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

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subsequent years at any time received any grant from the public revenues or any support from the government. Neither did each family contribute one peek of corn or twelve pence to its support as the Citizens of New England taxed themselves to support Harvard College. Blount College was always dependent for its support upon its tuition fees and voluntary subscriptions. Even tho the price of tuition in Blount College was only $8.00 per session of five months, and that of boarding only $25.00 per session, it is probable that this modest fee was sufficient to prevent all except the sons of a favored few from attending the College. We are all more 01' less familiar with the subsequent history of this little Collegeehow in 1808 it became known as East Tennessee College, and struggled along, still with inadequate funds until the Civil War, when the school was closed and the buildings used as hospitals. In 1870 the College was rechristened East Tennessee College. Again in 1879, when the conception of the University existing to serve the entire state came to the minds of the legislators, its name became the University of Tennessee. Between 1869 and 1900 Colleges of Agriculture, Engineering, Medi- cine, Dentistry; and Law were added to the school. In 1902 the first summer session was held. The pages of this annual tell far more eloquently than could any pen the story of Tennesseek recent development with an enrollment that in- creases steadily year by year, professors being added to the faculty at the same rate, and a main building that boasts as fine recitation rooms as any college possesses. Tennessee is indeed rapidly forging ahead. But we must see the University with eyes capable of looking down the vista of years to come; we must think of her programme, of her projects, as extending, not over one student generation, but over half a century or indeed, over a century. For Tennessee is building, not for a year not for a generation, but for all time. Page Twenty-six

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These early settlers were in the main without classical education, but they were by no means illiterate. There were men like John Sevier, William Blount, and William Cox who had excellent educations and a great deal of culture. When, in the latter part of the eighteenth century, the tide of civiliza- tion swept westward over the Alleghaniesy down into the valley of western Virginia and eastern Tennessee, it had, among others, one element that predominatedea race of intelligent, sturdy and upright men, the Scotch- Irish Presbyterians. Along with these men came preachers, strong, resolute men, not overly tolerant, perhaps, but who shared the perils and the labors of the settlers. tilled the Fields and fought the Indians. These men brought with them their rifles and their axes across their saddle bows, and their Bibles and spelling books in their saddle pockets, so that where ever they went they established a church, and at the same time a school house near by. Thus it happened that the four prominent educators of pioneer times in Tennessee, the reverends Samuel Doak, Thomas B. Craighead, Hezekiah Bolch and Samuel Carrick, were all Presbyterian ministers, and all but one had been students at Princeton. The early interest displayed by Tennessee is the more noteworthy when contrasted with the fact that North Carolina, of whose territory Tennessee was a part until 1790, was before the Revolution, in this respect, one of the most backward of the American colonies. The colonial government perhaps shared the jealous fears of popular education expressed in 1671 by Sir William Berkley, the Royal Governor of Virginia Who said HI thank God there are no free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these in hundreds of years: for learningr has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels against the best government. God keep us from them both. In the fall of 1794, two years after Col. James White had laid off the sixty-four lots comprising the original town of Knoxville, at the first regular session of the first territorial assembly XVilliam Cocke, representative from Hawkins County, presented a bill for the establishing of a college in the Vicinity of Knoxville. Thus on September 10, 1794-, the bill chartering our University became a law, and Blount College, named in honor of the Governor, came into being. Though these men founded wisely and well, one eSsential feature of the plan for the University was omittedenamely, that it should be support- ed by public taxation. Blount College neither in the beginning nor in the Page Twenty-Jiwe

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GUTSTANDIING SENJRORS WILLIAM J. DURBIN President Senior Class, Major Cadet Battalion, Phi Kappa Phi. Bill Durbin, d.celf-mude mantt, i5 mbjevt of this pine 0f toaJt; t'Self-madett is no apology-in truth it ii a boast. 131.1115 steady and plaimpoleen, 11nd earlz day 11E: juxt tlze Mme; He seems to 111111? the rgquixitex to make llimxelf a runny. HOWARD JOHNSON Pres. Y , Capt. Varsity Basketball, Scarabbean. Full many things lmx Howard done sime tllat tlzriuugone Settember Wlwn firyt X13 came: Iii: manly trait: U. T. will long remember; He ran tile paper, rmz tlle Y -f0r this lzis fnmt' rexoundx; But maxt be thrilled 11: when lie ran those forwardx out of bounds ! VAUGHTIE CARROLL Y. W. C. A., Mugwump, Vice-Pres. Senior Class Phi Kappa Phi. If anybody mmr llad tlze right of being haughty, Yozfd starve expect to 191d a girl with better flaim tlnuz I'augtltit', For 5113K: an lzanor student, and an artist and a poett And yet vwitllal :0 modest that from lltr you'd newer know it. ANNIE MARY BATEY Y. w. c. A., Phi Kappa Phi. Miss Baley i5 tlze kind of girl we cantt help but admire; Size 11115 moxt 0f 1110M ideal trails to which we all axpire: A keen, guide, wholesome mind that seems to frame to be at work- But naming ALL 1137' good point: i5 11 job Pd rather .rllirlaf Page Twenty-sewen