University of Georgia Board of Trustees Minutes
Volume V, 1878-1886
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The Minutes of The Trustees of the University of Georgia Beginning August 2nd, 1878 Wm. L. Mitchell. Secretary.
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University of Georgia Athens, August 2nd, 1878
The Trustees of the University of Georgia met in stated annual session in the College Library at 10 oclock A.M. and were called to order by the Senior Trustee present in the absence of the President and vice-President. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Chancellor Rev. H. H. Tucker, D.D.LL.D. Upon calling the roll the following members answered to their names; viz:
Messrs. Mitchell Miller, Lewis,
Hill, Brown, Toombs,
Yancey, Jackson, Pierce,
Crawford, Billups, Hall,
Barrow, Thomas, Cobb,
Harris, MacIntyre, Stephens,
Sheer.

And during the session the following members appeared and took their seats, viz: Messrs. Vason, Beckwith, Lawton, and Colquitt.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Dr. Miller took the chair and called upon the Chancellor for the annual communication, which he read as follows:
To the Honorable The Board of Trustees of the
University of Georgia. Gentlemen -The celebrated John Randolph, having once previously offended his constituents by some of his votes and speeches in Congress, was informed by friends that the excitement against him was so intense, that he would incur the risk of personal violence if he appeared among the people of his district. Notwithstanding this, he made an appointment to address his fellow-citizens, at a given time and place. A seething multitude of enraged people assembled, no to hear him but
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Chancellors Report to crush him. Suddenly he appeared before them, and by a strange magnetism awed them into silence, and began his address by saying: When I was a little boy, my mother taught me this: that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And it is my conviction, after many long years of observation, that the fear of man is the height of folly. The sequel of the story need not be told, for the wisdom that his mother taught him, and the experience which his knowledge of the world gave him, and the honesty & courage of his manly heart, made him invincible. Ill not know that there is anything in the present circumstances parallel to those just related of the statesman of Roanoke, further than this: that grave and important statements are to be made, which ought to be made in the fear of God, and not in the fear of man. That which I feel it my duty to say, I shall say, gentlemen, in a spirit regardless of consequences, but, at the same time, with due respect for those who may differ with me in opinion, or who may question the correctness of my statements.
The number of students in the various Departments has been as follows: Franklin College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 70 State College of Agriculture, etc. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 40 Law Department _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6 Total in Athens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 116 At Dahlonega _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 304 In Medical Department _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _50 Total Number in all Departments _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _470
There has been a steady decline in most of the Departments for several years past, and it is worthy of remark that every year the character of the decline is the same; that is, the heaviest falling off is in the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and the lightest has been in Franklin College. The reason of this I stated last year, and will now only repeat that the public had formed expectations of the State College which could not possibly be realized.
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August 1878 Supposing at first, that an almost illiterate boy could be transformed in a few months by means of what is called practical education into a scientific agriculturist or engineer, the people sent in their patronage to this College like a flood. Discovering their mistake, and that a student of very low grade of culture could learn no more here than he could at a common academy, at one-fourth the expense, a strong reaction took place in the public mind, and the people not only discontinued their patronage, but were led to underestimate the real merits of the institution. First, they expected too much; now they give credit for too little. It will probably take several years for the public mind to adjust itself to the facts; which are, that valuable and thorough instruction may be, and is, given in this Department; and that, on the other hand, no short-hand method has been discovered by which a lad wholly untaught can be manipulated into an educated and scientific man in the course of two or three years. I repeat the very words of my last report, when I say, that a certain amount of general culture is necessary to fit a man for anything. Special education can be begun only when a reasonable amount of general education has been completed. When people learn this; when they learn that a youth must be at least fairly if not thoroughly trained in such preliminary education as can be obtained at a good academy, before he is qualified to pursue to advantage the higher studies of this College; and that even then, at least three years more will be required to complete a fair scientific education; and that after all this, several years of schooling in the great world itself will be necessary to teach the student practical wisdom, and how successfully to apply his theories; I say, when the people learn all this, they will be prepared to appreciate that most excellent department of the University known as the State
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Chancellors Report College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. Until then the people are doomed to disappointment; and until then the Department will probably continue to decline in public favor. Even what I have now said will, perhaps, make the Department more unpopular for a time than ever. But occupying the position that I do, at the head of the highest institution of learning in the State, I feel it my duty to teach the public no less than the students; and to lay a broad and solid foundation in sound truth, on which this valuable Department may grow up to usefulness and glory. Its early and temporary prosperity was based on false grounds; of course such a superstructure, built on utter misconception, must fall to ruin. Let the people learn the real merit, and the real purpose and scope of this Department, and send their sons to it properly prepared to profit by its extraordinary and most splendid advantages; & let them cease to expect the semi-miraculous results heretofore vainly hoped for; and let them learn to realize that thorough-breds can be had only by thorough training; and the result will be that this identical institution, which is now the subject of so much cavil and complaint will be, as by right it should be now, the pride and boast of every intelligent citizen of Georgia.
Corroborative of the truth of my remarks is the fact that the largest patronage the State College ever had was in the second year of its existence. In the third year, which was before the present administration was inaugurated, and while the institution was in first hands, the decline began; just as I think it ought to have done. I risk nothing in saying that the great majority of the students in attendance at that time made a mistake in coming here, and would have done better if they had remained at home, and would have done better if they had remained at home, and attended the ordinary schools in their respective neighborhoods. While here, they were instructed mostly by Tutors in the merest rudiments of education; and they could have received such instruction just as well, or better, at home. In two short years the good sense of the people discovered the
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August 1878 Mistake, and they wisely withdrew their patronage. Perhaps, if suitable steps were taken, this patronage might be regained; but having seen one bubble burst, I am by no means inclined to blow up another. The State College is really a magnificent institution; its officers are accomplished and it appliances superb; but it is wholly unadapted to the wants of ordinary school-boys; and if its patronage can be increased only by enticing lads of this class to attend. I shall hope that there will be no increase. The truth is, there is very little demand in Georgia for thorough scientific education; and while the institution retains its present and proper character, its legitimate patronage must necessarily be small. Its past popularity was largely fictitious; the delusion has vanished; and we may rejoice that we are coming now to a foundation of solid facts. Franklin College has suffered a much smaller decline. It is an old institution; its character is known and understood; and as no new and wild expectations have been raised, none have been disappointed. As to the general decline in the number of students in all Departments, I can only repeat the same old story, but none the less true for being old. Continued and increasing financial depression affects all the higher and more expensive institutions of learning. The Controller Generals report for 1877 shows a decline of more than ten millions of dollars in the value of taxable property in the State of Georgia since the report of 1876; and, taking into account the fact that certain articles are taxed in 1877 which werenot taxed in 1876; the decline in value for one year is more than eleven millions of dollars. Nor is the enormous loss in one year distributed evenly among the people; it falls chiefly on the very class whose patronage we might expect. Nor have we seen the worst. The financial failures in the State of Georgia, for the first six months of 1878, are larger by far than during the same
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Chancellors Report period in 1877. To ignore such palpable and far-reaching facts as those just stated in accounting for our diminished numbers, would show a strange degree of unfairness or thoughtlessness. I take it for granted that the mere mention of these facts will suffice to give them due weight. Still, it may be replied that other institutions have not suffered in like manner. A careful examination of the facts will show, I think, that this is a mistake. There has been a general decline in the patronage of the higher institutions of learning; we are simply sharing the common misfortune. True, there are some apparently exceptional cases, and these can be easily accounted for. Our own Department at Dahlonega may be cited as an example. Its patronage has been largely increased. Does any one suppose that that Department is held by the public to be superior to the Departments at Athens? Or that it is equal to them? Or that it is in reach or in sight of them? By no means; it is cheaper -a fact in which there is immense attraction; and it is well known that in elementary branches, and also in some that are higher, a student can be satisfactorily taught. Many persons in their poverty have abandoned the idea of giving their sons such superior advantages as can be had at Athens, and send them to a cheaper place, where after all, they can learn as much as they have time and ability to learn. A large number of students there, are of such a class, that if we had them here, we should be obliged to organize them into grammar school classes, just as was done here in the second year of the life of the State College, which is the only year in which (in the sense of large numbers) it ever prospered. The tide has simply turned, and the flood that came here during that single year now flows appropriately to Dahlonega. Emory College, in a neighboring county, is another exception. But the distinguished and gifted gentleman who presides over that institution has made much personal effort to obtain students; effort of a kind which
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August 1878 would not be expected of any officer here. Denominational colleges have an advantage over us in this respect; what would be proper and successful with them, would be neither proper nor successful with us. By such means as this, perfectly legitimate under the circumstances, but from which our conditions debar us, Emory college has been sustained.
Mercer University has had an agent in the field, scouring the State in all directions, and making personal appeals at innumerable firesides; but, notwithstanding this, and notwithstanding its handsome endowment and its huge constituency, the number of students has declined from 150 in 1874-5 to 108 in 1877-8; and that, too, although it has a city of perhaps three times the size of Athens from which to draw local patronage. The University of Virginia, greatly renowned, reports 363, which is a great falling off from its former years; but examination of the catalogue shows that the number of what we should call college students is about 115 or 120, a number nearly the same as ours. Yet that University is held up as a great success and ours as a great failure! Washington and Lee University reports 116, and Davidson College, N.C., with its handsome endowment, reports 81! The University of Mississippi reports an attendance of 471, which looks large indeed beside our meagre (sic) report of 116. But the catalogue of that institution shows that 260 of the 471 are attendants at a grammar school; and when these, and a number of irregulars and 35 law students are deducted, the startlingly large number of 471 dwindles down to 143! With equal propriety may we include as part of our attendance the students at Dahlonega and Augusta; and if so, we can show an attendance of exactly 470, which comes within one of the great number in Mississippi.
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Chancellors Report The vast number of students said to be at Vanderbilt University has excited the astonishment of many. The number reported is 405, and it is the fact that four hundred and five names are actually printed in alphabetical order in the catalogue! The same document shows, however, that one hundred and ninety-two of the 405 are in the Medical Department, which is nothing more than the Medical College at Nashville, which was an old, well established institution many years before the corner-stone of Vanderbilt was laid. Thirty-one of the 405 are members of the Law Department, and this too, like the Medical Department, existed long before the University was thought of, and both are mere attaches (sic) of the University, or rather the University is an attache (sic) to them, for they have the prestige of seniority and of independent existence. Fifty-three more of the 405 are in the Theological Department; ministers of the gospel, and really not college students at all; when all these spurious figures are deducted, the collapse that takes place reduces the huge number of 405 down to the not very astonishing figure of one hundred and twenty-nine! So, when the touchstone of analysis is applied, we see that Vanderbilt, with all the charm of novelty, and with all its millions, and with all its really magnificent appointments, far surpassing anything at the South, and with all its other varied attractions, shows a number of students very little larger than ours, which is so much ridiculed! An examination of the catalogues of many of the institutions said to be marvelously prosperous would show, I think, that the case last under consideration is a specimen case; and that when the bottom facts are reached, there is not so much difference between their success and ours as people, catching up idle rumors, have been led to suppose. Considering certain difficulties with which we have had to struggle, the only surprise is that we have done so well. The frightful evil which I mentioned last
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August 1878 year, namely, that the institution seems to be in a state of continuous real or threatened revolution, still exists. I do not know that I can excuse myself any better now than in my Report of last year, and, therefore, quote from that document the following language: The great decline in the number of students is not owing wholly to financial causes. It arises partly from the fact that public confidence in the institution is shaken by the perpetual changes made in its management. This begets a feeling of unrest, disquiet and suspicion. Where everything is unstable it is natural to suppose that something is wrong, and radically wrong. A line of policy is no sooner adopted than it is set aside, and another is put in its place. There is too much legislation. In innumerable instances it matters but little what the law is, so it is only permanent. If wholesome regulations were adopted, once for all, or at least for a decade, and if these were left untouched, things would soon adjust themselves to each other, and confidence would be restored. It is believed, too, that the Faculty are mere tenants at will, -liable to be displaced at any moment, either with cause or without; and every year speculation is rife as to who will compose the Faculty for the succeeding year. The friends of certain parties hope to find places for them in the Faculty by displacing others, and this makes every officer a target for the shafts of the envious; many things are said, the object of which is merely to empty a chair that it may be filled by another, but the effect of which is to damage the whole institution. If this out-cry is ignored, then the public are led to believe that the institution is not properly officered; if it is listened to, then a role of never-ending change is inaugurated, and the management of the institution
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Chancellors Report passes from the hands of the Trustees to those of anonymous, and, of course, irresponsible writers in the newspapers. While an officer is here, a cry is made by interested outsiders to have him dismissed; when he is dismissed or made so uncomfortable that he resigns, a cry is made by his friends to have him back. Thus it is that the officers are more like the lodgers at a hotel, then like citizens with a domicil(sic). The people seeing this uncertainty in the tenure of office, suppose it to arise from a want of confidence in the officers, and, consequently, they too lose confidence, & are unwilling to patronize the institution. The only remedy for this, is for the Board to see that the chairs are filled by suitable men, and to let the public understand that no changes will be made. Indeed as a choice of evils it would be better to retain a small proportion of incompetent officers, rather than that the whole institution should be racked by perpetual earthquakes. But this is not necessary. The Board can always judge of an officer by his work. If he does it well he should be retained at all hazards, and in spite of any clamor that may be raised against him. If he shows himself to be incapable, or negligent, or unadapted to his position, he should be promptly displaced, without regard to the displeasure which such action might give to his friends, and however numerous his friends might be. The public should learn that the decisions of this Board are unaffected by outside influences, and that they are supreme and final. It may be a mere repetition, in substance, of what has been said in this extract, but I cannot refrain from saying further, that the position in which the officers are supposed to be placed inviting attack, and encouraging war upon them, the result has been that ceaseless war has been waged; the war has always been merciless, frequently scandalous, and sometimes unscrupulous. An officer could so far unbend his dignity as to reply to scurrilous attacks, nor to
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August 1878. attacks of any kind; and hence column after column of this kind of literature has been launched upon the public, and people have imagined because it was not answered and contradicted, that it could not be. This has been kept up for four years. Is it any wonder that the institution has suffered. The wonder is that it has been able to stand at all! Such perpetual dropping would wear away a rock. Yet the very men who have so industriously kept up this ceaseless cavil are left to be frequently making the anxious inquiry, What can be the matter with the State University? And our very best friends, by frequently making the same inquiry, and by injudicious defense, though with good intentions, sometimes do us great damage, so that we often exclaim, Save us from our friends! And many times have we thought that if all the world, including alike friends and foes, would only bless us with the charity of silence, and let us alone, we should ask no more. It is an evidence of the intrinsic merit of the University, and of its wonderful resistive however, that it has been able to withstand the combined effect of convulsions within and ceaseless attack from without. Its friends and enemies seem to have combined to open upon it a destroying fire in front and in rear, and yet it still lives; and has power and vitality enough, if it were only let alone for a season, to recuperate entirely and recover all its former prestige. If your honorable body will put the faculty on a solid foundation, and take some pains to make the public understand that you have confidence in them, and that you intend to retain them, and protect them, and sustain them, I have not the shadow of a doubt that
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Chancellors Report. the number of students would be speedily increased. If you cannot conscientiously give such support to the present Faculty, then I earnestly recommend that you remove all of them, including myself, or so many of them as may be necessary, and fill their places with more suitable men.
A great misfortune that besets the Faculty is, that they have not sufficient control over the domestic affairs of the institution. I give the same illustration of this that I have been in the habit of giving. Over and over for years past, the request has been made that the giving of medals in and by the Societies be prohibited. Untold disorders spring from this insignificant source, absolutely uncompensated for, by any good result whatever. The Faculty are, and always have been, unanimous in their disapprobation of it. Yet it has been continued, and the Faculty have been held responsible for the demoralization that it produced. I am happy to say that this evil has worked its own cure. Its consequences became so damaging that the students themselves abolished it of their own accord. But they have the right to restore it, and when its evils have been forgotten, they may do so. I do not ask that any action in this particular case be taken; but I do ask that all laws and parts of laws which deny to the Faculty the complete control of the everyday life of the institution be repealed.
I am also of the opinion that the presiding officer of the Faculty ought to be a member of the Board of Trustees, or, at least, that he should be allowed to occupy a seat with them and participate in their deliberations. The Faculty who know, or who ought to know, more about the institution than all the rest of the world together, are absolutely excluded from it councils; and the Trustees, who are with us only three or four days in the year, and that, too, not when the institution is in working order, but on a holiday occasion, legislate on subjects concerning which
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August 1878. They have little or no information. It is not surprising that much of this legislation should be exceedingly embarrassing to the Faculty, and injurious to the best interests of the institution. It would be a miracle if it were not so. True, the Chancellor is permitted to make an annual report, but experience has shown that many of his suggestions are either overlooked or misunderstood, or, without careful inquiry as to their value, set aside. The Faculty need a living advocate to be present with this body, to explain and urge their views. My distinguished predecessor, Dr. Church, was a member of this body, and the president of it. At that time the Trustees and the Faculty were happily en rapport. Such, I think, has never been the case since that day; and the institution can never be in healthy condition until these two bodies are in such relation to each other that they can act in concert. In my report of last year, I expressed my disapprobation of what is known with us as the University System, and called attention to some of the many evils with which the introduction of that system, some years ago, has afflicted us. I also recommended a return to the old and well known system called sometimes the Curriculum system, and sometimes the College system. I suggested, at the same time, that three parallel curricula might be established in such a way as to satisfy the demands of those who desired varied education, and yet avoiding the difficulties and confusion into which the University system, so called, had plunged us. To my great gratification, your honorable body appointed a committee to take the matter into consideration, instructing said committee to confer with the Faculty on the subject. At the request of the chairman of that committee, the Faculty presented to him a statement of their views, which may be found in the printed document herewith
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Chancellors Report. submitted. An examination of that paper will show that there are two reports, one from all the Faculty except myself, the other from myself alone. On one print there is quite a divergence of views, but on the essential point there is no difference of opinion whatever. The evils complained of by me are admitted; the remedies suggested by me are accepted. It is agreed by all, that we should have a system of close curricula, exactly such as you, gentlemen of the Board, were accustomed to in your own college days. All the new-fangled notions, which have been our scourge for the last seven years, are expurgated. True, we shall have six courses of study instead of one, and the student can select which he will of the six, but, having done this, he has no further option. It is as if six trains of cars were drawn up at a depot, the traveler buys his ticket and selects his train. After that he is in the hands of the conductor. In the working of this plan, after it gets fairly onfoot, I think there will be no difficulty, and I think it will remedy all, or nearly all, the evils complained of in my last report. The plan proposed by the Faculty is precisely the plan proposed by me in that report, except that six curricula are prescribed instead of three. I question the wisdom of this, and, if I had been supreme and alone in the premises, I should have limited the number to three, but in deference to my honored colleagues I yield this point, and accept the six curricula. It is, after all, a matter of minor importance. The real point, in fact, the only point in issue is, whether we shall, or shall not have a system of fixed curricula. On this point the Faculty and myself are a unit. When this is said, substantially all is said. The difference between the plan on which we have been working, and that which we now propose, is in substance about this: that in the former case the Faculty adjusted themselves to the wishes of the students; now the students
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August 1878. must adjust themselves to the wishes of the Faculty. The institution passing over from the control of boys to that of men, must, I think, by greatly benefitte(sic).
The resolution of your honorable body under which this action of the Faculty was taken, is as follows:
Resolved, -That the subject of a return to the curriculum system and the abandonment in whole or in part of what is known as the University system, shall be referred to a select committee of five, to report thereon at the next annual meeting, consulting the Faculty as to said report. With the text of the this resolution before me, I have taken the affirmative, and have argued in favor of a return to the curriculum system, and of theabandonment of what is known as the University system. My esteemed colleagues, it appears to me, have lost sight of the text, and have argued to show that the curriculum system and what is known as the University system, are substantially the same thing; or, at least, that the former can be so administered as to make it identical with the latter, and they urge that it be so administered. That is, (according to my view) they retain the name while they change the thing. Here is where I differ with them; I would change both the name and the thing. If it be possible to get rid of the name I think it would be wise to do so, for the name is associated with nothing but confusion and disorder. If the name be retained, the suspicion will still linger in the minds of the people that the chaos which that name once described still remains, and the sooner it is understood that the reign of confusion has ceased, the better it will be for us. It is unfortunate indeed, that changes in the University should be so frequent, but in my opinion, nothing would be more
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Chancellors Report. popular just now, than a new departure; and the more complete our departure is, in name as well as in fact, from the quagmire in which we have been floundering for the last seven years, the more popular it will be. This whole subject, however, is discussed in the printed document above referred to, where both sides are fairly represented; and to that document I most earnestly ask your careful attention. Both parties are willing to rest the case on the argument there set forth. But whatever may be the decision of the minor issue there discussed, I shall always feel that the most valuable and important act of my whole professional life, was that in which I called attention to the evils of our so-called University system, and inaugurated the present movement, which, whatever may be my destiny, I know must result in benefit of incalculable value to the University of Georgia. To have been its chief officer is comparatively a small matter, for that position may have been occupied unworthily(sic); but to have been its benefactor, whether so recognized or not, is matter of thankfulness and joy. At the last meeting of this Board, the following resolution was passed:
Resolved, that upon the certificate of the President of the North Georgia Agricultural College that a young man there graduating has undergone a satisfactory examination in all the studies required by the University of Georgia for a Bachelors degree in any named department, such graduate shall be entitled to receive such degree from the University.
In consequence of this resolution a certain correspondence took place between President Lewis and myself, which best explains itself, and which is herewith submitted. The meaning of the resolution, as I interpret it, is that the certificate of the President of the North Georgia Agricultural College must show that students who have actually graduated at Dahlonega, have made attainments exactly the same
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August 1878. in variety and in degree as those who graduate at Athens. Under present conditions this is manifestly impossible; and, consequently, when I was applied to by President Lewis to confer the degree of Bachelor of Arts on some eight or ten young gentlemen who had pursued their studies at Dahlonega, I declined doing so. The Board of Trustees, however, of the Department at Dahlonega, in the exercise of a right conferred on them by law, did confer the degree of Bachelor of Arts on these young gentlemen; and called on me, as the presiding officer over the University in all its Departments, to sign the diplomas awarded, and to deliver them. Having advised with the Professor of Law, I decided that it was my duty to comply with this request; and I, accordingly, in my official capacity, did sign the diplomas, and did deliver them. But the diploma was not the diploma of the University of Georgia; it was the diploma of the North Georgia Agricultural College, and I did not act in the premises under the resolution above quoted. I would have taken the same action if that resolution had never been passed, which, as matters now stand, is likely to remain a dead letter for some years. I beg to call your special attention to that resolution, and to the misunderstanding which arose from it; and I would respectfully suggest that it would be well either to repeal it, or to pass another explaining or modifying it, so as to prevent the occurrence of trouble in future. I think that if the interpretation put in it by me were declared to be the true meaning the result would be all that could be desired. It would be well, however, to specify that in ascertaining that attainments of the students at Dahlonega the same examination papers must be used which are used in Athens.
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Chancellors Report.
It appears to me that the expenses of the University, in many particulars, might be greatly reduced, & that the money thus saved might be judiciously applied in other directions. For example, there are five officers, to wit: the Chancellor, the Professor of Ethics, the Professor of Belles Lettres, the Professor of History and the Professor of English Literature, whose duties could be discharged by three men, or, if a fourth were needed, the place could be filled by a tutor at a very small salary. Three would probably suffice, and the salaries of the other two might be saved.
The President of the State College has an extra compensation of two hundred and fifty dollars. This expenditure is wholly unnecessary. One presiding officer is far better than two, however excellent the two may be. If the law requires that the State college shall have a President as a district officer, let the Chancellor be elected to that office, without extra pay, and thus save the two hundred and fifty dollars. It is proper for me to say, that the relations between President Charbonnier and myself are, and always have been, and I doubt not always will be, of the most agreeable character. I have never seen a man in my life with whom I could work more harmoniously; and if the State College must have a President other than the Chancellor, and if I had the power to select one, Col. Charbonnier would be my first choice. But it is needless to waste two hundred and fifty dollars; and this is worse than wasted, for the reason that one chief officer is better than two.
The office of Inspector of Public Buildings is also a needless one. The duties attached to that position might and ought to be discharged by the Chancellor, and that without extra pay; and thus two hundred and fifty dollars more might be saved. The Overseer of the Agricultural Farm is paid a salary of one thousand dollars, besides which he has his house rent free. It is no part of his duty to instruct students, nor has he ever instructed one. His only duty
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August 1878. is to oversee a farm, so called, of thirty acres, half of which, or more, is under cultivation. It does appear to me that one thousand dollars and house-rent is an enormous price to pay for a mere overseer of a thirty acre farm. An inspection of the Treasurers books will show that more than eighteen hundred dollars has been expended on this farm during the present year, in addition to the salary above spoken of. True, a part of this was for a new roof on the building, and a part was for an extra amount of fencing; the rest was for current expenses. Taken altogether, the outlay has been enormous, and if any benefit whatever has accrued therefrom to any of the students, I am not aware of it.
Besides all this, the Professor of Agriculture receives a salary of two thousand dollars, and while it is true that he has taught geology and natural history, yet, as a matter of fact, no student has studied Agriculture this year. As to the management of the farm, I am not a competent judge; but I am informed that land ought to be broken up in the autumn, or, if not, then in January or February or March. If I am correctly informed, no plough was put into the ground on the University farm untill(sic) about the middle of April. The cotton, I suppose, ought all to have been planted by that time, and the corn long before. The growing crop is said, by judges of such things, to be very poor, perhaps the poorest in the neighborhood; and this, I suppose is just what might have been expected. My opinion is worth very little on agricultural matters; but the glaring facts which I have stated, & the immense expenditure which has been made, are enough to attract the attention of any one, and I have felt that I would not be discharging my duty as presiding officer of the University without bringing them to your notice. Possibly, I may have misstated the facts; I hope it may be so, though I have not done it
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Chancellors Report. intentionally. Possibly, I may have done injustice to some; if so, I shall be in haste to repair the injury as soon as possible; but I must express my conviction that many hundreds, if not several thousands of dollars have been wasted during the past year on the Agricultural Department; and my further conviction, that not one iota of benefit has been received from it by anybody. I trust that the whole subject will be carefully investigated, and if I am found to be in error, I shall promptly acknowledge it, and make my humbles apologies. If the evils I have complained of be real, I doubt not that they will be speedily remedied. The duties of the Professor of Greek have been admirably discharged by that most excellent and faithful officer, Professor Waddell. But I feel bound to say that the University of Georgia is probably the only institution of equal pretentions(sic) in the United States, or in the world, which has only one Professorship of Ancient Languages. I earnestly recommend the re-establishment of the chair, and the election of a suitable person to fill it. The increased expense need be no objection, for some of the thousands expended in other directions might, in my opinion, be better appropriated in this way. The chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy is also vacant. Professors Charbonnier, White and Little, have discharged the duties of this chair, and deserve thanks for their able and efficient services. But that this temporary arrangement should be made permanent, is a thing not to be thought of. In this connection it is proper to say, that I believe the Professorship or Engineering is unnecessary for the present, as a distinct chair, and, as such, might be dispensed with. It might be combined with the Professorship of Natural Philosophy, provided that an adjunct Professor were appointed to assist in the two departments. This adjunct Professor might be had for a thousand dollars, and thus half of a Professors salary might be saved, and the duties of the two Departments would be just as well discharged. I do not
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August 1878. say this arrangement would always be wise, but only that it is so under the present circumstances. If the Board will appoint a committee to consult with the Professor of Engineering, I think it will be found that his views coincide with mine. I do not see why, with a good economy, a suitable corps of instructors cannot be sustained by the present income of the University, exclusive of tuition fees. I, therefore, repeat the recommendation of last year, that free tuition be given to all; requiring, however, an annual payment of ten dollars, half of which for the increase of the library, and the other half for the repair of the buildings.
Much has recently been said about the desirableness of establishing another Agricultural College at Milledgeville, and yet another at Thomasville. From what I have already said on the subject of Agricultural Colleges, it may be well inferred, that in my opinion, such institutions are not needed. One really first-class institution of the kind, such as we have here, is all that the State can support; indeed, even one is more than could be largely supplied with properly prepared students, even if board and clothing were bestowed gratis as well as tuition. The number of young men who really desire thorough scientific education is small; not a great many could be induced to take it on any terms. Hence the people seem to be calling for what they really do not need. But if by Agricultural Colleges they mean good schools, I am free to say that we can scarcely have too many of them. And if your honorable body can do any-thing to encourage and foster the establishment of such schools, I am sure you will do it. I should be happy indeed to see the initiative in this direction taken by the University, especially as in this case the schools established would be its feeders and not its rivals.
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Chancellors Report. Financial help the University is not able to give, especially if the plan of free tuition be adopted. Our funds, if scattered in all directions, would be of little service to any body, while, if concentrated here, they suffice to support one grand institution. Certainly it would not be wise to fritter away a splendid endowment into nothingness; certainly it would be a cruel thing, indeed it would be barbaric cruelty, to destroy a magnificent institution like this, in order to build a half dozen academics on its ruins. It would be like the vandalism that pulls down solemn temples to obtain materials for less noble purposes.
But if the moral power of this University, and of its Trustees and friends, were brought to bear upon our Legislature, a system of high schools, possibly one in each Congressional District, might be established as parts of the University, and under the supervision of your honorable body, which greatly promote the educational interests of our people.
I have no matured plan to suggest, but, simply call attention to what has been said in regard to Milledgeville and Thomasville, in order partly to show my sympathy, partly to give some direction to the movement, and partly in the hope that some abler mind may be led to propose something that shall be practicable and satisfactory. Any plan which will build up, without pulling down, will be a blessing to the community; while, on the other hand, any plan which pulls down, in order that it may build up, not only will do no good, but will, at last, accomplish in full the errand of the destroyer. It may not be amiss for me to say, in this connection, that the term Agricultural College, as applied to such schools as the people need, is a misnomer, and, like all other misnomers, is a misleader. In the first place, such schools are not in any sense agricultural. Practical agriculture can-not be taught at such a
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August 1878. school, nor, indeed, as I think, at any school; and the sciences which underlie the subject of agriculture are altogether too deep, and too broad, and too high for the capacity of boys at school. All that such boy can do is to learn the beginnings of knowledge, and these are exactly the same for all classes of people, whether farmers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, mechanics, manufacturers, or anything else. To call a school of this kind agricultural is simply to use a catch-word to take the popular ear, and to furnish a pretext for the use of funds intended for other purposes. In the second place, such schools are not colleges; it is not possible to supply them with the appliances of a college, and if they were so supplied, the appliances would be of no use, for the students are not sufficiently advanced to be able to appreciate them. As already said, the State does not produce suitable students in sufficient number to afford a large supply even to one real college, much less to a dozen. If these mere academics are called colleges, of course they must confer degrees, and boast of their alumni, etc. Thus are the people misled. These so-called graduates are soon found to be not at all superior to those who are not graduates, and thus what is supposed to be education is brought into contempt, and the real graduate, who has received a bona fide degree from a real college, is also held at a discount. Thus the counterfeit, while not lifting itself up, does pull the genuine down. I protest against all pulling down, and against all counterfeits, and against all misnomers. We need no more Agricultural Colleges, and certainly we shall have no more of them in fact, even if we should be unwise enough to have them in name. But some first class academics, where students can be prepared for the most excellent college which we have, are greatly needed;
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Chancellors Report. and to encourage the establishment of these at Milledgeville, Thomasville, or elsewhere, has been the object of the foregoing remarks. Since this Board last met the angel of death has broken its circle. I cannot close my address without pausing for a moment to pay a tribute to the memory of the Hon. William Hope Hull. Modest, but wise; unostentatious of merit, but pure; of noble impulses, of genial presence, of few faults, let us hope that, through the merits of the Redeemer, he has been accepted of God; and while we lament his loss, let us hope that God, from His great treasure-house of excellence, will supply his place with another, whose counsels may be as true, whose labors as efficient, and whose character as excellent and engaging. It is also proper for me to mention, which I do with a very sad heart, the death of my esteemed friend & colleague, Professor George Bancroft. He was a good officer, and a good man. He did his duty faithfully and well; he died in the faith, and I have no doubt that his glorious eulogy has been pronounced by the Judge of all the earth. In conclusion, it affords me the greatest pleasure to say, that during the year the students have usually been quiet, orderly, attentive and industrious. Occasions of discipline have been wonderfully rare; and if our record could be compared with that of other colleges, I have no doubt that our friends would be exultant with pride and joy. There have been two little ebullitions of juvenile folly, but these have been sporadic, neither preceded nor succeeded by other disorder, and I have been assured by some of those engaged in them, but nothing was intended more than what was supposed to be harmless sport. Where I have spoken highly of our students I never meant that they were angels; I have only meant that as college students they will compare favorably with any that I ever saw or ever heard of; and, if it be (25)
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thought that this eulogy is too high, all I have to say is, that I and they invite investigation. In the Faculty, as in all deliberative bodies, differences of opinions have occasionally arisen, but they have always been discussed with dignity and courtesy; and whatever plans have been or may be adopted, there is nothing in the way of hearty and unanimous co-operation. Commending the University to God, and praying that He will so guide its affairs as to make it a blessing to the State and to the world, I have the honor to be, gentlemen of the Board of Trustees,
Your obedient servant, Henry H. Tucker, University of Georgia, July 24, 1878. Chancellor.
----------Supplementary Report, ---------of Chancellor. To the Honorable The Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia. Gentlemen,
The report which has been already presented, was prepared some days ago in order that it might be printed in time for your use. Events have transpired since then which require official notice.
The Faculty recommended that the following degrees be conferred.
Master of Arts. William F. Brown. Bachelor of Arts.
Richard D. Callaway, Charles L. Floyd, Daniel I. McIntyre, William L.C. Palmer, George G. Sale, Paul B. Trammell, Nicholas B. Chennault, John J. Huguley, Thomas S. Mell, James G. Russell, James B. Shields, Benton H. Walton.
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Chancellors Supplementary Report.
Bachelor of Chemical Science. George H. Jackson, Richard J. Mosely,
L. Robert Coates, William D. Dearing.
Civil Engineer. Bliss Woodward.
Bachelor of Engineering.
Benjamin M. Gross, T. Foster McFarland,
Moses Michael.
Bachelor of Laws.
Philip W. Davis, Thomas W.H. Harris,
Alva C. Lowrey, George D. Thomas,
Henry H. Tucker Jr.
I beg leave also to submit the following Reports, which explain themselves, and to which I respectfully call your attention. 1st, The Report of the President of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 2nd, The Report of the Professor of Law. 3rd, The Report of the Librarian.
In the haste of preparing my former report for the printer, I omitted to mention several things which I beg to mention now. A small portrait of Dr. Josiah Meigs, the first President of this University, exquisitely painted on wood, has been presented to the University by Mrs. Catharine Gresham of the County of Greene. I was obtained from her for the University by the efforts of my excellent friend the Rev. Dr. John Jones of Atlanta who has written in a letter to Dr. William L. Mitchell a history of the picture, including some items of interest in the biography of Dr. Meigs. I respectfully suggest that the portrait be placed in suitable position in the Library Room of the University; that the thanks of the Board be tendered to Rev. Dr. Jones, and that his letter be spread on the records of the institution; and that some suitable acknowledgement be made to Mrs. Catharine Gresham for her beautiful &
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August 1878. valuable donation. I beg to say too, that if that acknowledgement were to take pecuniary shape, it would be very acceptable to the excellent and venerable lady; though in justice to her, I must say that she has asked for nothing, and has given no hint that she desires or expects anything. Still I think it would be becoming if the University should show some appreciation of the generosity of a high-born woman in reduced circumstances.
Three years ago I suggested to the Board the propriety of employing Miss Kate Milledge, an excellent artist, to paint for the University a Portrait of her illustrious grandfather Governor John Milledge, the erliest (sic) benefactor of the University and one of its chief founders. I also made an argument sustaining my views; but in the press of business, what I then said was over-looked. I beg now to call attention to the subject again, and to request that a Committee be appointed to negotiate with Miss Milledge, and that bounds be prescribed within which the Committee shall have power to act. In discharge of my official duty I have employed the Rev. James O. Branch of Savannah, to preach the Commencement Sermon. I request that the usual appropriation be made to defray his expenses.
Just as I was about to close the Report I received information that the Campus is again in a most deplorable condition on account of scarcity of water. There is one well which I am informed will probably yield a good supply of water if it were blasted five or six feet deeper, I beg that the subject may be taken into consideration.
Respectfully submitted,
H.H. Tucker Chancellor.
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Chancellors Supplementary Report. To the Honorable
The Board of Trustees. Gentlemen,
By a strange oversight I neglected in my former Report, to state that since the death of Professor George Bancroft, his duties, which were by no means light, have been faithfully discharged, chiefly, by Professor Rutherford. A class in Arithmetic has been taught by Professor Lumpkin. With this exception, the whole burden of extra duty has fallen on Professor Rutherford alone.
I have the honor to be
Gentlemen,
Your obt. svt.
H.H. Tucker Chancellor.
The Chancellors Reports with the accompanying documents viz: The Report of L.J. Charbonnier President of the Georgia State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, The Report of Wm. L. Mitchell Professor of Law, and The Report of Wm. M. Brown Librarian were laid on the table and ordered to be referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline when appointed.
Mr. Thomas Chairman of the Finance Committee and Mr. Harris Chairman of the Committee on Buildings made their annual Reports which were laid on the table for the present. The Board then adjourned to 5 oclock this afternoon.
August 2nd 1878. 5. P.M. The Board met according to adjournment. Mr. Vason appeared and took his seat. Petitions in relation to the Library were presented by Mr. Jackson and by Mr. Stephens and referred to the Committee on the Library.
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August 1878. Mr. Yancey Chairman of the standing Committee on Agriculture and Horticulture submitted his Report which was adopted and is as follows:
To the Honorable Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia,
Your Committee on Experimental farm, in Department of Agriculture, report;
That while the amount of extra labor for the year 1877 was only $14.25, that item for 1878 to date has been $95.45. This increase of expenses has been reasonable, and is justified by a necessity, which will not arise in the future. Professor Pendleton resigned the chair of Agriculture & Horticulture, and Dr. Little was elected his successor early in 1877. Professor Pendleton having left no record of the manner & amount of manure applied to the numerous and respective plats of ground, for several years, no scientific value could be attached to the results of the various crops produced on such plats. Hence it becomes necessary to make the experiments on other ground which had not been cultivated for a number of years, and upon ground which had to be cleared, each of which pieces would approximate to uniformity. Four acres of wooded land was cleared, and thoroughly grubbed; and thirteen acres of an old and unfenced field, well matted with Bermuda grass, and tramped by cattle, for many years, in grazing. These pieces of ground required more than trible(sic) the labor to prepare them for cultivation, and to cultivate than the former regular farm, and a duplication of the horse power usually used on the farm. An additional expense had to be incurred for lumber, post, nails and work in fencing the 13 acres of old field land. This expense, and cost of extra labor and farm tools, blacksmithing, and repairing of wagon, present a total expenditure of $225.65. The wages of the regular labor $200.00. Making a total of $425.65. From the present outlook of the growing crops,
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Reports of Agriculture & Apparatus. there will be sufficient income, at fair market prices, after reserving a year supply of grain for the farm horse, to reimburse the Treasury for the above expenditure.
For the next year there should be, after meeting all ordinary expenses, sales of the products of the farm sufficient to pay into the Treasure from $200 to $300.
There are about 60 cords of wood, of the clearing referred to, on hand, much more than is necessary for next winters use, and the surplus may be sold. The Committee will not ask the usual appropriation, to meet the necessary expenses of the farm, occurring through winter, spring, summer and fall months, before the sales of products can meet them, as the Professor of the chair of Agriculture and Horticulture can retain in his hands a sufficient sum to meet absolute expenses.
{Ben. C. Yancey, Chairman.
{Dav. W. Lewis.
The standing Committee on Apparatus submitted their report which was laid on the table and subsequently taken up and adopted and is as follows:
The Standing Committee on Apparatus beg leave to submit their report:
The Committee in a body made a personal examination of each Room in Moore College and found every Instrument and Appliance in good order, properly arranged, and ready for use in illustration & experiment.
The Department under the eyes of Professors Charbonnier and White are very attractive and well worth a visit from every member of the Board and every Alumnus of the University, and every intelligent citizen of Georgia. The Apparatus of Natural Philosophy has been properly arranged and systematized during the year, and when enriched by a judicious out-lay of the money on hand, will be as complete as most of our best endowed American Colleges and Universities. The Committee is assured by Professors Charbonnier and
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August 1878. White, that so soon as all the funds generously granted by the Legislature of 1875 are expended they will have a suitable Book, in which will be recorded each piece of Apparatus and other things of permanent value for the use of the Committee, or any member of the Board so that by a yearly examination in detail, it will be an easy matter to ascertain the presence and condition of every article, and to hold the Professors to a rigid accountability!
The Committee submit the following resolutions and ask their adoption:
Resolved, That it is a source of sincere gratification to the Board of Trustees to know that the Departments of Civil Engineering and of Chemistry filled respectively by L.W. Charbonnier and H.C. White are so complete in all their appointments and so ably officered by those gentlemen of science, genius and high culture.
Resolved, The the thanks of this Board are due to Professors Charbonnier and White for the cheerful and efficient service rendered by them in performing the duties of the Professorship of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy when it became vacant by the non-acceptance of Col. C.C. Jones and they are hereby thanked.
Respectfully submitted Wm. L. Mitchell Chairman August 2nd. 1878.
Wm. L. Mitchell, Chairman of the Prudential Committee submitted an abstract of the proceedings of said Committee since the last annual meeting of the Board which was laid on the table but subsequently taken up and adopted as to such points as require our action viz: ---1st. Lot number 3 negotiated to Mr. R.L. Bloomfield for $100.00 was authorized to be sold to him for that
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Prudential Committees Abstract. sum, and the President of the Board authorized and requested to execute to him a quit claim deed there for.
----2nd. Scholarships were granted to Martin Institute of Jefferson, Jackson County, to the Richmond County High School, and Rome, Male High School and also to the Milledgeville High School, as such scholarships have heretofore been granted other institutions, viz:
To each of said Schools three Scholarships, one annually, for the Sophomore Class in the Department of Arts, so that each of said Schools will have a Scholarship to reward their best schollar (sic) every year in perpetuo. He must be their best schollar (sic). ----3rd. The arrangement made with Professor Waddell to allow him to erect at his own expense four rooms with the right to remove them at pleasure, was confirmed.
The Memorial from the Citizens of Cuthbert was referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline when appointed. Mr. Cobb Chairman of the Standing Committee on the Library submitted his report which was laid on the table
The Standing Committee on Laws and Discipline was appointed by the chair, and consists of Messrs. Toombs, Chairman, Stephens, Pierce, Billups & Brown.
The Board then adjourned to 10 oclock tomorrow morning.
August 3rd. 1878, 10 A.M. The Board met according to adjournment. Mr. Lawton appeared and took his seat. The resignation of Mr. Jenkins was read. The Committee of five of which Mr. Stephens is Chairman, reported, and their report was referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline, without reading. Mr. Lewis presented the Memorial of the City of Milledgeville which was also referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline. Mr. Lewis was appointed to invite the Delegates from Mil
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August 1878. -ledgeville to appear before the Board at this time; whereupon Mr. Crawford and Mayor Walker appeared. Mr. Crawford advocated the establishment of a College by the Trustees of the University of Georgia at Milledgeville, by Legislative grants as detailed in a bill to be passed by the next Legislature and which bill was referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline.
On motion of Genl. Lawton
Mr. Jenkins resignation was declined, and his excuse for absence accepted. Excuses were also made and accepted for Messrs. Hammond, Screven, Seward and Gresham.
Mr. Jackson moved to go into the election of a Trustee to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Hull; which motion prevailed and the Board proceeded to ballot and upon counting out the votes it appeared that His Excellency Alfred H. Colquitt was duly elected.
Mr. Toombs Chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline reported back to the Board Mr. Stephens report as chairman of the Committee of five, and moved its adoption, and it was unanimously adopted, and is as follows:
The Committee on Laws and Discipline, to whom was referred the report of the Committee of five appointed at the last session of this Board to whom was referred the following resolution, viz:
Resolved, That the subject of a return to the curriculum system and the abandonment in whole or in part of what is known as the University system, shall be referred to a select committee of five, to report thereon at the next annual meeting, consulting the Faculty as to said report:
beg leave to report, that your committee recommend the adoption of the report of said Committee of five, herewith reported back, and that your Committee be, and is hereby instructed to put the
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Report of the Stephens.
recommendations of said Report in the form of a fundamental statute of this University. Mr. Stephens Chairman of the Committee of five read the Report referred to above and which was unanimously adopted and is as follows: The Committee of five to whom the following resolution --
Resolved: That the subject of return to the Curriculum System, and the abandonment in whole or in part of what is known as the University System, shall be referred to a select Committee of Five, to report thereon at the next Annual Meeting, consulting the Faculty as to said report. --
was referred at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees who have had the same under consideration, and have given it mature thought and reflection. Two of the Committee, early after the adjournment of the Board at the last Annual Session, visited the University and conferred with the Faculty upon the entire subject. The evils of the existing system, in the opinion of your committee, were great and glaring. At first they found considerable diversity of opinion among the Faculty, both as to the existence of any radical evils in the system, and as to the proper remedy -if papers which have been submitted to the Committee on behalf of the Chancellor and the Professors referred to in his present Annual Report. The Committee has been exceedingly gratified at the unanimity of the Chancellor and Professors which has been attained on this important subject, and therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the evils of the system adopted in 1870 are so great as to call for prompt reform.
Resolved, That the said system be abandoned & the Curriculum system as now recommended by all the Professors and sanctioned by the Chancellor -as set forth in schedules A and B, in the papers referred to herein before -be adopted in lieu of the same in this University.
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Provided that the graduation of a student and the degree which shall be recommended to be conferred in the Curriculum pursued by him shall be in accordance with the joint judgement of the Faculty, upon the general average of the standing of the student in the whole course, and shall not depend upon the judgement of any one Professor in any department.
The following are the papers referred to in the foregoing Report of Mr. Stephens,
The Faculty of the University of Georgia to the
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens,
Benj. C. Yancey,
A. R. Lawton
Jos. E. Brown.
Committee. Gentlemen:
In response to a request of the Honorable Board of Trustees for an expression of opinion, as to the advisability of making any change in the system upon which the Institution is at this time conducted, the Faculty of the University of Georgia, have, individually and as a body, given the matter careful consideration and serious thought, and now in special session met, beg to present to the Board, through your Committee, the following, as an expression of their views.
1.
The Faculty are of opinion that the one course College Curriculum system, under which the Franklin College was formerly conducted, is not suited to the present development and extensive scope of the State University. A return to that system, they believe would seriously impair the efficiency of the University, and, indeed, prove fatal to its existence as a high grade Institution, working in harmony with modern ideas regarding liberal education.

