilities for research should he multiplied in every direction. To accomplish the ends we have in view will call for the minimum expenditure within a twenty-year period of three million dollars for the building and equipment and an annual maintenance and support fund of a million more. We need abundant funds at the present time for the purchase of additional farm and forest lands and for the erection of suitable farm buildings, fences and bridges, and the construction of a standard grade of highways throughout our property. We desire to immediately and largely amplify our recreational facilities and equipment for both men and women as we believe that a sound bodj and a cultured mind arc esscntirl to success. Numerous new research laboratories and much costly scientific equipment constitute one of our most immediate and pressing requirements. Our Agricultural Engineering building should he completed at once along with a student commons and assembly hall. Buildings costing a minimum of £250.000 arc needed for agricultural science, extension teaching, veterinary medicine, poultry husbandry, forestry, and women’s work. Additional dormitories costing at least $500,000 are essential in order to house our boys and girls upon an acceptable basis. When our plans have materialized the Georgia State College of Agriculture will indeed and in fact radiate that fine spirit of culture, sentiment, idealism, and service which constitutes its main objective from the very center to the circumference of this great state. I)«. Andrew M. Soule President Georgia State College of Agriculture and the .Mechanic Arts Andrew M. Soule.

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faculty Joseph S. Stewart Thomas W. Reed Director of the Summer School Secretary, Treasurer, and Registrar of the I University Robert P. Brooks Dean of the School of Commerce Robert C. Wii.son' Dean of the School of Pharmacy VVn.us H. Bocock MU ledge Professor of Indent Languages Ciiari.es M. Strahan Professor of Civil Engineering I’ii 2-