University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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FIVE MONTHS AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE TREATY WHICH recognized the independence of the American colonies, the legislature of Georgia, on February 25, 1784, passed on act setting aside 40,000 acres to endow a college or seminary of learning. In January of the following year, the legislature passed a supplemental act, which is the charter of the Uni- versity of Georgia. At the first meeting of the Board of Trustees, Abraham Baldwin was elected President of the University, but his duties were of course nominal, as the University existed only on paper. Fifteen years elapsed before the trus- tees finally chose a site for th e University. In the summer of 1 801 a committee of five of the Senatus Academicus, headed by Abraham Baldwin, selected a spot in the primival forest of north Georgia on the very edge of the Indian country. John Milledge, later Governor of the State, purchased the tract of 633 acres, and donated it to the State, and the Trustees named the expected town Athens. Baldwin, who had become United States Senator from Georgia, then resigned his office of the President, and Josiah Meigs was elected. In the fall of 1801 Meigs went to Athens, and a contract was at once let for the first college building, called Franklin College (now Old College). The first step toward making Franklin College a University was taken in 1867 when the Lumpkin Law School became the Law Department of the University. During the War Between the States, Congress had adopted legis- lation designed to initiate and support in the several states instruction in the mechanical arts and in agriculture. Under this agreement, the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts was created in 1872 and made a part of The University of Georgia. Little interest was shown by the University in providing specific instruc- tion in agriculture, and in 1 906 the General Assembly created a new institution. The State College of Agriculture, having a separate Board of Trustees and its own President. The twentieth century has witnessed many important enlargements of the facilities of the University. It now has a School of Law (1859), a School of Pharmacy (1903), a College of Education (1 908), a Graduate School (1910), a School of Commerce (1912), a School of Journalism (1921), a Division of Ex- tension (1914), a School of Forestry (1935): ET DOCERE ET RERUM EXQUIRERE CAUSAS i

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PANDORA STAFF CHARLES B. JOHNSTON Editor A. R. BRUCKNER, JR. Business Manager FRANCES MARTIN Managing Editor JAMES T. THRASHER Art Editor DICK PIPES Sports Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Margaret Watt Alice T. Law WOMAN ' S EDITOR Amelia Knoedler EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS Ronny Rish Jolaine Bailey Actor Cordell Janice Jones Bill Hudson Shirley Parish Thomas G. Walker Margaret Hightower Katherine Lanman BUSINESS ASSISTANTS Ralph Smith Alan Huvard PHOTOGRAPHER Kenneth Guest

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PANDOR A 7 c o -n C m o 1948