2.
The Faculty are further of opinion that any advance


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Curriculum of University Systems. towards the free and pure University system (as that of Virginia and the Continent) would, at this time, be inexpedient, as unsuitable to the educational condition of our people and not necessary to their present requirements.
3. As the system under which the University is at present organized, and which was adopted by the Board of Trustees in 1879, is a modified form of both the Curriculum and the University systems, occupying a position intermediate between the two; and as the combination of Curriculum and selection which it presents, permits the prosecution of the highest and most extensive orders of education, and is, at the same time, perfectly adapted to the character of work which is required of the University by its patrons, the Faculty are of opinion that a rigid adherence to the Curricula of the present established Courses would render any change in the existing system at this time unnecessary.
In support of this opinion the Faculty would respectfully call the attention of the Board of Trustees to the following considerations which have led to its adoption.
1. The main differences between the old College system and the present, (so called) University system are:
(a.) The existence, at present, of several parallel courses of study, through which students may obtain degrees of graduation; whereas, formerly, but one uniform course was recognized.
(b.) The requirement, at present made, that the student shall obtain a certificate of proficiency in each of the studies belonging to his proper course; whereas, formerly, but an average proficiency in all of the studies was required.
(c.) The permission now accorded to students to select, at the beginning of the Junior year, the course of study (but not the studies themselves) which they may wish to pursue; when as, formerly, with but one, uniform course,
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no such selection could be exercised.
(d.) As a result of the above, the present independence of each Department or School of the University, whereby increased proficiency in each is secured at the same time that mutual adaptability & harmony in the several courses of study are preserved.
2.
While the old A.B. course -in the working of which the venerable Franklin College graduated many Alumni -is, therefore, preserved in the present organization in all of its integrity and unchanged -save in the matter of increased proficiency as above noted -the expansion into the State University, with the addition of new School Departments, has required the creation of new courses of study and new graduation degrees. This requirement has simply been met by the expansion from the old College to the present modified form of the University system.

3.
The Schools of Modern Languages and of History and Political Science, and several new Schools of Natural Science are the special outgrowth of the University organization. These Departments are deemed of paramount importance to an Institution which professes to furnish opportunities for instruction in all recognized branches of higher education. Under the old organization no provision was made for these Departments in the regular course. In the present system they are provided for by the arrangement of several courses, in some of which the Modern Languages and Natural Sciences replace the Classics of the A.B. course. Thus opportunities are offered for the attainment of a collegiate education through several distinct channels.

4.
The creation, in 1870, of the State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts as a coordinate Department of the State University, with distinct educational objects & purposes -in part prescribed by law -and its incorporation into the organization under the one Faculty and officers, found the then existing system


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inadequate to comply with the requirement of the new Institution. A change was, in consequence, imperatively demanded. Under the working of the present system the peculiar demands of the State College have been readily met & no serious difficulties have been experienced in the harmonious conduct of the new and the old Institutions.
5.
In view of the foregoing facts, the Faculty believe that it could be impossible to return to the former one -course, College system and at the same time to retain the present organization of the State University -give to each School even a very moderate proportion of the schedule and provide for the attainment of an academic degree within the period of time (4 years) usually considered proper for a college course -without such overcrowding of labor upon the students as would, undoubtedly, be, in every way, injurious. Such return would also necessitate the complete severance from the Academic Department of the State College, and, with it, of the School of Modern Languages and several Schools of Natural Science and the erection of these into a distinct Institution with a separate Faculty and separate Officers.

6.
The Faculty would call attention to the fact that -as hereintofore asserted -the present is not a University system, in the sense that such is employed in the German Universities or in the University of Virginia in this country. It is a modified for of this. It is a University system, in that several distinct Academic and Professional Degrees are conferred & several corresponding courses of study presented. It is essentially a Curriculum system offering, not a close, one course Curriculum, but several Curricula. Indeed, our system is, in no sense, a copy, but an original one, though eclectic, adapted to the genius of our people, and constructed to meet, according to the times, the wants of the class of students why usually apply to us for instruction. While it maintains, intact, the time honored College Curriculum,


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August 1878. it adopts those features of the University system, modified, which make it possible to meet all the demand for scientific instruction, and rejects all those that can by any possibility work injury. The Faculty respectfully ask the attention of the Board of Trustees to the following particulars, illustrative of the above assertions.
(a)
For the Freshman classes of the several courses, and, in great part, also, for the Sophomore classes, our system prescribes a close Curriculum which is, essentially, the old College classical course. Students thus receive a momentum tending to impel them in a line towards the A.B degree. Thus, the system not only retains and endorses the disciplinary studies, but exerts a special influence in their favor.

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Those entering the Junior class have, according to the system, the privilege of choosing, it is true, but not so much the studies they will pursue as the degrees they will seek to secure. The Faculty, with the sanction of the Board of Trustees, have presented close curricula, terminating in appropriate degrees. From these the student can select one, and the system holds him rigidly to the studies of the one thus selected.

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Unlike the Virginia and the European University systems, this subjects students to examination upon all prescribed College exercises, and enforces such attendance by all the means found efficacious by the old time Colleges, keeps a record of standing


in the daily recitations and in the frequent examinations that are held, and requires that monthly reports be made to parents of the attendance of their sons upon University duties and of the degree of proficiency in their studies -that, thus failure to rise on the part of the student may be prevented, or, if not, that he and his parent may have fair and
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timely warning of it. In this connection, the Faculty beg to say, that the present standard of admission to the University, should not, in their opinion be changed. It is neither too high, nor too low. It is not higher than is attainable by an ordinary student in a good preparatory School or Academy, and it is not lower than that of other Colleges of high standing. While for a time, perhaps, a rigid adherence to this standard may diminish the number of students in attendance, it will ultimately result in increasing their number, because it will stimulate the teachers and pupils of the preparatory Schools to greater effort, and will secure patronage by establishing public confidence in the maintenance of the high standard of education which has been adopted. The system thus employs all those methods and appliances which are usually efficacious to secure persistent application to duties and proficiency in studies, and thus it is adapted to students of the age of those who usually come to us. The combination, as above set forth, of Curriculum with a certain freedom of selection, is believed by the Faculty to be, at this time, the best arrangement, both for the students and for the University.
7.
While we claim that the independence of each University School and a stated proficiency in each study of a course, are features which greatly increase the efficiency of the Institution, it is but candid to admit that the system gives great power to one man, which may be abusively used; but experience we think has shown that such danger can be easily obviated, and those of us who have misgivings on this point are willing to waive them and unite with the others in the recommendation that the system be preserved intact.

8.
The Faculty deem it but fair to state that -owing to several causes, among which may


be enumerated: 1st. The imperfect preparation for the regular courses of
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many students who apply for admission to the University: the necessity on the part of many of limiting their time of attendance to one or two years only, and the great desire on the part of these and their parents that they should be permitted to devote their attention to special departments to the exclusion of others: 2nd. The great disinclination of the Faculty to close the doors of the Institution to any worthy student, or oppose an obstacle to his desires; 3rd. Radical changes which, within the past few years, have occurred in the organization of the Faculty itself; They have not, of late, insisted upon so rigid adherence to the strict curricula as might, perhaps, have otherwise been required. They have in a number of instances granted permission to individual students to select certain studies and to make such changes in the order of their studies as were not contemplated by, or provided for, in the regular schemes of the course Curricula. This has occasioned a certain degree of irregularity, and given rise to some confusion in the working of the regular schedule. The facts have ever been present to the minds of the Faculty as a possible evil and a source of regret. Attention has recently been forcibly called to the matter, and the magnitude, and the dangerous tendency of the evil pointed out. It has not been found possible to guard privileges -originally accorded for what were regarded as praiseworthy purposes -from a certain measure of abuse, and some dissatisfaction has arisen in the Faculty with the present working of the schedule. The matter has, therefore been recently made the subject of serious thought and discussion by the Faculty and, through a committee appointed for the purpose, they have arranged a satisfactory and harmonious schedule, embracing all departments and adapted to all the regular course Curricula. It has been found necessary to make a few changes in the requirements for certain degrees and in the status of certain others.
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Curriculum & University Systems. Though not regarded as strictly germane to the question at present before them, the Faculty take this occasion to lay before the Board of Trustees, through your Committee, the appendix (A.) to this report, which sets forth the scheme regarded by them as proper for the regulation of the Academic and University Degrees, and which, in comparison with the present scheme (see Annual Catalogue, 1877, pages 7-9) will exhibit the few changes in those particulars which are designed to be made. To these, they respectfully ask the sanction of the Board. And that your committee may have information as to the perfect harmony and smoothness with which the several Curricula, so modified, may be conducted, they further present an appendix (B.) embracing the condensed schedule of hours for each Department and each Curriculum which the Faculty have recently adopted. The Faculty have, further unanimously adopted resolutions which it is designed, shall appear in the next Annual Catalogue, to the effect that all students shall be held rigidly to the Curricula of the courses of their selection, & that no changes of studies shall be at any time permitted, and no change of course within the collegiate year. By these measures the Faculty confidently believe that all danger of confusion and complication, incident to the evil above mentioned, can be averted. It is proper to add that the majority of the Faculty are of decided opinion -and, in view of the previous sections of this report, deem further argument unnecessary to sustain the position -that the evil mentioned is to be, in my wise, attributed to any peculiarity of, or defect in the system upon which the University is organized, but is, in whole, due to the causes heretofore enumerated in this section. And the extreme case with which measures have been introduced to correct the evil and secure general satisfaction within the system itself and without change in its integrity is -it would appear -but an additional proof of the perfect adaptability of the present organization to the needs of the Institution. They, therefore, recognize no necessity for a change in the system at
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this time.
Those of us who think otherwise, and are inclined to discredit the system by reason of dissatisfactions which have arisen in its working, are content, now that measures have been adopted which the evils of which they complain may be corrected and satisfaction secured.
9. The Faculty have above noted only such points as are connected with the practical working of our own University and relate to its own peculiar needs and requirements. They have not thought it necessary or proper to present arguments -well known to and appreciated by the Board -such as are generally employed in discussing the respective merits of the College and the University systems, viewed as distinct from any special Institution.
They need but refer to the circumstance that the wisdom of the Board in adopting the present system, has been amply endorsed, by the fact that nearly all of the State and leading Institutions throughout the country have adopted or are rapidly adopting similar systems for their conduct.
The present organization of the University of Georgia is, therfore, in perfect harmony with the leading ideas regarding modern liberal education.
University of Georgia, Jan. 8th, 1878. The above report is respectfully submitted to the Hon. Board of Trustees, through your Committee, and in token of their unanimity of opinion, the members of the Faculty have the honor hereto to affix their signatures:
*
Chancellor.

P. H. Mell,
Prof. Metaphysics & Ethics,
Williams Rutherford,
Prof. Mathematics.
Wm. Henry Waddell,
Prof. Ancient Languages
L. H. Charbonnier,
Prof. Engineering.
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C. P. Wilcox,
Prof. Modern Languages.
H. C. White,
Prof. Chemistry.
Wm. M. Browne,
Prof. History & Political Science.
Eustace W. Speer,
Prof. Belles Letters and Rhetoric.

W. W. Lumpkin,
Prof. English Language and Literature.
George Little,
Prof. Natural History and Geology.
* Not signing.
Appendix A.

Requirements for Degrees.
A. University Degrees.
1.
Master of Arts. This Degree, the highest honor awarded, will be conferred on those students only, who obtain certificates of Proficiency in ten of the Academic Schools, viz: 1, Latin; 2, Greek; 3, Modern Languages; 4, Belles Letters; 5, Metaphysics and Ethics; 6, Pure Mathematics; 7, Natural Philosophy & Astronomy; 8, Chemistry; 9, History and Political Science; 10, Natural History and Geology. Note: -The course for this Degree is a five years course, beginning with the Freshman Class.

2.
Civil Engineer. This Degree will be conferred on those students, who having passed the examinations required for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering, will complete, in addition, a special higher course in the Department of Applied Mathematics, of Chemistry and of Modern Languages.

3.
Bachelor of Law. This Degree will be conferred on those students who satisfactorily complete the course prescribed in the School of Law.


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4. Doctor of Medicine. This Degree will be conferred on those students who satisfactorily complete the course prescribed in the Medical College of Georgia, located at Augusta.
B. Franklin College Degrees
1.
Bachelor of Arts. This Degree will be conferred on those students who obtain certificates of Proficiency in the Schools of: 1, Latin; 2, Greek; 3, Metaphysics and Ethics; 4, Belles Letters and Rhetoric; 5, History and Political Science; 6, Geology, and Certificates of Merit in ; 1, Junior Mathematics; 2, General Chemistry; 3, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy.

2.
Bachelor of Science. This Degree will be conferred on those students who obtain Certificates of Proficiency in the Schools of: 1, Two Languages, one Ancient and one Modern; 2, Mathematics; 3, Natural Philosophy & Astronomy; 4, Chemistry; 5, Natural History and Geology, and Certificates of Merit in; 1, Metaphysics & Ethics.

3.
Bachelor of Philosophy. This Degree will be conferred on those students who obtain Certificates of Proficiency in the Schools of: 1, Two Languages -one of which may be an Ancient Language; 2,


Metaphysics and Ethics; 3, Belles Letters and Rhetoric; 4, History & Political Science; 5, Geology, and Certificates of Merit in; 1, Junior Mathematics; 2, General Chemistry; 3, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy.
C. State College Degrees.
1. Bachelor of Agriculture. This Degree will be conferred on those students who obtain Certificates of Proficiency in the Schools of: 1, Agriculture; 2, Natural History and Geology; 3, Chemistry; 4, English Language and Literature; & Certificates of Merit in : 1, French or German; 2, Natural Philosophy & Astronomy; 3, The proper courses in Applied Mathematics, Analytical Chemistry & Industrial Drawing.
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Bachelor of Engineering. This Degree will be conferred on those students who obtain Certificates of Proficiency in the Schools of: 1, Applied Mathematics; 2, Mathematics; 3, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy; 4, Chemistry; 5, Natural History and Geology, (as prescribed in the regular schedule,) and Certificates of Merit in; 1, French or German; 2, The proper course in Analytical Chemistry.

3.
Bachelor of Chemical Science. This Degree will be conferred on those students who obtain Certificates of Proficiency in the Schools of; 1, Analytical Chemistry; 2, Chemistry; 3, Natural History and Geology; 4, Modern Languages (French and German,) and Certificates of Merit in; 1, Belles Letters and Rhetoric; 2, Natural Philosophy and Astronomy; 3, The proper course in Industrial Drawing.


D. Honorary Degrees. Including Master of Agriculture -late an Academic Degree -are conferred by special vote of the Board of Trustees. The Faculty would recommend that students should not be permitted to enter the University until they have attained the age of sixteen years, without special permission of the Faculty. Very few boys younger than this, even when they have the best means of preparation, are sufficiently mature, mentally, to comprehend the purpose of desire the full advantage of a Collegiate Education, or sufficiently mature, normally, to bear without injury the sudden transition from the restraints of home or of a properly regulated Academy, to the comparative freedom and self government, necessarily exercised by University Students. The tendency to complete education when it ought to be commencing is false in theory and practice, and equally pernicious to moral, mental and physical health.
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August 1878. Appendix, B.---Condensed Schedule.
Showing the number of hours per week in each School required in the Degree Curricula.
(What follows is a chart that will be included in hard copy.)
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POSTSCRIPT.
It is to be regretted that the above, presented by the Professors, differs from the views of the Chancellor which follow; but nothing is more common than for men honestly to differ. Without, then, admitting that the criticisms on our paper by our distinguished associate are correct or formally attempting to reply to any position in his, we have the honor to comply with the request of the Committee of the Board of Trustees by transmitting to their Chairman the above as our mature views as to the best system of organization for the University of Georgia.
THE PROFESSORS.
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To Messrs. A. H. Stephens, Ben. C. Yancey, A. R. Lawton, and Joseph E. Brown, Committee, & c. Gentlemen: -The following is a copy of the Resolution of the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia under which you were appointed, and in compliance with the provisions of which, the Faculty have expressed their views on the subject therein indicated, to-wit: Resolved: -That the subject of return to the Curriculum System, and the abandonment in whole or in part of what is known as the University system, shall be referred to a select Committee of five, to report thereon at the next Annual Meeting, consulting the Faculty as to said report. I have thought proper to withhold my signature from the document which accompanies this, and which has been signed by my esteemed Colleagues of the Faculty. My reasons for so doing, will appear in the following pages: Before stating the points on which I differ with my Colleagues, I will name the particulars in which I agree with them.
1.
I concur in the opinion expressed by them, that it is expedient at this time to have more than one Curriculum of study.

2.
I most heartily agree with them in the opinion that any advance towards the free and pure University System would be unsuited to the educational condition of our people. On this subject, there can be but one opinion among those who have given the subject fair consideration. The experiment which we have been making for the last six years, (disastrously as I think,) must have convinced the most ardent advocate of the University System, free and pure that however excellent the thing may be in itself, it is wholly unadapted to the wants of the people of Georgia, and that any


attempt to establish it here would result in mortifying failure. We indeed, have not
had the University System in its fulness (sic); but we have
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3. I agree with my brethren of the Faculty that there has been with us, a certain degree of irregularity and some confusion. I however, should use stronger language. I should say, that there has been a very great degree of irregularity, and most distressing confusion. But irregularity and confusion even in the smallest degree, are not to be tolerated in an Institution like this. The perfection of order is indispensable. The facts which the Faculty refer to, have been with me as with them, a source of regret. I should say, of the profoundest regret. I had reference to these facts, in the Report which I had the honor to make to the Board of Trustees last August; and it is this part of my report, to which the Faculty allude; when they say (page 7 at the top,) that attention has recently been forcibly called to the matter, and the magnitude and dangerous tendency of the evil pointed out.
I agree with my Colleagues, that, it has not been found possible (italics mine) to guard certain privileges from a certain measure of abuse. I agree in the statement that some dissatisfaction has arisen in the Faculty with the present working of the schedule. I should say the intensest (sic) dissatisfaction. I suppose there may be good reasons why my Colleagues and myself, while agreeing as to the facts, would differ in the strength of the expressions used by us respectively, to describe them. In the first place, the present state of things came upon them by degrees; they have thus in a measure become accustomed to it, and while not very patient under the discipline, they have learned to endure. The facts came upon me all at once; I had never seen such irregularities and such confusion before, nor did I dream that such things could exist; and being suddenly placed in position where I was to a
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4.
Having said this much, it is scarcely necessary to add, that I agree with my brethren of the Faculty in the opinion that change of some kind is necessary.

5.
It affords me the greatest pleasure to say, that on the whole, I acquiesce in the remedy proposed, by my Colleagues, for the evils of which we all complain. They propose in Appendix A. three degrees for Franklin College, and three for the State College; with one post-graduate degree


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Curriculum & University Systems. in each. I should be much better pleased, if the number of degrees were reduced by at-least one half. In my report of August last, I recommended the fusion of the two Colleges into one, and the establishment of three, and only three courses of study. I am still of the opinion that the plan proposed by me, if it were practicable, would be highly expedient. But the decision of the Board is, that certain legal difficulties, render the fusion of the two Institutions impossible. Of course I accept their decision, and have nothing more to say on that subject. But as I myself recommend three courses of study for one College; it could seem that I am bound to allow six courses for two Colleges. I yield to the force of this mathematical argument; but I will say in yielding that I regard it as a misfortune, that so many courses should be presented by our Institution, which though consisting of two distinct Departments, is yet essentially, and for most purposes a unit. I furthermore believe that even with the two Colleges as we have them, side by side, it would be better to have three courses of study instead of six. Still, I yield; I yield partly to the logic which shows that two Colleges ought to have twice as many degrees as one; partly to the opinions and wishes of my Colleagues; and I heartily unite with them in recommending that the course proposed in Appendix A, be adopted. I have been led by the arguments of my Colleagues, to hope, if not to believe, that the plan will work smoothly and satisfactorily; but if on trial it be found to produce results at all like those of the last few years, I shall hope to see it abandoned. In regard to the post-graduate degree of A. M. I have some misgivings. If it were described as a post graduate degree; if it were distinctly stated that no student could begin the course of study marked out for it, without previously taking one of the College degrees; and if no special course were necessary except one of
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August 1878. the six laid down, I should be perfectly satisfied. But if a course is to be built up from the bottom, thereby increasing the number of courses to seven instead of six, I think we shall be apt to see some of the confusion which we experience under the present system. The Faculty however consider that the points just made by me, though not distinctly expressed, are clearly implied, and several of the most experienced among them, have assured me that no separate Curriculum for this degree, except as a post graduate degree,
will be required. With this understanding I am satisfied with the degree as set forth in Appendix A. Should experience show that it is liable to the objections above mentioned. I shall hope to see a new arrangement made. The post-graduate degree in the State College, to-wit, the degree of Civil Engineer, is described as I would have it, and to this I have no objection.
6. By far the most important change recommended by my Colleagues, is expressed in very few words, and occupies so small a part of their report, that it will scarcely be noticed; but in fact, it means more than all the rest that they have said. In it is the germ of revolution. It is in the form of a resolution adopted by them, (bottom of page
7)that every student shall be held rigidly to the course of his selection; that no change of studies shall be permitted at any time, and no changes of course within the Collegiate year; it is moreover implied if not expressed by the word rigidly as above used, that no student can select the order of studies pursued by him. He must take the whole course prescribed for one year; neither more nor less and can substitute no study for any other. By this it will be seen that the old fashioned, time honored system of strict Curriculum from beginning to end, is adopted; and this will relieve us of many, if not of most of those enormous evils, which have been the scourge of the Institution for the last six years.
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Curriculum & University Systems. An almost illiterate, or half educated boy cannot dictate to the Faculty what course he will pursue; a whimsical student cannot select such studies as suit his wild fancy; an unstable and fickle minded youth, having tried one course and finding it not to suit his taste or his caprice, cannot by petition to the Faculty or otherwise change his course; an indolent student cannot shirk from labor by selecting for himself what he may suppose to be aneasy course. Abuses are next to impossible. Six rigid courses are marked out by wise men, all of them experts. Each of these courses is good, some however being much better than others, but all are equal in the amount of labor required. The student may select either of these six courses, and beyond that he has no choice. The element of time is also introduced; the student is under no temptation to telescope four years into three, or three years into two. He must take exactly as much study as is good for hi and no more. He will have neither more nor less than any other student. Having taken his course, it will require exactly a year to finish it; thus the length of time required to finish a given amount of work will be judged of by the Faculty, and not by an inexperienced boy. In other words, the college is put back exactly to where it was fifty years ago, in every respect except one, and that is that there are six courses of study instead of one course. Three I think, might be an improvement; six I believe to be twice too many. Still as already said, I acquiesce in this; and to the change above described, which deprives the student of all control over his education, except to select one of the prescribed Curricula, and which puts him after this selection is made, entirely under the control of the Faculty, I agree with all my heart. The change just described is so radical and so important, being in fact a complete change in the whole genius of the Institution, it ought not in my
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August 1878. opinion to depend on a mere resolution of the Faculty. True, after we once again get back to the smooth and harmonious working of things which existed before the University system was introduced, when there were no jarrings and jostlings, and no friction, I think the present Faculty at least, will be under no temptation to return to the condition from which we are just about to emerge. Still, the fundamental law of the Institution ought to rest on the authority of the Board of Trustees. I therefore most earnestly recommend, that the resolution of the Faculty be shaped into law, and enacted by authority of the Board. I said in a former paragraph that there is only one point of difference between the plan now proposed by the Faculty, and that which existed years ago. This is practically true, or if not, it is at least a very close approximation to a strict statement of the facts. There is one other point, in which there seems to be a difference, but it is more in seeming than in reality. Formerly, the student graduated on the average of his standing in all his studies. Now, he must receive a certificate from each Professor. It has been wisely objected to this, that it gives too much power to one man. An eccentric officer might defeat the graduation of the best student, or in fact of a whole class; each and every officer having the power of absolute veto over all the rest, a veto from which there is no appeal. This certainly seems to be a dangerous power, and one which it is not safe to trust in the hands of any man. Practically however, it seems to give no trouble. The understanding among the members of the Faculty is, that if a students general standing is good, no one officer will interpose insuperable objections to his graduation, unless in case of gross deficiency; and in that case he could scarcely expect to graduate
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1st
The facts spoken of by them in mild terms, have been described by me in strong terms. But there is no contradiction. Perhaps if we were to exchange places; we might exchange forms of expression. I might use the mild terms, and they the strong; but in no case, could there be any difference as to the facts.
2nd
Facts which they have spoken of in general terms, or have barely alluded to, have
been set forth by me more fully and in detail, and thus a different impression is produced. 3rd
The radical change which they propose, is so briefly expressed as scarcely to be noticed, while I have made it very conspicuous; and thus a wholly different complexion is given to the two reports. These differences are simply those of degree; yet they are important; so much so that I could not con
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August 1878. -scientiously agree to the document prepared by them; and I suppose they would be equally unwilling to subscribe to what I have written. There is between us however, a difference of another character, a difference not merely of degree; I scarcely know whether to call it a difference in matter of opinion or in matter of fact. The state of the case is this:
1st
I attribute the evils which all admit, to the existence of the University system so-called, which has been in operation here for six years. The majority of the Faculty, attribute these evils to the manner in which they themselves have administered the system. They take the blame upon themselves; I put it on the system.
2nd
They believe that the changes propose, and to which I agree, are changes not in the system, but merely in its administration. To me on the contrary, the changes appear to be nothing less than fundamental in the system itself. In consequence of these differences the general tenor of all that they have said, produces the impression that they are making a labored argument in favor of the University system as we have it; and I am sure that the tenor of what I have said, must be to the effect that I hold that system in the highest possible esteem. Yet we agree as to the evil, and we agree as to the remedy. The difference appears to be about names rather than about things; and it would seem that with only such a difference as this we ought to be able to work together in harmony. So indeed we can. I shall most heartily co-operate with the majority of the Faculty in carrying out the -what shall I call it? I should call it the new system; they would call it a new administration of the present system. By whatever name it be called there is no contention among us, nor is there likely to be. As the Faculty have acceded in substance, to the plan proposed by me in my report of last August, perhaps I ought not to complain of their nomenclature. Nor
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August 1878. For example, we have as the Trustees seem to suppose, a former class; it appears to me, and I think also to some of the Faculty, if not to all of them, that we have no particular class that can be called Juniors, but that we have various Junior classes, and also various Senior classes; while the University system as it is explained by its advocates, teaches that we have neither Junior nor Senior classes, but only Senior and Junior studies. If we have a Junior class, the Faculty themselves do not know who are Juniors, nor yet do the students. In 1875 we came near having a rebellion among our best students, because the Faculty awarded Junior honors to some whom the students did not regard as Juniors. The Faculty were divided on the question, and finally decided by a close vote, that if a student had four Junior studies, he should be allowed to compete for Junior honors; though other Juniors have eight studies, thus making the honors accessible to one student, on half the terms required of another. This is the case to this day; nor do I see how under the present system the crying injustice can be remedied. It was possible until two years and a half ago, for a student to compete for honors in two different classes, and to speak on one day as Sophomore, and on the next as a Junior. For this last anomaly, a remedy has been found, in the law prohibiting more than 18 recitations per week, -a law which is in direct antagonism to the whole genius of the University system. It is possible even now, for a student to compete for Sophomore or Junior honors, for two or three successive years. It is possible even now, for a student to be Freshman in one class, Sophomore in another, Junior in another, and Senior in another; and the system is so contrived, as to encourage the presence of these nondescripts. Much of this, if not all of it, arises from the fact
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that the system is incongruous. When it was first set on foot, all Commencement honors were abolished except for the graduating class, as under the circumstances they ought to have been, for this is just what the system required. But this innovation was not satisfactory, and the old-fashioned Commencement exercises were re-introduced; and the new and the old systems did not fit each other; they could not be made to work together, and they never have done it, and they never will. As may be inferred from what has been said, the system is hard to understand. More than one officer has worked under it for years without understanding it; and a thing which is so hard to be understood is sure to be variously understood; & variously misunderstood; and such a thing as this may fairly be called unintelligible; and can be of not practical use, and must give rise to just such a jumble of experiences as we have had; and ought to be abolished, and as I think is I abolished by the plan now proposed. I admit that for several years past, there has been a great improvement in our operations. But the reason of this is, that one by one, the University features have been dropped off, and the College has been gravitating back to its original healthy condition. The greatest improvement took place, when at my suggestion the number of recitations per week, which a student might take was reduced to eighteen. This was a half mortal stab to the University system. Previous to that change the student could take as many studies as he pleased; and was actually encouraged to do two years work in one, and some of them actually took 25 or 30 recitations per week. All this was in full keeping with the genius of the new system, and put a premium, as any one must see, on systematic cramming the superficial learning, besides
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August 1878. Leading to the ruin of the students health. The action of the Board in prohibiting the number of recitations per week to exceed 18, changed all this; it introduced directly, the element of time, and thus swept away half of the University system. The action now recommended by the Faculty, will in my opinion, sweep away substantially, the other half.
This leads me to say in support of my opinion that the change proposed by the Faculty is a change in the System, and not in the administration; that, we shall have an absolutely close Curriculum for every student. We shall not encourage the student to get through college as soon as possible, but will detain him as long as he ought to stay. We shall not have some students completing a course in two years, while another student will complete the same course in one year. All who take the same course will get through in exactly the same time. It was the pride and boast of the University system, that the element of time was wholly eliminated. I quote from page 38 our latest Catalogue (Art. V.) The time spent in College, is not an element necessary for a degree, but qualification alone, as shown in the examinations. The time required to complete any course, will depend alone, upon the preperation(sic), diligence and ability of the student.
Under the new regime, the element of time is one of the principal factors. We shall not have some students taking 15 recitations, some 16, some 17, some 18, and some 20 or 30 or more. All will have exactly the same number, 18 neither more nor less. There will be no difficulty in deciding who is or who is not, a Junior or a Senior. There will be no variation in the order in which studies may be taken as is now allowed. (See page 16 of the Catalogue.) Students will not petition the Faculty as they do now almost every week, to drop Mathematics,
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Curriculum & University Systems. or Greek, or something else, and take up the study next year; and there will be no substitutes of one study for another. There will be no conflict of hours such as we now have, where a student is due at two different places at the same time; conflicts which the most skillful Engineers of College schedules have to this day found it impossible to avoid. Our whole course ever since I have been in the Institution, has been strewed with the wrecks caused by these inevitable collisions. There will be no more of this. It will not be necessary as it has always been heretofore, for the Faculty at the beginning of every year, to spend from one to two or three weeks, taxing mortal ingenuity to its utmost to arrange a schedule for daily work. One schedule unless there should be a change in the organization of the Faculty, will last for a decade. We shall have no features incongruous with each other. The system will be harmonious with itself. It is not hard to understand; there can be no differences of opinion about it; it is not eclectic; it is not original; it is not new; it is nothing but the old College system, with several courses instead of one.
With a fixed standard of admission to every class, whether the student expects to graduate or not; with fixed Curricula; with fixed amount of study, uniform throughout; with fixed order of study; and with fixed length of time, the same for all; the student after selecting his course, having no control of anything, and the Faculty having complete control of every thing; it appears to me that there is not a shred of the University system left, except the base fact that we have several courses instead of one, each terminating in an appropriate degree. This solitary fact is not enough to fasten the name of University system, on the plan herewith proposed. A knife with a new handle can a new blade, might have fastened on its side the plate from the
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August 1878. old knife, inscribed with the owners name; and this might settle question of ownership, but not a question of identity. I protest against the old name being fastened to the new system, for it is in this case a delusion both as to ownership & identity; so at least it appears to me.
But admitting for arguments sake that the rigid system which we propose, is the identical system which we have had and under which we have suffered, and that the only change is in the mode of administering it; the results will be as wholly different as if it were changed; and a man who had no special fancy for the name, & who looks at things rather than at words, would say that it is changed. Imagine a finger-post pointing due North, and bearing the inscription 20 miles to St. Ives. It would be the same finger-post; that is, the wood, and the nails, and the paint, would be the same; but the effect on the mind of the traveler, would be just the opposite of what is was before. Our system heretofore, has pointed to irregularity, disorder, and confusion; under the new regime it will point to regularity, order and harmony.
In this case, there is no wood, and there are no nails and paint to retain identity; the working of the system is the system. When the working is wholly different, all is wholly different, all is wholly different; there is no material substance, as in the case of a wooden post, to remain the same; the subject matter is purely ideal; and when the ideal is changed, there is nothing left to be changed; all is new. If a picture could be presented of our Institution as it has been, showing all the facts of its inside life in panorama; and if another picture could be placed beside it, showing it in like
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Curriculum & University Systems. manner, as I think it will be, on the plan now proposed; no man looking at the two pictures, and knowing nothing except what he could see, could ever be made to believe that the two systems are the same. The difference, would be much like the difference between a seething mob and a regularly organized and well appointed army. They are not the same.
I am sorry that the majority of my esteemed Colleagues cannot see this matter as I do. I cannot understand why it is that they do not; but I give them the same credit for sincerity and honesty of purpose, which I am sure they accord to me. I am not quite so much alone however, as I seem. At least two of my professional brethren agree with me; probably not in all that I have said, but in the general view presented. They affixed their names to the Report of the majority it is true; but could not be induced to do so, until the following paragraph was inserted, and which may be found on page 8 of said Report, to wit: (The majority having said that they recognize no change in the system but only in its administration.) Those of us who think otherwise, and are inclined to discredit the system, by reason of dissatisfactions which have arisen in its working, are content, now that measures have been adopted by which the evils of which they complain, may be corrected, and satisfaction secured. To this paragraph I assent. Occupying the position they do, they have in these few lines said enough to define themselves, and to show where they stand. I have felt it my duty to say more; for if there are conflicting views in the Faculty, I am sure gentlemen, that you would be pleased to have them both fairly presented; and the Faculty themselves, while differing with me on some points, desire that I should be heard.
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August 1878. It appears to me furthermore that my views coincide with these of the Honorable Board of Trustees. I beg you gentlemen of the Committee to refer again to the Resolution of the Board under which you were appointed. The subject of a return to the Curriculum system, & the abandonment in whole or in part of what is known as the University system, shall be referred to a select Committee &c. Are there not two systems spoken of? Is not one described as the Curriculum system, and the other as the University system? Are not these two systems placed in clear antithesis to each other? Is it not manifest that the Trustees consider them the opposite of each other? If the Curriculum system is the same as the University system, then the above Resolution is meaningless and absurd. It is not to be supposed that the Trustees, have said that which means nothing. They have drawn a certain distinction and a very wide one; and that is the very distinction on which I insist. What my Colleagues now unanimously recommend, I heartily agreeing with them, is a system of close Curricula; and the language of the Resolution above quoted shows that in adopting this we shall return to what we once had, but now have not; and in the language of the Resolution again, it will be an abandonment of the University system. Thus the view which I have maintained in my previous argument, is shown to be exactly the view entertained by the Board in passing the Resolution which is the basis of the present action. This whole investigation has sprung from statements made by me, in the Report which I had the honor to make to the Board of Trustees last August. Whether I erred then or not; whether I am mistaken now or not; of one thing I shall always be glad, and that is, that I have been the means of setting the present
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Curriculum & University Systems. inquiry on foot. Whatever the result may be, I shall always feel that I have been faithful in the discharge of duty; and if the result should be as I hope and believe it will be, -the correction of great evils, the inauguration of a great reform, the advancement of the cause of sound learning, and the promotion of the usefulness and glory of the University of Georgia, I shall feel that the effect has been the chef doeuvre of my professional life.
I have the honor to be, gentlemen, Your obedient servant Henry H. Tucker, University of Georgia, Feb. 1, 1878. Chancellor.
Mr. Brown in behalf of the Committee on Laws and Discipline submitted the following Statute:
The Report of the Committee of five appointed at the last meeting of this Board with the amendments proposed by the committee on Laws and Discipline as adopted by this Board be, and the same is hereby enacted as a fundamental Law of this University.
The Board then adjourned till 5 oclock this afternoon. August 3rd 1878, 5 P. M. Board met according to adjournment.
The Committee on Laws & Discipline reported on the Milledgeville Memorial which had been introduced in person by Samuel Walker, Mayor of the City of Milledgeville & C. P. Crawford, together with a Bill of Legislative action recommending the same; which Report was adopted. The Memorial and Bill are as follows:
Athens, Ga. Aug. 3rd. 1878. To the Hon. Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia, Gentlemen,
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August 1878. We have been sent by the City of Milledgeville, to ask your cooperation, in the establishment of a Military & Agricultural College, in that once honored borough, through Legislative action. To that end, we ask that you name a time & mode, (whether orally or in writing) when you will receive communication from us on this subject. We could briefly remind you, that besides the 250 acres of Reserves on and along the River, the State owns, within that City 60 acres of land, embracing the State House Square, the Mansion Lot, the Penitentiary Square, and the Government Square, upon which nearly a million of dollars have been expended, in the past, and which are unmarketable to any private use, and valueless to the State, except for this purpose. Our City proposes to add two hundred acres of city lands worth $10,000.00 for an Experimental Farm. We ask that all this property be vested in your Hon. Body, with power to sell any portion thereof, at your discretion, except the Capital, Mansion, & Farm grounds; that you be required to organize and operate therein a College, embracing Military, Agricultural and Normal Schools, free to the white children of the State, on compliance with regulations; and that the expense of repairs, equipment and annual current maintenance be bourne(sic) by the Treasury of the State. In view of the enormous sum, annually collected for the Public Schools and of the fact that, with the exception of $8000.00 given to the University of Atlanta, not a dollar is applied to higher or collegiate education -and in view of the peculiar circumstances of this case, we think this solicited annual charge upon the Treasury is too moderate for refusal.
Hoping that your concurrence may bring speedy success, in this behalf to, the honor & blessing
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Milledgeville College.
of the State. We are respectfully &c. Sam Walker, Mayor.
D. P. Crawford.

