University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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Then he carefully repeated these simple rules. Next he looked carefully and thoughtfully over his glasses at us quiet students, smiled and chuckled, and said, I paid one about an hour ago. The year before, with a Freshman cap on, he had rung the Chapel bell because a thousand students had registered ; but only my year, September 1920, did we have a thousand regular students. He told us in Chapel that the Class of 1924 was starting when the University had 1024 regular students, stressing in his mathematic approach the number 24 — the designation of our class and also the excess over a thousand — 24! There were also 138 rehabs, fewer than the year before; but he counted them as students both times for the final figure, for they were. Cotton was king then, our major money crop, and Athens was the largest inland market in Georgia, maybe in the South. And in Chapel Uncle Dave asked us not to smoke on the street. The warehouses were filled and overflowing, and cotton was piled on the streets. One bale was placed next to the curb on the street, another on the curb toward the sidewalk, and a third on top of these. Although only one side of the street was used (Lumpkin, Broad, Oconee, Clayton, Washington, Pulaski) still the streets were narrowed by the bales, and cotton seemed to be everywhere. After his retirement Uncle Dave moved from the Chancellor ' s House on the Campus back to the family house at 436 Dearing Street, where I appeared regularly to court his granddaughter. Like every youngster in his twenties, I thought of Uncle Dave as old, ancient in his sixties — but he was about my own age now. He always came by about 9:00 to speak to me and to wish me and Sue Fan good night, for he retired early. Uncle Dave loved this state, this school, and this campus, and he loved people, just as I do. Like me, he was pro- vincial, and he ran the University on shoe-string finances because the State of Georgia was poor. He had been a boy during Reconstruction, as shown in his own writings — for instance, his often published paper on Sill ' s Fork Plantation before and after the War. And yet in his human depth and sincerity and judgment he would have adjusted to Changes just as others have done. Uncle Dave was a farmer, managing with his friends Dave and Pope Spratlin (both named for Barrows) two large plantations, a story which I won ' t tell here, except to say the boll weevil wiped them out. As I grow older, I remember what he said about his home-place on the plantation, near the family graveyard, To us Barrows there is nothing prettier than the sunrise across the valley at the Home Place, and to me as I grow older they become more beautiful than ever, even though I know I shall see fewer of them. Wm. Tate, April 11, 1971 20

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Your Instructor for this course will be WILLIAM TATE Associate Professor of English and Dean of Men Dean Tate is one of the University ' s ablest and most popular staff members. He is firmly convinced that there is nothing quite so fine as a Georgia boy with a Geor- gia education. He came to the University from Fairmount, Georgia, received both his A.B. and M.A. degrees here. He has done some work at the University of Chicago and at Harvard toward a doctorate. As an undergraduate he was a member of the cross country team, Y.M.C.A., Sphinx, Gridiron, Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. Dean Tate devotes most of his waking hours to personal conferences with students, individually and in groups. He has made personal tours over the state from time to time in behalf of educational privileges for Georgia boys and girls. In residence Dean Tate teaches courses in literature and history. Mrs. Tate is a grandaughter of Chancellor David Barrow. There are two Tate boys. 22