University of Georgia - Pandora Yearbook (Athens, GA)

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■ ' ■-«»aiinl.v• i ' k«Wertain. as a sentry post against delinquint students who wandered off campus to visit their favorite tav- erns. An addition to the Law School was built in 1967, and contains over 300,000 volumes at the present. The ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library was completed in 1953. The money was donated by Mrs. Little with the stipulation that columns be built completely around it. The time and cost in- volved were enormous, so the contractor built col- umns in the front and designed false columns for the sides. Mrs. Little ' s eyesight was failing so when she was shown the completed structure, she was unable to discern the difference. Memorial Hall was built in 1910 and initially served as the YMCA. It contained a one-story gym- nasium and a swimming pool. The hall wasn ' t completed until 1925. For several years Memorial Hall was primarily used as a student center because it contained a sizeable ballroom, a snack bar, a gameroom, and some lounges. The new site of the student center is the Dean William Tate Student Center. Completed in 1983, it includes a television lounge, a gameroom, an outdoor plaza, a print shop, a post office, theatre, food services area, and student organization offices. The University Bookstore opened in 1968 and is considered one of the finest collegiate bookstores in the Southeast. Besides textbooks, it carries study and art supplies, gifts and souvenirs, and banking services. Over the years on-campus residence halls have both increased in number and improved in the facilities they offer. Old College, Candler, ■ , and Tucker Halls are three examples of dor- ri mitories that have been converted for office I I I and classroom use. iia ■ ...Jt mx Sanford Stadium is filled with Georgia fans in thii. picture from the fall of 1959. In the foreground to the left, the Chemistry Building is under con- struction. (LEFT. Photo courtesy of Special Collec- tions Division, the University of Georgia Librar- ies.) Freshmen males, wearing their rat caps, congre- gate on the steps of Memorial Hall. (BELOW. Photo courtesy of Special Collections Division, the University of Georgia Libraries.) The flying dome is incorporated in to the erection of the Coliseum under construction in 1963. This sight of many major campus events holds 12,000 people. (LEFT. Photo courtesy of Special Collec- tions Division, the University of Georgia Librar- ies.) Emerging Faces In Changing Places Campus Life 21

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f he University of Georgia, the oldest state-chartered university, was incorpo- rated in 1785. The doors opened in 1801 with only one faculty member and thir- ty students. Classes in Latin, Greek, mathematics, debate, and natural history were held in a one- room, wooden building. The first commencement exercises were held in 1804, with ten men receiv- ing their Bachelor of Arts degrees. By the turn of the twentieth century, the University was still rel- atively small, but had an enrollment of nearly 300. Old College, the first permanent building on campus, was begun in 1801. It has historical signi- figance, for it was the home of two respected na- tional figures. Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy, and Crawford W. Long, dis- coverer of ether anesthesia. The Chapel, built in 1832, has two noteworthy characteristics. First, it houses the world ' s largest framed oil painting. And second, when a person stands in the middle of the Chapel ' s steps, he is in the exact center of Athens. At one time, the Chapel was used for graduation ceremonies. During that time, Robert Toombs was not allowed to partici- pate in the ceremonies, so in protest he sat in a tree and eloquently argued his position while the cere- mony was in progress. A third building that has experienced drastic change over the years is the Academic Building. It was originally two separate structures: the Ivy Building and the Old Library. They were joined in 1904, and presently house the Admissions Office and other administrative offices. The Phi Kappa Hall, completed in 1836, is an- other of the older buildings on campus. It was used by Sherman ' s troops during the Civil War. The lower floor was converted into stables, and the upper into a house of revelry for the entertain- ment of Union soldiers. The older portion of the Law School Building was completed in 1932, and features a foyer with a curving marble stairway. The cupola on top served I $ This informal springtime shot shows students at Old College (often called Yahoo Hall) in 1893. These students were allowed to room there rent free. (ABOVE. Photo courtesy of Special Collec- tions Division, the University of Georgia Librar- ies.) Memorial Hall, a general activities building, was named in honor of the forty-seven Georgia men who had died in WW 1. This photo was taken on October 17, 1923 and Memorial Hall was complet- ed in 1925 to serve as a center of campus life. (RIGHT. Photo courtesy of Special Collections Di- vision, the University of Georgia Libraries.) S:3 20 Bic. — Campus Life

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Lingering Memories Of Olde Telamon Cuyler captured this student ' s room in a boardinghouse in this photo from 1893. (RIGHT. Photo courtesy of the University of Georgia De- partment of Public Relations.) This photo taken in 1967 shows some university co-eds outside Creswell Hall. (BELOW. Photo cour- tesy of Special Collections Division, the University of Georgia Libraries.) The intersection of Lumpkin and Broad with the Chapel, the north end of Old College, and Moore College in the background. (RIGHT. Photo courte- sy of Special Collections Division, the University of Georgia Libraries.) oule Hall has the distinction of being the oldest residence hall in which students still live. Opened in 1920 to house wom- en, it was for obvious reasons dubbed New Women ' s Building until 1923, when it offi- cially became Soule Hall. This dormitory also con- tained classrooms, an infirmary, kitchen, gymnasi- um, and pool. In 1963, Creswell Hall, named in honor of Mary E. Creswell, was also opened to house Freshmen women. So much damage and vandalism occurred, its occupancy was changed to include all classifica- tions of women. Later, Creswell became a co-edu- c.ilional facility with nine floors of both men and women. Two other dorms underwent occupancy changes: Hill Hall was originally a women ' s dorm but is currently men ' s housing, and Oglethorpe House began as a male dorm, but in 1969 converted to co-ed. New building construction wasn ' t the only tran- sition occuring at UGA. The mode of dress was changing as well. In the early years, sons of well- to-do planters followed the accepted formal fash- ions of the period. For these fellows, typical dress included a tail or frock coal, a high-collared white shirt, a cravat or stock, and trousers, otherwise known as pantaloons. Required dress also in- clude hose and either low-heeled boots or shoes. Completing the outfit were a tophat, a cane, and gloves. By 1910 students displayed a taste for vastly less formal outfits. Yet hats, white shirts and ties were still not uncommon. In certain instances, modes of dress were repre- sentative of the people wearing them. For instance, for several years it became the expected thing for Freshman men to wear inexpensive caps or beanies to indicate their classification. Then in earlier days, Demoslhenian members dressed in home- spun as a protest against England. Homespun was a coarse fabric made from native-grown wool, cot- ton, or flax and used primarily to make work clothes. ' ■« Jij f, 22 Bic. — Campus Life Am