An Act to establish the Middle Georgia Military & Agricultural College.
By it enacted, &c.
1. The State House Square and appurtenances, the Executive Mansion & premises, the Penitentiary Square & appurtenances, the Government Square adjacent to the Central
R.R. Depot, and any and all other real property of the State of Georgia, situate in the
city of Milledgeville are hereby donated to and vested in the Trustees of the
University of Georgia, with the powers & for the purposes herein after set out.
2.
Said Trustee of the University of Ga. Shall have power to sell any portion of the above donated property, except the State House & Square, & the Executive Mansion & premises, at their discretion and under such regulations as they may prescribe, and apply the proceeds of sales to the equipment of the College hereinafter provided for.

3.
Said Trustees shall, without needless delay, proceed to organize in the above donated property, a College which shall be styled the Middle Georgia Military & Agricultural College, & shall be a Department of the University of Georgia.

4.
The sum of $ (blank) is hereby appropriated from the Treasury of the State to be drawn by Executive Warrant to be expended by said Trustees in enclosing the old State House Square & otherwise fitting the above donated property for College purposes.

5.
The Governor is hereby required to draw his warrant annually, upon the Treasury of the State for the sum of $ (blank) which sums are hereby appropriated therefor, to be expended by the said Trustees in and for the annual current expenses of main


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-taining said College.
6.
Tuition in said College shall be free to all white males & females, provided a Matriculation and Library fee, not exceeding ten dollars per annum, may be exacted, & grades of scholarship may be prescribed by the Faculty, under direction of the Trustees, as conditions of admission.

7.
The course of instruction in said College in addition to Military training shall be specially directed to Military training shall be specially directed to preperation(sic)

(1)for the higher classes at Athens, (2) the business of practical Farm life & (3) for the profession of Teaching & (4) Military. A certificate of proficiency warranted by the Faculty, shall be sufficient license to teach in the State Schools.

8.
Said Trustees may accept such land within the corporate limits of Milledgeville, not less than two hundred acres, as may be donated by said City, said Trustees to select said land and establish thereon, so soon as practicable, and Experimental Farm, to be operated in connection with the College.


Messrs. Cobb and Billups were appointed a Committee to invite distinguished strangers to seats on the stage during the public exercises in the Chappel(sic). Mr. Yancey submitted a resolution in relation to an address to the people of Georgia which his on the table for the present.
Mr. Lewis submitted the printed report of he North Georgia Agricultural College which was read by Mr. Yancey & then referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline.
Mr. Speer moved that the thanks of the Board are due to Lieutenant Joseph
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Professorships.
Garrard for gratuitous services in teaching Mathematics in the North Georgia Agricultural College which motion prevailed.
The Board then adjourned to Monday at 10 oclock A. M.
August 5th. 1878 10 A. M. The Board met according to adjournment.
The correspondence of the Secretary with Dr. Potter in relation to the subject of the University High School was referred to the Prudential Committee to report thereon during the present sessions of the Board.
Mr. Vason moved that the gentlemen from Cuthbert who represent that City in relation to a branch College there, be heard to day upon the reassembling of the Board at the close of the Sophomore Declaration.
The Committee on Laws and Discipline was excused from attendance at the Chapel to day and to meet during the abscence (sic) of the Board. The Board then repaired to the Chapel to attend the Sophomore Declamation. The Board returned to the Library after the Declamation and resumed business. Mr. Toombs Chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline submitted the following report viz: The Committee of Laws and Discipline agreed upon the following professorships to carry out the Six Curricula already reported and adopted.
1.
Professorship of Mathematics.

2.
Professorship of Natural Philosophy & Astronomy to include Engineering.

3.
Professorship of Latin and Greek languages and Literature.


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4.
Professorship of Chemistry, Agricultural Chemistry, Mineralogy and Natural History & Geology.

5.
Professorship of History, Political Science, and Modern Languages.

6.
Professorship of English Language and Literature and Belles Letters.

7.
Professorship of Logic, Metaphysics, Ethics, and Moral Philosophy(circled). Political Economy(written in pencil)

8.
Adjunct Professorship of Mathematics, with a salary of $1000.00

9.
A Tutor in Latin and Greek with a salary of $800.00

10.
The Student shall hereafter occupy the Dormitory Buildings and be under proper survillience (sic), under the direction of the Faculty, provided exceptional cases may be disposed of by the Faculty.

11.
The Chancellor shall be ex-officio President of the Georgia State College of Agriculture & the Mechanics Arts, without salary.

12.
The Chancellor shall perform the duties of a Professorship, provided that a salary


shall be annexed to the office of Chancellor. -R. Toombs. Which Report was adopted except the last clause No.12, relating to the Chancellor.
The Committee on Laws and Discipline submitted through Mr. Brown their Report in relation to Mr. Lewis and the North Georgia Agricultural College, which was adopted and is as follows:
In the matter of the five hundred dollars appropriated by the Board of Trustees to David W. Lewis, President of the North Georgia Agricultural College to assist him in the discharge of his duties and as President Lewis made arrangements with advanced students to assist him on terms satisfactory to them and as he has paid postage to a very considerable amount for the College and incurred other expenses and as he has
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Report on Library. for years thrown open his private library to the use of the students without charge and as the said sum was not appropriated for the use of the Board of Trustees at Dahlonega, but to said Lewis, your Committee are of the opinion that the matter should be considered as settled.
Professor W. W. Lumpkin, Professor of English Language and Literature, resigned his professorship for the purpose of relieving the Board from any embarrassment on his account, which resignation was accepted by the Board.
The Board then adjourned till 5 oclock P.M.
August 5th, 1878. 5. P.M. The Board met according to adjournment. Gov. Colquitt appeared and took his seat. Mr. Cobb Chairman of the Committee on the Library submitted his Report, which was amended and is as follows:

Library.
Aug. 1878 Gentlemen-
Your committee beg leave to report that under the efficient management of Prof. Browne the library has been greatly improved in its arrangement and neat appearance and valuable additions have been made for which he is entitled to the thanks of the Board.
At the time of our last report there was in the hands of President Charbonnier the sum of $121.61 to be expended for reference books. By his report herewith enclosed you will find an itemized account of the expenditure and a balance due that gentleman of 28 cts. There is now on hand of the Library fund the sum of $1257.00. We find that all the departments are well supplied with reference books and do not need as much as heretofore to keep them up.
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August 1878.
1st
. We therefore recommend that $300.00 of this fund be appropriated for that purpose.
2nd
. We recommend that the sum of $30.00 be paid undergraduates Armstrong and Jones
for extra services rendered the librarian. 3rd
. That the sum of Seventy five dollars or so much as may be needed, appropriated to
binding periodicals on hand and rebinding &c. of damaged books. 4th
. We recommend that the ballance (sic) of the fund be used for the purchase of books
of general information by order of the Faculty. 5th
. We recommend that the suggestion of the Librarian in reference to use of the papyograph for making additions for making additions to the catalogue of books be adopted, except that part recommending a purchase of an instrument, as we have two already in the University we think the purchase of another unwise. 6th. We recommend that the rule prohibiting books from being removed from the library be repealed so far as the students are concerned. Whilst we believe the present rule a good one for many reasons yet until we have a librarian who shall devote his whole time to that work we believe it impracticable. All of which is respectfully submitted.
Lamar Cobb, Chairman.
Library.
Gentlemen,
In reference to the petition of the students on the subject of the library. We recommend that the students be allowed to take out any book they desire for one week, with the privilege of renewing at the end of that time.
1st
. That the Librarian be required to report immediately to the Chancellor the failure to return any book or books at the end of the week, and that it shall then be the duty of the Chancellor to require said delinquent to return said book or books or to pay their value.
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The Chancellorship.
2nd
. That it shall also be the duty of the Librarian to report immediately to the Chancellor any student who returns any book or books in a damaged or mutilated condition and upon such report being made the Chancellor shall require the student to pay sufficient amount to repair such injury.
3rd
. It shall be the duty of the Librarian to keep the Library open each day (Sundays excepted) from 4 oclock P. M. until 5 oclock P. M. and on Saturdays from 2 P. M. until 5 P. M.
The Chairman of the Committee on Laws & Discipline called up the 12th item of his Report in relation to the Chancellorship viz:
The Chancellor shall perform the duties of a professorship, provided that a salary shall be annexed to the office of Chancellor.
which was debated and during the discussion Mr. Stephens submitted a substitute and moved its adoption, to which Mr. Brown offered an amendment, which being accepted by Mr. Stephens, the yeas and nays were called for and are as follows, upon a motion to lay the substitute upon the table:
The Yeas are Messrs. Miller, Mitchell, Hill, Yancey, Harris, Cobb, Lawton, MacIntyre, Pierce, Crawford, Billups, Colquitt, Thomas, Barrow, Toombs -15.
Vason, Jackson, Brown, and Stephens are the nays -4.
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August 1878. The Board then adjourned to 8 oclock tomorrow morning.
August 6th 1878. 8 A. M. The Board met according to adjournment. Messrs. John T. Clarke and Arthur Hood in behalf of the citizens of Cuthbert appeared before the Board & submitted the following Memorial, accompanied with an argument in favor of the same, by Judge Clarke which was referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline together with the Resolution offered by Mr. MacIntyre in behalf of the Citizens of Thomasville.
MEMORIAL.
To the Board of Trustees,
of the

University of Georgia.
Gentlemen:
Your Memorialists herein represent, and act by authority of the citizens of Cuthbert, the Board of Trustees of the Randolph Male Institute, and the Board of Trustees of the Bethel Female College, both of which institutions are located in said city. The Common Council of Cuthbert, by ordinance passed July 24th, 1878, have sanctioned the offer herein made as to said Institute, and the citizens without a dissenting voice concur therein. The Bethel Baptist Association, under whose supervision the Trustees of said College exercise their functions, did, at a session held last November, authorize, the said Trustees to take this step; and said Trustees, by formal vote, on the ___ (blank) day of _______ (blank), made the offer hereinafter communicated. The two Boards of Trustees last aforesaid, and the said citizens and City Council unite herein to make a joint offer. The undersigned individuals are appointed by said Boards and Council, with the amplest powers to negotiate with you, to consumate (sic) details, and to put the entire transaction into whatever shape may meet your approval. The Trustees of said college hold the following property,
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Cuthbert College. Unincumbered(sic), to wit: Twenty acres of land in a body, about one mile from the Court-house. Thereon is a superior wooden building, two stories high, containing a large audience room, or chapel, and four rooms on the first floor, and three rooms on the upper floor; which building was elected and has been successfully used for a Female College, and cost eight thousand dollars. Around the building is an enclosed yard of about three acres. The remainder of said land is woods. Beginning about one hundred yards in the rear of the building, are numerous excellent springs, of superior free-stone water, from which, at small expense, water, in great abundance, can be raised in great quantities into the yard and building. From these springs runs off, entirely through said land, except the yard, a beautiful branch with cleanly banks. The site of the building is very elevated and beautiful.
The Trustees of said Institute hold, unincumbered (sic), a square ten acre lot, in said city, which at the nearest points, is distant not over one hundred and fifty yards from the yard of said Female College. This lot lies almost perfectly level, and is mostly covered with a fine oak grove. When it is a handsome new wooden building, costing seven thousand dollars; two stories high, containing besides several halls, five large apartments below, and three above, convenient in size, shape & arrangement, for the purpose of a graded high school for boys. These two properties we hereby offer to your Board, to be used for the establishment and maintenance of a free Agricultural or Mechanical College, or school, with such funds belonging to the State as you may be able to control for such purpose. We desire such an Institution to be placed on the same, or a similar footing, with the like enterprise at Dahlonega. We are prepared to make such disposition of the titles to said property, as you may deem suitable; and while ready to aid your body, if proper, with our views, as to the organization of such an enterprise, we are not disposed to dictate conditions. We will be in Athens during your proposed meeting in August,
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August 1878. and, by your leave, and at your pleasure, will be glad to appear before your body, to furnish such further information, explanations, or suggestions, as may be called for.
We could respectfully submit a few considerations in favor of your acceptance of our offer: First. The property offered is adequate to the purpose proposed. A small expenditure in repairs would make the buildings first-class in convenience & adaptation. Second. Cuthbert is in the midst of one of the best agricultural regions in the State. Third. It is one of the most beautiful, best-improved and well kept towns, of its size, in Georgia. Fourth. Our community; containing about three thousand inhabitants, is characterized by a high degree of intelligence, order, good morals, and, especially, a profound interest in educational enterprises. We have a Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches. Fifth. The people not only of Randolph, but of all Southwest Georgia, are experiencing a deep and thoughtful concern upon the great practical problems connected with the profitable cultivation of the soil, in all forms and varieties; and upon all the facilities for such education as especially fits men for practical and enlightened farmers & Mechanics. Sixth. We confidently claim for Cuthbert, advantages of health rarely to be met with in this climate. We believe, that, throughout the year, it will compare favorably, in this respect, with any town in Georgia. It is the highest point west of Macon on the Southwestern Railroad, and about sixteen miles north of the pine flats, which are commonly supposed, by the up-country people, to be characteristic of Southwestern Georgia. The city is upon very dry and elevated land, remarkably exempt from malarial influence. We have, in abundance, free-stone water, as pure as any, and of a pleasant temperature, only about three and a half
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degrees higher than the best well water of Atlanta, Griffin and Newnan. Our city is in the midst of a somewhat broken country, with oak and hickory timber.
Such advantages, had we the school which we desire, would make Cuthbert a favorite resort for students from all the surrounding and the lower counties of the State, and would, doubtless, bring to us numbers of students from Stewart, Chattahoochee and Muscogee, Webster, Marion and other counties as far up as Bibb. Seventh. Board can be obtained here at low rates. A gentleman of experience in teaching, has, for the entire scholastic year just expired, charged only one hundred dollars for board, room rent and tuition; and claims to find such rates satisfactorily profitable. While we do not present that as the rate of board reliably to be expected hereafter, we believe, that a near approximation thereto may be anticipated. Eighth. We would respectfully urge the claims of South western Georgia to share in the public benefits. The College established by you at Dahlonega is of no avail to us. It is so far off, that the expense of travelling to and from it, cuts off patronage from all Southern Georgia. In fact, but few students go there from below Atlanta. Out of 374, the total attendance from the Spring Term of 1876 to, and including the Spring Term of 1877, only 22 went from Bill county and counties on level with and below that. That Institution is sectional in its actual benefits. This is not owing to the indifference of our people to the advantages offered, but to their poverty. They are so much concerned about the education of their sons for the great responsibilities of life, that they would place them, in large numbers at school in Cuthbert upon the terms which would be offered. It is not fair, that our section should be excluded from the equal enjoyment of the funds which ought to be administered for the common good of the State. It cannot be denied, that there is a widespread and
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August 1878. growing feeling in Southwestern Georgia, that this section has not heretofore been duly considered in distributing the honors and benefits of the State Government. The people of that section are conscious of having had peculiar difficulties to contend with, since the emancipation of the slaves; and that, in the political triumph, which they have so often made over the large black majorities, they have rendered signal service to the cause of good government, and the honor and welfare of the State. While we assert for them loyalty and patriotism equal to any section, it cannot be unwise to allay jealousy, by admitting them into a fair share of these public advantages. Such a recognition as we now ask, would be received by the people of our section, with the most grateful consideration. It would tend strongly to conciliate the sympathy and support of our people, and their representatives in the Legislature, towards all the educational interests and enterprises under the control of the State. Your memorialists, therefore, beg you honorable body to accept our offer, and proceed to establish upon said properties, an agricultural, or agricultural and mechanical school or college, to be a branch of the State University, and to be conducted under such regulations as you may devise, and favored with suitable allowances of money from the State educational funds under your control.
Respectfully submitted by your fellow citizens,
John T. Clarke,
Arthur Hood.
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Thomasville College. To the Honorable
the Trustees of the University of Ga. Twelve months ago it was informally proposed by some of the Trustees to establish a Branch School at Thomasville, Georgia. The Trustees of Fletcher Institute at Thomasville propose & offer that Institute to this Board as you will see by annexed telegram. It may be that there is in the title to this property as it belongs to the Methodist church. The offered surrender is complete. The citizens of Thomas County will give fifty acres of land and subscribe enough to erect buildings thereon of it shall be determined that a good title cannot be obtained to Fletcherville. The people of Thomasville did not move in this matter until the suggestion was made that some of our Trustees informally proposed to establish a school at Thomasville. I think this informal proposition was made because it was thought that Thomas & the surrounding Counties had sent more students here than any other section of the State so far distant from the University.
Professor O. D. Scott is in charge of the Fletcher Institute and is anxious for this Board to take charge of the Fletcher Institute and to become an educator either as Professor or President of the Branch school. The school could be opened this Fall by using buildings of Fletcher Institute if title can be perfected. The location is best for the school as it is eligibly located and the appointments good, two brick houses. The action taken by the citizens of Thomasville doubtless induced the action at Cuthbert and while I am willing to aid Cuthbert if it can be afforded, yet under the circumstances I feel and think that the location at Thomasville has the preference.
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August 1878. Prof. Scott thinks he could have as large a school there, as the one at Dahlonega and that he would send many scholars to the University, therefore I desire if the Board cannot now organize a School there that a proposition be made by this Board, to the people of Thomas, when I do not fear but that any reasonable proposition will be accepted.
Respectfully submitted,
H. T. MacIntyre.
Thomasville, Ga. To H. T. MacIntyre, Care Wm. L. Mitchell,
Trustees Fletcher Institute tender grounds and buildings for Branch School of University for unlimited time.
R. H. Herding
President. Resolved, That the Committee on Laws & Discipline be instructed to take into consideration the practicability of establishing a Branch School of Agriculture at Thomasville Georgia, upon the same terms and conditions as the one at Dahlonega.
Upon the foregoing Applications of Cuthbert and Thomasville the Committee on Laws and Discipline submitted the following Report drawn by Mr. Vason and amended and adopted and is as follows:
The Committee in the Applications from the citizens of Cuthbert & Thomasville to establish in each city a College as set forth in their Memorials, beg leave to report that they think favorably of said applications; that this board will accept the trust proposed and undertake the execution thereof, as soon as the same are chartered by law; and that provision being made by law and authority given
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Chancellorship. this Board will appropriate such an amount as can be spared for the purpose of aiding in the payment of the salaries for the instructors in said Colleges which may be chartered.
The Board then resumed the consideration of the 12th item of the Report of the Committee on Laws and Discipline heretofore recorded and Messrs. Toombs and Brown were heard upon the subject when the Board repaired to the Chapel to witness the Junior Exhibition of original speeches.
Leave was granted the Prudential Committee to remain in Session during said Exhibition to consider the subject of reopening the University High School.
At the close of the Junior Exhibition the Board returned to the Library and adjourned to meet this afternoon after the meeting of the Alumni Society at 4 P. M.
August 6th. 1878 Afternoon Board met according to adjournment. The 12th item of the Report of the Committee on Laws and Discipline heretofore recorded was then adopted by the following vote: Yeas -Messrs. Mitchell, Miller, Hill, Toombs, Vason, Pierce, Crawford, Billups, Barrow, Thomas, Cobb, Harris, Lawton. -13 Nays -Messrs. Lewis, Brown, Yancey, Jackson, Stephens, Colquitt. -6
Mr. Yancey presented petitions in favor of Secret Societies which were laid on the table, Mr. Yancey in behalf of the Prudential Committee submitted a Report on the subject of re-opening the University High School.
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August 1878. Mr. Toombs submitted the two following resolutions which were adopted, and are as follows;
1st. Resolved, That the resolution adopted by this Board on the ______ (blank) day of _____(blank) 1876 making the office of Chancellor of this University honorary and without compensation be and the same is hereby repealed, and that in additions to the duties assigned to the Chancellor by the statutes of the University, he shall perform the duties of Professor of Logic, Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy, and that the compensation of the Chancellor performing the duties herein assigned him shall be twenty five hundred dollars per annum.
Resolved, That this Board proceed immediately to elect a Chancellor of the University with the duties and Salary herein assigned to the office.
Rev. Patrick H. Mell D.D. LL.D. was nominated by Mr. Hall and upon counting out the ballots it appeared that he was duly elected.
Messrs. Yancey, MacIntyre and Vason were appointed a Committee to wait upon Dr. Mell, the Chancellor elect and personally request his acceptance, of the Chancellorship.
On motion of Mr. Stephens the Degrees as recommended in the Chancellors Report were conferred on the students therein named.
On motion of Mr. Mitchell the Degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence was conferred in course upon Hamilton Yancey Esqr. of Rome and Davenport Jackson Esqr. of Augusta. The Board then adjourned to 8 oclock tonight.
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Chancellorship.
August 6th, 1878, 8 P. M. Board, met according to adjournment. Mr. Beckwith appeared and took his seat.
Mr. Yancey in behalf of the Committee to wait in person on Dr. Mell the Chancellor elect, reported that they had performed that duty and that the announcement of his election, both surprised and embarrassed him and he desired as much time as could be given him to decide so important a question, stating that he had under his charge three churches which he would have to give up if he accepted the office and that it would require a salary of three thousand dollars to support his large family.
On motion of Mr. Hill the Board unanimously decided that Dr. Tucker perform three duties of Chancellor to the end of the Collegiate year and be paid his salary to October the 1st 1878.
Mr. Brown moved that the consolidation of the two Professorships of History & Political Science and Modern Languages be reconsidered which was carried.
The Tutorship was on motion reconsidered and abolished.
It was made the duty of the Professor of Modern Languages to assist the Professor of Latin & Greek in these Languages.
The Board then proceeded to the election of Professors.
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August 1878.
L. H. Charbonnier, was elected Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy and Civil Engineering. H. C. White was elected Professor of Chemistry, Agricultural Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy. Eustance W. Speer was elected Professor of English Language & Literature and Belles Letters. Samuel Barnett Jr. was elected adjunct Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. The Professorship of History and Political Science was abolished, & by the following votes reconsidered. Yeas -Messrs. Mitchell, Hill, Jackson, Pierce, Crawford, Hall, Barrow, Thomas, Beckwith, Harris, Lawton, Colquitt. -12 Nays -Messrs. Miller, Lewis, Toombs, Yancey, Vason, Cobb, Speer, MacIntyre. -8.
The Board then adjourned to 8 oclock tomorrow morning.
August 7th, 1878. 8 A. M. The Board met according to adjournment and resumed the subject of the Professorship of History and Political Science, when Mr. Speer submitted the following resolutions:
There shall be a chair of Agriculture and Horticulture, Natural History, and Political Science.
It shall be the duty of the Professor to teach these Sciences in the spirit and meaning of the act creating the Georgia State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts and his Salary shall be paid out of the Landscript fund, which wase(sic) adopted.
The words Natural History were on motion stricken out of the Professorship filled by Professor White, and were inserted as provided in the above resolution of Mr. Speer.
On motion of Mr. Pierce the Board proceeded to the election of a Professor of Agriculture
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Chancellorship. and Horticulture, Natural History and Political Science, and he nominated Gent. Wm. M. Browne, who was duly elected.
Mr. Yancey Chairman of the Committee to see the Chancellor elect impressed up on the Board the importance of adding to his salary before calling upon him for his final answer and Mr. Lawton thereupon moved to add five hundred dollars to the Salary, the Chancellor paying house rent, making his salary three thousand dollars per annum.
Upon this motion the Yeas and Nays were required and are as follows: Yeas -Messrs. Mitchell, Miller, Lewis, Hill, Toombs, Yancey, Vason, Jackson, Pierce, Crawford, Billups, Hall, Barrow, Thomas, Cobb, Harris, Lawton Mac, Intyre, Speer and Colquitt. -20. Nays -Mr. Brown -1.
Mr. Yancey Chairman of the Committee to see the Chancellor elect, asked leave for his Committee to be absent for the purpose of having a final interview with Dr. Mell, and soon thereafter returned and reported Dr. Mells acceptance of the Chancellorship.
The Board then repaired to the Chapel to attend the Commencement Exercises where the Degrees were publicly conferred by Chancellor Tucker according to the resolution of the Board already recorded.
The Board then returned to the Library and resumed business.
Mr. Stephens moved to reconsider so much of the report on the library as provides to pay the two young men therein named $30.00 which motion prevailed. He thereupon moved to strike out thirty and insert fifty, which was agreed to.
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August 1878. On motion of Mr. Hill, Mr. Samuel Barnett Jr. was made adjunct Professor of Natural Philosophy as well as adjunct professor of Mathematics.
Mr. Thomas was added to the Committee on Honorary Degrees.
Mr. Yancey stated the action of the Alumni Society that the State Agricultural Society be allowed four Trustees to represent it in this Board and after full discussion they decided against the motion upon a call of the Yeas & Nays, viz: The Yeas are Messrs. Lewis, Yancey, Hall, Barrow and Colquitt -5. The Nays are Messrs. Mitchell, Miller, Hill, Brown, Toombs, Jackson, Pierce, Thomas, Beckwith, Cobb, Harris, Lawton, MacIntyre and Stephens -14.
Upon the request of Mr. Thomas the board granted to the State Agricultural Society the use of the College Chapel and the rooms of the lower floor of the Library building during its sessions here next week.
The Board then adjourned to 5 oclock this afternoon.
August 7th, 1878, 5 P.M. The Board met according to adjournment. Mr. Toombs Chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline, made divers(sic) verbal reports all of which were agreed to and are as follows:
1st
. That fifty dollars be paid to Rev. Mr. Branch of Savannah who preached the
Commencement Sermon. 2nd
. The Prudential Committee were instructed to get a supply of water for the use of the
famalies(sic) and students connected with the Institution. 3rd
. The Same Committee were instructed to improved the Campus & put the buildings in proper order.
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Josiah Meigs Portrait. 4th
. The thanks of the Board were voted to Mrs. Catharine Gresham for the portrait of Josiah Meigs, the first president of the University of Georgia, with a present of one hundred dollars, and also to Rev. John Jones D.D. for the interest he took in procuring the portrait, and that his letter be spread on the minutes. The following is the letter referred to, viz:
104 McDonough St. Atlanta, May 30th, 1878. Col. W. L. Mitchell, Respected Friend,
I visited Green Co. last week; and according to your request, called on Mrs. Catharine Gresham, and obtained from Her, the following statements in reference to the picture (the same presented by her to the University of Ga.) of President Josiah Meigs. Said Portrait was painted at the instance of Mr. Josiah Meigs, for Mrs. Gresham then Miss Catharine Wingard. It was painted in Washington wity by a Miss King of Washington. It was painted in 1824 about one year before (Mrs. Gresham thinks) the death of Mr. Meigs. Mrs. Gresham as Miss Wingard seems to have been entimately(sic) acquainted with Mr. Meigs and family, and her husband certainly was a favorite of Mr. Meigs, as will appear from the following facts. Mr. Sterling Gresham at the age of 19, with Mr. Meigs went to Sandusky Ohio, in Government service. Then to Washington City, and was for years a clerk under Mr. Meigs Commissioner of the Land office of the U. S. Mr. Gresham married two sisters named Wingard. Mrs. Gresham thinks President Meigs may have been born on the Island of Bermuda, as he once lived there, and taught school.
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August 1878. Mr. Meigs came to Connecticut, and was once a Professor or Tutor in Yale College. He married Clara Benjamin of Connecticut. They had four Sons: Charles, who became a distinguished Dr. and Professor of Medicine in Philadelphia; Henry, who became a Layer in N. Y. City; Ezra Stiles (no doubt named after a distinguished president of Yale College) and John Benjamin Meigs. Their only Daughter named after her mother Clara, was married to John Forsyth of Ga., one of our most talented and distinguished men. Mrs. Gresham says Dr. Josiah Meigs, was remarkable for loveliness, and amiability in his family, Courtesy, intelligence, and unfeigned consistent piety. Greatly respected and loved in life, and in death deeply, tenderly mourned and lamented! His death was a public Calamity, and to his family and his clerks an irreparable loss.
The Benjamin family were all Presbyterians, and Mr. Meigs, in all probability through their influence, became a Presbyterian, and was a ruling Elder (I think) at the time of his death.
Thus far had I written when I left for my appointment in Madison from which place, I returned on the 3rd, of June last Monday.
One more fact gathered from Mrs. Gresham, informed me that, Return Jonathan Meigs, distinguished for his name, and for many years service for the U. S. Government, was a Nephew of President Josiah Meigs..and the history and origin of Jonathans peculiar name. I learned from Revd. Dr. Pratt of Roswell Cobb Co. Ga. Originally of Connecticut. It is as follows: A Mr. Jonathan Meigs offered his hand in marriage to a certain New England damsel. She apparently, declined the offer. He believing her in earnest, bowed and retired, and retreated sadly through the yard, and was in the act of emerging from the premises; & (90)
Dormitory System. when the voice of his Lady love arrested him, with these hope inspiring words, Return Jonathan! He quickly returned, renewed his suit and was accepted. Then marriage! and then a man-child, whom in commemoration of the happy recall, they named, Return Jonathan Meigs. But, you will be saying a truce to the Meigs family! Allow me to wish that you could have witnessed the earnest affectionate memorial tributes of Mrs. Gresham, to her old friend whose earthly pilgrimage has been closed for more than half a century. Now generously she resigned the Portrait at my earnest intercession for the University, believing no doubt that the honored name and face would be more sacredly cherished in Athens, than in any other place on earth. Adieu! Friend and Instructor of my early youth! I wish I could meet you at least once a year! Very truly and respectfully Yours
John Jones.
P. S. My kindest regards to all of the members of your family. I had the pleasure of seeing one of your daughter two months since on the R. R.
Mr. Toombs submitted the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved, That in resuming the Dormitory system the house on Lumpkin St. built to furnish cheap board by being occupied rent free be and the same is hereby appropriated for that purpose, as soon as the rent thereof expires and a suitable occupant can be obtained and that the Prudential Committee be charged with this matter.
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August 1878. The Committee on Laws and Discipline through Mr. Pierce recommend the appropriation of thirty five hundred dollars to the North Georgia Agricultural College to be paid to its President and Professors as heretofore, and moved its adoption which was agree(sic) to.
Mr. Thomas Chairman of the Committee on finance moved to take up his report which on his motion was adopted, except so much as related to the extra pay to Messrs. Charbonnier and White which on motion of Mr. Brown was refused.
The report is as follows: The following Report is submitted by the undersigned, in behalf of the Finance Committee.
The auditing Committee of the Board have made the customary examination of the Treasurers Account for the past fiscal year, from which it appears that the Receipts from all sources were $33,862.61 & the disbursements, including purchases of Apparatus were $38,206.98 for which proper vouchers were exhibited, with a cash ballance(sic) in the hands of the Treasurer of $9,686.79 which an unexpended ballance(sic) of $4,938.92 belonging to the Apparatus Fund, leaving after deducting these two amounts, available for current expenses $3540.37 of which $2757.31 belongs to the Land Script Fund and the remainder $783.06 to the General Fund.
The disbursements on account of the State College of Agriculture & the Mechanic Arts were $18,561.79 from which after deducting the income of the Endowment Fund and Sales of Farm products, it will be seen that there was an excess of expenditures over the income in this Department of $504.95
The income of the Academical(sic) Department
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Report of Finance Committee. including Library Fees, was $15, 808.77 and the expenditures were $15, 368.77 and the expenditures were $15,368.04 showing an excess of income in this department over expenditures of $437.73.
The expenditures on account of purchases of Apparatus were $4277.15, for which an itemized statement was submitted by the President of the State College, leaving an unexpended balance on the hands of the Treasurer, belonging to this Fund, as before stated of $4,938.92
From the foregoing Statements it appears, leaving out the transactions on account of the Apparatus Fund, that the total disbursements were $67.22 in excess of the total receipts and including refunded tuition $990.70 less than the appropriations, which is deemed a satisfactory result in view of the large diminution of Tuition Fees, which amounted to only $3121.34 net, having fallen below the estimates by the sum of $1878.66.
The Committee submits the following statement of the Assets of the University which were carefully examined by the Auditing Committee, and which through the Finance Committee (space) beg leave to report that they found the several amounts to agree with the statements of said assets as hereinafter set forth, that the rates of interest accruing upon the several classes of Bonds is correctly stated, and as the result of their examination it satisfactorily appears that all the interest due to, and collected for the University so far as is embraced in the statements herewith submitted has been collected and accounted for by the Treasurer. Assets of the University.
I. Land Script Fund:
Bonds of State of Ga. 8% April & Oct._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $96,000.00 7% Jany. & July _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 56,000.00 In hands of the Governor, paying 7% _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 90,202.17 $242,202.17
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II. Terrell Endowment.
Bonds of State of Ga. 7% Jany. & July _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$16,000.00 Ga. R. R. & Bkg Co. 7% _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4,000.00 $20,000.00

III. General Funds.
Dept. of State of Ga. Paying 8% April _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$100,000.00 Bonds of State of Ga. 8% _ April & Oct. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3,000.00 Ga. R. R. & Bkg Co. Jany. & July 7% _ _ _ _ _ 5,000.00
Bond of Clarke County 7% _ _ _ _ _ _ 500.00
Bonds of City of Athens 8% _ _ _ _ _ _ _200.00
$108,700.00

As the future of the University depends upon so many contingencies, the Committee in the further discharge of the duty assigned them, to submit estimates of receipts and expenditures for the next Collegiate Year, are somewhat embarrassed in making an estimate of revenue from Tuition Fees on the one hand, as well as of expenditures on the other, in view of the probable legislation of the Board, as indicated at its last Session. Upon the presumption however, that the Tuition Fees will not fall below the receipts of the past year & the chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy will be filled, & the Appropriation to the North Georgia College will not exceed the usual appropriation of $2500.00 under the organization of the University as at present existing, the following estimates are submitted.
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Report of Finance Committee. Income.
Cash Annual Payment by the State _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $8000.00 Interest on General Fund on Bonds _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 641.00 From sale of Farm Products _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 150.00 Rents of Professors Houses _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1800.00 Room Rents of Students _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ 60.00 LibraryFees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 500.00 Terrell Endowments _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1400.00
Land Script Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7914.14 TuitionFees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3120.00 $33585.14
Expenditures Catalogue _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $300.00 Advertising & Printing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 400.00 Music _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 120.00 Servants _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _600.00 Postage _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 175.00 Stationary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 100.00 Insurance _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 200.00 Fuel _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 175.00 Medals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20.00 Chemicals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 100.00 Repairs _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1500.00 Incidentals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 300.00 Salaries _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 22750.00
$26740.00
The proportion of the foregoing estimates to be charged to the Land Script Fund, may be stated as follows:
Proportion of Land Script Fund. Salaries _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$15,000.00 Catalogue _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _150.00 Advertising & Printing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _200.00 Music _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 60.00 Servants _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _400.00 Postage _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _87.50
$15,897.50
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August 1878. Brought forward _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$15,897.50 Stationery _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _50.00 Fuel _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 87.50 Chemicals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _50.00 Incidentals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 150.00
$16,235.00
If the above estimate of expenditures to be charged to the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, be deducted from the estimate of total expenditures, it will be seen that the ballance (sic) to be charged to the Academical (sic) Department, will under the present organization (if the Chair of Nat. Philosophy & Astronomy be filled) exceed the estimated income of that department by the sum of $2350.67. Your Committee therefore earnestly recommend such retrenchment as will reduce the expenditures within the income of that department. The Committee recommend that the Annual appropriation of $100.00 for a College Post Master be discontinued as unnecessary and that all purchases on account of Stationery & Postage hereafter be made by the Secretary of the Faculty who shall be held responsible for its proper use and distribution. In conclusion the Committee beg leave to state, that at the last meeting of the Board, the duties of the vacant chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy were assigned to Profs. Charbonnier and White, in addition to the duties of their respective chairs, for which extra service, notwithstanding the duties were assigned without additional compensation some substantial recognition should in the opinion of your Committee be made. It is therefore recommended
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Report on Buildings. that the sum of $350.00 be paid out of the Cash balance (sic) belonging to the Academical(sic) Department, to each of these meritorious officers.
Respectfully Submitted Athens, Ga. S. Thomas August 1st 1878. Chairman
Mr. Thomas submitted the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved, That so much of the estimates of the Finance Committee relates to the several items of miscellaneous expenditures for the next Collegiate year is approved and specific appropriations are hereby made in accordance with said estimates as also for the several departments of both Franklin & State Colleges in accordance with the legislation of the present session of the Board. Librarians fee of $100.00 to be paid out of Library Fund. On motion of Mr. Cobb the Board referred the petition of students to have secret societies to the Faculty with power to act.
The Board ordered the salary of Professor Charbonnier to be paid equally from the Land Script Fund and the General Fund. Mr. Harris Chairman of the Committee on buildings moved to take up his report which was adopted, and is as follows: To the Board of Trustees,
The Committee on Buildings report, that the principal repairs on the buildings within the University Campus for the past year have been recovering Prof. Waddels dwelling renewing fences on lots occupied by Dr. Billups & Prof. Wilcox. Plastering & White washing inside the building known as New college mending old and furnishing new blinds for west end of old college, work on Campus fence & Gates and fitting up a room for Prof. Brown, his old room having been occupied by Prof. Little. The aggregate cost of these repairs has been $863.18.
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August 1878. The condition of the property known as the University High School was fully made known to the board at its last session. The roof was wholly insufficient to protect the building. It was impracticable to repair it and the only alternative was to cover anew. This has been done with Fin, the gutters and pipes renewed and the broken sash and lights replaced, so that the building is now perfectly weather tight. The entire cost of refitting the exterior of this building has been $733.40. Add to this $863.18 the cost of work done on Campus and the buildings therein, and you have $1596.58 as the total amount expended in repairs for the year just ended. The interior of the High School Edifice remains as it was at your last session. Should this property ever again be fully occupied, it will be necessary to make large and extensive repairs. Besides wood work on Piazzas and steps, considerable Plastering, thorough white-washing & painting would be needed, involving in the whole a cost of not less than six hundred and fifty Dollars. The outbuildings on the place are in fair order.
Pursuant to an order of the Board at its last Session, this property has been advertised for sale, but no bids, or propositions, have been received. The fine building and grounds attached, known as the Presidents Lot, is in general bad condition. This place is rented to Dr. E. S. Lyndon for a stipulated sum, upon condition that he is to make, without charge to the University such repairs as may be necessary during his occupancy of it. It is very unfortunate that this property is not occupied as originally designed by the Head of this Institution; as while it has to be rented to outsiders and used for a Boarding house it will be impossible to prevent its abuse, and deterioration. Whenever it shall again be occupied as first
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Report on Buildings. intended it will require not less than six or eight hundred Dollars to put the place in proper order.
At a former meeting of the Board, the West end of old college was taken from under the charge of the family occupying the building and thrown open for students who might wish to room there and take their meals elsewhere. Only two of the rooms have been thus occupied. Under the circumstances it has been found impossible to protect that end of the building. Being open with no one living in it, or specially responsible for it, it has suffered very considerable damage. It would now require $100.00 go put it in good order. It is respectfully recommended that this end of the building be put back under the charge of the occupant of the other part of it. The east end of the building has been in possession of P. G. Thompson Esqr. since the last meeting of the Board, under contract to furnish board to students at $12.50/100 per month in consideration of having the use of necessary family apartments free of charge. Not a single student has availed himself of this privilege during the past year. The contract with Mr. Thompson expires with this session of the Board. It is not intended to renew it. In Dec. last several members of the Board resident here, were addressed by a Committee of the Demosthenian Society representing that their Hall was in such a state of decay as to expose their library and furniture to great damage, that their membership was small and their means so limited as to scarcely enable them to defray current expenses and that they had made repeated efforts to obtain funds for making repairs, without any success. They further state that they have been informed that the property was their own and it was therefore not incumbent upon the Trustees of the University to aid
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August 1878. them in keeping it in repair, which if true they say would necessitate the mortgaging of their Hall to raise the necessary means, and this would probably be the destruction of the Society. The Phi Kappa Society it is understood is in much the same condition pecuniarily(sic). It might be well for the Board to define the status of these Society Halls and the relative rights of the students and the Trustees, to control them. For the ensueing(sic) year repairs will be needed on Roof and boxing of Library building, Roof of Chapel, Furniture for Professors Rooms, Plastering & white washing of both the old & new college buildings, the erection of gates, and the usual incidentals, which will require about $1500.00 The grading on Western division of Campus has not been done for want of funds. Whenever the means at command will allow it, five or eight hundred dollars might be well expended in the improvement of these grounds & the Fencing inclosing them.
Respectfully Submitted, Young L. G. Harris, Chairman.
Mr. Harris submitted the following resolution which was adopted. In the event that the University High School Property should be occupied according to the action of the Board It is ordered that the Prudential Committee have the necessary repairs made thereon.
Mr. Yancey in behalf of the Prudential Committee submitted the following report which was adopted and is as follows:
The Prudential Committee to whom was referred the letters of the Revd. Mr. Potter, A. M.
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University High School. Teacher in Kentucky in reference to taking charge of the University High School and the subject of reopening that school beg leave to report the following resolutions:
Resolved, That the University High School be reopened as soon as practicable upon the following conditions, 1st
. That beyond putting the building in a tenantable condition there shall be no expense
devolved upon the treasury of the University. 2nd
. That the buildings with the furniture thereof with five acres of land be rented free, to some suitable educator who shall conduct the school on his own pecuniary responsibility -the Curricula of studies being adjusted to the Curricula of the University -under the direction of the Board of Trustees to prepair (sic) his students for the Junior Classes of the University: Provided that the Principal selected shall pay annually into the treasury of the University the sum of two hundred & fifty dollars to be expended on repairs under the direction of the Committee on buildings
3rd
. The Principal shall be removable for cause at the discretion of the Board of Trustees. 4th
. That advertisement of this proposition be made for 30 days in newspapers published in Louisville, Ky. Richmond, Va. Columbia South Carolina, Atlanta, Ga. Montgomery, Ala.
5th
. That the selection of Principal be made by the Prudential Committee on the 16th day
of September proximo. 6th
. That the lease of said property be for the term of three years unless terminated by removal of the Principal. Wm. L. Mitchell, Chairman.
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August 1878. Mr. Harris submitted the following resolution which was adopted and is as follows:
Ordered, That the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated for the necessary repairs upon the Hall of the Demosthenian Society and a like sum for the Phi Kappa Society, each to be expended from time to time as may be required under the direction of the building Committee of the Board.
Mr. Harris renewed the resignation of Mr. Thomas as Trustee which on this motion was
accepted. The Board then went into an election to fill the vacancy thus created. Upon counting the ballots it appeared that Mr. Alder Johnson was duly elected
Trustee.
The President pro-tem then appointed the Standing Committee as follows: To visit North Georgia College of Agriculture. Messrs. Cobb, Billups and Beckwith.
Committee on Finance. Messrs. Yancey, Brown, Crawford, MacIntyre and Lawton.
Committee on Library. Messrs. Cobb, Hall, Davenport Jackson, Pierce, and Stephens.
Committee on Buildings. Messrs. Harris, Seward, Vason, Barrow and Mitchell.
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Committee on Law Department. Messrs. Cobb, J. Jackson Lawton, Toombs, Mac.Intyre and Gordon.
Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture Messrs. Yancey, Lewis, Barrow, & Screven.
Committee on Apparatus. The Members of the Prudential Committee.
The Board then adjourned sine die.
Wm. L. Mitchell Signed by Order of the Board Secretary. Mark(?) A.(?) Carofier(?) Vin(?) Prudta(?)
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University of Georgia.
Athens, August 1st. 1879.
The Trustees of the University of Georgia, met in stated Annual Session in the College Library at 10 oclock A. M. and were called to order by the Senior Trustee present in the absence of the President and Vice President. The meeting was opened with prayer by the Chancellor, Rev. P. H. Mell D.D. LL.D. Upon calling the roll the following members answered to their names, viz: Mitchell, Lewis, Yancey, Vason, James Jackson, Crawford, Hall, Barrow, Cobb, Harris, MacIntyre, Stephens, Speer and Davenport Jackson, and during the Session the following members appeared and took their seats; Gresham, Brown, Toombs, Gordon, Screven, Lawton, Cooper and Miller. Escuses (sic) were made and sustained for the absence of the following members; Messrs. Pierce, Smith, Beckwith, Jenkens and Hammond. The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. Mr. Lewis took the chair and on motion Messrs. Speer and Yancey were appointed a Committee to invite Representatives of the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega, a Branch College of this Institution and of the Contemplated Branch Colleges, at Cuthbert and Thomasville to appear before the Board and hear the Annual Communication of the Chancellor after which an opportunity would be given them to be heard in behalf of their respective Institutions. The Chancellor read his Annual Communication which is as follows.
University of Georgia. August 1st. 1879 To the Board of Trustees University of Georgia. Gentlemen I have the honor to present to you this my first Annual Report:
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Chancellors Report. Number of Students.
During the Collegiate year now closing, one hundred and forty nine (149.) students have matriculated in the Departments at Athens, viz: in Franklin College, eighty eight, (88.); in the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, fifty five (55.); and in the Law School six (6.) But in this enumeration one is counted twice as he successfully attended to the A. B. course in the Senior Class and mastered all the requirements of the Law Department. Taking care therefore not to count him twice in the recapitulation and adding reports from other Departments we have as the number of students in the University. In Franklin College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _88
State College Ag. and M. A. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _55 The Law Department _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7 Total in the Departments at Athens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _149 In theDepartment at Dahlonega _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 323 In the Medical Department at Augusta _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _77
Total in all Departments_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 549
From this it will be seen that there has been a gain this year in the Departments at Athens of thirty three (33); and in all the Departments an aggregate gain of seventy nine (79.)

