University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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0 serious damage nor had there been any actual fighting on or around the campus during the war. The University reopened in January, 1866, un- der Cha ncellor Lipscomb. The state legislature passed a kind of mini-GI Bill granting needy vets $300 a year for college in return for their teaching in Georgia for as many years as they stayed in college. Many took advantage of this opportunity, and for a few years the University ' s enrollment was above 300. These post-war students were different from those of earlier years. Chancellor Lipscomb de- scribed them as a new race of students more manly more obedient more thoughtful and prudent. Only once, at the commencement in 1867, did these veterans shout out their rebel defi- ance, and this caused a brief closing of the school by the Union army of occupation still on duly in Athens. Generally the vets avoided the highjinks of antebellum students and stuck to their work. By 1870 most of the veterans had departed and the University became again a small liberal arts college with a strong Protestant orientation. As late as 1900 it still had fewer than 300 students and 20 professors. In 1872 the University became a land grant school. The State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts emerged at the University in order to absorb Federal funds available from the Morrill Act passed by Congress during the war. For many years these funds, which were intend- ed to further agricultural education, comprised the majority of the University ' s annual budget, almost certainly saving the school from bankruptcy on several occasions. However, virtually nothing was left for actual training in agriculture, the main occupation of the people in Georgia. Demosthenian HjII kjs built In 182-1 as j meet- ing hall for the t.ociety which was formed in 1803. It cost $4,000 to build and also contained a library. (LEFT Photo courtesy of Special Collections.) Crawford W. Long, a fourteen year old freshman at the University, was later known for his develop- ment of ether anesthesia. (BELOW. Photo courtesy of Special Collections.) ' M- Almost all of the sophomore class of 18o8 were ' , f ' veterans of the Confederate army — battered and crippled from the war. Among these students were Henry W. Grady (in the hat on the left between the last two rows), and Andrew A. Lipscomb (chancel- lor from 1878 to 1888.) (ABOVE. Photo courtesy of Special Collections.) Introduction 7

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j ®i{f-, j trict codes of rules and regulations em- j feV j phasized what students could not do: ■ Drink, gamble, curse, fight, go to cir- cuses, masquerade as women, play cards or billards, create disturbances, or violate any local or state laws. After Waddel retired, occasional dances were held, but young ladie had to be closely chaperoned. Weapons were outlawed on campus as were dogs, horses and other pets, and slave bodyscrvants were not avaiable to do chores. Fierce competition between the Demosthenian and Phi Kappa Literary Societies offered some es- cape from the usual grind since no other organiza- tions existed. Almost every student joined one or the other. Students came from the middle and upper classes where personal freedom was a way of life, so they often resisted the strict campus environment and many faced the wrath of the faculty. A $20,000 endowment from William Terrell, a Hancock County planter, enabled the University to establish a chair of agriculture in 1854. This gift began agricultural education at the University, and gave birth to the concept of service to the general community. As a result of efforts to expand the University from a small, classical college to a true university, the trustees adopted a plan in 1859, but the other plans were delayed by the approaching Civil War. Andrew A. Lipscomb was elected chancellor in 1860, the title having been changed from president by the trustees. In the spring of the following year, campus life changed dramatically as the Civil War erupted. In both the North and South, young men rushed to arms. Students and alumni of the Uni- versity flocked to the colors, and by 1863 the school had closed down. Almost 100 men from the University never returned from the War. The Confederacy collapsed in the spring of 1865, and the surviving rebels came home again. Union occupation troops were housed on campus for a short time during 1865, but there was no serious Plans Delayed By Civil War Andrew A. Lipscomb, at one time a Methodist minister, struggled to keep the University alive during the Civil War. He made many changes in course curricula and changed many of the build- ings on campus. (RIGHT. Photo courtesy of Special Collections.) This monument was erected in 1874 to com- memorate the veterans of the Civil War. (BELOW Photo courtesy of Special Collections.) Lucy Cobb Institute was built in 1859 as a girl ' s preparatory school. It was closed in the 1930 ' s be- cause of the depression. The University acquired the building and used it as a girl ' s dorm, adminis- trative offices, and a storage area. (RIGHT. Photo courtesy of Special Collections.) I «Hv ( ; ' K 6 Introduction -

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1 Many students view the campus through the blooms of the many cherry trees. Here one can see the outline of the back of Caldwell Hall, a part of the Business School. (BELOW. Photo by Doug Ben- New construction at the Botanical Gardens will house a conservatory, restaurant, classrooms, and concert hall among other things. The concert hall may also be used for weddings as it houses 300 people. (RIGHT. Photo by Michaela Smith.) The more modern buildings on campus have an- gularly constructed walls. Some ot the older build- ings also have modern additions which try to com- pliment the old. (LEFT. Photo by Doug Benson.) 8 lntroduction