University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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l9l4 IQIE TENNESSEE HALL Built solely for educational purposes and devoted to the advancement of women, Ten- nessee Hall was for several years the seat of the East Tennessee Female Institute. In 1910 it passed into the hands of the State University. which pays for it an annual rent of one cent. The build- ing is a large and substantial structure of red brick, and the clinging vines 0f ivy about the entrance give a pic- turesque effect to the whole. On the second fioor is found the Department of Home Economics. In addi- tion to the regular recitation halls, special rooms are de- voted to the teaching of sew- ing and cooking. These are spacious, well lighted, and ex- cellently equipped The model dining room, with its simple, yet tasteful furniture, has been the scene of many en- joyable entertainments given by the various classes. The gymnasium for the girls occupies the main part of the third Hoor. Here in- struction in physical culture was begun during the second term of 1912-13. Practical equipment for work will be added soon, and physical cul- ture will become a part of the regular course. The fourth hour is devoted to the students of Art. The rooms are made very attractive by a number of finely executed oil paintings which adorn the walls, while casts of noted pieces of sculpture and quaint bronze vases add much to the interest of the studio. Tennessee Hall is, indeed, a building of which the University may well be proud; and as the center of practical work for the ' coeds? it has amply fuliilled its purposes. -UNIVEREITV IHHH EIF lllllll TENNESSEE lllHll H4:

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Bmwx Annex Brown Ayres was born in Memphis in 1856, at, which place the Iirst ten years of his life were spent. At the close of the Civil War he moved with his mother to New Orleans, his father having died six years before. His early education was obtained in the pri- vate schools of Memphis and New Orleans. At the age of fifteen he entered Washington and Lee University, where he completed the engineering course in three years. The following year he went to Stevens Institute of Technology, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Philosophy. Later he did two years' postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins, being a Fellow in Physics in that institution. In the fall of 1880 he took the chair of Physics at what is now Tulane University, but which at that time bore the name of the University of. Louisiana? For twenty-four years he served this institution, becoming Dean of the College of Technology in 1894 and Dean of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Technology in 1900, which latter position he held until elected to the presidency of the University of Tennessee in 1904. Since 1904 he has devoted himself to building up the University of Tennessee; and suffice it to say that. in his ten years of service that institution has more than doubled its equipment, Faculty, and student body, much of which success is due solely to the one man, Brown Ayres. President of the University of Tennessee. UNIVERSITY IJF TENNESSEE tltit