Method of Discipline.
Your honorable Body adopted at its last session, regulations in the following words: The students shall hereafter occupy the Dormitory Buildings, and be under proper surveillance under the director of the Faculty provided exceptional cases may be disposed of by the Faculty. Resolved, That in resuming the Dormitory system, the house on Lumpkin street, built to furnish cheap board by being occupied rent free, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for that purpose as soon as the rent thereof expires, and a suitable occupant can be obtained can that the Prudential Committee be charged with this matter.
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August 1879. The Prudential Committee agreed with me that it was impossible to carry into effect this legislation,
(1) Because the Board reconsidered its action providing for the election of two young men as Adjunct Professors or Tutors who could room in the Dormitories and keep order at night - finally retaining only one; and (2) Because the house on Lumpkin Street was occupied by a tenant whose lease would not expire until the end of the calendar year, and it would not have been wise, if possible to have attempted to inaugurate such a system in the middle of the Collegiate year, violating the implied agreement with the students that they were at liberty within certain prescribed limits, to make their own arrangements of Board and Lodging; and disquieting and perhaps pecuniarily (sic) injuring the keeper of the College Boarding House, by compelling him to remove from a house in which he could lodge a large number of students into one in which he could accommodate but a few, and it would by no means follow that his boarders would accompany him to a new place of residence. It seemed to the Prudential Committee then, and to me, that we were under the necessity for the present Collegiate year to adhere to the old system. Should the Trustees desire again to inaugurate the surveillance and Dormitory system, I respectfully direct their attention to the necessity of arranging all the essential details of such system. Should the Board still adhere to this plan, I will to the best of my ability, and in good faith, endeavor to carry it out. Candor however, require me to say that it is not the system which I would from choice adopt and administer. The design of every wise plan of College Government is to secure as results
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Orderly Deportment in the students.

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Protection to their Morals.

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Diligence and Proficiency in study and

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Cultivation of their manners.


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Chancellors Report. Does the Dormitory System, tend to aid in the attainment of these results? In my opinion it tends to stimulate to disorder rather than to repress or prevent it, because,
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. It brings large numbers together of the same class of people and of about the same age, with no infusion of counteracting and conservative elements. In Normal society, class modifies class: the two sexes place each other reciprocally on their good behavior and different ages and occupations and modes of thought, and habits of life, and interests, and plans, infringe (crossed out and replaced with impinge in pencil) upon each other and constitute potent factors in working out the problem of individual and public character and conduct. But in crowded Dormitory buildings the idiosyncrasies of student character would find nothing to counteract them, but every thing to stimulate and invigorate them; and the vicious and disorderly would find the materials to operate on, gathered together within their reach and prepared for their manipulations by the very genius of the aggregation.
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. Again, the system tends, in my opinion to stimulate disorder, because it is avowedly repressive. It virtually announces to the students that the authorities have and can have, no confidence in them; and that it is their intention to govern them by vigilance and espionage and the arts of the detective chiefly if not alone. The issue tendered is, of course, accepted by the students, and to normal state between Teachers and Pupils is that of antagonism. The students on their part cordially reciprocate the implied expression of confidence withheld . No social relations exist between them and the Faculty. Indeed, for one of their number to cultivate terms of intimacy with any member of the Faculty is to lose cast with his fellows and to be treated by them as one who has treasonably gone over to the enemy. With war virtually declared and lines of battle virtually drawn -with nine men on one side pledged to enforce order and one hundred and forty nine one the other, tempted to resist and thwart
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August 1879. such irritating and unnecessary use of force; the natural result ought not to be doubtful. Vigilance will be met by vigilance; and one hundred and forty nine young men can, to say the least, be just as vigilant, adroit and untiring as nine old men. Blows inflicted by one side will be certain to provoke and secure the return of characteristic blows of the other. A successful raid now by the governing power will be perpetuated, at unexpected times, and in unexpected places, annoyances public and private, that college-boy genius stimulated by the quasi state of war, is competent to invent and execute. College smiles, tin-pan serenades and pistol fusilades (sic) make night hideous; while gates and fences, and vehicles, and merchants signs mark the ravages of war. On the other hand, an unsuccessful raid to make a reconnoisance (sic), to abate a nuisance, or to capture a prisoner, provokes merriment, & fun reinforcing resentment, intensifies the difficult and multiplies the disorder. Temptations will be plied to induce the officer to make the abortive effort over again; and numberless baits will be thrown out and ingenious expedients offered to entice to impracticable enterprises. The result will be if the officer makes no effort at all he will be an object of contempt -if he makes what must inevitably be abortive attempts, he becomes the butt of ridicule.
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. The objections to the system already mentioned are greatly enhanced by the fact that those who administer it at the most difficult and dangerous times are young and usually inexperienced men -earnest perhaps, but in discreet who provoke more disorder than they prevent or suppress. In a system so favorable to chronic disorder, moral character must be jeopardized and studiousness in a degree sacrificed. In this connection however let me make an admission and assert a principle as well. The ordinary noises
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Chancellors Report. in a large Dormitory filled with students furnish a condition of things favorable to efficient mental development and practical attainment in knowledge. This is a noisy world; and the educated man who is not trained to control his attention and pursue lines of thought in the midst of confusion and tumult, to say the least, is not fit to be a leader of men. Orderly noises then in a College Dormitory -such as the slamming of doors; the moving of chairs; the falling of books; the sound of foot-falls; and the subdued hum of voices -are not unmixed evils, but may subserve a valuable purpose towards culture and training in habits of self-control. Consequently there is some compensation, for advantages lost, if, the students occupy the College buildings, not as dormitories controlled by surveillance, but as students homes governed by the power of influence exerted not only by the Faculty, but by refined and virtuous families placed in authority there. But chronic conflicts and disorderly noises compromise directly, or indirectly, every occupant of the dormitories under surveillance, and furnish a state of things not at all favorable to studiousness and mental progress. Those engaged in the disorders for the time being, neglect their books; and those not actively compromised have their curiosity excited so that they watch the progress of the riot or the fun, and wait to see what will be the issue of the disorder. While correct deportment among the students, their morals and proper habits of study will not be promoted by the Dormitory system; their manners in my opinion would suffer the herding of either sex by itself, away from the refining influences of home and the correcting influences of the other sex. But we have not here the means and appliances for an efficient enforcement of the Dormitory plan. The system in this country-where it was not adopted from necessity because localities did not furnish
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August 1879. lodging facilities for students -was copied from the monastic institutions of Europe. There the buildings are so constructed as to make it possible for the authorities to carry on espionage and surveillance with some efficiency. The group of buildings pertaining to each college is surrounded by a high wall not easily scaled. At a certain hour of the night, according to the regulations, the great gate of this wall is locked. After that time, the officer can go his rounds and have some hope that all he finds in the cloisters are prisoners for the night; and he can have the grim consolation of knowing that all disorders perpetuated afterwards will perhaps be monopolized by the college community and not advertised abroad. But here the machinery is not provided by which to enforce the system. When, as he goes his rounds at night, the officers back is turned upon the doors of the students rooms, all the occupants are virtually at liberty, if so disposed, to go where forbidden pleasure or mischief leads them. But if the system were free from the objections I have cited, it would be difficult perhaps impossible -for us to administer it successfully; because all the Colleges in this country, so far as I know, have abandoned it, and public opinion is against it. I have reason to know that we lost some students because it was reported that the system would go into operation last October. Certain it is I had many communications from parents informing me that they could not send or return their sons here, if they were forced to lodge in the College Dormitories. But I may be asked, shall all college government be disbanded and the young men be permitted to do as they please? Shall college officers be released from all responsibility for the morals and the deportment of the boys - not men in this country -committed to their care? Better abolish all the institutions in the country rather than
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that the youth in them for want of restraint should go to ruin. The question is not whether the University can dispense with college government, but which is the best and most effective form of it. With great deference and respect I venture to state to your honorable Body, what I consider to be
The true system of College Government.
It is that, in my opinion which relies upon and employs influence chiefly, rather than, authority; which seeks the confidence of the young men and gains their hearts; which inspires them with self respect; and seeks to control them by making them control themselves. The system I advocate would avoid antagonisms, and secure kind social relations between Professors and students, by inspiring mutual confidence and respect among all the members of the College community. It would segregate the students as much as possible by scattering them among the families of the town -subjecting them to the home-like influences of the household, and the conservative influences, daily exercised, of virtuous female society. Of course, this implies that there is nothing of just authority to be sacrificed, or any thing of College law to be ignored or disregarded, for the College Faculty or officer that permits students with impunity, to trample under foot, college law, or to fail to come up to college requirement, is contemned and despised and cannot possibly be a party to administering the system of influencethat controls men, which for that reason is a method ofintentional government. Impotency, and indifference that takes its ease, are in no danger of being mistaken for the thing to which I refer. But pretension and bluster and ostentations (sic), self-assertion enter in no respect into that influence which controls men. He is the best manager of men, who while doing it does not seem to do so, but who, a genuine man himself, and unselfish, brings himself and his processes in harmony with human
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August 1879. nature in general, and with the peculiarities of those with whom he has to deal, and then without ostentation, -if possible -without self consciousness, furnish the occasion, and implies the impulse, to men to make them manage themselves, --according to his notions. Let the College authorities then gain the hearts of the young men, and command their confidence, and there will be no intentional disorder, by day or by night, single or in combination. This state of feeling existing, there will be no danger excepting that which may result from personal vices, contracted at the University or brought there from home. This is a specific danger and difficulty to be met by a specific qualification in the college officer, and by a specific treatment in the administration of college discipline. The Faculty must make themselves acquainted with the character and habits of every student, and must be able to discover at once the first departure from the path of rectitude. The student should find himself arraigned immediately after the commission of any vicious act or the performance of any thing tending in that direction; and thus be convinced that he can not proceed in this way with impunity. No doubt, it is difficult to thus make discoveries, but it is not impossible; and he who finds it so, should not hesitate to conclude that his talents fit him better for any other position than that of administrator of college discipline. Certain it is, that it is easier to make such discoveries under the system I advocate, than under that against which I am arguing. When a young man pursues a course so vicious or insubordinate as to make it necessary ultimately to sever his connection with the University, I would if possible subject him to two reformatory processes before the final act:
1st
. When the young man is detected in his first aberration then an opportunity is given to the college
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Chancellors Report. Officer to wield a personal influence over him that may tend to reform him and to secure his permanent continuance in the right way. For college discipline should never be vindictive, or retributive, but simply corrective. When a parent commits his son to a college officer, the latter should treat the boy, exactly as he would wish another to treat hi own son in like circumstances. If the young man goes estray (sic), he should be plied with a discipline intended and calculated to correct and reform. With gentleness and kindness, the boy should be shown his wrong and his danger. If he gives evidence that he realizes them and promises in satisfactory tone and terms to abandon forever the wrong way, let the officer frankly accept the pledge and promise to keep his secret, divulging it not even to the Faculty, -provided that they have not themselves discovered it, and in that case pledging them also to secrecy. But let him frankly inform the culprit that the slightest aberation (sic) in the same or a kindred direction will make it necessary for his conduct, with all the incidents and the aggravations of it, to be reported to his parents. And this brings me to the second reformatory process I would use in college discipline.
2nd
. Should the young man be detected in repeating the offence, or indeed in the perpetration of any disorder, let the officer, gently but firmly, decline to accept any more promises as a reason why he should proceed no further. Let him with manner at once kind and frank say to the offender that his parents must be informed as to all the facts of the case. Indeed, it has been, according to my experience, that it is best to read to the young man the letter of information about to be sent to his parents; for the officer would say nothing against the student behind his back. Now this course will have one of two effects -it will either humble or exasperate; and thus the officer can proceed to subsequent steps intelligently. If the parent cooperates and the young man is reformed
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August 1879. and saved, the officer will have administered college government successfully by enforcing effective, corrective, college discipline. But in the event that all the processes fail, then the way is opened and the minds of all parties prepared, for the final act. And it is a great point gained if the college officer has furnished the occasion for the parent of the boy to justify and sustain him in the final and decisive act. But in the event that all the reformatory methods fail and that the boy be found to be hopelessly vicious or impracticable, even then there is no occasion for passion or resentment; nor any reason why he should be publicly humiliated and disgraced. Let his parent be requested to withdraw him, or the young man be requested quietly to retire. Let the officer promise him that he will throw no difficulties in the way of his joining another College, but rather encourage him to do so, assuring him that he will watch his career, with interest, prepared to rejoice at the evidence of his reformation, and success in life. If College discipline cannot benefit, by all means let it not damage, certainly not ruin, the subjects of it. Thus far I have spoken only of irregularities and vices. In cases where students are guilty of notorious crimes, or where their vices or even irregularities have brought public scandal upon them or the University, the treatment would of necessity be different. I respectfully offer the above as my opinion as to the form the method and the spirit of the true College government. Nor is my conviction the result of mere theory, destitute of experience. I have been a college Professor for thirty seven years. Twenty years of that time I assisted earnestly and honestly in the administration of the Dormitory system, and I will attempt it again if you insist upon it; but it is my honest conviction that the system based upon influence is the only true method
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of college government and the only one that can approximate to success.
Dormitories. One of the Dormitories has been used as a College Boarding House, during the current year; and Board, furnished Lodging and Servants attentions have been obtained, by such students as desired at thirteen dollars and fifty cents ($13.50) a month. More than twenty students have boarded there during the whole year. Mrs. Richardson, the lady of the house furnished a table extraordinarily good for the price, and managed the house-hold with consummate address. Not the slightest complaint has been made to me during the whole year, by house-Keeper or students; and if there has not been order and mutual satisfaction the fact has not come to my notice. The other college Building has been partially occupied by students alone. The young men have deported themselves with great propriety; but it is not desirable that the house should be permanently occupied in this way. It is never safe for young men to sleep in a house by themselves, away from family influences. Should the Board not reestablish the surveillance system, I respectfully recommend that this building be placed at the discretion of the Prudential Committee, with power to act according as one or the other of two facts may exist. Should students in large numbers present themselves here next year, and there be a demand for another cheap Boarding House on the campus, it is desirable that the Committee should have the power in their discretion to repair the building and put a suitable family in it. Should there be no demand for an additional Boarding house, I respectfully request that the Committee be authorized to close the Building up entirely, as it is now closed in part.
Campus Grounds. The member of the Prudential Committee have interested
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August 1879. themselves in the improvement of the Campus; and much has been done towards beautifying the grounds. Especially is the College community indebted in this regard to Col. Y. L. G. Harris of your Board. Much of his attention and no small share of his valuable time has he devoted to this work. Under his skill and taste, the western campus has been laid off in artistic style that could not be excelled by the designs of the most artistic Landscape Gardener. Graceful terraces completed and others indicated, which when finished and ornamented, according to his plan, with turf and tree, and gravelled (sic) walk, will constitute a gem of beauty, -attest his energy and mark his skill. Mr. R.
L. Bloomfield also and Dr. James Camak brought us under obligations by furnishing and planting out, trees on the grounds. It is much to be desired that the work begun, should be carried on to completion as soon as possible; and that the Eastern campus also should be subjected to the beautifying process. Nothing could advertise us so favorably to the eye of strangers as beautiful and ornamental grounds -as nothing has disgraced us so much as the neglect and desolation that have reigned here so long. I cannot with too much emphasis ask the attention of your honorable Body to this important subject.
Library. On the recommendation of Gen. Wm. Browne, who was just retiring from the office I appointed Undergraduate, J. H. Armstrong, Librarian. He has performed the duties of the office faithfully and with marked ability. I beg leave herewith to present his report and to call special attention to the recommendation in the 7th item of it.
Your records showed that Mr. Armstrongs predecessor had made out a complete list of the
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Chancellors Report. books in the Library, which list you examined and commended; but no such document was on file in the Librarians office, and all our efforts to trace it up and to find it have failed. As it was absolutely necessary that we should have such a list to guide us in the purchase of books, Mr. Armstrong kindly volunteered to make it out. This he has done with much consumption of labor and of time. We had no funds which we were authorized to use to compensate for this work; and I respectfully refer the matter to you. I have endeavored during the past year rigidly to enforce through the Librarian the regulations adopted at your last session. It was your instruction that a student should be permitted to keep a book out but one week at a time. I required the Librarian himself to report to me in person on a certain day every week as to whether all parties had observed the regulation and to give me the names of those, if any, who had failed to come up to the requirement. We received the most prompt and cheerful cooperation of the students; and according to the reports to me, every book taken out during the year has been returned to the Library. To provide against a possible danger, the Faculty adopted a regulation to govern themselves in the premises. It is necessary for the Professors to retain permanently in their hands books of reference on the topics pertaining to their departments. These are in danger of becoming mixed with the books in their private libraries, and in the event of their death, of being lost to the University or of furnishing the occasion for unpleasant issues. To obviate this danger, the Faculty resolved that every Professor should give to the Librarian in his own handwriting, and under his own signature, the names of all the books of reference
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August 1879. he has taken out and expects to hold. These lists the Librarian is to copy into his book in the presence of the Chancellor or of the Professor giving the list, & to place the lists themselves carefully and safely on file. In the event then of the death or resignation of any Professor, all questions that may arise as to the ownership of books may be decided not only by the record, but by the Professors acknowledgement in his own hand writing. But I cannot omit to state to you that notwithstanding all these regulations and precautions your valuable property is continually in jeopardy.
1st. It is absolutely impossible, for the Chancellor burdened with other duties, to make a minute inspection of all the books in a large Library. All that he can do is to inspect the records of the Librarian, and require from him frequent reports. If that officer is incompetent or unfaithful every thing is placed in the chapter of accidents.
2nd
. Again, the books are exposed on unprotected shelves; and all who came into the room have unobstructed access to them. While the Librarian may be in one of the alcoves, the books every where else are exposed to the possible depredations of the thoughtless and unconscientous (sic); for the room is accessible to others besides students, and even servants must sometimes be admitted there to put the room to sights.
To obviate this the Faculty with the concurrence of the Prudential Committee have resolved to apply a protection in the shape of a network of wire under control of lock and key. Since this was written, the work under the superintendence of Prof. White has been done, and now stands under your inspection.
3rd
. Another difficulty is that under our present system the Librarian must be an undergraduate. As a general rule, he cannot hold office more than
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Chancellors Report. A year and before he acquires experience, is succeeded by another in like conditions; so that it is a permanent state of affairs that your valuable and exposed property is managed by those inexperienced & inexpert. Nor can this difficulty be obviated by appointing a member of the Faculty as Librarian; for every Professor has already as much as he can do. It is greatly to be desired that a first class man should be elected by your honorable Body, and I possible paid an adequate salary, as Librarian, whose duty it should be to keep the room open every day in the week, excepting Sunday, and be there in person ready to respond to the calls of members of the University community, and to receive and extend courtesies to all whom it may be your pleasure in any way to admit to the privileges there. I am firmly convinced that the Library would permanently grow in the number of volumes ore rapidly and surely by appropriating to this purpose a portion of the annual Library Fund, than by expending under the present system, every dollar of it every year in the purchase of books.
State College of Agriculture & the Mechanic Arts. The number of Students in this college is fifty five (55) as opposed to forty (40) last collegiate year -making a gain of fifteen (15). The indications are favorable for a larger increase for the next year. As it has pleased your honorable Body to make the Chancellor of the University ex officio President of this College also, it is no longer necessary to have in form two Faculties with two distinct Record books. It is proper too that the nomenclature of the State College should be changed in those respects in which it differed from that of the other college in the same University, and under the same Faculty. Instead of Sections A. and B., the students are graded as Sophomores and Freshmen;
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August 1879. For, excepting in topics peculiar to the State College, they recite the identical lessons under the same officers, & at the same times with those Classes in Franklin College. The terms then as applied to the students of one college will have the same significance as when applied to those of the other; for the two classes in each are precisely of the same grade. The two higher classes have been always called Juniors and Seniors. According to your legislation last year, each College has three curricula terminating with degrees; and each college is competent to impart the highest education in its own sphere. It is a noteworthy fact though that but few take the degrees of the State College as compared with those who graduate in the A. B. course in Franklin College; and it is discouraging to see the disposition among the students to seek to be transferred from the former to the latter Institution. But, on reflection, this is not surprising, since in the condition of our civilization and society a greater demand is made for professional than for scientific men. Indeed some who have already graduated with us as Civil and Mining Engineers have been compelled to give up all hope of a remunerating profession for which their tastes and their training qualify them, because the demand is so limited for services like theirs. But it is prepared to meet all the demands of the kind that may be made; and that it has already sent forth a number of first class men who have taken high positions in all the departments of scientific enterprise and achievement. Indeed we may without hesitation assert that the Georgia State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts is an institution that by its endorsement and equipment has in a sense a superiority over all the old time Bachelor of Arts Colleges.
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Chancellors Report. Certain it is, as facts have actually shown, those who graduate at those institutions with the highest honors can study profitably in our noble College for years.
The Experimental Farm. I beg leave with this to present the Report of Gen. Wm. M. Browne, Prof. Of Agriculture, and to respectfully ask to it your special attention. I cordially invite with him in the request that he be supplied with the instruments for which he applies. The General has managed the Farm with ability; and has made it an efficient means of communicating practical knowledge to the students who are pursueing (sic) the course for the Bachelor of Agriculture. It would be gratifying if your honorable Body could furnish him with the pecuniary means to make the farm truly experimental; and a model which all other farms could imitate with profit. The experiments already made in regard to fertilizers and the modes of cultivation of cotton and the cereals have been in some degree successful and useful; but important as these results may be, they are but small compared to what we should aim at and attain to. The farm should not only be an experimental, but a model one. It should show as the results of scientific experiments all the elements and equipments and enterprises of a perfect farm. Not only agriculture, but horticulture, and floriculture and fruit culture should receive scientific attention. Experiments should be made in the matter of stock-raising. It should be shown how the occupants of the stable and the fold, and the sty are to be selected in reference to breed; and in what proportions, and by what treatment they can be most economically and successfully raised. The denizens of the barn-yard and of the hive, and even the finny tribe should not be neglected or omitted. The aviary and the apiary and the fish pond should complete the equipment of the agricultural home-stead. All these things belong to
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August 1879. a perfect farm; and it should be shown on scientific principles, and in actual practice, that the farm is most successful even pecuniarily (sic), whom they all receive their share of intelligent attention. After we have secured such results, then, I would have the Professor to give familiar lectures to his Class on the grounds. He should show his principles and his methods in regard to all these departments, not omitting to give minute instructions in reference to the best structures for housing his animals. The Agricultural College of Georgia should aim not only to give scientific and practical knowledge to all the youth applying for such instruction, but also to furnish a model farm for Agriculturists all over the State to imitate.
The Faculty. My Colleagues have as usual faithfully and efficiently attended to the duties of their Chairs, I am happy to give specifically the most unequivocal testimony in reference to the two gentlemen newly elected to office. Prof. Woodfur has fully sustained the high reputation he gained at another institution; and has proved himself to be an able and successful Professor. I congratulate the Board on securing the services of so capable and valuable an officer. Prof. Barrow has proved himself to be earnest, competent and successful. I take pleasure in endorsing as far as I am competent to do so the following communication to me from Prof. Charbonnier; Prof. D. C. Barrow, having been appointed to assist me in Applied Mathematics, it is due to him that I should testify to you as to the manner in which he has fulfilled this duty. It gives me great pleasure to be able to state that Mr. Barrow has given entire satisfaction in the discharge of his duties. He is not only fully qualified to teach the branches under his charge, but has shown himself full of energy, ready to work at any and all times. He has been to me a most acceptable & pleasant
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Apparatus. Col. Charbonnier who was transferred last year to the Department of Physics, has adorned that Chair, as he has adorned all other positions he has occupied in the University. When he took charge of the Department last August, he found that none of the State appropriations for Apparatus had been expended, and that there had been no provision made for shelving or taking care of the old-apparatus, on hand. He at once proceeded to work and during the vacation had the Apparatus room furnished with shelving and fixtures on which to place the Apparatus. These are all incased in glass, so that every thing may be kept clean and free from dust. The room now presents a very handsome appearance. Immediately on his accession to the Chair, the Col. commenced correspondence with the best instrument makers in this country about the purchase of new Apparatus. In his visit to Europe in 1877 he had obtained from French and English makers all necessary information. After a good deal of management he was fortunate enough to conclude an arrangement with E. S. Ritchie & Sons of Boston, Mass. to furnish us the greater part of the Apparatus at twenty percent discount on their regular prices. This arrangement ennabled (sic) him to get the Apparatus on terms as low as it could have been imported from Europe. Besides E. S. Ritchie & Sons engaged to take the risks of breakage -a very important item in goods of this kind. Ritchie is one of the best, if not the best makes in this country; and his work is in many respects superior to that of European makers.
Special pieces, manufactured only in Europe, have been ordered from the makers who make them a speciality (sic). Much of the Apparatus has been received, unpacked, & put away on the shelves. The remainder is now expected
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August 1879. every week, and we hope will be all in by Commencement. Apparatus of this kind is generally not kept on hand by the manufacturers, but made only as ordered -hence the delay in getting it all in. When it is all received the Department of Natural Philosophy will be supplied with a fine set of instruments to illustrate the principles of science. I cordially unite with Prof. Charbonnier in the request that $50. be appropriated for repairs that may be needed next year, to the Apparatus of the Department of Natural Philosophy. Of the $15000.00 given by the State for the purchase of Apparatus $36000.00 was appropriated to the Chemical Department of which Prof. White is the able and accomplished head. The expenditures of this Department have exhausted this portion of the fund, with the exception of a few dollars yet on hand. The basement and first floor of Moore College have been filled up and furnished suitably for the needs of the Department. The students Laboratories have been supplied with working tables, gas and water supplies, quick filters, distilling apparatus, vapor closets, balances, reagent bottles, and all other necessaries; every thing provided being of a plain, but substantial character. An essay room has been provided with complete gas and charcoal furnaces, a gas-blast furnace and all necessaries for metallurgical work. A special room is devoted to a small steam engine of complete construction, with shafting leading to machines driven by steam power. H. Natterers machine for the liquifaction (sic) of gases is conveniently mounted in a suitable room. A complete workshop for use of students in making and repairing Apparatus has been provided, stocked with proper tools, a complete foot and power lathe &c. A small printing press with fonts of type &c. is part of the outfit of the workshop. The Apparatus, model and store rooms have been fitted with proper casings & shelvings.
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Chancellors Report. The Chemical Apparatus is now very complete, and sufficient for all the present needs of the Department in thoroughly illustrating the lectures upon various branches of Chemistry and its applications. It is so arranged as to be convenient of access and use, and at the same time to be preserved as perfectly as possible. The models and specimens illustrative of Industrial Chemistry are nearly five thousand (5000) in number, and are very conveniently and systematically arranged. The walls of the Lecture Room have been decorated with framed diagrams illustrating Theoretical & Industrial Chemistry. In the arrangement of Apparatus, Models, Specimens and Diagrams an effort has been made to bring these under the observation of the students and at the same time preserve them from handling or abuse. The pieces of Apparatus, Models, and Specimens are properly numbered and recorded in a book kept for the purpose, entries being made of breakage, repairs, additions, &c. On the whole it is not too much to say that the Chemical Department though plainly furnished is as well fitted up as the present demands upon it for thorough instruction in its special branches require. The appropriations now annually made to this Department of $100.00 will be sufficient to supply the chemicals and other materials needed in its conduct.
A Museum. From time to time, articles of various sorts are sent to the University in the nature of Curiosities, illustrations of antiquities &c. These are sometimes very valuable and should be retained here as the proper place for them. Many others could no doubt be obtained by proper effort. At present there is no room suitable for their preservation and display. A museum should be provided, for articles of this sort. The third floor of the Library Building, at present partly occupied as a Mineralogical Cabinet, is eminently suited to such a purpose and could be beautifully fitted up at comparatively small expense so as to do duty both
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Law Department. I beg leave to present herewith the Report of Dr. Wm. L. Mitchell, the Senior Professor of the Law School and to ask your favorable consideration of his application for an appropriation. As already noticed, this Department like all the others, has increased in the number of students. Besides instruction imparted by other officers six young men have enjoyed the high privilege during the year of receiving legal training from the distinguished and venerable gentleman who has so long illustrated this School.
Medical Department. It was my privilege to attend the Commencement exercises of the Medical College of Georgia and to confer the degree of Doctor of Medicine on twenty one (21) young men. It is questionable whether we have sufficiently utilized all the advantages growing out of the connection of Departments located in different cities, for the advancement of their individual interests severally and for the success of the University as a whole. The people of Augusta should be made to feel that it is as much a University town as is Athens. All the Departments of the University should be, so organized as that there shall be no possible rivalry among them, but that it shall be the interest of every one to promote the interests of all the others. It is a pertinent question whether the Departments here and the Medical Department in Augusta, have reaped all the advantages that ought to be realized from the union; and it may well be enquired(sic) whether each cannot contribute actively, something towards promoting the interests of the other. In consulting with members of the Faculty in Augusta we have agreed that something towards this end can be accomplished, if Professors in our Department could deliver lectures on some useful and germain(sic) topics to students in
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the other. Such lectures with the notice the newspapers would be likely to take of them would not only advertise favorably both Departments, but stimulate the special friends of each to active cooperation in promoting the interests of both. Should an arrangement of this kind be made, I respectfully recommend that you authorize the Prudential Committee to contribute your part towards the payment of the travelling expenses, of the Professors. With the source object in view the Faculty here have invited the members of the Faculty in Augusta to be present at our Commencement & to take a seat on the platform. We respectfully request you to ratify this invitation.
Department at Dahlonega. It was not my privilege to attend the closing exercises of this interesting and useful Institution. Unfortunately these exercises conflict with our Senior Final Examinations. Besides it is graceful if not necessary for the head of the Faculty to be here to receive & welcome the Board of Visitors, appointed by his Excellency the Governor. My predecessors felt this latter embarrassment though they were not bound here by the responsibilities pertaining to regular Chairs of instruction. But in my case, the difficulty was enhanced, because I have on my hands not only responsibilities as Chancellor, but duties also as a Professor. It devolved on me to preside at some of the Final Examinations, provided for in the Senior Schedule. But I am free to confess that besides preaching the Commencement sermon, -which any other minister could have done -I know not any part which I could have professionally or legitimately taken in those closing exercises. I have searched your records in vain to discover any duty or prerogative pertaining to the Chancellor with reference to the Department at Dahlonega. The basis of agreement between your honorable Body and the North Georgia
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August 1879. Agricultural College adopted at your session at Atlanta, Oct. 24th. 1872. makes no allusion to any duty of the Chancellor. In this it differs from the agreement with the Medical College of Georgia. In the latter it is stipulated that the Chancellor should sign the Medical Diplomas. In no subsequent action is it expressed or indicated in any way that it is your will that the Chancellor shall attend at Dahlonega or do any official act there. In August 1875, my distinguished predecessor in his report to you used the following words: Doubtless moreover the School at Dahlonega will in a few years become a valuable feeder to the higher departments of the University: and I think it would be well to instruct, or at least permit the Chancellor to spend a week or ten days at this School once a year, and to deliver a course of lectures to all the students, inviting the Faculty and the public to attend. No record of yours at this session shows that you instructed or permitted him to do as he asks. In his report the succeeding year, he says: Without instructions from the Board, but presuming on their acquiescence, I spent four or five days in the month of May on a visit to the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega. So far as appears from your records, this statement also you receive in profound silence. Of course, it is clear that the Chancellor was notprohibited by you from visiting Dahlonega; norrebukedfor doing so, and exercising at his discretion any personal & legitimate influence in favor of the Department there; but it is equally clear that he is not instructed to attend nor required to do any official act there. Nor is this because the subject of visitation & inspection escaped your attention. In the year 1873, you passed the following resolution, Resolved, That the President be requested to appoint annually a committee of three members of this
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Board, any of whom is authorized to appoint alternate members as to Board of Visitors to attend the Commencement of the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega, who shall report to the next ensuing meeting of this Board. It is clear to my mind, that it is not my duty or prerogative to sign the Diplomas of that College or officially confer its Degrees. I agree with my immediate predecessor that, the Diploma is not the Diploma of the University of Georgia, but that of the North Georgia Agricultural College; and consequently without specific instructions from you, I have no right nor duties in the premises. And the Local Board of Trustees at Dahlonega seem to be of my opinion; for they have applied to me neither to sign the Diplomas nor to confer the Degrees. The only application made to me is that I should attend at Dahlonega and preach the Commencement Sermon. There are but two items in your minutes touching the conferring of Degrees in the Department at Dahlonega, and the present course of action there is in harmony with neither. On August 4th. 1875 these words were recorded: Mr. Hull, Chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline, made a verbal report recommending that the North Georgia College of Agriculture be authorized to grant certificate of Proficiency to its Pupils, but not Diplomas, which as adopted. July 28th 1877, the Board adopted as a part of the Report of the Committee on Laws and Discipline, Mr. Hull Chairman, the following: Upon the certificate of the President of the North Georgia Agricultural College that a young man there graduating, has undergone a satisfactory examination in all the studies required by the University of Georgia for a Bachelors Degree in any named Department, such graduate shall be entitled to receive such Degree from the University.
So far as I know no certificate of the
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kind has been made to you or to any one authorized by you to receive it; and it is certain the Diplomas were conferred this year at Dahlonega, before you had the opportunity to pass upon any certificate and authorize such act, -as you pass upon the recommendations of the Officers in the three Departments here, and authorize the Degrees, before they are conferred. In this connection, there are many things, anomalous and embarrassing to all concerned.
1st
. A Degree is conferred in one of the Colleges of the University, for which the latter has a quasi responsibility since its name is on the Diploma; when it has in no way authorized it or even in terms consented to it.
2nd
. In the same University the same Degree is conferred on the students of two different Colleges -the two parties not having pursued the same curriculum of study; and not having been subjected to the same examination; and it not being made to appear that they had, made exactly the same attainments in variety and degree.
3rd
. Besides the Medical College and the Law School, there are in the same University three so-called Colleges -viz: Franklin College, The State College, and the North Georgia College. The first two have no right of themselves to confer any Degree, but the last exercises such prerogative. The University Faculty here, not that of each College, examine the students of each, applying the same tests to all seeking for the same Degree and recommending to your honorable Body, Trustees of the University as a whole, such students as they the Faculty of all the Departments here, think worthy of graduation. But the North Georgia College at Dahlonega has rights and privileges superior to other Colleges in the University, at least of equal grade. Its Faculty can confer Degrees without consulting University Faculties or University Trustees.
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. We have then a fourth anomoly (sic) in the fact that the University seems to be organizing two of its Colleges as competitors and rivals. It is much to be regretted that the organization is not such that it is for the interest of every Department that all the others should be prosperous and successful. It is for the interest of all concerned that your honorable Body settle definitely and authoritatively the status of the North Georgia College -i.e. its normal relations to other bodies in our University system. If it is your pleasure to admit and maintain that it is a College in the University of the same grade with Franklin College, and with the State College, thoroughly competent by its endowment, its appointments and its equipments (sic) to confer education equal in kind and degree, then it is proper that you should put them all upon the same footing, and subject them to the same requirements. The same examining body that passes upon the attainments of candidates for Degrees, and the same body that passes upon the recommendations and authorizes the conferring of the Degrees, should hold jurisdiction in all cases alike. Students seeking for the same Degrees in Franklin College, in the State College, and in North Georgia College, should be examined by the same Board, over the same grounds by the same or equivalent examination questions; and these passing successfully the ordeal, should by the Chancellor be recommended for graduation to your honorable Body, the guardians of, and the highest authority over, the whole University and all its Departments. This is the system that prevails at Oxford and Cambridge in England. In the former University, there are twenty three Colleges and Halls, and in the latter nineteen. Not one of these Colleges has a right to confer Degrees. The University at each place alone, has this right. It appoints the examining Committees for all, & it alone authorizes the Chancellor to confer the Degrees.
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August 1879. True it is admitted, it would be somewhat embarrassing for candidates for degrees to come from Dahlonega here to be examined and to receive their Degrees; but perhaps some method may be devised by which the difficulty may be obviated. If however this may be found to be impossible, it will only prove that the Institution at Dahlonega is, and of right ought to be an independent College, exercising its own rights and bearing its own responsibilities. I respectfully therefore suggest for your consideration the two following alternatives.
1st
. If the North Georgia College has the necessary equipment to enable it to maintain the true College grade, it should be put upon the same basis with the other Colleges in our system. It should have the same rights and be subjected to the same restrictions that pertain to the two Colleges here. If for any reason this may be considered impracticable or undesirable, then
2nd
. It should be persuaded amicably and avowedly to with-draw from our system with which now it has only a nominal connection, and go forward as an independent Institution for the accomplishment of the work before it. In this event of course, the University will continue to meet all its pecuniary engagements to it, and all of us from whom it separates would bid it God speed in its career of honor and of usefulness. I will only add that whatever specific duties you may prescribe for me in connection with the Department at Dahlonega, I will not hesitate to discharge heartily and to the best of my ability.
Death of Professors. Before the opening of the term after your last Session, it pleased God by sudden death to remove from our number Prof. Wm. Henry Waddell. Endowed with rare gifts and attainments, he more than sustained the historic name that in the persons of his ancestors
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Chancellors Report. had illustrated the University of Georgia; and he bid fair to rise to the highest eminence as a scholar, an educator and an author. A child of this University well informed in reference to its history, its traditions and its internal arrangements and workings. - having the cordial esteem of his colleagues, and the confidence respect and love of the students, he was not only an oracle in our midst, but a power in the College community, the loss of which is painfully felt. Long years ago he made his peace with God, and the death summons though sudden, did not find him unprepared. It pleased God also during the last year to remove from earth Dr. R. M. Smith, who since the death of Dr. R. D. Morre, has been Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence to the students of the Law School. A useful man, an honored citizen, a skillful physician and an interesting and instructive lecturer, he came to a Christians grave after protracted and harrassing (sic) sickness, carrying with him the respect & esteem of the whole community. It is a reason of devout thankfulness to God that the valuable lives of all the members of your venerable Body have been spared during the past year; and that death has made no inroad into the ranks of the students.
Recommended for Graduation. The Faculty beg leave through me to recommend to your honorable Body for graduation, the gentlemen whose names are mentioned below:
For Master of Arts and for

Civil and Mining Engineer.
Louis H. Jones, -and Thomas S. Mell. For Bachelor of Arts.
J. Hooper Alexander, Ignatius L. Candler, Edward T. Bishop, Samuel C. Candler, James Bishop Jr. Carleton B. Chapman, Elijah A. Brown, R. Toombs Du Bose,
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Bachelor of Arts. (continued.) Joseph H. Felker, Joseph H. Napier, Felix R. Groover, Cadar S. Parker, Wallace W. Lambdin, Richard B. Russell, Lewis F. McCord, John J. Strickland, Wm. J. McCurdy, George W. Trenchard.

For Bachelor of Science
B. Johnston Edwards, Wyche W. Linton, John F. Parker.
For Bachelor of Philosophy. William Y. Griffin, William E. Smith, Richard B. Russell, John G. Stanley.

For Bachelor of Agriculture. John B. Hattaway. For Bachelor of Chemical Science.
Sylvanus G. Carter Eugene J. Frederick. For Bachelor of Law. John T. Anderson, Alexander R. Jones,
J. Haygood Armstrong, Wm. M. Ragsdale,
T. Charlton Du Pont, John J. Strickland.
Processions to the Chapel. I agree with many individuals of your honorable Body that our Processions into the Chapel could be, and ought to be, made more impressive. I beg leave therefore respectfully to recommend that you appoint as early as possible a Committee to present for your adoption a programme(sic) for such processions.
I have the honor to be Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees, Your Obt. Sert.
P. H. Mell Chancellor University of Georgia.
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Branch Colleges.
At the close of reading the Annual Communication of the Chancellor, Col. Price, President of the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega - our branch college
was heard in its behalf, and Mr. Hammond in behalf of the contemplated branch college at Thomasville, The Board then adjourned to 4 oclock P. M.
August 1st. 1879 4 oclock P. M. The Board met according to adjournment. Messrs. Gresham and Screven appeared and took their seats. The abstract of the Minutes of the Prudential Committee was read and on notion of Mr. Vason was ratified, and is as follows:
1st
. The Committee decided that the rent of $250.00 for Rock College should be paid
quarterly by the teacher who may be elected. 2nd
. There was no meeting of the Committee on the 16th. of September, as required, in
relation to the High School as there was no quorum in the city. 3rd
. David C. Barrow Jr. Esqr. was elected Adjunct Professor of Mathematics and
Assistant in the Engineer Department at a salary of $1000.00 4th
. The Committee requested Mr. Jenkins our President to call a meeting of the Board on Oct. 15th. 1878 to fill the Chair of Ancient Languages and Literature made vacant by the lamented death of Professor Wm. Henry Waddell, which call was made, but no quorum attending the meeting consisting of four resident Trustees and four non-resident Trustees and thus lacking only one of a quorum resolved, in view of the necessity of the case to form the Prudential Committee and which Committee assisted by the non-resident Trustees, unanimously elected Prof. Wm. G. Woodfin, Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature. Dr. Miller presided at this meeting and filled up
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the Committee on Honors and the Committee to audit the Treasurers Accounts. 5th
. The Committee instructed the Treasurer to supply the Professor of Agriculture and
Horticulture with such funds as were absolutely necessary to carry on the farm &e. 6th.
The Committee was embarrassed on the subject of the Dormitories at this time and after an interview with the Chancellor, concluded that it was impracticable at this time and would involve the loss of student now in attendance.
7th
. The house occupied by Mr. Brumby was agreed to be rented till August or October 1879. 8th. The Committee invited John C. Rutherford Esqr. of Macon, to deliver his Paris Lecture before the students and others.
9th
. The Committee endorse the enterprises of John W. Glenn Esqr. in relation to a Normal College in connection with Dr. Sears Agent of the Peabody Fund. The Committee submit their Minutes with this abstract.
Respectfully submitted
Wm L. Mitchell,
Chairman.
Mr. Clarke then addressed the Board in behalf of the contemplated Branch College at Cuthbert.
The subjects discussed by Messrs. Price, Hammond and Clarke in relation to the Branch Colleges at Dahlonega, Cuthbert, and Thomasville, were referred to a special committee of five consisting of Messrs. Stephens, Vason, James Jackson, Gresham and Yancey.
The Board then adjourned to 10 oclock tomorrow morning.
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Branch Colleges.
August 2nd. 1879. 10 oclock A. M. The Board met according to adjournment. Messrs. Cooper, Brown and Gordon appeared and took their seats and Mr. Cooper, Vice President assumed the Chair. A communication from Profs. Charbonnier and White asking compensation for extra services in the year 1877-1878 was read and referred to the finance committee. The Special Committee of Five on Branch Colleges made their report through Mr. James Jackson which was received and laid on the table for the present. The Committees on Buildings & on the Law Department made their reports which were received and laid on the table for the present. The report of the Special Committee of Five on Branch Colleges was taken up on motion of Mr. James Jackson for the purpose of hearing the views of members on the subject, and after the discussion its further consideration was postponed to 4 oclock P. M. The Chair appointed the standing Committee on Laws and Discipline viz: Mr. Gresham, Chairman, Messrs. Crawford, Screven, Stephens, Hall, Cobb and Brown. The Chair also appointed the Committee of Invitation viz: Messrs. Gordon, & Hall. An invitation was received from Dr. and Mrs. Mell, inviting all members of the Board of Trustees to a Reception at the Chancellors residence on Wednesday night the 6th. instant, at 8 to 12 oclock with their families and guests, and all such ladies and gentlemen as any of them may be pleased to bring. This invitation was accepted by the Board and the Secretary instructed to communicate our acceptance to Dr. and Mrs. Mell in suitable terms.
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The Report of the Committee on Agriculture and Horticulture was read and laid on the table for the present. Mr. Speer was excused from further attendance on account of his wifes sickness. The Board then adjourned to 4 oclock this afternoon.
August 2nd 1879. 4 oclock P. M. The Board met according to adjournment. Mr. Cobb introduced a resolution to make tuition free which was referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline. The special Committee of Five on Branch Colleges called up their Report, which was amended first by the Committee, and then on motion of Mr. Brown so as to extend to Milledgeville the same assistance as is contemplated for Cuthbert and Thomasville. Upon the motion to adopt as amended, the yeas and nays were called for. Those voting in the affirmative are Messrs. Mitchell, Lewis, Brown, Yancey, Vason, James Jackson, Crawford, Hull, Barrow, Gordon, Screven, Stephens, and Davenport Jackson. --13.
Those voting in the negative are Messrs. Cooper, Cobb, Gresham, Harris. --4. The Report is as follows:
The Special Committee appointed to consider and report upon the applications of the South Georgia & the Southwest Georgia Agricultural Colleges, for assistance from this Board out of the income of the Land Script Fund in order to inaugurate their respective Colleges, or Branches of the State Agricultural College of this University, report as follows:
1st
. We find that the South Georgia Agricultural College located at Thomasville is ready to
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Branch Colleges. make good title to real estate consisting of land and suitable buildings thereon. A part of the land consists of one hundred and twenty acres in a tract, fifty acres of which is deemed sufficient for educational purposes, having seventy acres which the Local Board wish to sell in order to add to the present buildings and to erect a Chapel. In the event of their union with us we are willing that said Board retain said seventy acres, for said purpose.
2nd
. We find that the South West Georgia Agricultural College, located at Cuthbert is
ready also to make good title to real estate adequate for the purpose in hand. 3rd
. With the strictest economy and with an earnest desire to extend the benefits of the Land Script Fund as widely as possible, we are enabled at present to appropriate $2000.00 annually to each of these Colleges as Branches of the Agricultural College located at the seat of the University and we recommend the appropriation of that sum to each for the present, and hereafter such sum to the extent of our ability and only such sum as will not interfere with the existing organization and efficiency of the Parent, Agricultural College of the University at Athens. The Fund is in Bonds, and the high rate of interest they now bear may not be of long continuence (sic) and our income will then decrease, therefore we con-fine this amount of aid to the present, gratified that we are able to furnish it at this time.
4th
. We grant this aid and accept the property on the same terms as in the case of the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega except as herein after stipulated.
(a) The curriculum of study is to be prescribed by the Chancellor of the University after conference with the
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Presidents of the said Colleges.
(b)
The Presidents are to be elected by this Board and to be paid out of this fund of two thousand dollars now appropriated, his salary to be fixed by this Board and the Professors and Teachers to be selected by the local Boards subject to ratification by this Board at its next ensuing session.

(c)
No Degrees, Diplomas, or Certificates of Proficiency shall be conferred by these Branch Colleges except by and with the advice and consent of the Trustees of this University and shall be there conferred by the Chancellor in person or by the Presidents of the said Branch Colleges when designated by him or in the absence of


the Presidents by some other suitable person in like manner designated by the
Chancellor.
(d)
Vacancies which may occur in the present local Boards of these Branch Colleges shall be filled by the Board of Trustees of this University.

(e)
In the event that the Presidents elect of these Branch Colleges or either of them decline the appointment or a vacancy occurs in any other way, the Prudential Committee shall be authorized and instructed to fill such vacancy. Judge Vason was appointed a committee of this Board to draw up the agreement in accordance with the above terms and to inspect and receive the titles to said property. Resolved, That whenever the Citizens or City of Milledgeville shall tender to the Trustees of the University of Georgia the two hundred acres of land heretofore proposed by them and shall also tender buildings sufficient for the purpose whether such buildings shall be conveyed as their own property or the use of the buildings of the State, authorized by Act of the Legislature, the Trustees will and do hereby accept the administration of such property to be used to establish and conduct a School as a Branch of the State College of Agriculture


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Branch Colleges. and the Mechanic Arts, and do hereby appropriate $2000.00 to support Teachers in said Branch College and do hereby appoint Hon. David A. Vason to act as an Agent and Attorney in behalf of the Trustees to examine titles to property, to see that there is a compliance with the terms and conditions prescribed for the acceptance of the Colleges at Cuthbert and Thomasville, and upon all such conditions being complied with, to close the arrangement, and such being done, said Attorney notify the Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, who upon such notification shall be authorized to pay ever to the local Board of Trustees of said Milledgeville College, or proper representative the money herein before appropriated at such times and in such amounts as shall be prescribed for Cuthbert and Thomasville Colleges. The Report of the Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture was taken up adopted, amended, and is as follows: To the Honorable Board of Trustees
of the University of Georgia Your committee on the Department of Agriculture, and Experimental Farm, beg leave to report: That the very full and detailed Report of the Prof. of Agriculture gives all information necessary as to the management of the Farm and its financial results. The Report of Prof. Browne of the experiments made in the cultivation of different crops, method of culture, application of different fertilizers, comparison of production, as to natural soil and that which was fertilized, and the difference in the use of various kinds of manures made before the State Agricultural Convention at Hawkinsville at its late Spring Session was interesting and afforded to Agriculturists valuable & scientific information. It has been the custom of the Professor of Agriculture to annually report all experiments on the Farm for the year preceeding(sic) to the (141)
August 1879. February conventions of the farmers of the State. There are no essays before that body more highly appreciated, as affording practical and scientific teaching. This intelligent body of our Citizens may in a sense be considered a school of our College. It is the best and most economical method of publishing experiments of the farm to the people. It is likewise an admirable plan for attaching the people to our College. Your committee therefore urge a greater liberality upon the part of the Board towards the Experimental Farm. It teachings are desired by the large and intelligent body of representitave (sic) farmers. The Chairman of your Committee during a tour last September saw farms of Colleges and the Mechanic Arts; the buildings were numerous, of elegant architecture and the grounds ornamented with tree, shrub and flower, made a thing of beauty. These experimental farms are not designed to be a profit in dollars and cents; their teachings are of a value far beyond an estimate by such a standard. Your committee would guard against extravagance, but would urge the Board to a higher appreciation of the Experimental Farm & to extend the appropriation for it a little beyond the cent per cent policy heretofore pursued. The front yard of our farm building has hither to been allowed to be a waste like to an abandoned old-field. In the brief occupation by Prof. Browne it has been made to appear as the surrounding of a civilized abode, the result of his labor and taste, with little or no cost to our fund. Some appropriation for shrubs and flowers and choice plants and a hot house would not only beautify the grounds but prove auxiliaries to the teaching of Botany, Horticulture and Floriculture as Sciences, cultivating likewise. Your committee would ask attention to the estimates of the Professor, receipts, expenditures & things needed:
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Experimental Farm. Receipts estimated -that is, sale of crops for this year _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $398.70 But reserving for stock, corn, oats, lucerne, fodder turnips there would be left avalable(sic) forfutureexpenses only _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$278.00 Estimated expenses (ordinary) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 278.00 Asked for manures, cotton seed, barnyard & Commercial fertilizers _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 117.00 For implements necessaryas old ones are worn out _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 142.00 For hot house, shrubs, plants and flowers, _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 100.00 Therefore 359.00
Resolved
That the sum of Three hundred and fifty nine dollars (independent of the sales of the growing crop) be appropriated to the Experimental Farm to be expended for the purposes enumerated above to be drawn for by the Prof. of Agriculture upon the Agricultural fund as he may need for the purposes aforesaid.
Resolved
That Prof. Wm. M. Browne be requested to withdraw or withhold his resignation of his Chair and be requested to continue in the discharge of the duties of his Professorship.
Respectfully submitted Benj. C. Yancey
Chairman The Committee submit a supplemental report: It appearing that Prof. Browne by his itemized report to the Treasurer supported by vouchers has paid out of his private funds $103.40/100 not refunded to him by the Treasurer, (not being drawn for) your committee recommend an appropriation of $103.40/100 to refund Prof. Browne.
Respectfully Submitted for the Committee. Benj. C. Yancey Chairman.
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Which Supplemental report was also adopted. Mr. Gresham read a letter and submitted a resolution in relation to a donation of money to the Board to accumulate at compound interest which was referred to a committee, consisting of Messrs. Gresham, Gordon & Brown. Mr. James Jackson obtained leave of absence after this meeting. The committee on Finance submitted their report which was laid on the table for the present. Mr. Cobb submitted a Resolution to reduce the rent on the houses occupied by Professors which was referred to the committee on Finance. The Board there adjourned to Monday morning at 9 oclock.
August 4th. 1879. 9 oclock A. M. The Board met according to adjournment. Messrs. Miller, Toombs, and Lawton appeared and took their seats. A letter was received from Gen. Wm. M. Browne with-drawing his resignation and consenting to continue in the discharge of the duties of his Professorship, with grateful acknowledgements to the Board for the terms in which they speak of his services.
The committee on the Library submitted their report which was laid on the table for the present. Mr. Lewis submitted a resolution to pay Trustees visiting the Branch Colleges as Committee men of the Board their expenses which resolution was on his motion referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline. On motion of Mr. Brown in view of the death of Mrs. Speer wife of Hon. Emory Speer a member of this Board, the Board adjourned to 9 oclock A. M. tomorrow.
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Report of Committee on Laws & Discipline.
August 5th. 1879. 9 oclock A. M. The Board met according to adjournment. The Report of the Committee on Laws & Discipline was made by their Chairman Mr. Gresham, which was received and taken up, whereupon Mr. Stephens moved to amend by striking out the word fifty and inserting the word eighty in that part of the report making an appropriation to Mr. J. H. Armstrong for past services to the Library, which amendment was agreed to. The further consideration of the report was temporarily suspended to give Mr. Gordon an opportunity to move the election of Presidents for the Branch Colleges at Cuthbert and Thomasville which motion itself was postponed for Gov. Browns resolution which was adopted and is as follows.
Resolved,
That the salary of the President of the Faculty at Thomasville & Cuthbert be fixed at the sum of twelve hundred & fifty dollars each. Then on motion of Mr. Gordon the Board went into the election of a President of the Branch College at Thomasville and also of the Branch College at Cuthbert. Upon counting the votes it appeared that O. D. Scott, Esq. was elected President of the Branch College at Thomasville, and V. T. Sanford President of the Branch College at Cuthbert. The Board then resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee on Laws and Discipline, when it was moved to strike-out the first section of the report & the Board then took a recess till after the delivery of the speech of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens before the Alumni Society.
P.S. Mr. Toombs by permission of the Board recorded his vote against granting aid to the new Branch Colleges.
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August 1879.
August 5th. 1879. Afternoon The Board met after the delivery of Mr. Stephens speech and resumed business. The report of the Committee on Laws and Discipline was taken up by sections for adoption and the first section was adopted upon a call of the yeas and nays. Those who voted in the affermative (sic) were Messrs. Mitchell, Hall, Barrow, Cobb, Gresham, Harris, Lawton, MacIntyre -8. Those who voted in the negative were Messrs. Cooper, Miller, Lewis, Brown, Toombs, Yancey and Crawford -7. The second section of the report was read and adopted. The third section of the report was read & adopted. The report as adopted is as follows: The Committee on Laws and Discipline to whom has been referred the very able and elaborate annual report of the Chancellor made to the Trustees, have had the same under consideration and make the following report, in relation to such matters therein contained as seem to your committee to require action.
Dormitory System. At the last annual meeting of this Body the following resolutions were passed: Resolved, That the students shall hereafter occupy the Dormitory buildings and be under proper surveillance under the direction of the Faculty -provided exceptional cases may be disposed of by the Faculty. Resolved, That in resuming the Dormitory System the house on Lumpkin street, built to furnish cheap boarding, by being occupied rent free, and the same is hereby appropriated for that purpose as soon as the rent thereof expires and a suitable occupant can be obtained & that the Prudential Committee be charged with this matter.
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Report of Committee on Laws & Discipline. This action of the Board for reasons stated at length by the Chancellor was not carried into effect by the Prudential Committee and the matter is now before us for action. Your Committee feel very reluctant to resind (sic) a resolution which was only passed at the last session of the Board but the difficulties of executing it seem so great that we are constrained to recommend a modification of it. The College building known as the New College is now occupied as a boarding house by Mrs. Richardson, and no complaints have been made and the arrangement seems satisfactory. We propose that that building be not disturbed; and we recommend that the Old College building be repaired and that the Prudential Committee secure if possible a suitable person to keep it as a Boarding house for the students. If that be found impracticable then that the Faculty endeavor to have its rooms occupied by students, but in no event to have it closed, if the students can be induced to occupy it.
Library. The Chancellor in his report recommends the employment by the Board of a suitable person with a competent salary to act as Librarian -one who shall at all times be present to wait on parties wishing to take out books or to visit the Library. These views of the Chancellor we heartily approve, but with the present demands on the Treasury your committee do not feel authorized to recommend any change in the present system of employing an undergraduate with a small compensation to act as Librarian, unless one of the Faculty can be induced to accept of the same position. Your committee recommend that the Library at stated periods say quarterly should go through a thorough inspection by the Chancellor to see that no books are lost and for this purpose if necessary that all books be called in and none taken out for
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August 1879.
a given period. Your committee recommend that $80.00 be paid to Mr. J. H. Armstrong for this services in making a catalogue of the books of the Library.
Museum. It is represented that from time to time various articles of value in the nature of curiosities and illustrations of antiquities are sent to the University. With a little effort the number of these articles could be increased, if we had a proper place for their storage and display. At present we have no such place, but we are informed that the third floor of the Library building at present partly occupied as a Mineralogical cabinet with a suitable expenditure might be fitted up and made a suitable place for such purpose. Your committee recommended that $50.00 be appropriated for this object.

North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega.
Your Committee regret to learn from the Chancellors report that there is some conflict between the University and the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega in relation to the conferring of degrees. It was certainly supposed that when the North Georgia Agricultural College was established at Dahlonega, it was to be a component part of this University. There are at present two other Colleges viz: Franklin College and the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts which are integral parts of the University. The Degrees in these two Colleges have always been conferred by this Board of Trustees on the recommendation of the combined Faculties -as it was impracticable for the Faculty here to attend at Dahlonega to examine candidates for degrees or to require their students to present themselves here, and as that time there were no students at Dahlonega
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Report of Committee on Laws & Discipline. sufficiently advanced to become applicants for the degree of A. B. it was provided in August 1874 that the North Georgia College of Agriculture be authorized to grant Certificates of Proficiency to its pupils -afterwards in 1877 it was provided that upon the certificate of the President of the North Georgia Agricultural College that a young man there graduating has undergone a satisfactory examination in all the studies required by the University of Georgia for Bachelors degree in any named Department, such graduate should be entitled to receive such degree from the University. So far as your Committee is advised this provision has not been complied with. But the North Georgia Agricultural College having obtained from Lumpkin County Superior Court a Charter authorizing them to confer degrees have gone forward and conferred degrees without reference to their Connection with this University or its Board of Trustees. In view of the difficulties of the case your committee recommend that the Chancellor shall attend the final examination at Dahlonega and that if he shall be satisfied from such examination that a young man there graduating has attained proficiency in all the studies required by the University of Georgia for a Bachelors Degree in any named Department he shall be authorized to confer such degree upon the student in the name of the University.
Degrees. Your Committee recommend that the degrees be conferred upon the young men of the graduating classes as named in the Chancellors Report.
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August 1879. -The Committee on Laws and Discipline, to which was referred the Resolution. That tuition shall be free to all white citizens of Georgia in the State College of Agriculture and Franklin College, respectfully recommend that this resolution do not pass. The estimate of receipts from tuition during the next scholastic year is about $3500.00 With the large appropriations already made we think that the University cannot afford to give up this amount. Which report was agreed to upon a call of the yeas and nays.
Those voting in the affermative (sic) are Messrs. Cooper, Mitchell, Miller, Lewis, Brown, Toombs, Crawford, Hall, Barrow, Grisham, Harris, Lawton, MacIntyre -13. Those voting in the negative are Mr. Cobb -1.
-The Committee on Laws and Discipline further report that the resolution referred to them, providing for the payment of the expenses of one or more of the Trustees who shall attend the annual exercises of the Branch Institutions established by this Board, be not passed. There are now three of these Institutions and your Committee do not think it proper to burden our Treasury with the expense called for by this Resolution: Which Report was adopted
-The Committee on Laws and Discipline submitted the following resolution which was adopted. Resolved, That hereafter the terms of study in the University, shall begin on the first Wednesday of October and continue with one weeks intermission at Christmas until the third Wednesday in July and that the Commencement shall hereafter be on the third Wednesday in July. The Board then adjourned till 9 oclock tomorrow morning.
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Report of Committee on Laws & Discipline. Board met according to adjournment. August 6th. 1879. 9 oclock A. M. Mr. Harris in behalf of the Committee on Honorary Degrees submitted the following report. That the required notice having been given of the proposition to confer the Honorary degree of LL.D. on the Hon. James Jackson of Atlanta and Chancellor John LeConte and Prof. Joseph LeConte of the University of California and the degree of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev. David Lyman Buttolph of Marietta, recommend that said Honorary Degrees be conferred.
P. H. Mell } Committee.
Young L. G. Harris } Which report was adopted.
Mr. Gresham, Chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline moved to reconsider their general report on the annual communication of the Chancellor as relates to the Dormitory System, which motion prevailed and the following amendment was proposed to be substituted there for and adopted. After careful consideration your Committee recommend the following action:
1st
. That the house on Lumpkin Street be taken possession of and be let rent free to some
proper person who will take students as day Boardes (sic). 2nd
. That the Prudential Committee shall have both the College Dormitory Buildings, thoroughly repaired and clensed (sic) and the students be required to occupy them, with the following exceptions.
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All students residing in Athens.

(2)
The Members of the Senior Class who shall prefer to room in town.

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All students who shall bring the written request of their parents or guardians asking that they be allowed to room in town.


With these exceptions the Faculty are instructed to require other students to room in the College Dormitories.
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August 1879. Mr. Brown moved to appropriate the sum of $50.00 for the construction of a privy, for the convenience of the Board and the Prudential Committee be requested to see the same properly executed. Which motion prevailed. On motion of Mr. Stephens the report on the Library was taken up and amended, and adopted and is as follows:
Gentlemen,
You can readily perceive that a great improvement has been made, in the library since our last report and the books are now secure provided you have a competent librarian who will give his whole attention to it. Our library is a very valuable one and needs such attention. One year ago after consultation with the Faculty we reported that there was no necessity purchasing any more books for reference; but we were much astonished by being informed by Prof. Woodfin that there were no reference books in the Department of Ancient Languages, not even a lexicon, except the Delphini edition of the classics. This shows the importance of having a Librarian who is not an undergraduate and who will not feel that he must obey every Professor. Whilst that system may be of temporary benefit to an undergraduate it is of less importance that trusting so valuable a property -to as a general rule -such irresponsible persons. The work of Mr. Armstrong in cataloguing and arranging the books has been one of great importance and required great labor. We recommend
1st
. That Mr. Armstrong be employed to carry out the suggestion made in Article 7th. of his report under the supervision of the Chancellor at a salary of two dollars per day, and ten hours to be counted as a day.
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Professors Houses and Donation. 2nd
. We recommend that the sum of Seventy five dollars ($75.00) or so much as may be necessary be appropriated for the rebinding of the books needing it. Amended to read Fifty dollars.
3rd
. That the thanks are due Mr. Armstrong for the manner in which he has taken care of the books and commendation to the whole body of students upon his report that not a single book has been lost or injured during the year.
Respectfully Submitted Lamar Cobb Chairman
Mr. Cobb submitted a resolution on the reduction of the rent of the Professors houses, when Mr. Brown submitted the following Resolutions, which were acceptable to Mr. Cobb and adopted by the Board. Resolved, That Ferdinand Phinizy and Stevens Thomas of Athens be requested to inspect and place a resonable (sic) valuation on the Chancellors and Professors houses upon the Campus in the College grounds and that the Chancellor and each Professor who occupies one of the buildings be required to pay the insurance of the building to such amount as said Phinizy and Thomas may say is proper and that each in addition to the payment of the insurance pay a rental of 4% on the amount of said value. Resolved, further, That the Prudential Committee see to the insurance of said buildings.
Mr. Gresham submitted the following resolutions which were adopted. Whereas it has been represented to this Board that a friend of the University desires to make a donation for its benefit with the view that it shall be kept at compound interest for a given time before being used; Resolved, That this Board will receive from such friend the sum which he may choose to give and will act as Trustee for the fund and invest the same
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August 1879. in the manner which the donor shall designate or in Georgia State Bonds and reinvest in the same manner the interest which shall be received thereon for the time designated by the donor. Resolved, further, That this Board pledges itself that the principal and interest of such fund shall be kept in-tact and not used in any manner until the expiration of the time designated by the donor and then only in the manner which by him shall be authorized & set forth. Resolved, That a committee of two be appointed to carry out these Resolutions.
Messrs. Gresham and Billups were appointed the committee under said Resolutions.
The report of the Committee on Finance was taken up, adopted and is as follows: To the Hon. Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia:
The Finance Committee respectfully submit the following report. From the itemized account of the Treasurer from July 21st. 1878 to July 21st. 1879 it appears that the receipts from all sources were _ _ _ $33,377.97. and the disbursements, same period _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 35,788.11. Adding the amount of Cash as a ballance(sic) unexpended in the hands of the Treasurer on July 21st. 1878 to the above stated receipts to wit the sum of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _9,686.79 Receipts _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _33.377.97 Exhibiting total sum of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ 43064.76 in the hands of Treasurer during the past fiscal year.
Deducting disbursements _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _35,788.11 Exhibits a balance (sic) of $ 7,276.65 in the hands of the Treasurer July 21st. 1879. avalable (sic) for current expenses for fiscal year 1879-80.
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Report of Finance Committee. But as this ballance(sic) is a mixed fund it may be will to present a segregated statement viz: Cash ballance(sic) July 21st. 1879 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ 7,276.65 Belonging to Landscript Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ 4,788.65
Library _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _649.89 remainder to General or Academical (sic)Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1,838.11 $ 7,276.65
The disbursements on account of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanics Arts were $15,882.80 Annual income of Landscript fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17.914.14 Unexpended of fiscal year 1878-79_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$ 2.031.34 Cash in Treasurers hands of this fund as a ballance (sic) unexpended for fiscal year 1877-78 _2,757.31 Belonging to A. and M. Arts Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $4,788.65 and in Treasurers hands July 21st. 1879.
The income of the Academical(sic) Department including Library Fees was _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $15,463.83 Unexpended ballance (sic) for fiscal year 1877-78. Library_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1,207.50 General Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 783.06 1,990.56 Total Cash for fiscal year 1878-79 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$17,454.39 Expended _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14,966.39 To credit of Accademical(sic) Fund July 21st 1879 _ _$2,488.00 If segregated, say Library _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$680.00 Accademical(sic) Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1808.00
2488.00
The Expenditure for Apparatus under the Legislative appropriation of $15000.00 for the past fiscalyear was _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $4,938.92 By which it will appear that the appropriation has been exhausted.
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August 1879. Your Committee submit estimates of avalable(sic) means and for expenditures for the current fiscal year 1879-80.

Avalable (sic) Means.
Cash ballance (sic) in hands of Treasurer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$ 7,276.65 annual payment by State of interest _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _8,000.00 Interest on General fund in Bonds _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 649.00 Rents of Professors houses _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1,347.50 Library fees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _740.00 Interest on Terrell endowment _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1,400.00 Landscript fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17,914.14 Tuition fees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3,580.00 $40,907.29
Estimated Expenditures.
Catalogues _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $219.40 Advertisingand Printing_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 330.00 Music _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 125.00 Servant hire _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 576.00 Postage _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 173.73 Stationery _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 100.00 Fuel _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 175.00 Insurance _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 190.00 Medals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _42.00 Chemicals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 114.00
Repairs to wit For Chancellors place _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $150.00 General repairs _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _200.00 LibraryBuilding _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 150.00 For chairs_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 50.00 For Chapel _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 250.00 Campus grounds, trees & fences _ _ _ _ _ _ _400.00 _ _ _ _1200.00 Incidentals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _235.00 Salaries _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24125.00 Cuthbert _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000.00 Thomasville _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000.00 To refund Prof. Brownes personal expenditure for farm _ _ _103.40 Library _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _740.00
Carried forward _ _ _ _ _ _ $32,448.53
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Report of Finance Committee. Brought forward _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$32,448.53 Repairs -apparatus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 50.00 Experimental Farm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _359.00 For past services (fitting up Library by Armstrong) _ _ _ _ _ _ 80.00 For fitting up Dormitories if so much be necessary _ _ _ _ _ _ 250.00 For binding books if so much be necessary _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 50.00 Salaries for Milledgeville Dept. -if the citizens of Milledgeville shall present property and buildings complying with terms as prescribed in Gov. Browns resolution _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2,000.00
Aggregate _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$35,237.53
The proportion of the foregoing expenditures to be charged to the Landscript fund may be stated as follows: Catalogue _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$109.70 Advertising and Printing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _165.00 Music _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 62.50 Postage _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 86.50 Stationery _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 50.00 Fuel _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 87.50 Chemicals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 107.00 Incidentals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 150.00 Servants hire _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 384.00 Salaries _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21000.00 Repairs of Apparatus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _25.00 Experimental Farm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 359.00 Refunding Prof. Browne for money expended in excess of what was drawn from the Land script fund for wants of the farm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ 103.40 Total to Land script Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $22,689.60
Deduct the amount of expenditure charged to the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts and the remainder will exhibit the amount to be charged to the Academic or General fund, under the present organization $12,547.93
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August 1879.
The Committee submits a statement of the Assets of the University.

I. Land-script Fund.
Bonds of the State of Georgia 8% April & October _ _ _ _ $96,000.00 7% January& July _ __ _ _ 56,000.00 In the hands of the Govenor (sic) 7% Jany & July _ _ _ _ _ 90,202.17 $242,202.17

II. Terrell Endowment.
Bonds of the State of Georgia 7%s Janruary(sic) & July _ _$16,000.00 Georgia R.R. and B. Co. 7% Jany & July _ _ _ _4000.00 $20,000.00

III. General Fund.
Debt of the State of Ga. paying interest at 8% _ _ _ _ _ _ $100 000.00
Bonds 8% _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3 000.00 Ga. R. R. and B. Co. Jany& July 7%_ _ _ _ _ _ _5 000.00 Clarke County_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 500.00 the City of Athens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _300.00 $108,800.00
Approved by Joseph E. Brown Martin J. Crawford
A. T. MacIntyre of the Committee
A. R. Lawton, absent.
Respectfully submitted, Benj. C. Yancey, August Session 1879. Chairman.
Committee recommend that only $100.00 be hereafter allowed for music which was agreed to Yancey. Chairman
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Report on Buildings. The Report of the Committee on Buildings and Grounds, was taken up and adoped(sic), except so far as it also for appropriations varying from those already made. It is as follows:
To the Honorable Board of Trustees. The Committee on Buildings and Grounds reports that the Building known as Old-College is not in use except that one of the lower rooms has been fitted up by the young gentlemen connected with the University as a Reading Room, and two or three of the upper rooms have been occupied by Mr. Richardson and his family as a boarding house for students. These buildings are in fair order. The house & lot known as the Chancellors place has for several years past and up to the election of Chancellor Mell, been rented out and occupied by families keeping a considerable member of boarders. This use of the premises has resulted in heavy damage requiring extraordinary repairs and the expenditure of a considerable amount of money. The place is now occupied by Chancellor Mell and its condition and appearance are greatly improved. It will however require about $250.00 to complete the necessary repairs on the dwelling and the fencing on, and around the lot. The place occupied by Prof. Woodfin has been much neglected for several years past. Having been rented out it was in very bad order and unfit for the use of his family without thorough repairs. It has been put in good condition except the absolute need of painting. This will cost about $100.00 The places occupied by Mrs. Ruff and Dr. Brumby the one as a boarding house the other as a private residence are in tollerable(sic) repair except the need of painting. These together with the other dwellings on the campus will require for repairs from $200.00 to $300.00.
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August 1879. The Library Building cannot be longer neglected. The pressure of other urgent demands has hither to postpone attention to this valuable property. The wood cornice, tin conductors, &c. must be refitted before another winter. It will cost about $150.00 The carpet on the floor of the Library room is so much worn and defaced as to be wholly unfit for larger use. A new and appropriate covering for this floor of either carpeting, oilcloth, or linoleum will cost about $400.00 Linoleum combines the advantages of a carpet in deadening the foot fall and of oilcloth in not collecting dust, and admitting of being easily cleansed with wet cloths. This room should also be supplied with new sittings, for the use of the Board of Trustees. Three dozen chairs for this purpose will cost about $100.00 It will be seen that great safety to the Library in this building has been provided, by wise doors which being securely locked protect the books in the absence of the Librarian. This valluable (sic) arrangement has cost a fraction over $300.00 The Chapel has recently been fitted up for the use of gas at a cost of $150.00 not yet paid as the work was not done in time to be included in the Treasurers accounts. The sealing of this edifice is much decayed and the plaster cornice inside from falling off and being patched from time to time has become irregular and unsightly. Both should be renewed and the building painted and white-washed. It will cost $250.00 to complete these necessary repairs. The sittings in the body of the Chapel are neither convenient nor suitable to the place. The manner in which the chairs are fastened down makes it estreemly (sic) difficult to cleanse the floor or keep the hall in order and your committee would ask for an appropriation to substitute these chairs with something
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Report on Buildings. better adapted to the purpose, but for the hope that it will not be long before the Board of Trustees will recognize the necessity of furnishing ampler accomidations(sic) for the friends of the University attending its Commencements and be able to afford the means for extending the western end of the chapel and making our entire rearrangement & improvement of the interior of the building. The water supply on the Campus is still insufficient. One of the wells was deepened last fall and has since yielded a sufficient quantity for ordinary uses, but the protracted drought has lessened the flow of water and it will probably become necessary to again deepen the well to insure a permanent supply. The appropriations made at the last session for repairing the Halls of the Demosthenian & Phi Kappa Societies have been expended for that purpose. The students have supplemented the appropriations made by the Board, so that both Halls have been thoroughly renervated (sic) and put in very handsome condition inside and out. The College Campus has for years been exposed to the incursions of cattle and other stocks for the want of efficient gate-ways. This want has been supplied by the erection of an automatic gate which opens and shuts by levers acted upon by the wheels of vehicles entering & leaving the grounds. The cost of this gate was $35.00 besides the expense of its erection. Pursuant to instructions given by the Board at its last session since improvements have been attempted on the grounds adjacent to the University buildings. These improvements consist mainly in the removal of a large number of pine trees and other unsightly encumber
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August 1879. ances from the ground -the setting out of some hundreds of our native forest trees -the grading & teracing (sic) of the space West of the Chapel and in the partial filling up of the depression in front of Moore College which has hither to so much marred the appearance of that section of the campus. While the recent prolonged drought has not been favorable to the growth of the newly set trees, many of them have survived and add much to the appearance of the grounds -such as have died can be easily replaced in the fall. This work done with strict regard to economy has cost less than $450.00 Your committee deem it very important that the improvements thus commenced should be carried forward. The larger part of the heavy work has been done. Some further filling up will be necessary. Nearly one half of the iron fence in front of the Campus will have to be taken down, the ground graded and the fence reset & repaired, a proper system of drainage must be completed and some further expense incurred in the erection of gates or turn-stiles at he enterances (sic). These items with some inconsiderable amount for the purchase of trees and shrubery (sic) constitute all that will be necessary to give a new and pleasing aspect to these long neglected grounds. The work proposed will cost from five to seven hundred dollars. It is most respectfully submitted whether the same amount could be more judiciously expended in the interest of the University.
Young L. G. Harris, Chairman.
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Report on Buildings. The Board then took a recess to attend the Commencement exercises in the College Chapel; where the usual speaking was had, and degrees conferred by the Chancellor as already heretofore recorded, after which the Board repaired to the Library and resumed business. Mr. Cooper Vice President was authorized to sign all the Minutes of this Board not heretofore signed. Mr. Gresham Chairman of the Committee on Laws & Discipline moved that when the Board adjourned it adjourn to meet here next year on Friday before the third Wednesday in July at 10 oclock A. M. and that that be the day of our annual stated meetings hereafter. Mr. Cobb submitted the following paper, Mrs. Waddell desires the Board of Trustees to act upon the following matters:
1st
. It is claimed that she is owing a ballance(sic) for rent of the home occupied by Prof. Waddell. She claims that there are certain permanent improvements such as painting, putting up grates, repairs &c. that were put upon the house by Prof. Waddell and that ought to be deducted from the rent.
2nd
. She desires that some definite action be had as to what disposition shall be made of the cottage erected by Prof. Waddell upon the lands of the University by the consent of the Prudential Committee.
3rd
. It has been represented to Mrs. Waddell that certain books found in the library of Prof. Waddell at the time of his death belonged to the library of the University. She requests that this matter be fully investigated and is of course anxious to have returned at once all books that are shown to belong to the College. She further requests that some one be appointed in behalf of the College to make a thorough investigation of this matter. Mrs. Waddell deems it due to herself to say that with the exception of a very few volumes which she knows belong to
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August 1879. the University and which will be at once returned she was not aware that any of the University library books were among hers or that any one claimed that there were any. In reference to the first item above specified in relation to the rent due the University the Board agreed that the rent might be set off with the claims there in specified. The second item was postponed for future consideration the Board being upon the eve of adjournment. Mr. Cobb was appointed a committee under the third item above specified to investigate the question of books in Mrs. Waddells possession belonging to the College Library. Mr. Brown acting for Mr. Vason laid on the table for the information of the Board the following paper to wit: The undersigned in conformity with a resolution of Board Trustees has consumated (sic) the contract as Attorney for the State University with the Southwestern Agricultural College, located at Thomasville, Ga. by which each of said Corporations are made schools of said University in compliance with the terms and stipulations as contained in the action of the Board Trustees in accepting their several propositions. The agreement of consumation(sic) has been duly executed to this University for the respective properties set forth in their application. The titles to which are satisfactory and which when recorded in the office of the clerk of the Superior Courts of the Counties of Randolph and Thomas will be transmitted with the contract of consumation(sic) to the Secretary of this Board Respectfully Yours, D. A. Vason, Committee & Atty.
Athens, Ga. August 4th, 1879.
(164) Standing Committees. Committee on Finance. Messrs. Yancey, Brown, Crawford, MacIntyre, and Lawton.
Committee on Library. Messrs. Cobb, Hall, Davenport Jackson, Pierce, and Stephens.
Committee on Buildings. Messrs. Harris, Seward, Vason, Barrow, and Mitchell.
Committee on Law Department. Messrs. Cobb, James Jackson, Lawton, Toombs, MacIntyre, and Gordon.
Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture Messrs. Yancey, Lewis, Barrow and Screven.
Committee on Apparatus. The Members of the Prudential Committee.
Committee to visit North Ga. Agricultural College at Dahlonega. Messrs. Colquitt, Johnson & Hammond.
Committee to audit Treasures accounts. Messrs. Yancey, Harris, and Cobb.
Committee on Honorary Degrees. Dr. Mell, Chancellor and Messrs. Harris and Hill
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August 1879. An official communication was received from Prof. David C. Barrow Jr. Esq. corresponding Secretary of the Alumni Society stating that Hon. Alexander H. Stephens was duly elected Alumni Trustee of the University of Georgia for the next four years beginning with Thursday the 7th day of August 1879.
The Board then adjourned sine die.
Wm. L. Mitchell Secretary. Mark A. Cooper Vice(?). President(?).
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University of Georgia. Athens, Ga. July 16th, 1880.
The Trustees of the University of Georgia met in stated annual session in the College Library at 10 oclock A. M. the Vice-President Hon. Mark A. Cooper in the chair.
Upon calling the roll, the following Trustees were found to be present; Messrs. Cooper, Mitchell, Lewis, Toombs, Yancey, Vason, Jackson, Crawford, Billups, Hall, Barrow, Harris, MacIntyre, Speer and Stephens.
An Act of the last General Assembly providing for four additional Trustees, who are to be practical farmers, was accepted by the Board as a part of the Charter of the University of Georgia, and the following gentlemen, duly elected by the State Agricultural Society and certified by the Secretary of that Society under the Seal of the Corporation, answered to their names, Hon. L. T. Livingston, of Newton County elected for four years; Col. Wm. H. Felton of Macon County, elected for three years; Hon. James
H. Fannin, of Troup County, elected for two years; and Maj. S M. H. Byrd of Polk county, elected for one year. Prayer was made by the Chancellor. The minutes of the last stated annual meeting were read and confirmed.
a.
Recorded at at pp. 178-222 (left margin)

a.
Chancellor Mell read his Annual Communication, which was referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline, with power in that Committee to distribute such portions of the Communication to other Standing Committees as more properly belong to them. The Board then adjourned to 4 oclock this afternoon, upon the motion of Mr. James Jackson.


College Library July 16th 4 oclock P.M. The Board met according to adjournment. Messrs. Gresham and Screven appeared and took their seats. Excuses were made and sustained for the absence of the following Trustees: Messrs. Miller, Pierce,
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The Minutes of the 16th. and 17th. Beckworth, and Seward. Reports of Standing Committees were read and laid on the table for the present, to wit, An Abstract of the Minutes of the Prudential Committee accompanied with its Book of Minutes; the Report of the Committee on Apparatus; and the Report of the Building Committee. On motion, Mr. Hall was appointed to write Mr. C. P. Crawford and Dr. W
S. Dudley, President of the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College at Milledgeville, to appear before the Board, and make the annual Report of that Institution. Upon the introduction of those gentlemen, Mr. C. P. Crawford submitted their Report accompanied with remarks by himself and Dr. Dudley, the President, which Report was laid on the table for the present. The Report of the South west Georgia Agricultural College at Cuthbert sent by the post with a letter from Hon. Jus.(?) T. Clarke, President of its local Board, was read and laid on the table for the present.
The Chair announced the Standing Committee on Laws & Discipline, Mr. James Jackson Chairman Messrs. Stephens, Toombs, Crawford, Vason, Harris, Fannin, and Gresham.
Mr. Young, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance, submitted his Report, which was laid on the Table for the present.
The Board then adjourned to 10 oclock tomorrow, on motion of Mr. Toombs.
Mark A. Cooper
V. Prt.(?)
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July 1880.
July 17th. 1880 10 oclock A. M. The Board met according to adjournment. The minutes of yesterday were read & confirmed. Messrs. Hill & Lawton appeared and took their seats.
b.
Recorded on p. 223. (left margin)

b.
Mr. Yancey, Chairman of the Standing Committee of Agriculture and Horticulture submitted its report, which was received and adopted. Mr. Gresham, Chairman of the Committee of two, to represent this Board in the reception of a donation from a friend of the University upon the terms specified in our Resolution adopted at our last stated annual meeting in August 1879 read his Report and the deed of gift specifying the limitations thereof, omiting (sic) the name of the donor in reading the Deed, because the Donor had insisted that his name should be withheld.

c.
Recorded on pp. 224-229. (left margin)

c.
The Report was received and adopted; and it and the Deed with twenty Bonds of the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company, bearing Six per cent interest with the coupons cut off, to July 1895, that is to say, that the first coupon not cut off is due and payable July 1st. 1895; were handed the Secretary and Treasurer. Of these twenty Bonds, Eight will fall due July 1st. 1897, and Twelve will fall due Jany. 1st. 1910, and they are all payable in the City of Augusta. Pending the Motion to adopt the Report, Mr. Crawford was called to the chair, and Mr. Cooper submitted a resolution to recommit the Report, and his resolution being voted down, he resumed the Chair, and


Recorded on p. 230. the Committee on Laws and Discipline submitted a Report, in which they recommended the appointment of a Standing Committee on Branch Colleges; and make a distribution of the topics of the Chancellors annual Communication to the respective standing committee to which said topics properly belong, which Report was received and adopted.
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The Minutes of the 17th and 19th. On motion the following resolution was unanimously adopted.
Resolved, that the sincere thanks of the Board are hereby expressed to the Donor of the Twenty Bonds of the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company, amounting to
$20,000.00 and that Mr. Gresham be requested to communicate the same to the Donor, with their assurance that his wishes in relation to divulging his name have been scrupulously observed by Mr. Gresham. The South Georgia Agricultural College submitted its Report by Mr. A. P. Wright, President of the Local Board with remarks by himself & Mr. MacIntyre of this Board; and the North Georgia College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts distributed to the members of the Board its annual Report in a printed pamphlet. These two documents were received and referred to the Standing Committee on Branch Colleges, just provided for, to which Committee, the Reports from Middle Georgia Military & Agricultural Colleges, to wit, Mr. Vason, Chairman, Messrs. Stephens, Lawton, Gresham, Toombs, Crawford, Hull, and Fannin. Mr. Mitchell read a paper advocating Free tuition in the University, and making suggestions as to its future expansion, which on his motion was referred to the consideration of the Committee on Laws & Discipline. Messrs. Hall, and Billups were appointed the Committee of Invitation. On motion of Mr. Stephens the Board then adjourned to 9 oclock Monday morning.
Mark A. Cooper Vice. Pres.(?)
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July 1880.
July 19th 1880. The Board met according to adjournment. The minutes of Saturday were read and confirmed. Mr. Cobb appeared and took his seat, giving a satisfactory reason for his tardiness. The Committee on Laws & Discipline reported on the Paper presented by Mr. Mitchell on Free tuition and expansion, and recommended that the consideration of the Paper be postponed. The Report was adopted. On motion of Mr. Lewis, the Paper was made the special order of the day for the second day of the next stated annual meeting of the Board. Chancellor Mell in a letter invited the Trustees with their families and friends to a Reception on Wednesday next, at his residence, from 8 P. M. to 12 oclock. On motion the invitation was accepted and the Secretary was instructed to advise Dr. & Mrs. Mell of its acceptance. The Committee on Laws & Discipline reported Recorded on pp.
230-231 (left margin) on the Dormitory System & upon the reception of the Report, Mr. Toombs moved a substitute which was lost and the Report was adopted. Mr. Harris presented a Memorial from one of the Five Companies of the City asking leave to erect a building on some part of the College Campus which memorial was referred to the Committee on Buildings. The abstract of the Minutes of the Prudential Committee was called up and on motion of Mr. Yancey referred to the Committee on Laws & Discipline. Mr. Lewis presented a memorial from the Phi Kappa Society on the subject of a Society Day, which memorial on motion of Mr. Stephens was referred to the Committee on Laws & Discipline.
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The Minutes of the 19th, and 20th.
The Board then took a recess to attend the Sophomore exhibition in the College Chapel & at its close returned to the Library. On motion the Board adjourned till after the Literary address to be delived(sic) this afternoon on the College Chapel before the Phi Kappa and Demosthenian Societies by Peter U. Meldrim, Esq. of Savannah.
July 19th 1880 P. M. The Board met according to adjournment. Mr. Brown appeared and took his seat. Mr. Stephens submitted resolutions looking to the sale of a part of our fifty acres of land in Thomasville for the benefit of the South Georgia Agricultural College and moved to free the blank with twenty acres of the fifty acres, which was agreed to and the resolutions were there referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges. The Board then adjourned to meet tomorrow morning at 9 oclock.
Mark A. Cooper
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July 1880.
July 20th, 1880. The Board met according to adjournment. The Minutes of Yesterday were read and confirmed. Recorded on p. 231. (left margin) Mr. Harris submitted Resolutions in relation to a garden for the tenant of the Old College; in relation to entering on our minutes the names of such persons as are proposed for Honorary Degrees a year in advance of Action by the Board; and in relation to fitting up a place for the museum and the sum of $700. was appropriated for the purpose, all three of which were adopted. On motion of Mr. Brown, the Prudential Committee was instructed to persevere in its efforts to secure a permanent supply of water on the Campus, & the sum of Three hundred dollars was appropriated for that purpose. The Committee on Laws and Discipline made a Report on the Phi-Kappa Memorial which was received; and a motion made to adopt the Report, and pending that motion, Mr. Stephens moved to amend the Report by making Thursday Commencement day, & Wednesday Society day, and the amendment was adopted.
Other amendments were then suggested, and pending their discussion, the Board took a recess to attend the Junior Exhibition in the chapel. After the Exhibition, the Board returned to the Library, and on motion of Mr. Vason, adjourned till after the Alumni Oration by Capt. Henry Jackson of Atlanta at 5 oclock P. M.
July 20th 1880 P. M. The Board met according to adjournment. Mr. Hammond appeared and took his seat. The Report of the Committee on Laws & Discipline being the business before the Board, was proceeded with, and the various amendments heretofore suggested, together with others, were
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The Minutes of the 20th and 21st.
discussed at some length, when on Motion of Mr. Toombs, seconded by Mr. Gresham, the whole subject was indefinitely post-poned by a vote of 11. to 9. upon a call for a division. Recorded on pp. 232-233. (left margin) The Committee on Laws and Discipline reported on the proposed connection between the Chair of Chemistry and the States Department of Agriculture, touching the analysis of Fertilizers, recommending the connection upon proper terms and the Report was received and adopted. The Committee on Branch Colleges made a Report, which was received, and on a motion to adopt, amendments were proposed, and pending the discussion, night having approached, on motion of Mr. Toombs, the Board adjourned to 9 oclock tomorrow morning.
Mark A. Cooper
V.P.
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July 1880.
July 21st, 1880. The Board met according to adjournment. Recorded on p. 247. (left margin) Mr. Harris in behalf of the Committee on Honorary Degrees, submitted a Report making it a rule in the future that the names of all persons proposed for such Degrees and which has(?) over(?) one(?) year(?) be entered in the minutes of the Board by the Secretary, which was adopted. Mr. Harris, Chairman of the Committee on Buildings, submitted a Report to the effect that the Hook and Ladder Company have permission to erect a Building for their use on the Campus, which was received, and on a motion to adopt the Report, a debate sprang up, and after discussion, Mr. James Jackson, moved to post-pone indefinitely, which motion prevailed, & the Report was in that way disposed of.
Excuse was made for the absence of Mr. A. Johnson and sustained. Mr. Toombs moved that the several persons recommended for Degrees by the Faculty and whose names and Degrees are specified in the Chancellors annual communication and Supplemental communication are entitled to the same and that the Chancellor is hereby instructed to confer the same publicly in the College Chapel to-day. The Board look up the Report of the Committee on Branch Colleges, and on a motion to adopt, Mr. Brown proposed, to amend by providing to pay them the ballance(sic) of the appropriation of $2000.00 not yet paid. This proposed amendment after discussion was lost. On motion, the proposition to pay the Chancellor and Committee men appointed to visit the Branch Colleges and the General Assembly, was stricken out, except the Chancellor, whose expenses are to be paid. Mr. Harris reported on behalf of the Committee on Honorary Degrees which was recommitted and adopted. (?) (In the left margin of the page.)
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The Minutes of the 21st.
Recorded on pp. 233-236. (left margin) The Report as amended was then adopted. Messrs. Hammond and Fannin were appointed a Committee to express the thanks of the Board to Mr. Stephens for the fine Portrait of himself now suspended in the Library. The Several Presidents of the Branch Colleges are considered to hold their appointments till the action of the Board shall otherwise determine. The Chair by direction of the Board appointed the Committee of five to represent the interests of the University before the Legislature to wit: Messrs. Toombs, Brown, Byrd, MacIntyre and Vason. Recorded on pp. 236-239. (left margin) On motion of Mr. Yancey, chairman of the Committee on Finance, their Report was taken up & adopted. Mr. Hill, resigned as Professor of Constitutional Law. Recorded on p. 240. (left margin) Mr. Cobb, chairman of the Committee on the Law Department, reported in favor of filling the two vacancies in the Law School, with Pope Barrow Geo.(?) D. Thomas Esquires, and the Report was unanimously adopted. Recorded on p. 240. (left margin) Mr. Yancey submitted a Resolution empowering the Auditing Committee to instruct the Treasurer to invest supplies funds which was adopted. Mr. James Jackson submitted the following Paper which was agreed to,
If, in the judgement of the Faculty, a Student applying for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts at his graduation, has been faithful in the attention to all the departments necessary to the Degree and has made an average on all
the combined marks in those departments equal to that required in any one of them, he shall be entitled to a Diploma. The Board then took a recess and repaired in procession with the Faculty and students to the Chapel, preceded by the high sheriff of the County,
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with music by Burns Silver Cornet Band, and witnessed the Commencement exercises and the conferring the Degrees by the Chancellor as ordered by the Board, after which the Board returned to the Library and completed its business. Recorded on pp. 240-243. (left margin) Mr. Harris Chairman of the Committee on Buildings called up his annual Report which was adopted. Mr. Harris moved that the valuation made by Messrs. Phinizy and Thomas, of the Houses of Professors be recommitted to those gentlemen with the request of the Board that they include in their valuation the value of the land annexed to each residence, that being the Boards meaning, and that 4 per cent be assessed as the rent of this year 1880, upon that valuation thus increased, and after this year 1880, the Prudential Committee be instructed to put such greater per-cent upon the said valuation as will cover ordinary expenses of repairs. Recorded On pp. 243-247. (left margin) Mr. Mitchell Chairman of the Committee on Apparatus, called up the Annual Report upon Apparatus, and the same on motion was adopted. The disposition of the cottage erected by Prof. Waddell on the lot occupied by him was turned over to the Prudential Committee with power to act. The sum of twenty five dollars was appropriated to Henry B. Mitchell, Esqr. for the Picture prepaired(sic) by him for Prof. Wm. M. Brown to stimulate an enthusiasm in the class studying systematic Botany, illustrating the motto, selected by the Professor from the sermon on the mount, Consider the lilies of the Field, how they grow. The Chair then announced the visiting Committee to the Branch Colleges for next year to wit: To the Branch College at Milledgeville, (? Page torn).
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Chancellors Report.
Messrs. Miller, Felton, Hall and Gordon. To the Branch College at Cuthbert, Messrs. Crawford, Byrd, Gresham, and MacIntyre. To the Branch College at Thomasville, Messrs. Billups, Fannin, Brown, and Beckwith. To the Branch College at Dahlonega, Messrs. Lawton, Johnson, Livingstone and Colquitt. The Chair also appointed the usual standing Committee for the ensuing year, to wit:
Committee on Finance.
Messrs. Yancey, Brown, Crawford, MacIntyre, Lawton and Fannin.
Committee on Library. Messrs. Cobb, Hall, Davenport Jackson, Pierce, Stephens and Felton. Committee on Buildings. Messrs. Harris, Seward, Vason, Barrow, Mitchell and Byrd. Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture. Messrs. Yancey, Lewis, Barrow, Screven and Livingstone. Committee on Law Department. Messrs. Cobb, James Jackson, Lawton, Toombs, MacIntyre and Gordon.
Committee on Apparatus. Messrs. Mitchell, Harris, Yancey, Cobb, Speer, and Barrow. The Board then adjourned sine die.
See minutes University of Georgia. p. 167. (left margin) July 16th 1880. To the Board of Trustees,
University of Georgia, Gentlemen, I have the honor to present to you my Report of the present condition of the University and of its history for the past year.
Branch Colleges.
In the organization of Branch Colleges last year
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you imposed a duty on me in the following words: The curriculum of study is to be prescribed by the Chancellor of the University, after conference with the Presidents of said Colleges. The Presidents of those Institutions, severally, after conference, agreed with me that they should conduct students in the regular college course no further than to the end of the Sophomore year. In the case of those though who may have no ability or intention to go on to graduation, but who may desire to qualify themselves for a particular business, or, for any reason, may desire to make themselves acquainted with any topic. I admitted that those Institutions are at liberty to teach such students any thing they please. The Curriculum furnished by Pres. Scott of South Georgia Agricultural College, Thomasville, was approved by me Sept. 1st. 1879. -that by Pres. Sanford of South Western Georgia Agricultural College Cuthbert on Sept. 9th. 1879. -and that by Pres. Dudley of Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College, Milledgeville, on Feby. 8th. 1880. These Curricula are on file in the Chancellors office and can be inspected by you, if you desire. These Institutions all sprang immediately into magnificent success. The College at Thomasville, reports one hundred and Seventy (170) pupils in attendance during the year, all males. Of these there are of College grade, in the Sophomore Class, five (5) and in the Freshman fifteen (15). Total of College grade Twenty (20), The College at Cuthbert reports one hundred and Seventy eight (178) all males, Of these, there are of the College grade, Sophomores, Thirteen (13) and Freshman, Eight (8). Total of College grade
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Twenty one (21). At Milledgeville, there have been in attendance three hundred and fifty one (351) -males, one hundred and sixty five (165) -females one hundred and eighty six (186). Of these there are of the College grade, Sophomores five (5) Freshman, thirty six (36) Total of College grade, forty one (41.)

Number of Students.
In the Departments at Athens one hundred and fifty two (152) students have matriculated during the last collegiate year, viz: in Franklin College, Eighty two (82) in the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, Sixty three (63) and in the Law School, Seven (7.) We have then as the number of all those who have received instruction in all the Departments of the University during the current year. In Franklin College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _82. In State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 63. In Law Department _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7. Total in the Departments in Athens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _152. as against 149 reported last year. In the Medical Department in Augusta _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 112 In North Ga. Agricultural College males 245} Total 325
females 80} In South Ga. Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 170 In South West Ga. Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 178 In Middle Ga. Military & Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 351 Total of those receiving instruction in all Departments 1288. Of these there are of College Grade In Department at Athens_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 152
Augusta _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _112
Dahlonega _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 47
Thomasville _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20
Cuthbert _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 21
Milledgeville _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _41

Total of College Grade in all the Departments _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 393.
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Excluding then the Law and Medical Departments, it will be seen that of the College grade there are undergraduates: In the Departments at Athens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 145
all the fourBranch Colleges _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 129Total undergraduates of College grade _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 274 We have no reason to expect in the future large numbers of undergraduates in the Departments here, because,
1.
We have organized four Branch Colleges to be with our consent and approbation in some degree competitors.

2.
In all these Institutions, Tuition is free. In addition the Agricultural College of Alabama, located just across our Western border offers gratuitous instruction to students from all parts of the world. There last catalogue reports the names of thirty five (35) young men from Georgia.


Library. Mr. J. H. Armstrong the Librarian continued in office until the completion of his contract with the Board to classify and label the books in the Library. On the 17th of February 1880. he tendered his resignation which I accepted. The work performed by Mr. Armstrong according to the terms of the contract, no doubt cost more than the Board anticipated. I am satisfied though that he performed his duty honestly and faithfully. I have the honor herewith to present to you his report. On the 19th of February Prof. Wilcox accepted the position as Librarian and ever since has been discharging the duties of the office.
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Medical Department. It was my privilege on Commencement Day of the Medical Department to confer the Diploma of that Institution on Twenty five graduates. There are gratifying signs of increased prosperity in this Department of the University. Four more graduated and thirty five (35) more attended the lectures than were reported the previous year.
North Georgia Agricultural College. It was my privilege to attend the closing exercises of the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega. Soon after your adjournment last year I addressed to the President of the College and the President of the Local Board, each a communication, from which the following is an extract: The Trustees of the University of Georgia at their last session as you are probably aware, adopted a regulation on the following words, The Chancellor shall attend the final examination at Dahlonega, and if he shall be satisfied from such examination that a young man there graduating has attained proficiency in all the studies required by the University of Georgia for a Bachelors Degree in any named Department, he shall be authorized to confer such Degree upon the student in the name of the University. The construction I put upon this is that I am to bear the same relation to the Faculty of the North Georgia Agricultural College when they are considering the question of the right of students to Degrees as I entertain to the Colleges of the University located here, while they are engaged in the decision of the same question. Here the testimony of every Professor in his own Departmen is taken as final and conclusive. So far as I am concerned, the same thing shall prevail at Dahlonega. The gentlemen there I am proud to recognize as any colleagues, entitled to all (183)
July 1880. the respect and consideration that belong to the members in the other Faculties of the University. I am happy that the Trustees have placed it in my power to co-operate in promoting the interests of an Institution that has done so much for the cause of education in the mountain region and is competent to do so much more. Please see that those studying for any Degree go through with the Curriculum prescribed for that Degree in the Catalogue of the University. Among the list of four names handed one for graduation was that of a young lady who had completed the prescribed course for the baccalaureate degree. This furnished occasion for some embarrassment because (1) you had instructed one to confer the Degree on a young man attaining to proficiency: and (2) it might seem a misnomer to dub a female a bachelor. But then a literal construction of the phrase, a young man, would have prevented me from conferring the Degree upon a married man, or a widower, or one of middle age, who may have been a student there. But you yourselves permitted to graduate here a few years ago a middle aged man who had a wife and children; and a widower now pursuing his studies here expects to apply to you for a degree next year. By young man then it is evident you do not mean to prescribe any limitations as to age, nor to exclude those possessing marital relations, and as to the misnomer it was just as apparent literally when you authorized a husband and father to be dubbed Bachelor - as it will be next year also, when you will doubtless authorize the title to be conferred upon a widower. The fact is when you used the phrase a young man, you evidently meant an authorized student there. But your honorable Body consented that the Local Board should organize a mixed school of males and females at Dahlonega; and
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Chancellors Report. there have not been any restrictions and limitations placed upon our sex and not upon the other, nor any rights and privileges granted to the boys that are with held from the girls. The girls and the boys are all alike students, of the College. The baccalaureate in this case then suggests no idea of sex and simply indicates that the student has completed satisfactorily a prescribed course of study. Influenced by such considerations as these I conferred the Degree of Bachelor of Arts on the accomplished young lady who had completed the prescribed course of study. In this I did not suppose that I committed either you or myself to the propriety or expediency of co-education of the sexes in the University; for the Diploma delivered to the lady was not that of the University of Georgia, but the diploma exclusively of the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega. Should this act of mine though meet your disapprobation it would be well for you formally to express yourself to that effect, so that the Chancellor in the future may consider himself instructed in the premises. Should my construction of your Resolution last year and my action under it meet you approbation, the North Georgia Agricultural College has had accorded to it normal and harmonious relations with the University - such relations as are honorable and agreeable to it and useful to the whole system of which it is a part.
In the 3rd. Art. of contract with the Medical College of Georgia you agree that the local Board and the Faculty shall determine the granting of Medical diplomas; and such diplomas shall be signed by the Chancellor and Medical Faculty, sealed with the seal of the University of Georgia, and delivered to the graduates in the City of Augusta. Following as nearly as possible the analogy of this and with the desire to place the North Georgia Agricultural College on the
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July 1880. same basis with the other complete Colleges in our system it is on my suggestion fixed as a permanent arrangement, unless you object, that the Faculty shall recommend to the Local Board names of students for graduation, that the Board shall instruct the President of the College to make official report to the Chancellor of the names thus passed upon, and that that officer shall then in your name and by your authority confer the University Degree of Bachelor of Arts delivering as an attestation of it, the Diploma of the North Georgia Agricultural College. Should this meet your approbation there will at least be secured harmony and uniformity. All the Degrees will be University Degrees, conferred by your authority and direction and the diploma in every case will be the diploma not of the University but of the College in which the course of study has been satisfactorily completed. The Department at Dahlonega has been in the last two years an efficient feeder to the Department here, and under the present arrangement it promises larger contributions in the future.
College Campus. It will be seen that the Campus has greatly increased in symmetry and beauty during the last year also, under the skillful hand of Col. Young L. G. Harris of your Body. Col. Harris is entitled to the profound thanks of the whole University community. Should the Trustees be able to continue appropriations our grounds before many years will rival in beauty and attractiveness the famed parks of the country. Nothing short of this should satisfy us.
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On the subject of the

Museum.
Prof. White writes one as follows: Athens, Ga. June 24th. 1880 Dr. P. H. Mell, Chancellor, Dear Sir:
In anticipation of your usual annual Report to the Hon. Board of Trustees I take the liberty of calling your attention again to the condition of the museum of the University, respectfully asking that you take some recommendation in reference thereto to the Hon. Board. The third floor of the Library Building is admirably suited to the purposes of a mineralogical and general museum, and with proper repairs and fittings, could be so arranged as to make our condition to receive and preserve articles of value, and furnish no facilities for exhibiting them properly to students or visitors. The Ceiling has already partly fallen and is in great danger of complete destruction. The walls are much soiled and should be cleaned & kalsomined (sic). The few cases & tables in the rooms are unsuited to the needs of a museum and were not originally designed for such. Prof. Charbonnier has very kindly made designs & estimates for fitting up the rooms in proper manner and informs me that the sum of seven hundred (700) dollars would be sufficient to replaster, kalsomine (sic) and paint the rooms, to replace the present partition by arches and pillars thus producing one superb room one hundred & twenty five (125) by fifty (50) feet, excellently lighted; to provide glass covered cases & shelving
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July 1880. and all other arrangements necessary to preserve and exhibit our valuable collections. I earnestly and respectfully beg that you will suggest to the Hon. Board of Trustees the propriety & the great desirability of making an appropriation to this end. I am aware that the amount named is a large sum to ask of the treasury at this time, but I am fully of the opinion that the expenditure is a necessary one. The mineralogical collection of the University already contains nearly six thousand (6000) specimens, and the number is increasing rapidly by gifts of especially Georgia minerals. I have opportunities of acquiring specimens representative of all the mineral formations of the State. There is, moreover, a collection now due the University of duplicate specimens collected during the Geological survey. I am informed by the Commissioner of Agriculture that these will be forth-coming at an early day. The Natural History collection embraces over three hundred (300) specimens, and the Geological and general collections are quite large. The University is in a position to receive gifts from many sources of curious & valuable objects, I frequently receive letters asking for information in reference to such articles, with offers to donate or loan them to the University. Some provision should be made for the reception and care of these. With a great number of valuable specimens & curiosities, the University of Georgia has practically no cabinet or museum worthy of the name that is useful to students or attractive to visitors; or that offers inducements to the friends of the Institution to make donations of this character. During the present session, for instance, among other specimens, I have received from an old student of the University, Prof. P. H. Mell Jr. of the Alabama State College, a very
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Very respectfully yours,
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(Signed) H. C. White Prof. Chem. And Geol.
Gallery of the Fine Arts The Hall to which Prof. White refers could be filled up also as a Gallery of the Fine Arts. If the University may not be very soon in a condition to purchase specimens of painting and sculpture, it may as in the past, receive contributions from munificent friends provided it had a suitable place for their preservation and exhibition. But there is one thing that can certainly be accomplished. We can have in our Gallery a collection of the portraits of all who, have at any time been officially connected with the University. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens of the Board, presented to the University this year a superbe(sic) picture of himself, admirable not only for its excellency as a work of art but on account also of the accuracy of its likeness. This portrait is to us enhanced in value because it is the personal gift of the distinguished subject of it. If the Trustees would all follow the example of Mr. Stephens and if surviving friends or descendants would be induced to present to the University the portraits of the Trustees deceased, we should not only be brought under great obligations, but there would be collected here the portraits of a large portion of the distinguished men that have illustrated Georgia in her whole history.
System of Government. At your last annual session, just before adjournment, you passed a measure which you intended as a Dormitory System. I knew nothing of this until your adjournment, and the dispersion of the great body of your members. This system I did not attempt to carry
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If I could have resigned, and been released immediately, I should have escaped the embarrassment in that way. Shut up as I was though by the impossibilities that environed (sic) me, I pursued the only safe legal course, that was left me -one too that I was satisfied would ultimately meet your approbation -certainly that which accorded with my sense of obligation to you. I might have technically and rapidly carried the law into effect, though I knew it would work nothing but disaster to all concerned. I might have without professing to do so, neglected to carry the measure into effect with the idea that I could have impunity for at least a year, and with the hope that I might somehow escape a reckoning with you. I might even have attempted to evade your legislation, by privately or otherwise, prompting parents and guardians to instruct me to relieve their sons and wards from the obligations of the Dormitories. On the contrary, loyal to my obligations to you, I put all the members of your honorable body in notice of my intentions. Acknowledging my responsibility to you, and knowing your jurisdiction and the way in which you could intervene, if so disposed. I frankly furnished you the occasion to do so. I should have been most happy to have met you in a called meeting, and to have promptly relieved you from all embarrassment growing out of confliction (sic) of opinions between us.
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July 1880 I am happy to know that the time has arrived when this question will be authoritatively and finally set at rest. Amicably, courteously and deferentially I address myself to you as those who have the right ultimately to decide this question; and as those competent by character and attainment to decide it intelligently and wisely. When you do arrive at such ultimate decision, you shall have all appropriate cooperation from me. If the decision be such as to be consistent with my reason and my experience. I shall cooperate with the Board by carrying out their views heartily -proud of the honor and the privilege. If the conclusion arrived at may seem to be impracticable or impossible. I shall cooperate with the by promptly and amicably getting out of the way. In no event, shall there be, with my consent a conflict between me and the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia. The action adopted by you on the 6th day of August last, refers not either by name or title to the Chancellor. In the 2nd Item the Prudential Committee is named and instructed with reference to the repairing of certain buildings; in the last sentence the Faculty are instructed to require [certain] students to room in the college Dormitories. Now it may be asked, why I should feel myself called on to take such ground on the subject as I did, when I had not been definitely referred to at all? I answer,
1. Whether right or wrong, all parties in the University and outside of it hold the Chancellor to a personal responsibility for discipline and order. If the Faculty therefore had taken any action in the line of the instructions of the Trustees, that action would have to be carried out by the Chancellor as executive officer, and all
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Responsibility for it by a voluntary assumption of it would have rested on him. Foreseeing this, I hastened to put all parties on notice as to which would be imperative on me in the premises.
2. Knowing in advance that all responsibility would at last rest on me and that I would encounter peril, no matter what might be my decision, I desired to shield my colleagues from all share in responsibility and danger. For I knew how difficult it is to keep such a question as this exclusively in the forum of reason and candor. It is so easy for misapprehension, or selfishness, or passion, to prevent it, that those officers who should be complicated with it would at least be placed in the chapter of accidents, if not in circumstances of great peril. Knowing that I could not possibly escape this peril, and that I would any how, first or last have to speak out, I determined to do so at once, and put all on notice that I could not possibly carry the system into effect. My colleagues then, Gentlemen, if any wrong has been done, are not to blame, because I gave them notice in advance, that I could not carry out my part of the system, even if they voted to undertake it, I told them as I tell you, that all responsibility in this matter rests on me. Nor are the members of the Prudential Committee in any way compromised in this matter. I am the only one you have to deal with; and solitary and alone. I place myself with perfect confidence into the hands of the competent and just gentlemen who compose this Board. As soon as I arrived at a definite conclusion as to what was my duty in the
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promises, I addressed to every member of the Board, through the Secretary, the following communication. University of Georgia Athens, Aug. 9th. 1879. Hon. Wm. L. Mitchell LL.D. Sec. Brd. Tr. Un. Of Ga. Dear Sir,
On my personal application, two days after the adjournment of the Board of Trustees, you were kind enough to furnish me a copy of the action of that body on the subject of the method of discipline in the University as follows:
After careful consideration, your committee recommend the following action:
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That the house on Lumpkin street be taken possession of, and be let rent free to some proper person who will take students as day boarders.

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That the Prudential Committee shall have both the College Dormitory buildings, thoroughly repaired and cleaned, and the students be required to occupy them, with the following exceptions:


1st
. All students residing in Athens. 2nd
. The members of the Senior Class who shall prefer to room in town. 3rd
. All students who shall bring the written request of their parents or guardians, asking that they be allowed to room in town.
With these exceptions, the Faculty are instructed to require other students to room in the College Dormitories. It distresses me to have to announce to you that it is morally impossible for me to comply with the above legislation. Of course, in taking such extreme ground as this, I recognize that I can
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Chancellors Report. be justified only on the principle of invincible necessity -a necessity too that must be made apparent to you and the other members of the Board of Trustees -Before attempting to give my reasons however, let me relieve the subject from two irrelevances (sic). First. I do not propose to make any issues with the Board, or with any number of it. I have the highest respect for that honorable body and for all the distinguished gentlemen who compose it. They have never as a body, so far as I know, and believe, done me any intentional wrong or harm, but have on the contrary brought me under many and very great obligations. They elected me first to a Professorship, and then again to the Chancellorship, without by being in either case a candidate for office -during all the twenty three years of my connection with them they have treated me with kindness and consideration; and their generosity towards me when I was disabled and well high dead with nervous prostration, has brought me under a debt of gratitude which I shall ever feel, and at all times & in all ways be proud to acknowledge. There is no controversy between me and the Board of Trustees, as there are no just grounds of variance between me and any of the noble and distinguished citizens that compose it. Let it be distinctly understood then that this is not an arraignment of the honorable Board of Trustees as a body, nor of any individuals that constitute it; but a respectful -perhaps I may say an imploring, though I hope, manly -appeal to the members to do what they can to rescue me and the University from the impossibilities that environ us. Second. This is no case of intentional disobedience of law. I admit and maintain that the Trustees
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July 1880. when assembled in an organized body, are the highest authority in the University, and that their enactments (sic), in their letter and in their spirit, must be obeyed by the Chancellor so long as he continues in office. He may not disregard them: he may not intentionally evade them. True if laws enacted may seem to the Chancellor to be pernicious or impracticable, he may escape responsibility by resigning. If the law making power, in that event should prefer the measure to the officer, it is under moral obligation to release him immediately: for it would be in violation of all right and propriety to attempt to force one to execute a law that, as in this case, is in violation of his reason, his experience and his conscience -that jeopardizes his reputation & that will certainly wreck his administration. But it may be asked, why I did not when the Board was here, and why I do not now, relieve myself by resignation?
I answer, because I am and have been environed (sic) by impossibility. On account of the extraordinary conception (if any at all) that the Board have of the relations the Chancellor & Faculty bear towards them while they are engaged in legislation, I did not know their adjournment. Neither officially, nor unofficially, directly, nor indirectly, was I informed, or given reason to suspect, that the Board had such a proposition under consideration; for the measure adopted was altogether a different thing from that against which I had argued in my annual report. This I had heard had been voted down: and the rumor had reached me that the form of College Government which I had recommended, and for the last year administered, had been adopted by a majority of one; but I did
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Chancellors Report. not know that the vote had been reconsidered and the present plan substituted, until the Trustees had dispersed. Had their action come to my notice in time, I should have tendered my resignation immediately, respectfully but peremptorily: for nothing could induce me to assume the responsibility of administering the present system. But it may be asked again, why I do not resign now? You, sir, can answer that question. You will bear me witness that I offered the resignation to you, but you declined to receive it, on the ground that I could not be released now, since the law required me to give twelve months notice. This is no attempt to disobey or evade law, but a recognition of the impossibilities that surround one, and a frank statement of them through you to the able, and distinguished and just individuals who compose the Board. If an enemy had done it -if the hand of malignity, with consummate skill and malice aforethought had provided and disposed the obstructions, I could not have been more thoroughly hemmed in than I have been by the excellent gentlemen who have given me hitherto so much of kindness & confidence. By their action they have placed me between the horns of an inexorable dilemma. If I carry into effect their legislation, I inaugurate a system that will ruin the boys and young men, confided to me; that will bring disaster upon the University: and that will wreck my administration: If I omit to carry their enactment into effect, I seem to be disobedient to law and discourteous to them, and by their failure to inform me of their action, previous to their adjournment, they have made it impossible for me by resignation, to extricate myself under the form of law.
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July 1880. Let no one then uncandidly (sic) make appeal to prejudice by asserting or intimating that this is a determined attempt to disregard law, and to overthrow legitimate authority. But what is there in the system that justifies me in taking such extreme ground? First. I object to the very essence and genius of the system.
1. Because of the peril to which it subjects the moral character of the student. It requires young men and boys to occupy large dormitories in large numbers with no officers or other influences to protect them or restrain them. In this respect, it is a new thing, unlike the old and obsolete Dormitory System proper, and unlike anything that has been hitherto tried. Young men may have been in some unfortunate localities, thoughtlessly permitted to assemble together in large numbers, in detached buildings, away from the constraining influences of home and of virtuous female society: but never before, in the history of Colleges in all time, have unsophisticated boys been forced by wise and christian men to occupy such positions of peril. In such dormitories organized vice would entrench itself, and hold high carnival -drunkeness (sic), & gambling, and licentiousness would there fix their permanent headquarters. This is not the Dormitory System the Trustees voted to adopt a year ago, and against which I argued in my annual Report, but the result of a compromise intended to harmonize the members of the Board, and adopted at the very close of the session, as a substitute for a measure that they had carefully considered early in the session and by majority vote approved; and which for this purpose had been reconsidered. It may have been very effective in reconciling the views and feelings of the members of the Board, but it will
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be very potent in working discord and distruction (sic) to the University community, if put into effect. I beg again to call attention to the fact that this system is entirely different from that against which I argued, and which I promised to attempt to administer if the Trustees insisted on it -provided that they would supply for it the essential agencies. The Board have not insisted on the plan referred to, but have adopted another. Of course, then, my conditional promise falls with the condition on which it was suspended. There is no longer any promise of mine to attempt on any condition to administer any kind of Dormitory System.
2. I object again because the system furnishes occasions the least favorable to studiousness and advancement in scholarship. These dormitories will be the places where the sensations will be found, and will furnish resorts at all hours for the idle and the vicious from all parts of the town. Force compels the young men & boys to lodge there, but there is no government enthroned to protect them from encroachment and interruption. Second. I object not only to the genius of the system, but to its details also.
1. An unwise and unjust distinction is made between students. Some are under duress, while others are free -Some are forced to occupy the dormitories, others no more deserving are permitted to room where they please. The boys whose parents have no confidence in the wisdom or discretion of the College authorities, are rewarded by being accorded the largest liberty, while those whose parents confide in us, are treated as if they are imbeciles or inferiors: and virtually punished for the misplaced confidence of parents or guardians. The system then would give us two classes of students, the superior & the inferior
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the free and those in duress. Surely reason and justice would say, if we must have an enforced dormitory system, let it embrace every-body.
2. Again, another strange anomaly is that the Senior class is excused from the operation of the system. No officers are to room in the buildings with the boys to restrain them; and, to make it worse, no experienced student -one who has met with the difficulties and dangers to character, & mastered them -is required or expected to be present to exercise an influence over them. The members of the Senior Class are morally acclimated, their characters are formed; and, if they were present, they might establish and maintain a correct and mature public opinion, that might assert some conservative power. But here all college authority is withheld, and all, or nearly all, college conservative influence dismissed; and the inexperienced boys, sons of those who confide in me, are forced into those relations which promise good neither to morals nor to mind.
Finally. The system promises in the matter of discipline and order, nothing but confusion & riot. In the first place, the boys are forced into the buildings, but there is no power present there to govern them. In the next place, if nature is in them, they will resent what will appear to them to be outrageous distinctions made between them and others; and the deterioration of character; which the system will produce in them, will be ready, in vicious ways, to lend aid to their resentment. These bring my views as to the character and inevitable tendencies of the system, my conscience (I say it, with profound respect) will not permit me, either actively or passively, to be a party to its inauguration here. A weighty consideration, influencing gentlemen of the Board in their action, may have been that, under my system and in my hands, a large building, in
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which has been invested no small amount of money, would be shut up and useless. This is a great mistake. The system which I would administer needs all the buildings on the Campus. We have a plan which will unify and utilize all the houses that we have. I did not present it, or alude (sic) to it in my report, because motives of delicacy & prudence prompted me to wait until the Board had taken definite and final action on the Dormitory System. Hoping that it will be in your power to serve every member of the Board with a copy of this communication, I subscribe myself.
With Profound Respect, Your Obt. Servt.
P. H. Mell. Chancellor Un. of Ga.
On this communication, I would remark, 1. It was not an appeal from the Board or an arraignment of them before any tribunal. It was an appeal to them; and a respectful request that they would aid me to escape from the impossibilities that environed (sic) me.
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It was not an intimation that the Board were incompetent or unfaithful in the premises. The most competent and faithful are liable to fall into inadvertencies (sic); and I do not disparage but compliment the Board, when I venture to bring to them, not against them, a statement of any inadvertency (sic), with the confidence expressed or implied that they are competent by magnanimity, candor and wisdom, to correct it.

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It was not an attempt to induce the Board to recede from their position, and yield to any willfulness of mine. It was a respectful request rather, that they should so arrange matters that I could deferentially carry into effect their expressed


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Nor was this an attempt to establish a precedent of insubordination, so that I myself, or any successor of mine, may in the future, be encouraged to disregard or nullify any law of the Trustees. By serving all the members of your honorable body with the notice contained in the above communication. I thwarted myself, if I was desiring to establish a precedent of insubordination. As your President could, on the application of any two members, call an extra meeting, I could have been most easily arrested, if such had been my scheme. As you remained quiescent after my notification, it may be inferred that you were satisfied I was loyal to my obligations; and that I was not establishing a precedent insubordinate or dangerous.

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Finally, this was not a proposition and an attempt to substitute a system of my own one originating solely with me -in place of one of (crossed out) the Trustees had considered and adopted. The system I have administered is one the Trustees established, years ago, under Dr. Lipscombs administration. If there is any thing original with me, it is not to be found in the system, but only in the method of its administration. Let no prejudice or resentment be excited against me then in advance on the supposition that I have presumptuously and arbitrarily substituted something new and untried of my own in the place of the organism established by law. This system was until recently the established and legal one. The most that can be justly and plausibly alleged against me is that I have held on to it and kept it in existence after the Trustees abrogated & repealed it. This, reduced to


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Its last analysis is the extent of my apparent offense, and this is the thing that calls for justification or reparation at my hands. My plea, in justification is that, on the one hand, I could not run the schedule marked out for one without touching every thing; and on the other, I could not relieve myself, by resigning, for your rules held me here inexorably for twelve months. Your honorable body will excuse me when I say candidly, but with profound respect, that the whole difficulty originated in the fact that you had never considered and answered the important question What relations do the Chancellor and Faculty bear to the Board of Trustees when that body is engaged in legislating -while it is making or modifying, organisms that compromise those officers, or affect the whole University in its discipline or scholarship? I have been an observer here ever since the resignation of Dr. Church; and I have been satisfied that nearly all the bickerings and confusion experienced, have grown out of the fact that that question has not been solved to the satisfaction of all parties. Certain it is, the present difficulty originates no where else. Had the Board been governed by the correct answer to this question they would never have dispersed without giving me an opportunity to agree to administer the new system, or, be resignation, to free myself from its responsibility under the forms of law. If all parties had thoroughly understood the proper answer to this question, and conformed themselves to it, the unhappy complication could not possibly have existed. If there had not been a violation of this as yet unwritten law, I could not possibly have had an opportunity or pretext for pursuing
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July 1880. a course during the last year, which though legal in my judgement may possibly have been annoying if not offensive to some of you, and the necessity for which has certainly been a source of great distress to me. Some compensation for it all may be realized though, if the present state of things should furnish the occasion for you to consider & settle for your selves that important question. You will not consider it impertinent in me if I as one of the parties in interest, should present to you deferentially my views on the subject. I suppose that no one ought to hesitate to admit the truth of the two following propositions, First. The Trustees have the power & the right to make or modify organisms for the University according to their own sense of propriety & expediency. Second. The Chancellor has the right to determine, whether on the one hand he will make himself responsible for such organisms by volluntarily(sic) attempting to execute them, or, on the other, escape responsibility by tendering his resignation & getting out of the way. These two propositions I suppose are exhaustive of the subject; for no one, certainly not I, will maintain that the Chancellor is justifiable for any reason in refusing or omitting to obey the law, or in making any attempt insideously (sic) to neutrelize (sic) or evade it. Leaving out of view then this last & rejected supposition & promising to take it up really though not formally again permit me to invite your attention to the two propositions. First. The Trustees have the power & the Right to make or modify organisms for the University according to their own sense of propriety and expediency.
This does not mean
1. That comity & courtesy do not require them to consult the Faculty on the subject.
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2. This does not mean that there may not be some kinds of organism on which the Trustees may not be compelled to trust to the advise of the individual Professors in making or modifying them. Take for instance, the details of a curriculum of study. How many boards of Trustees are there competent without assistance to make out all the departments of a University of high grade? This is no reflection on boards of Trustees. The same question may be asked in reference to College Faculties and Professors. Where is the individual Professor or Trustee that is so expert in all the Departments of learning as to be competent to subject every officer in University Faculties to an intelligent, a rigid and an exhaustive examination in those officers own departments or is willing without trepidation to submit to like examination at the hands of those officers with any hope of coming off without humiliation & disgrace? There is no such man. If there can be no competent Faculty or Board of Trustees excepting where every member of it is an expert, possessing exhaustive and accurate knowledge of all the principles & details of every department of liberal education & learning, then there can be no such competent bodies on earth, and never have been & never will be. A College Professor is competent if he has a thorough knowledge of the department he occupies though he may have but a general acquaintance with other topics. So a gentleman is competent
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to be a Trustee even though he may not be able to give intelligent instruction in any department of learning or stand an examination in any of the Arts and Sciences embraced in any of the University Curricula. In making or modifying some organisms, Trustees may be compelled to call in outside assistance and having confidence in the men they have themselves elected to office, it may not be amiss -indeed it will be highly appropriate -for them to consult the Professors, both on principles & on details and give the most respectful consideration to their suggestions & recommendations. But after all no body has a right authoritatively to make or modify organisms in the University but the Board of Trustees met in organized body. Second. The Chancellor has the right to decide whether on the one hand he will make himself responsible for such organisms by voluntarily attempting to execute them, or, on the other, escape responsibility by tendering his resignation and getting out of the way. This proposition may, in the estimation of some, need illustration & proof. I respectfully invite your attention to the following considerations;
1. All parties, whether right or wrong, hold the Chancellor responsible for discipline & order. He is elected in the first place because the Trustees have confidence that he understands or is competent soon to make himself acquainted with the genius & methods of College existence; and that he is well versed or competent soon to make himself so in the theory & practice of College government. He cannot then free himself from responsibility on the ground, (a.) That he did not have the adequate power to meet public expectations.
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power, with the intention to use him as their blind instrument to carry out, not only principles, but their own methods & processes in detail then the public will hold him responsible for foolishly attempting an impossibility & for disgracefully consenting to be a mere figure-head, when reason & public opinion & the interests of University education require that he should be an efficient if not a potent factor in the University problem. A competent Chancellor does not need any promptings (sic) in administering University organisms; & the public knowing this will not excuse his failure in administration, on the plea, either that he had received no prompting or that he had followed such as had lead to disaster. A competent man needs no prompting & the public demand that Trustees deal with an incompetent one not by prompting but by removing him, on the charge pure & simple of incompetency. (b.) Nor could this officer escape condemnation for failure on the ground that he could not command the needed cooperation of men & things, appointed & provided for such purpose. He was elected in the beginning because he was believed to be in possession of administrative capacity -because the Trustees thought he had power & address in applying principles in the management of men. He is the wrong man & he is in the wrong place if his character & resources are not such as to secure the cooperation of all whose assistance he needs. The public therefore hold him responsible and refuse to admit the validity of the plea that he could not command the requisite assistance, when that assistance was avail
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-able, provided he had power, & address adequate to command it. If the resources are in his reach the public justly hold him accountable for not having used them, & thus secured success. If he attempts that which he knew in advance to be impracticable, or impossible, the same tribunal condemns him for his folly as well as his wrong. (c.) Nor will the public permit him to throw the responsibility of his deficiencies & failures on the Board of Trustees. Indeed it would be impossible for him to do this. In the first place that body is an impersonality, whose business is conducted with closed doors & whose proceedings are never published. Nobody necessarily knows how the individuals voted on any subject, and there is no possible way to hold them individually accountable in the premises, nor to make them bear the whole weight of the Chancellors failure, on the ground that he acted under their instructions. In the next place by volluntarily (sic) attempting to carry out the legislation of the Trustees affecting College government he makes himself responsible & he ought to be so held by all parties. For he is under the laws of the Trustees, not as a slave by force, nor as a citizen, or a subject by the accident of birth & therefore compelled to submit to the law without redress or escape -since some form of civil society is liable to bear sway over every region of the earth. He is a volluntary (sic) agent & all parties so esteem him. He can decline to take the responsibility to administer what he considers to be wrong or impracticable laws or organisms and escape with dignity all responsibility under the forms of law, by resigning his position. Whenever therefore he attempts to administer
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Chancellors Report. any organisms that he considers impracticable he does so volluntarily (sic) as a free man, competent to decline and therefore as responsible as though he had originated the organisms himself. (d.) Nor is there any analogy between him and the executive of a state or nation. These last have the right to exercise the veto power, or, in other ways to enter their public protest against wrong or impracticable laws. A University Chancellor has not & should not have such prerogative or right. His remedy in the case is to be found in resignation. That is the only way in which he can free himself from responsibility. But who ever heard of the governor of a state or the President of a republic who was driven to the necessity of resigning his office in order to escape the responsibility for executing an objectionable law passed by the legislative body? Or what officer of the kind could take this step for this reason, without subjecting himself to ridicule? Why is this? One reason is that the executive of a state holds office according to constitutional or legal provision, for a time designated by law & not liable to be removed from office by his constituents or by the legislative body simply because they are disappointed in him or displeased with him. He has independent & vested rights according to law & he is under no obligations therefore to retire from office simply because he disagrees with those whose right it is to make the laws which it is his duty to execute. Another reason is that as already said he can enter legally his public protest against the law & thus free himself from all responsibility. Another reason still why he is in no danger of being involved in any respon
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July 1880. -sibility for pernicious laws is that he executes those laws not directly himself but through subordinate officers, many of them far removed from him, & out of his sight. No body is in danger of confounding these remote & subordinate law-executors with the law-makers & of saddling any responsibility on them for the foolish or iniquitous enactment, such Executive may therefore rigidly enforce wrong or impracticable organisms or laws with the intention to expose their character & thus secure their abrogation or repeal. Not so however with a Chancellor of a University. He has no legal tenure of office as to time. He cannot act independently of the Board of Trustees & retain his office as if he had a vested right in it, in spite of their disagreement with him. If in a case of hopeless disagreement his now self respect and sense of duty do not prompt him to tender his resignation there is adequate power in the Board to oust him immediately. Besides he has no legal way while he holds office to make public protest against what he may consider unwise or viscious (sic) legislation by the Board & no subordinate officers intervene between him and the subjects of the vicious law. He comes directly in contact with those subjects & in person administers the law. Should he then with his possitions (sic) and relations attempt to make wrong or impracticable laws odious by enforcing them he may succeed in the attempt, but his success will be much more signal in wrecking himself & his administration & damaging the important interests committed to his charge. It is true & it is proper that it should be so, the public hold the Chancellor responsible for all organisms & laws he volluntarily(sic) consents to administer & execute. All therefore ought to admit that he has a right to decide on the one hand whether he
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will take the responsibility to carry into effect the enactments (sic) of the Trustees or on the other escape such responsibilities under the forms of law by retiring from the official position he holds.
2. There is another consideration of no little weight in this connection. I do not hesitate to present it from any fear that I may be charged with overstepping the bounds of modesty, because: 1st. I am discussing the subject now impersonally and abstractly; and 2nd. because, I was no candidate for the office, and was taken by surprise when it was offered to me; and, by declining at first, and accepting at last reluctently (sic), I intimated doubts at least of my consciously possessing the adequate qualifications. The gentleman occupying the place of Chancellor, if competent, has his own well defined philosophy of the theory and the practice of College government. It is his business. He has made it a matter of study and of daily observation and experiment; and, of course, all other things being equal, ought to know more about it than those who, far away from its cares & responsibilities, speculate profoundly perhaps on it in their libraries and other places of study; or dream cassually (sic) and cursorily about it, in the intervals of other, foreign, and pressing engagements. It is due to the University and to him that he should have the right and the opportunity to resign, & thus legally decline to attempt to carry out any system other than the one he approves -to the University, because it is entitled at his hand to the last service he can render; to himself, because his own sense of accountability, and his reputation, are involved. Take for example, the case before me. I am convinced from theory & long experience, that that form of College government is more effective both for securing order & for devellopment (sic) of student character, which relies chiefly upon influence rather than upon authority.
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July 1880. I will bring myself into harmony with the great principles of human nature in general, & the individual peculiarities in particular, and by binding to myself the noblest principles of human character I would so act upon the members of the College community as to make them govern themselves according to proper principles & for the attainment of my individual purposes & ends. Last commencement I gave you in detail my theory and philosophy of college government, & during the last two years I have furnished a specimen of its operation in practice. Now suppose that I should consent to throw this away and take & administer instead the Dormitory System with a genius & qualities the very reverse of that I prefer. In that case I would be volluntarily (sic) consenting to throw away in my opinion the good for the bad and to administer a system that would establish antagonisms; that would produce permanent discord; that would operate on the baser principles of human nature in students -cultivating and developing their malignant characteristics; and that would make discipline & order impossible. True, a Chancellor may, in excess of deference, consent as I did last year, to attempt to administer the Dormitory System if the Trustees insisted on it and if they would properly equip it with the necessary details. But in doing so he would deserve commendation only for his deference. His discretion & his sense of obligation to the University and to himself would be sadly at fault. Fortunately for me the Trustees did not take me at my word and I have escaped the risk to the University and to my own reputation. If these principles be true it is evident that it is due to the Chancellor that in some way there may be afforded him adequate opportunity to know in time the legislation of the Trustees, so that he may be able to decide whether he will assume responsibility or escape it under the forms of law by tendering
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Chancellors Report. his resignation. Were he a soldier it would be sufficient for him to receive the written or other authentic orders of his superiors. There is no chance for a soldier to resign, at least in the midst of the conflict; & he cannot escape the obligation to undertake an expedition ordered on the pretext that the undertaking compromised his reputation or imperiled his own life, or the lives of those under his command. A soldier has but one paramount duty & that is to obey. But soldiers & voluntary agents are different persons. Orders in the sense of peremptory commands are never legitimately addressed to the latter class. If they receive any instructions or directions, or orders -if you prefer the word -that are in their opinion wrong or impracticable, they are under no obligation moral or legal to obey them. In perfect consistency with every kind of obligation they can escape responsibility by resigning their place or dissolving their relations with the contracting parties on the other side. Surely, that privilege can not reasonably be denied to the Chancellor of a University which is universally accorded to all other persons in the class of voluntary agents. Let me illustrate this very naturally & appositely by the case of a Railroad employee. The President or Superintendent or other proper officer gives instructions for a passenger train to be made up -specifying the locomotive to be attached to it. This engine he assigns to a certain engineer, in the absence of the latter & leaves him written or adequate verbal instructions and then retires from his Railroad office & goes to his residence near by. The engineer arrives at the yard and understands his instructions. On examination he finds the engine a dangerous machine & is thoroughly convinced that it is likely to blow up, to
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July 1880. the distinction of property and of life. Is he under obligations blindly to obey orders? He is firmly convinced that if the train moves under his control his own life and the lives of the passengers are at stake. Is he not at liberty to pay heed to the dictates of duty to them & to the suggestions of the instinct of self preservation? Has he no remedy consistent with both his moral & legal obligations? Most assuredly he has. Using that remedy, he promptly & courteously communicates his convictions and determinations to the officer that issued the instructions -and this too, in time for all the necessary arrangements to be made to move the train according to the schedule. Now that officer may respond to the anouncement (sic) made by taking steps to secure the departure of the train or he may let it remain where it is in default of any action in the premises. Should he come to the car shed promptly on the receipt of the respectful notice from his subordinate, he may in the plentitude of irresponsible power or in the heat of imperious passion summarily dismiss the hesitating officer, or with a spirit more conciliatory but yet not the less firm & determined, he may overrule or refuse to consider the officers scruples or the grounds of his apprehensions and peremptorily insist that he take the train out on schedule time as it is. In the latter event is there no way for the engineer to escape in consistency with his moral & legal obligations? Every body knows that he could then & there resign his position as engineer, & he would be guilty of wrong neither to God nor man. But suppose the officer receiving the notice fully understanding it and having time to respond to it remained away from the R. R. premises; issued no order; sent no messages and did nothing at all in the premises; while it was easily in his power to do any or all of these; what
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who furnishes my illustration I frankly and differentially appealed to my principals & stated to them the impossibility that beset one & the course I should necessarily be compelled to pursue, unless they used the lawful power I invoked. This I did six weeks before the opening of the term with the intention & the hope, that they would intervene in time. Very much to my disappointment & regret they omitted to do so and there was nothing left for one to do but to continue to run the schedule that has been in existence here for a dozen years or more and which they themselves ordained, but which in their last meeting they abrogated & withdrew. I stand before you then gentlemen as one unfortunate indeed, because perhaps of the want of courage and skill to run the schedule you marked out for me - unfortunate again because you failed to give me in time the information I was entitled to, and for the want of which I have been placed in the midst of embarrassments & impossibilities -but I stand before you as well as one not denying but recognizing and maintaining your suppremacy (sic) and prerogative; but standing only upon that fragment of law which is all your strange reserve and reticence have left for one. I had other sights in the premises but the only one I endeavoured (sic) to claim wasthe right to resign. If I had been a slave or a subject I should have been compelled to submit to the law; if I had been a soldier it would have been my duty to obey it as an order; if I had been a Executive of a State or nation it would have been imperative on me to enforce it as an enactment. But I was not any of these. I was a voluntary agent responsible for everything I voluntarily consented to carry into effect and competent to escape responsibility by resignation.
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Chancellors Report. Again I repeat the whole difficulty originated in the fact that you have not formally considered an (sic) answered the important question viz: What relation does the Chancellor sustain to your Hon. Body while you are engaged in making or modifying organisms in the University that compromise that officer by affecting the discipline of the Institution? Acting with the same differential freedom from reserve which has characterized me in the preperation (sic) of the other parts of this paper I have no hesitation in stating to you frankly what I consider to be properly my claims in the premises.
1.
The Chancellor has not, nor should he have, any veto power, either absolute or qualified; nor should it be his privilege, by protest or appeal, to arraign the Board of Trustees before the public or any other tribunal.

2.
The Chancellor has not, and should not have, any right to vote. Even if this power were injudiciously conferred upon him, he ought to be too wise a man to consent to exercise it. He cannot attain to complete success, unless he has the confidence and sympathy of the members of the Board of Trustees; and it would be very foolish for him by his vote to attach himself to one or another of the parties among which the Board like any other deliberative body, is liable to be divided.

3.
He has not, & should not have, any jurisdiction over matters of finance. In his formal written communications to the Board, he may make recommendations touching the appropriation & disbursement of money; but if the Board decline to carry into effect


his recommendations, no wrong has been done him, or disrespect shown him, and he has no right to complain.
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4. But, when the Board are engaged in making or modifying organisms that compromise the Chancellor by affecting the discipline of the University. I claim that that officer shall have the right to be present, to hear what is said for or against the pending measure; that, before the Board proceed to vote on it, they permit him to address them; and if they should decide contrary to his convictions, that he be informed of the result before their adjournment, that he may have the opportunity to decide whether he will waive his objections and undertake the responsibility of carrying the measure out, or, by resignation, escape at once all responsibility to himself or embarrassment to the Board. There are many ways in which these claims of the Chancellor may be met. One very simple one is to make him ex officio, a member of the Board with the right to speak but not to vote. Does any one object that in the above I magnify the office of the Chancellor? If so, I reply,
1.
I charge that officer with accountability and overwhelming responsibility all the way along.

2.
As to rights and powers; I claim for him only three rights (1) that he should know in time what measures the Trustees have before them which are likely either directly or indirectly to affect him; (2) that he shall have the privilege to be heard on those measures before the Trustees vote on them; and (3) in the event that the decision should be contrary to his convictions, that the information should be imparted to him before the Board adjourn and disperse. And the only power I claim for him is the power to resign.

3.
College Presidents & Chancellors though would no doubt, chide me for conceding too much to Boards of Trustees, and claiming too little for Presiding Officers and Faculties. In a Conference of College Presidents and Delegates, held in Columbus, Ohio Dec. 27th 1877.


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Chancellors Report. President Orton offered the following as his report on The governing powers of Universities and Colleges: Your committeeman appointed on the governing powers of the University beg leave to report that a very suggestive paper on this subject has been put into his hands by Pres. Jno. Bascom of Wisconsin; but that in default of time for the careful consideration by the conference of the questions involved he is not prepared to recommend for adoption any definite action beyond the following points viz:
1.
The internal management of the University or College including the conditions of enterence (sic), the course of study, & the discipline should be intrusted to the College Faculty; and that for its administration of the Institution the Faculty should cheerfully recognize its responsibility to the Regents or Trustees.

2.
The President of the Institution as the representative of the Faculty should in all cases be entitled to a seat if not a voice in the Board of Regents or Trustees.


4. In the most successful and distinguished Universities & Colleges in the United States the Presidents or Chancellors are ex officio, full members entitled to vote and speak; & in some by virtue of their offices they are Presidents also of the Boards of Trustees. The Presidents of Yale College, of Harvard University, and of Amherst College are Presidents also of their respective Boards of Trustees, and in Yale & Columbia College New York City a member of the Faculty in addition to the President is a member of the Board. In the College of New Jersey (Princeton) in the absence of the Governor the President of the College is the Pres. of the Board. The following Institutions give full membership
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July 1880. to their Presidents viz: Columbia Coll. N. York City, University of California, Univ. of Minesota (sic), Univ. of Iowa, Louisiana State Univ., State Ag. Coll. Of Michigan, S. W. Presbyterian Univ., Emory Coll. of Ga., and many others whose catalogues are not now in my reach. But so far as I know and believe this rule prevailes (sic) in all or nearly all the successful Colleges & Universities in the United States. These may all chide me for surrendering rather than magnifying the rights & perogatives of the Chancellor. Personally I have no desire to be a member of the Board and would prefer some other solution of the difficulty. Since sewing the members of the Trustees with the printed extract from my Report my immediate predecessor Dr. Tucker has given in his paper an opinion of the Dormitory System in entire accord with my own, a few sentences from which I beg leave to quote here. In the Christian Index of June 17th, 1880, he is giving an account of his visit to the University of North Carolina and some details in reference to that Institution. I quote: The students board where they please in the village but are all required to lodge in the College Dormitories -a plan which we think is the worst of all possible plans injurious alike to manners, to morals, & to habits of study. If any thing could possibly destroy a College, this could do it. I beg leave also to quote from a private letter addressed to me by Col. W. Leroy Brown formerly of this University and now of Vanderbilt. I had sent him a copy of my article from Barnards Journal of Education on College government. In a letter dated March 27th, 1880 he says, Please accept thanks for a copy of your article on College government which I have read with pleasure. I fully agree with all you say
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Chancellors Report. In regard to the true theory of Collegiate Discipline and with the objections you present to the Dormitory System. * * * * * * * Our method of discipline [at Vanderbilt University] is just what you advocate and the result is most happy. I only say this in confermation(sic) of the correctness of your views. Educators everywhere who have had opportunities of comparing the two systems of government would regard it an evil of no small magnitude to subject the youth to the evil influences of the Dormitory System as conducted upon the old methods. It is the ligitimate (sic) outgrowth of this system that has caused men sometimes to doubt whether Colleges were blessings or otherwise.
The College Buildings.
Learning from your records of last year that it was your wish that in no event should Old College remain unoccupied this year I organized it on the same basics with New College as a students home. It was my good fortune to secure the services of Mrs. P. A. Summey a lady of experience and social position. Twenty six (26) students have lodged in the Building and eaten at the table and she assure me that the young men have deported themselves as gentlemen. Mrs. Richardson still continues to preside satisfactorily and successfully in New College. Twenty (20) Students have boarded & lodged with her this year. Order & propriety have reigned in her household also. These two buildings with out any trouble or risk to students furnished lodgings and servants attentions for Thirteen dollars & fifty cents ($13.50) a month. This is believed to be cheaper than the same board can be obtained for any College in the Country.
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These ladies hold the positions only to the end of this term. The buildings will be vacated immediately if desired by the Trustees.

Reports of Departments.
I have the honor to transmit to you the Report of Hon. Wm. L. Mitchell LL. D. Senior Professor in the Law Department and also the Report of Gen. Wm. M. Browne in reference to the experimental Farm.

For Graduation.
For Bachelor of Arts. James L. Baker, O. H. Bartow Bloodworth, Walter T. Cheney, Noah M. Collens, Irly Dunklin, Charles H. Edwards, Theodore A. Hammond, W. Albert Hill, Thomas V. Lester, Joseph H. Merrill, Robt. W. Milner Jr., Banton H. Noble, Gustavus J. Orr, Jr., Chovine C. Richardson, Archibald A. Willcox, C. DeWitt Willcox, Wm. J. Williams, J. Walton Young,
Bachelor of Philosophy. Walter T. Cheney, Blanton H. Noble, Chorine C. Richardson. Civil Enginee(sic). William H. Steele. Bachelor of Engineering. James M Mayne, Leonidas F. Daniell. Bachelor of Chemical Science. Albert L. Cumming, Onan M. Houser, Bachelor of Law. Edward T. Bishop, Thomas S. Mell, Richard B. Russell Owen J. Summers.
Comencement (sic) Sermon.
I have engaged Rev. A. J. Battle D. D. of Macon, Georgia, to preach the Commencement Sermon on the 18th. instant. Please make an appropriation of fifteen or twenty dollars, according to usage, to pay his travelling expenses.
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Chancellors Report. Americus High School.
I have the honor to hand you an application for scholarships in behalf of the Boys High School at Americus, Georgia, Prof. John Neely superintendent of public schools; the application meets my hearty approbation.
Health of the University.
We have reason for devout gratitude to God that He has shared the lives of all the members of the University. No Trustee, Professor or student has died during the past Collegiate year. I have the honor to be gentlemen
Your Obedient Servant
P. H. Mell Chancellor Unv. of Ga.

Supplementary Report of Chancellor.
University of Georgia. Athens, July 20th 1880., To the Honorable Board of Trustees Gentlemen,
On the ground that they have completed the course of study prescribed the Faculty, through me recommend for the University Degree of Master of Arts, Professor Samuel Barnett and Rev. William S. Bean of the Class of 1869. and Lawton B. Evans.
Very Respectfully
P. H. Mell. Name of Lawton B. Evans Chancellor Un. of Ga. Omitted -Omission supplied by resolution June 1900.
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See minutes on p. 169. (left margin)

Report of Committee on Agricul. And Horticul.
To the Board of Trustees of
the University of Georgia,
Your committee on Agriculture and Horticulture beg leave to report, that the very full report of Prof. Browne through the Chancellor which is upon your table, renders it unnecessary for your Committee to do more than make a brief reference to the conduct of the Experimental Farm. The management of the Farm appears to have been excellent. The zeal and interest of the Professor in his Department is unabated. No appropriation will be called for this year. Seasons being favorable the products of the Farm will meet its own expenditures.
Respectfully Submitted Ben. C. Yancey Approved Chairman.
D. W. Lewis, }
D. C. Barrow }Committee.
J. Screven }
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Report of Committee on Donation. The Undersigned Committee to whom was referred the Resolution of the Board at their meeting in August last concerning a Donation for the benefit of this University to be accumulated at compound interest for a series of years, respectfully make the following Report:
A short time after their appointment your committee communicated the Resolutions of the Board of Trustees under which they were authorized to act to the friend who had proposed to make the Donation and learned from him that they were satisfactory. After some further consultation with the Chairman of your Committee, in which he urged in vain upon this friend of the University that he should modify his intention as intimated and should limit the duration of the accumulation to a shorter period, the form of a deed was agreed upon. It was then that your Committee first learned what the intended donation was and that it consisted of seven thousand dollars ($7000.00) in second mortgage bonds of the Western Railroad of Alabama endorsed by the Georgia & Central Rail Roads. For these, a deed of gift was drawn up on certain trusts & limitations therein specified & which deed is herewith presented to the Board executed by the said Donor and accepted by your committee. After the execution of this Deed and the receipt of the Seven thousand dollars in bonds of the Western Rail Road Company of Alabama, above specified, the Donor proposed that he would collect the interest on these Bonds until their maturity in 1890 at Eight per Cent and reinvest the same in Georgia Rail Road Bonds and after that date to calculate the interest at 6 per cent and Compound the same semiannually so as to allow no interest to be lost. A calculation was made and which herewith pre
(1890 written in the left border)
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July 1880. -sented showing that the amount of principal & interest of the original sum compounded semi-annually will be on the 1st of January 1895 just twenty thousand dollars. ($20000.00) so that the donor there tendered to your Committee 20 Bonds of the Georgia Rail Road Co., of One thousand dollars each bearing 6% interest, with all their Coupons cut off up to and including those due January 1st. 1895, which said last mentioned bonds Twenty thousand in amount of the Georgia Rail Road Company with the Coupons cut off as specified are herewith presented to the Board under the trusts and limitations specified in said Deed. Your Committee recommend that these Bonds be counted, the numbers taken in duplicate & kept in separate places and that the Bonds be sealed up with the names of the Treasurer & the Prudential Committee on the package and deposited in some safe bank or deposit Company on in the Treasury of the State if the State will authorize their reception and not to be opened until July 1st. 1895. And your Committee ask that the treasurer shall give to their Chairman a receipt for the Bonds & that your Committee be discharged. It may be proper to add that the scheme of the Donor seems to contemplate the accumulation of this fund for about One hundred years and after all our arguments and persuasions he could not be induced to change his purpose.
Respectfully submitted this July 16th 1880.
(Signed) John J. Gresham }
J. A. Billups }
Committee.
Western R. R. of Ala. 8 per cent Bonds 7000 Interest Compounded Semi-annually
up to

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Report of Committee on Donation.
the maturity of the bonds 1890 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8000. New Principal _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15000. Interest calculated on this new principal at 6 per cent up to Jan. 1 1895 is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5000.
$20000. This is the amount of Principal and Interest on the original sum of 7000, up to the 1st Jany. 1895 and is represented by Twenty thousand Dollars of Georgia R. Road Banking Co. Bonds with all the Coupons cut off up to & including that date. City of Baltimore } State of Maryland.}
Know all men by these presents that I Charles F. McCay of the City and State aforesaid for and in consideration of the affection and interest felt by me in the University of Georgia, located at Athens, Georgia with which I was connected for twenty years from 1833 to A.D. 1853 and of the sum of ten dollars to me in hand paid by the Trustees of the said University the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged have given granted & conveyed & by these presents do give grant & convey to the Trustees of the University of Georgia the sum of seven thousand dollars in bonds of the Western Railroad of Alabama, endorsed by the Georgia & Central Rail Road Companies of Georgia upon the following trusts & limitations. First, That the Trustees of the University of Georgia shall hold and safely keep said bonds until they shall mature & not permit the principal or interest thereof to be used in any manner or for any purpose different from the donations & trusts hereinafter specified. Second, That the said Trustees of the University of Georgia shall from time to time collect the eight per cent interest due on said Bonds & the Principal when due and shall annually or semi-annually when practicable invest the interest when received and the principal when collected in Bonds of the State of Georgia, or in bonds of the Georgia and Central Rail Road & Banking Companies or of the Cities of Augusta, Atlanta, & Savannah, Ga., and shall continue to reinvest the interest as received on said Bonds and the principal when Collected (& the dividends on said stock) so that the same shall be compounded annually or semi-annually if practicable without any diversion of any part thereof for any other uses than such reinvestment & accumulation of interest principal & dividends until the expiration of the term of twenty one years after the death of all the following named persons viz: Marie M. Buchanan my grand daughter, George Read McCay and Emma Thornton McCay, grandchildren of my brother Isaiah, Robert McCay Bissell and Susan Kent Bissell grand children of my sister Susan, Helen McCay & Susan McCay grand daughters of my brother Neal, Laura Taylor and Catharine Taylor adopted grand daughters of my brother Kent, Thornton Carson grandson of my brother Robert, George S. Sheldon and John E. Sheldon grandsons of my sister Sally Read, Harvey DuBose Hill and Janie May Hill, grandchildren of my brother George, Thacker Howard and Antoinette Howard grandchildren of my brother Milton, Annie Bush & Annie Harrison grand daughters of my brother Albert, Sarah Jackson & Bushrod Jackson grandchildren of my sister Sarah, Minni Williams & Williams Dickens, grandchildren of my brother William, Harold Baxter grandson of my sister Martha and Arthur Machen and Abbot Gresham grandsons of my friend John J. Gresham. And after the lapse of said time, the said Trustees shall continue to keep the aggregate sum so accumulated on the Bonds or stock before mentioned as a permanent fund and shall use the interest, or dividends therefrom for the payment of the salaries of Professors or Lecturers in the University of Georgia residing in Athens, Georgia where the University is located. In testimony whereof I have signed and sealed these presents and a duplicate thereof this 8th day of
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Report of Committee on Donation. December 1879. In presence of (signed) Charles F. McCay. L.S. (signed) P. G. Wallace.
Georgia Bill} The undersigned John J. Gresham and County } Joel A. Billups Committee of the Board
of Trustees of the University of Georgia, appointed and acting under the resolutions hereunto appended do hereby accept the donation made by Charles F. McCay above specified on the trusts & limitations set forth in the foregoing deed and agree on the part of the Trustees of the University of Georgia faithfully and fully to execute the trusts therein specified and to manage and use the said funds in the manner and for the purpose therein specified by the said donor. In testimony whereof we have hereto set our hands and seals this 13 Day of February 1880. In presence of (Signed) Thor. B. Gresham. Signed John J. Gresham }
J. A. Billups } Committee.
Copy of Resolutions referred to above Whereas it has been represented to this Board that a friend of the University desires to make a donation for its benefit with a view that it shall be kept at compound interest for a given time before being used. Resolved that this Board will receive from such friend the sum which he may give & will act as Trustee for the fund & invest the same in the manner which the donor shall designate or in Georgia State Bonds and reinvest in the same manner the interest which shall be received thereon for the time designated by the donor. Resolved further, That this Board pledges itself that the interest & principal of such
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fund shall be kept intact and not used in any manner until the experation(sic) of the time designated by the donor and then only in the manner which shall by him be authorized and set forth. Resolved, That a Committee of two be appointed to carry out these resolutions. Committee appointed Messr. Gresham and Billups. The above is a true extract from the Minutes of the Trustees of the University of Georgia at their Session in August 1879.
(Signed) Wm. L. Mitchell Secretary
$20,000.00 in Bonds of the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company bearing Six per cent interest payable January and July in the City of Augusta. Principal due 1897 and 1910, payable in the City of Augusta, each Bond being for $1000. and Eight of the twenty Bonds falling due in 1897 and twelve of them falling due in 1910. Coupons cut off to July 1895. The Numbers of the Eight Bonds are Nos. 227, 229, 230, 569, 570, 571, 572 and 573. The Numbers of the Twelve Bonds are Nos. 1015, 1016, 1017, 1018, 1019, 1020, 1021, 1022, 1023, 1024, 1138 and 1139. Athens, Ga. Wm. L. Mitchell July 24th. 1880 Treasurer
This is to certify that I counted the said Twenty Bonds and found that number correct, that I have taken the numbers as given above in duplicate and placed
them in separate vaults viz: one copy in the vault of the Southern Mutual Insurance Company of Athens and the other copy in the vault of the National Bank of Athens where I have put the Bonds sealed up and written on the package my name as Treasurer & procured the signitures(sic) of the Prudential Committee. Not to be opened until July 1st. 1895. Wm. L. Mitchell
Treasurer (Along left margin.)
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Report No.1. Of Committee on Laws & Discipline. See minutes
p. 169 (left margin.)
The Committee on Laws and Discipline recommend 1st
. That a Standing Committee on Branch Colleges be appointed at once by the Chair & that the matter in the Chancellors Report in relation to these Colleges be referred to that Committee.
2nd
. That so far as the Chancellors Report refers to the Library it be referred to the
Committee on the Library. 3rd
. That so far as it relates to the Law Department it be referred to the Committee on that
Department. 4th
. That so far as it relates to the Campus, and to Prof. Whites suggestion in respect to suitable appartments(sic) for a Museum & Gallery for Fine Arts it be referred to the Committee on Buildings and Grounds.
5th
. That so far as it refers to the Agricultural Department it be referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Horticulture.
See minutes
171. (left margin.)
Report No.2. of Committee on Laws & Discipline. The Committee on Laws and Discipline have had under consideration the Dormitory System adopted at the last Session of this Board and the failure of the Chancellor to execute the same and his reasons therefor and satisfied that it was not his intention to act in defiance of the Authority of this Board, but to move ultimately in accordance with the law, or to resign his office and that all he did he appears to have been moved by devotion to the interests of the University and to have acted with candor and in a spirit of respect for law and deference to authority, recommended the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, that the amendment of the Report of the Committee on Laws and Discipline adopted at the last Session and recorded
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on page 150 of the Minutes be rescinded and that the Chancellor be instructed to continue the present arrangement under which the old and new college buildings are used as boarding houses with families residing therein.
See minutes
p. 173. (left margin.)
The Committee on Buildings to whom were referred that part of the Chancellors report in reference to a Mineralogical and General Museum have considered the same and cordially approving the object, beg leave to recommend the passage of the following resolution;
Resolved,
That the sum of Seven hundred Dollars be appropriated for the fitting up of the third Story of the Library Building as a Mineralogical, Geological and General Museum and that the Inspector of the Buildings be requested to carry this order into effect.
See minutes
p. 173. (left margin.) Ordered,
That all applications hereafter made to this Board for Honorary Degrees shall be entered on the Minutes of the Board at the regular meeting preceding the one at which said Degrees shall be conferred.
See minutes
p.173. (left margin.) Ordered,
That the Prudential Committee be authorized to set apart so much ground as shall be necessary for a vegitable(sic) garden and other conveniences for the use of Mr. Summeys family now in the occupancy of Old College provided that the same shall not intefere(sic) with the rights of the Professors and tenants of the University.
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Report No.3. of Committee on Laws & Discipline. Resolved, That the Prudential Committee be requested to continue their efforts to secure a sufficient supply of Water and that the sum of three hundred dollars be and is hereby appropriated for that purpose.
See minutes
p.194. (left margin.)
The Committee on Laws and Discipline have had under consideration the appointment of Prof. White to the office of Analytic Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture of the State by the Commissioner of Agriculture & the propriety of his acceptance submitted to this Board by him and report as follows: The Committee think it desirable to strengthen the bonds which tie the University to the State with respect especially to its agricultural interests and recommend advised and allowed to accept the office on the following terms. There is an annual appropriation of Three thousand dollars to this office which includes the entire expenses of it. Of this sum some Eight hundred dollars it is estimated by the Professor will be required to purchase the chemicals and other expenses necessary thereto, and some Eight hundred more for the employment of assistance in the office leaving fourteen hundred dollars or there abouts (sic) after these necessary expenses are paid. Of this sum or of whatever is thus left after expenses are paid the Committee recommend the One thousand dollars be used by the Professor as his Salary for this extra service and the remainder be held as a contingent fund for the repair of Apparatus used by the Professor or the purchase of New apparatus or otherwise in connection with the department of Chemistry or cognate branches of Science as may from time to time be ordered by this
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Board. In the employment of his assistants for the present, the committee approve the suggestion of the Professor to appoint two young men of the University in that business paying them a reasonable compensation therefor & selecting them in view of their proficiency in the Department of Chemistry & there desire further to prosecute their studies therein -in other words the establishment of two fellowships in the Department of Chemistry, the appointees to which shall act as his assistants in the office of State analytic Chemist. At the expiration of the next scholastic year the Professor will have more experience in connection with this matter & may then advise & the Board may adopt another or modify the above scheme.
See minutes on pp. 125-126. (left margin.) Report of Committee on Branch Colleges.
Your Committee to whom was referred the Reports from the Presidents of the Boards of Trustees for the different Branch Colleges beg leave to report: First. The application of the Trustees of the South Georgia College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts located at Thomasville for the right to sell thirty acres of the land held by this Board in trust for their College and other matters in said application contained beg leave to report: First. That we find it just & reasonable & we report in favor of the resolutions submitted to us on that subject striking out twenty acres & inserting thirty acres in lieu thereof.
We are delighted to know & report to this Board that the success at Thomasville has met the full expectation of its most sanguine friends.
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Resolution referred to. Whereas in August 1879 the Trustees of the South Georgia College of Agriculture & the Mechanic Arts located at Thomasville, Ga. made and executed a Deed to the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia whereby the said South Georgia College transferred fifty acres of land on which the College Buildings are now located and by said conveyance the land so conveyed was valuable for sale, building, or improvement & if said land cannot be sold will be detrimental to the improving of the property near said College and the Trustees of said South Georgia College are anxious to utalize(sic) said land so deeded. Be it Resolved
That A. T. Mac.Intyre a Trustee of the University of Georgia be authorized to make a deed to thirty acres of land heretofore deeded on the following conditions, First. That the Board of Trustees of the South Georgia College execute a deed for an equal amount of land on Fletcher Street adjoining the lands now owned by the University of Georgia. Second. That as said lands are sold that were heretofore deeded to the University of Georgia viz: in August 1879 that the proceeds arizing(sic) from the sale shall be created a trust fund to build a chapel for said College on the fifty acres of land now owned by said College. Be it further resolved
That under the second provision of the first Resolution Hon. D. A. Vason & A. P. Wright be appointed Trustees to effect such sales as may be necessary & from time to time to report their action to the Board & supevise(sic) the Building of said Chapel.
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Second. We recommend that the proposition of the City Council of Milledgeville to substitute Five Thousand Dollars per annum in lieu of the land donated to the Board as a Trust fund be accepted -and the Secretary be authorized to consumate (sic) said contract for this Board -He is particularly instructed to see that the provisions of the New Constitution are fully complied with on the part of the City Council before the execution of the Contract so that there may be no question as to the validity of our title to the Bonds proposed to be substituted. Third. We Report that the Settlement made by our Secretary and Treasurer with the Branch College at Milledgeville is right and proper & is hereby confirmed. Fourth. We recommend that thirty five hundred dollars be appropriated to the Branch College at Dahlonega. Two thousand dollars to the Branch College a (sic) Milledgeville. Two thousand dollars to the Branch College at Thomasville. Two thousand dollars to the Branch College at Cuthbert for the ensuing year.
Fifth. We believe it to be a matter of great importance that the Chancellor of the University as well as a committee of four of this Board shall visit at least once in each year each one of these Branch Colleges which visiting committees shall be appointed by the President as well as five Trustees to visit the Legislature and that the expenses of the Chancellor where on duty shall be paid by the Treasurer. Sixth. We are more than gratified to report the healthy & successful status of each one of our schools and believe that they are awakening an interest in different portions of the state on the subject of popular education that has not heretofore been seen -let us push this system -and in our
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Report of Committee on Finance. Opinion the people will demand of the Legislature all the money needful to establish it in every part of the State, to that end we recommend, Seventh. That the Secretary of this Board shall issue a card to the people of Georgia sharing the number of pupils now being educated in each of the Branch Colleges and such other facts in relation to each of the same as shall give correct information as to what are our purposes and plans and with a request that the same be published in the different Gazettes of the State. All of which is respectfully submitted.
D.A. Vason Chairman and
others. See minutes on p. 176. (left margin.) To the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia The Finance Committee respectfully submit the following report.
From the itemized account of the Treasurer from July 21st, 1879 to 8th of July 1880, it appears that the receipts from all sources were _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $32,759.31 Cash Ballance(sic) per last report _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7276.65 Total sum available for last year _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 40,035.96 Disbursments(sic) during same period _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $32,138.48 Exhibiting a cash ballance(sic) available for 1881. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7,897.48 But as this ballance(sic) is a mixed fund it may be well to present a segregated statement. Of it there belongs to Land-Script-Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $2855.31
To General Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4408.98 Library Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 633.19
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July 1880. Seperate Statement Land-Script Ballance(sic) to credit Land Script $4 788.65 Annual Income of 17 914.14 _ _ _ _ _ _ $22,702.79 Disbursements _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19,847.48 Leaving to Credit _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _2,855.31
Seperate Statement Academical(sic) Fund. Ballance(sic) to credit of this fund July 1879. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $2,488.00 Income for year to July 1880 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 14,845.17 Aggregate Sum _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $17,333.17 Disbursements _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12,291.00 Leaving to Credit _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5,042.17 Of this Sum to credit of Accademical(sic) fund 5,042.17 there belongs to the Library fund which is (specifically appropriated) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 633.19 Leaving available to General Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $4408.98 The amount of money realized from Tuition from July 1879 to July 1880 _ _ _ _ _ _2417.50 Less amount refunded _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 140.00 Net amount realized from Tuition _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$2,277.50
Your Committee submit estimates of available means and for expenditures for the fiscal year 1880-81.
Available Means. Cash Ballance (sic) in hands of Treasurer July 1880 $7897.48 Annual Payment on Debt of State _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8000.00 Interest on General Fund-Bonds _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _649.00 Interest on Terrel Endowment _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1400.00 Interest on Land Script Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17914.14 Rents from Professors Houses _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1265.00 Library Fees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 710.00 Tuition Fees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2277.50 Total available per estimate _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $40113.12
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Estimate for Expenditures. Catalogues, Advertising and Printing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$ 525.00 Musis(sic) $100.00 Servants hire $576.00 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _676.00 Postage $122.00 Stationery $50.00 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 172.00 Fuel $102.00 Insurance $186.00 Medals $39.00 _ _ _ _ 327.00 Chemicals $103.00 Incidentals $100.00 Library $710.00 913.00 Repairs of Apparatus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 50.00 North Ga. Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3500.00 South Ga. Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000.00
S. W. G. Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000.00 Middle Ga. Military & Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000.00 Salaries _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19350.00 Repairs specified in report, Com. Buildings and Campus improvements _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _1700.00 Secure supply of water _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 300.00 Museum _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 700.00
Botanical picture and Motto _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _25.00 Total expenditures _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $34238.00
The proportion of the foregoing expenditures to be charged to the Land Script Fund may be stated as follows: For Catalogue Advertising & Printing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $262.00 For Nursie $50.00 For Servants hire $376.00 _ _ _ _ 426.00 Postage & Stationary(sic) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 86.00 Fuel $83.00 Chemicals, Incidentals, Repairs Of Apparatus $142.00 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 225.00 North Ga. Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3500.00 South Ga. Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000.00 South Western Ga. Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000.00 Middle Ga. Military & Agricultural College _ _ _ _ _ 2000.00
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Salaries as follows: To Professor Wm. M. Browne _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $2000.00
H. C. White _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1000.00
L. H. Charbonnier _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1000.00
D. C. Barrow Jr. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1000.00
C. P. Wilcox _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1000.00
Williams Rutherford _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _1000.00
E. W. Speer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1000.00

Botanical picture& motto _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25.00 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $18524.00 The Committee submits a statement of the Assetts (sic) of the University
1 Land Script Fund. Bonds State of Ga. 8% April & Oct. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $96000.00
7% Jany& July _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 56000.00 In the hands of Governor (7%) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 90202.17 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _242,202.17
11 Terrell Endowment Bonds State of Ga. 7% Jany& July _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $16000.00 of Ga. R. Road Bnkg Co. 7 % Jany. & July _ _ 4000.00 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $20000.00
111. General Fund.
Debt of State of Ga. $8000.00 per annum assume _ _$100000.00
Bonds of State of Ga. 8% _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3000.00 Ga. R. R. & Bnkg Co. 7% Jany & July _ _ _ 5000.00 Clarke County_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 500.00 City ofAthens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 300.00
Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $108,800.00
Respectfully Submitted
Approved by Hon. A. T. MacIntyre Ben C. Yancey and M. J. Crawford -Hon. ChairmanJ. E. Brown & H. R. Lawton absent. July 16th, 1880.
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See minutes
p. 176. (left margin.) Whereas there exists a vacancy in two Professorships in the Law Department:
Resolved That these places be filled by the appointment of Hon. Pope Barrow Esq. & Geo. L. Thomas Esq.
See minutes
p. 176 (left margin.) Resolved, That the Auditing Committee be authorized to instruct the Treasurer to invest in interest bearing bonds any supplies that may be of the General fund over & above the Annual appropriation made by the Board of Trustees & which may be a Surplus also over & above the income of the General-fund.
See minutes
p.177 (left margin.) Athens, July 16th, 1880. To the Hon. Board of Trustees,
The Committee on Buildings and Grounds report that during the Session just closed work & repairs have been done on the University property as follows: The cornice & valleys around the Library Building have been entirely rebuilt, relaid & painted. The two Dormitory Buildings have been thoroughly repaired, white-washed, & put in general clean and good order for the accommodation of students. Such repairs as were absolutely necessary have been made upon the premises occupied by the Chancellor & Professors Woodfin & Willcox, as well as the places rented to Mrs. Ruff, Dr. Hogan & Mr. Young.
The Roof of the Chapel has been thoroughly repaired and some necessary work done on the inside of that Building. The Campus & Fencing have received such improvement as could be brought within the appropriation made for that purpose. It was deemed very desirable to provide Iron
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gates for the enterences (sic) to the University grounds, but after correspondence with various houses in the North and West, it was found that the cost of these alone would exceed the entire appropriation, leaving nothing for other important objects; the alternative was adopted of erecting handsome wooden gateways and using the remainder of the funds in grading the grounds, resetting & painting the fence. The Experimental Farm in Charge of Prof. Browne has recently suffered the loss by Fire of the Barn & Stable belonging to that place. The Fire occurred early in the morning cause unknown. Fortunately there was nothing of value in the Building except some vehicles which were removed. Prof. Browne intends with the force at his command to erect a plane log house which will answer his purpose & releave(sic) the Board from the expenditure of any money. The very efficient inspector of Buildings & Grounds reports that the two Dormitories will require during the next term for whitewashing, cleansing & c. about $50.00 That Prof. Woodfin asked for repairs on his lot which altogether will cost inclusive of painting about $250.00 and also for Blackboards alterations in his recitation room & repairs to desks that will cost about $90.00 additional. Prof. Wilcox asked for repairs on his lot & fencing estimated to cost about $60.00. The Chancellors lot will require some 80 pannels (sic) of fensing (sic) at a cost of about $70.00 to enclose & exposed corner of the grounds attached to his place. The place occupied by Dr. Hogan needs extensive repairs as well to the dwelling as fences & out buildings but as long as this property is rented as at
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present and no application made for it by either of the Professors it is respectfully suggested that nothing be expended upon it except what is absolutely necessary. The same remark applies to the place occupied by Mrs. Ruff. The Chapel Building needs many repairs & improvements. The appropriation made by the Board at their last session contemplated this object to some extent, but upon the approach of Winter it was found that the condition of the roof was such as to render its immediate repair indispensable. The cost of this work together with the fact that some $300.00 of expenses incurred the previous year for carpeting gas pipes and fixtures had not been paid for and that the amount had not been provided for out of the repair fund for that year which was ample for the purpose but was included in the appropriation for the present year made it inexpedient to do any thing more until further provision was made for it. This Building will require the following repairs; for rebuilding the bellfry now in rapid process of decay $50.00 Entire renewal of the Cornice $80.00 Replastering underneath the Galeries (sic) $75.00 Whitewashing & repairs to ceiling $200.00 Additional chairs for Sittings $25.00. The Tin roof of Moore College requires painting and will require $60.00. The guttering & piping around Old College made of Wood soon after the war is so much decayed as to require entire renewal; the cost will be about $80.00. The hall in the Library Building in which the Chancellor delivers his Sunday afternoon lectures should be furnished with benches. The Sittings are now supplied with benches for only about one half of the floor & for the rest chairs are brought
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from the Chapel and then earned back there for Commencement, which is very inconvenient, besides being damaging to the chairs. The 18 benches for this purpose will cost about $90.00. In addition to the foregoing the usual incidental expenses will be about three hundred dollars. The aggregate of all these items is $1480.00. To which must be added whatever amount your Honorable Body shall think fit to set apart for the further improvement of the Campus grounds. The Committee recommend the adoption of the following resolution.
Resolved, That the sum of Seventeen hundred dollars be appropriated for the several objects herein before enumerated the same to be used for said purposes as shall be deemed most advisable.
Respectfully Submitted Young L. G. Harris
Chairman See minutes on p. 177 (left margin.) The Standing Committee on the Apparatus viz: The Prudential Committee, beg leave to submit their annual report: During the Collegiate Year now near its close, the last piece of apparatus for the Department of Physics was received & thus closed the expenditure of the $15000.00 granted the University by the General Assembly of the State. Prof. L. H. Charbonnier commenced ordering Apparatus for his Department in 1877 and selected it with great care & bought it to the best advantage. When he took charge of the Department there was but little of the old apparatus fit for use and the few pieces on hand were old & some of them useless. His first case was to set aside what could be
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made useful and repair it when necessary. There was a great deal of this kind of work to be done which the Professor performed with his own hands as he found time & opportunity without neglecting his other necessary duties.
The Committee are happy to report that all of the old Apparatus that could be made useful has been refitted by the Professor with the exception of a single piece a Magneto-Electric Machine which will probably need more extensive repairs than the Professor will be able to make. However he has determined with his usual economy & devotion to his Chair of Natural Philosophy to examine the instrument thoroughly by taking it to pieces during the ensuing vacation & ascertain whether he is unable to refit it and if so he will ask a special appropriation hereafter for its repair. The machine is a good one & is worth spending some money on. The Professor was charged with the duty of expending the money appropriated for New Apparatus & as the means in hand were limited it became an object of great solicitude to make the money go as far as possible. The money was not sufficient to buy every thing that a completely furnished cabinet of Physical instruments should contain, hence the necessity of a judicious selection of such pieces as would ennable (sic) a Prof. of Physics to present the subjects of his course before a class in a proper manner so as to give the students correct ideas of the methods pursued in scientific education. It was fortunate for the University in this connection that private business called Col. L.
H. Charbonnier to Europe in 1877 as he was thereby ennabled (sic) to become personally acquainted with instrument makers in England & France & upon his return
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to the United States with some of our own manufacturers & dealers. He was thus ennabled (sic) to determine from personal investigation where he could buy to the best advantage. He found that E. S. Ritchie & Sons of Boston could supply a large quantity of Apparatus such as we needed at a discount of twenty per cent & also that one of the French makers would deliver goods at his own risk which was a concession for European makers who as a class are less accommodating than American makers for the reason that there is a number of pieces which they alone make & which can not be made in this country. The Apparatus Fund was thus carefully, slowly, & economically expended. We were singularly fortunate in receiving the new apparatus in good order. The only accident or injury was to a French instrument, an Electric Light regulator which was sent to E. S. Ritchie & Sons to mend at a cost of Twenty five dollars. The whole Apparatus Old and New with the exception of the Electric Magneto machine already mentioned is in perfect order nothing like it since the days of Henry Jackson
M.D. LL.D. who bought in France most of the Old Apparatus & handled it with Parental care. It is desirable to have an inventor of Every thing in the Departments of Physics, of Chemistry, and of Civil Engineering, which the Professors will prepare in due time. The Committee take leave to say that while our Apparatus is excellent in quality & extensive in range of illustration still it is incomplete in some branches. In the Science of Electricity we should have a set of Apparatus for Electrical Measurements (246)
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and an Apparatus for illustrating the principles of Dia-Magnetism, but the Committee forbear to ask any appropriation for the same in view of the present demands upon the funds at the disposal of the Board. The Committee report the Chemical Apparatus & every thing in the Department of Civil Engineering in good order under the Care of Prof. H. C. White & Prof. Barrow respectively and that nothing has been added to either of these Departments during the year. Several additions have been made chiefly be gift to the Technological Collection of the Department under the care of Prof. White, all of which are duly recorded in the proper record book. Among others Messrs. Allen, Wood & Co., of Philadelphia & Pittsburg (sic) and the Cressent Steel Works of Pittsburg (sic) have presented Five specimens illustrating the manufacture of iron & steel. The two recently published diagrams of Lenoir & Forster have been added to the others of the series already belonging to us. A number of additions nearly 300 in all have been made to the mineralogical & Geological collections all by gift mainly by gift of the citizens of Georgia, Prof. P. H. Mell Jr. of Auburn Ala. has presented a very valuable collection of claiborne fossils. Several articles appropriate for a general museum of curiosities have been received & stored away for the present in such places as Prof. White could find to receive them. It is much to be desired to provide at an early day proper accommodations for the Cabinet & Museum, but the committee ask no appropriation for this purpose for the reason already advanced. Still the Committee deem it wise to keep before the mind of the Board
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our wants in this as well as in other matters so that the ways & means may in some way be provided at a future day. The Committee ask that the usual sum of $50.00 be appropriated to the Department of Physics and the sum of One hundred dollars to the Department of Chemistry. The Committee are delighted with everything about Moore College & will not close their report upon Apparatus without urging each member of the Board to visit the building and see for himself.
All of which is respectfully submitted Wm. L. Mitchell
Chairman. See minutes
p.
175. (left margin.) The Committee on Honorary Degrees report that the required notice having been given of the proposition to confer the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (LL. D.) on Col. Geo.

W.
Raines of Augusta, the honorary degree of Master of Arts (A.M.) on P. J. Berckmans of Augusta, David C. Barrow Jr. adjunct Prof. of Mathematics in the University of


Georgia and S. J. Coffman Prof. of Modern Language, in the South Western University Clarkesville, Tenn. And the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (P. H. D.) on Patrick H. Mell Jr. Prof. of Natural History and Modern Languages in the State Agricultural Mechanical College at Auburn, Alabama, the Committee recommend that the said Degrees be conferred by this Board,
B. H. Hill } Com. (Signed) Y. L. G. Harris }
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The name of S. D. Bradwell Esq. of Liberty County Georgia was reported by the Committee on Honorary Degrees for the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts, at the next stated annual meeting of the Board.
By order of the Board Wm. L. Mitchell John J. Gresham Secretary. President.
Mr. Nathaniel J. Hammond was elected Alumni Trustee for four years beginning August 5th 1880 and ending on Wednesday, August 1884, i.e. the first Wednesday of August 1884. & so communicated by the Secretary of the Alumni Society.
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University of Georgia. Library, July 15th 1881.
The Trustees of the University of Georgia met in stated Annual Convention this morning at 10 oclock. In the absence of the President and Vice President, Hon. Benjamin C. Yancey, the oldest Trustee present took the chair as required by the charter. Upon calling the roll it appeared a quorum was in attendance and prayer was offered by the Chancellor, Rev. P. H. Mell, D.D. LL. D. The Minutes of the last day of the last annual session were read and approved. The members of the Board present at the opening of the meeting were Messrs. Yancey, Chairman, James Jackson, Crawford, Billups, Hall, Cobb, Harris, MacIntyre, Felton, Fannin, & Mitchell; present upon subsequent days, Messrs. Lewis, Brown, Pierce, Barrow, Speer, Hammond, and Byrd. Excuses for absence were made for Messrs. Gresham, Miller, Stephens, Beckwith, Lawton, Cooper and Seward.
a.
Recorded at pp. 257-271. (left margin.)

a.
The Chancellor then read his annual Communication, which, with the accompanying documents, was referred to the Committee on Laws & Discipline and other standing committees, to which the topics therein discussed properly belong. The Chair then appointed the Standing Committee on Laws and Discipline, to wit, James Jackson, Chairman, & Messrs. Crawford, Harris, Fannin, Hall & Billups. Mr. Yancey


Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance, submitted his Report, which was read and laid on the table. Mr. Harris, Chairman of the Committee on Buildings, read his Report, which was laid on the table. Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Committee on Apparatus, read his Report, which was laid on the table.
b.
Recorded at pp. 273-274.

b.
The abstract of the minutes of the Prudential Committee, for the past twelve months, was read,


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The Minutes of the 16th.
and the minutes submitted, and so much thereof as relates to the scholarships at Americus, and to the exchange of small lots of land with Holman, were agreed to, by the Board and the proper officers of the Board are hereby instructed to carry the same into effect. The Board then adjourned to meet, to morrow morning at nine oclock.
Saturday morning July 16th 1881. The Board met according to adjournment. Messrs. Lewis, Pierce, Hammond & Barrow appeared and took their seats. Mr. Yancey being in the Chair, called upon Mr. Lewis, the oldest Trustee present to preside, who accordingly assured the Chair. The Minutes of yesterday were read and approved. The Report of the South West Georgia Agricultural College at Cuthbert was received and referred to the Standing Committee on Branch Colleges. Mr. Yancey was appointed to invite Mr. Furman, who represents, the Middle Georgia and Military & Agricultural College at Milledgeville, to appear before the Board and make the Report of that Institution, in person, and such remarks as he desired to make; The Report, Books and Documents, were referred to the Standing Committee on Branch Colleges. That Committee was filled up and consists of Mr. Hall, Chairman, Messrs. Fannin, Crawford, Barrow & Hammond.
a. Recorded at pp. 274
277. (left margin.)
a. Mr. James Jackson Chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline, submitted a Report on the Chancellors Annual Communication, which was taken up by sections, amended, and adopted. The Third & Fourth, sections were adopted unanimously; and the Fifth & Sixth, Sections were amended at the suggestion of Mr. Hammond. So much of the Report as contemplates special honor to Mr. Harris beyond the expression of the Board; grateful acknowledgement and appreciation of his most valuable services in the improvement of the Campus, were omitted in the Report, at the most earnest
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solicitation of Mr. Harris himself.
Mr. Felton having received an injury to his foot, leave of absence was asked for him, that he might return home and was granted. Messrs. Billups and Cobb were appointed the Committee to invite distinguished persons to seats on the stage, and also to receive the Legislative Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, to be here on Wednesday next. The Board then adjourned to meet on Monday morning at nine oclock. Messrs. Yancey, Cobb and Barrow were appointed a Committee to confer with the City Authorities as to the entertainment of the Legislative Committee.
Monday Morning July 18th, 1881. The Board met according to adjournment. Mr. Speer appeared and took his seat. The Minutes of Saturday were read and approved. On motion of Mr. Pierce, the election of a Trustee to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Abdar Johnson was resolved upon, and Mr. Wm. W. Thomas of Athens, was put in nomination by Mr. MacIntyre and upon counting the votes, it appeared that he was unanimously elected. Mr. Hammond introduced the resolutions in relation to the Branch College at Milledgeville, which was referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges. Mr. Pierce had leave of absence after the morning session. Mr. Yancey introduced resolutions to print five hundred copies of the Report of the Committee on Finance, at the present session of the Board, to be transmitted to the Governor, and Members of the General Assembly now in session, & to appoint a Committee of three, to confer with the co-committee of the General Assembly, appointed to attend the present Commencement exercises, which Resolutions were adopted, and Messr. Yancey, MacIntyre & Fannin were appointed
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The Minutes of the 19th.
that Committee.
a.
Recorded at pp. 277-278. (left margin.)

a.
Mr. Yancey Chairman of the Standing Committee on Agriculture submitted his Report which was adopted. Upon the recommendation of the Committee on Honorary Degrees a, the honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon Mr. S. D. Bradwell of Liberty County who was nominated a year ago. Mr. Hammond was added to the Committee on Laws & Discipline.


Mr. Brown appeared and took his seat. Mr. Cobb submitted the following Resolution which was adopted.
Resolved, That the Faculty of the University, be permitted to under the Faculty of the Lucy Cobb Institute such assistance, as they are able to do, without interfering with their regular duties.
a.
Recorded at pp. 278-284. (left margin.)

a.
Mr. Harris, Chairman, of the Standing Committee on Buildings, moved to take up his Report, when the same was adopted.

b.
Recorded at pp. 284-286. (left margin.)

b.
Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Apparatus, called up his Report, which was read and adopted. The Board during the day took two recesses, one to attend the Sophomore Declamation and the other the honorary oration of Albert H. Cox, A.M. before the Literary Societies, and near sun down the board adjourned to next at nine oclock in the morning.


Tuesday July 19th 1881. The Board met according to adjournment. The minutes of yesterday were read and approved. The application for scholarships in their school by two gentlemen of Atlanta was referred to the Committee on Laws & Discipline. The Report of the Branch College at Dahlonega, was made by Col. Price in person as President of the Local Board there, and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges.
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Mr. Cobb in behalf of the Committee to confer with the City authorities and secure their cooperation in the reception of the Legislative Committees, reported verbally that the City Authorities will cooperate and pay the Hotel Bills of the Legislative Committee. The same Committee of the Board was continued to cooperate further with the City Authorities.
a.
Recorded at pp. 286-287 (left margin.)

a.
The Committee on Laws & Discipline made Reports Nos. 2, 3, and 4. Report No. 2, in relation to the conferring of Degrees was taken up and adopted. Nos. 3 & 4 were laid on the table for the present. Col. Wright, on behalf of the Branch College at Thomasville, and as President of the Local Board there, made the Report in person, which was referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges. Mr. Yancey submitted the following Resolution, which was adopted.


Resolved, That the Chancellor be relieved from the payment of rent, including the present calendar year. Mr. Barrow submitted the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved, That the thanks of the Board are hereby tendered to the Hon. Benjamin C. Yancey, for the oil painting of himself by a native artist, Mr. Habersham, and that the Secretary furnish a copy of this Resolution to Mr. Yancey. Report No. 4 of the Committee on Laws & Discipline, was taken up and adopted, on the subject of a special Committee, to invite special legislation, as to changing the investments of our funds, the Report being against the change. Mr. Cobb had leave of absence to attend to the reception of the visiting Committees from the General Assembly. Report No. 3 of the Committee on Laws & Discipline on the subject of Free Tuition was taken up and discussed.
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The Minutes of the 20th.
Mr. Hammond moved to disagree to the Report and upon a call of the Yeas and Nays, the motion was lost by one vote. The Yeas were Messrs. Mitchell, Lewis, Brown, Yancey, Hammond and Fannin. -6. The nays were, Messrs. James Jackson, Crawford, Billups, Hall, Barrow, Harris and MacIntyre. -7.
a.
Recorded

p.
294. (left margin.)

a.
Mr. Billups moved for the appointment of a Committee of Five, to report tomorrow morning upon the importance of improving our Commencement programme; our presiding Senior Trustee to be the Chairman, and to fill up the Committee -Messrs. Billups, Jackson, Hall & Hammond fill out the Committee. The Board then took a recess to attend the Junior Exhibition and after attending the meeting of the Alumni Society adjourned to meet tomorrow morning at nine oclock.


Wednesday, July 20th, 1881. The Board met according to adjournment. Mr. Byrd appeared and took his seat. The minutes of yesterday were read and approved. Mr. Hammond, moved to reconsider so much of the minutes as relate to free Tuition, having given, previous notice to that effect. His motion prevailed and he then introduced the following Resolutions which were adopted unanimously.
Resolved, 1st
. That the Committee of the Board appointed to wait upon the General Assembly shall ask that Body for an appropriation of two thousand dollars, to ennable (sic) this Board to make Tuition in the University free.
2nd
. That is such appropriation be made, the Chancellor shall at once advertize (sic), that no charge shall be made for tuition in the University, except ten dollars for matriculation fee, and five dollars for Library Fee, for all
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students matriculating after the first Wednesday of October next.
Mr. Brown after appropriate remarks, submitted the following Resolution which was adopted unanimously;
Resolved, That, the Legislature be requested and urged by the Committee appointed at this meeting of the Board to represent the interests of the University before the Legislature, to issue the Bonds of the State bearing seven per cent interest for our investments as they fall due and are paid into the State Treasury.
a.
Recorded at pp. 287-291. (left margin.)

a.
The Report of the Finance Committee was taken up, and read by the Chairman Mr. Yancey, in the presence of the Committees of the General Assembly, who had been invited to seats on the floor during their stay in the City and to form in procession with the Trustees and Faculty and occupy seats on the stage. The Report was adopted nem. Con. And Messrs. Yancey and Cobb, were appointed a Committee to superintend its printing and distribution. The Board then took a recess to attend the Commencement exercises in the Chapel, when, the Degrees were conferred as voted, the Chancellor Rev. P. H. Mell D.D. LL. D. presiding and officiating. The Board then returned and resumed business.

a.
Recorded at pp. 291-292. (left margin.)

a.
Mr. Hall, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Branch Colleges, submitted his Report, which was read and adopted.

b.
Recorded at pp. 292-293. (left margin.)

b.
Mr. Yancey Chairman of the Finance Committee made a supplimentary (sic) Report in relation to the donation of the Twenty thousand dollars in Ga. R. R. Bonds by C. F. McRay, which was read & adopted. Mr. W. S. Dudley M. D. was elected President of the M. Ga. M. & A. College at Milledgeville. The presiding Senior Trustee our Chairman, then announced the Standing Committee as follows:


1st
. Committee on Finance.
Messrs. Yancey, Brown, Crawford, MacIntyre & Fannin.
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The Minutes of the 20th. 2nd
. Committee on Library.
Messrs. Cobb, Hall, Davenport Jackson, Pierce, Stephens and Felton.
3rd. Committee on Buildings.
Messrs. Harris, Seward, Vason, Barrow, Mitchell, & Byrd.
4th
. Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture.
Messrs. Yancey, Lewis, Barrow, Screven and Livingston.
5th
. Committee on Law Department.
Messrs. Cobb, James Jackson, Lawton, Toombs, MacIntyre, and Gordon.
6th. Committee on Apparatus.
Messrs. Mitchell, Harris, Yancey, Cobb, Speer, Barrow, and Thomas.
7th
. Committee to represent as before the General Assembly. Messrs. Brown Chairman, and Hammond, Fannin, Hall and Lewis. Mr. Thomas was added to the Prudential Committee. The Committee on Laws & Discipline was discharged from the consideration of the application for scholarships in a school in Atlanta in view of our legislation in relation to free tuition. The Committee on Laws & Discipline asked leave, to amend their reports so as to quadrate with our legislation of to day, in relation to Free Tuition and re-investment of our funds as our bonds fall due, and leave was granted. Mr. Lewis Chairman of the Committee on a new Programme, for Commencement week, submitted his Report which was adopted.
a. Recorded pp. 294
295. (left margin.)
a. On motion of Mr. Lewis, his resolution requesting the Chancellor to attends certain meetings of the State Agricultural Society and other meetings in the state and pay his expenses was adopted. In view of the difficulty of securing our Committees appointed so long in advance, to visit our Branch Colleges at their annual Commencements, it is ordered by the Board that these Committees of three he appointed hereafter by our Chancellor & Secretary after short time
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prior to said Commencements, and if one cannot attend, another may; these Branch Colleges, having now all of them organizations as well as a personelle (sic) in harmony with the University here. The Board having gone through with all of its business and performed all its duties in
great harmony, adjourned, Sine die.
a. See a. University of Georgia
Minutes July 1881
249. (left margin.)
To The Board of Trustees
University of Georgia,

Gentlemen,
During the past year there have been in the Departments here increased indication of prosperity. The harmony in the Faculty, and the kind and cordial relations between Instructors and students have been unintentionally maintained; and the young men have been more than usually contented, orderly and dilligent(sic) in the prosecution of their studies. The numbers have not increased as we could have wished; but taking every thing into the account, we have done in this perhaps, all that could have been reasonably expected. Unhappy contentions and divisions of some years back alienated not a few of the friends of the University and induced them to send their sons to other Institutions. These have not as yet been won back. Again, besides the ardent competition we experience from denominational Colleges within the state and from other colleges near the confines of our territory, which tends to diminish our possible numbers, we our selves have exerted a potent influence to induce many to remain away from the Mother Institution here by offering to instruct them in Branch Colleges free of charge -in three of them up to the end of the Sophomore year, and in one of them, throughout the whole course. It is worthy of consideration too, whether our numbers are not affected also by the time of our vacation. A large portion of the
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Chancellors Report. malarial region of the State, that used to send young men here in large numbers furnish none, or but very few, now. The vacation being exclusively in the summer they are compelled to remain away from home all the years until they graduate, or to go home at the risk of contracting fever. Our numbers though are not contemptible; and they are increasing slightly every year.
Number of Students. In the Departments at Athens One hundred and Fifty five (155) students have been admitted during the last Collegiate year viz: in Franklin College Ninety two (92), in the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts Fifty six (56), Post-graduate, Two (2) and in the Law School Five (5).
Numbers of all those who have received instruction in the various Departments of the University during the current collegiate year.
In Franklin College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _92 In State Coll. of Agriculture & the Mech. Arts _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _56 Post Graduates _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _2 In Law Department _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 Total in all the Departments in Athens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 155 as against 152 reported last year. In the Medical Department at Augusta _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 127 (as against 112 reported last year) In North Ga. Agricultural College -Males 212}
Females 55}Total _ _267 (as against 325 last year) In South Ga. Agricultural Coll. all males _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 217 (as against 170 reported last year) In South West Ga. Agricultural College, all males _ _ _ _ 125 (as against 178 reported last year) In Middle Ga. Mil. & Ag. Coll. Males 195}
Females 193} Total 388 (as against 351 reported last year) Total of those receiving instruction in all Departments -1279 (as against 1288 reported last year)
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In these there are of College grade In Departments at Athens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 155 In Department at Augusta _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 127 (as against 112 last year) In the College at Dahlonega _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 48 (as against 47 last year) In Collegeat Thomasville _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 24 (as against 20 last year) In Collegeat Cuthbert _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 15 (as against 21 last year) In Collegeat Milledgeville _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 73 (as against 41 last year) Total of College grade in all the Departments & Colleges 442 (as against 393 last year). Making a gain of 49 over last year of those in College grade. Excluding then the Law and Medical Departments and leaving out of the count the two Post-Graduates, it will be seen that of the College grade, there are undergraduates In the Departments at Athens _ _ _148 (as against 145 last year) In all the Branch Colleges _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 160 (as against 129 last year) Of these 160, all are of the grade of Sophomores, and Freshmen, excepting eight (8) at Dahlonega viz: -five (5) Senior & three (3) Juniors. Total undergraduates of College grade _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 308. (as against 274 last year) Making a gain in our whole University System of thirty four
(34)undergraduates of College grade. Dahlonega is becoming(sic) an efficient feeder to the University here: up to this time of course no student has come to us from any other of the Branch Colleges. I am given to understand though that some may apply for admission in October.
Medical Department.
It was my privilege to confer the Degree of Doctor of medicine on thirty six (36) young men on Commencement day of the Medical Department of the University. Eleven (11) more
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Chancellors Report.
graduated and fifteen (15) more attended the lectures than were reported the previous year.

An Additional Instructor.
I respectfully recommend to the Board the appointment of an additional officer to our corps of Instructors.
1st.
The present officers are nearly all of them overworked. The consequence is that if any one of them is prevented by sickness from meeting his classes, they have for the time to be virtually disbanded, so far as that officers department is concerned. The other Professors are so constantly engaged that they have no time in which to offer assistance to their afflicted colleague. During the past year one of the most faithful & persistently punctual Professors occupying a most important chair, was sick from two to three weeks. Fortunately I found a gentleman in this town, a graduate of the University, thoroughly competent, and welcomed by the young men, who consented without pecuniary compensation to give the instruction during the Professors indisposition.
2nd
. Numbers of young men apply during the progress of the session when the classes have made degrees of advancement. These are sometimes slightly behind, the classes for which they apply, and need, if received, extra assistance from the Professors. It is not wise to reject these -indeed, in the case of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, it is the policy of the Trustees, to turn away none who have an approximation to the qualification for admission to its classes. In almost every case, these with the extra assistance rendered them, very soon make up their deficiency and secure regular standing in the classes. In some cases notwithstanding my multiplied engagements, I have undertaken the extra work myself. But the most of it has been voluntarily and cheerfully performed by Prof. Barrow. The consequence is he has been excessively overworked; for his duties in the Engineering Department alone are sufficient to employ the energies of any one officer.
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3rd
. I think it just also that Col. Charbonnier should be relieved from the physical part of the duties connected with the Military Department of the University. I would make therefore the new officer, if appointed, a general assistant to such chairs as may need help, and an officer in the Military Department next in rank to Col. Charbonnier. Some gentleman a graduate of this University, possessing these qualifications, can easily be obtained.
Chair of Engineering. I think it very desirable that the Department of Engineering should be reestablished with an independent chair, and I earnestly so recommend.
1.
While the number of students who graduate is comparatively small, Bachelor of Engineering is one of the State College Degrees and Civil and Mining Engineering is one of the University Degrees. A topic considered so important, and so emphasized in our system, is worthy to be represented by a full and independent chair. Besides large numbers of the students, in the Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior classes, prosecute the studies of the Degree. In fact every student of the State College in these classes is under the instruction of the Prof. of Engineering or his Assistant.

2.
At present the Senior Class in Engineering recite partly to the Professor and partly to his Assistant, five (5) times a week to each. It would be better if the recitations were all under the same Instructor.

3.
A full Prof. of Engineering would have duties, as follows: Freshman Class State Coll. Drawing 5 per week. Sophomore Drawing 5 per week.


Junior Drawing 4 per week.
Junior in Engine ering Surveying 3 per week.
Senior Drawing 4 per week.
Senior Engineering 5 per week.
Total _ _ _ 26 per week.

But in as much as the Juniors and Seniors in
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Chancellors Report Drawing can be made to work at the same time the actual number if hours of the Prof. would be 22 per week. These hours are at present apportioned as follows: The Professor has 5 hours. The Assistant has 17 hours.
4. The Prof. of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy and of Engineering, besides his 5 engagement in Engineering has 9 engagements with Classes in Physics and Astronomy and three per week in Drill-making 17 per week in all. While this would not be excessive, if the work consisted above of lecturing and meeting classes, it must be remembered that the least part of a Prof. of Physics is that of meeting his classes. Before each lecture experiments have to be prepared, and diagrams to be drawn on black board. After each lecture, Apparatus has to be cleaned and put away. The care of large and valuable Apparatus, like that under the charge of the Prof. of Physics, requires constant attention and much time. It would not be impertinent, but an act of justice for me to say that should the Board adopt the recommendation now made it would give us all great satisfaction should Prof. D. C. Barrow now assistant be promoted to the grade of Professor, and be assigned to this Chair thus reestablished. In all this I have Col. Charbonniers hearty concurrence. He cordially agrees with me that the independent Chair should be reinstated and gives the highest testimony to Mr. Barrows faithfulness, in the discharge of past duties and to his competency to fill the position now under consideration. In words addressed to me in writing he says The fact that Mr. Barrow has been so efficient and so willing to do hard work ought to entitle him to promotion. Were Mr. Barrow not connected with our Faculty it would be impertinent for me to mention his name in this connection, bearing such relations as I do to him, it becomes my imperative duty to him and to the Board to make such mention.
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July 1881. Improvement of Campus Grounds.
Very great changes by way of improvement have been made in the Campus Grounds, during the past year. At the instance of Col. Young L. G. Harris, I visited Mr. P. J. Berckmans at his Fruitland Nursery, and requested him to recommend to us a Landscape Gardener competent to draft, and execute, a plan for the improvement of our grounds. Unexpectedly to us, but greatly to our satisfaction, he promptly offered to undertake the task himself, without charge, and proffered to furnish us as a present all the exotic trees that were needed for ornamentation. At the proper time Mr. Berckmans visited us paying his own travelling expenses and refusing the tender of the amount of money thus expended by him. While here he made for us a draft of the Campus, locating the walks and drives, giving minute directions as to the preparation of the soil and marking out the locations severally for the ornamental trees he engaged to send. These, rare and valuable, numbering more than two hundred, he presented to us as a munificient (sic) gift-claiming the right to replace those that may die, and asking it as a privilege to complete the ornamentation of the Campus in this direction. The Faculty have passed us motions of thanks to Mr. Berckmans, and served him with a copy; and the Trustees will no doubt take fitting notice of his kindness and munificence. To carry out Mr. Berckmans plans, & to superintend and conduct actual work in the Campus, we were singularly fortunate in securing the services of Mr. John a. Meeker, a wealthy and scientific farmer, living in the vacinity (sic), of Athens, -a gentleman whose studies and tastes eminently qualify him to play the role of Landscape Gardener himself. Mr. M. has carried on the work as a labor of love. Much that Mr. Berckmans Mentioned, but intentionally omitted to recommend, because he thought the University could not undertake the expense now, Mr. Meeker has at his own expense skillfully & tastefully executed. Through his liberality
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Chancellors Report. and personal attentions we have accomplished in a few months what with our necessarily limited appropriations would have required years for their completion. The Board will no doubt by resolution take suitable notice of the liberality and services of Mr. Meeker. But on the ground that he is well known as a scientific farmer and as a graceful recognition of our obligations to him, I recommend that the Board by unanimous consent waive the rule requiring one years notice, and confer upon him the Honorary Degree of Master of Agriculture. A cursory glance will show the numbers of the Board what great things Col. Harris has accomplished within a very few years. Commencing work on the unsightly grounds in the West Campus in front of Moore College he very soon transformed them from deformity to beauty. Consulting no professional expert, but guided solely by his own judgement and taste he filled the space with graceful terraces that admirably harmonize with, and set off with greater impressiveness, the architectural building that crowns their summit. All this he did with no pecuniary compensation and with great consumption of his most valuable time. Besides smoothing their few slight inequalities and completing their adornment by trees and shrubs and grass, nothing is needed to these terraces, but a system of drainage. It would be but a just and graceful recognition of the service rendered, should the Board formally by vote, give this part of the Campus the name, The Harris Terrace, and authorize and instruct the Faculty to make manifest, and perpetuate the name by suitable inscription on slab or pillar. Completing the Western Campus, Col. Harris gave attention next to the Iron fence; to the Front or East Campus; and to the South Campus i.e. the one in front of the Chancellors house.
The two plats of ground were gullied (sic) old fields, that were a grief & a shame to all the intelligent friends of the University. The extraordinary transformations here given
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July 1881. hopeful promise of grounds that will be a pride and a joy to all. To protect these grounds from stock, there is need of a gate-keeper; and to keep them in order, requires the constant attention and labor of one man. It would be very gratifying to me if the Trustees should feel themselves able to instruct the Prudential Committee to build a Porters Lodge and to engage a Keeper of the grounds.
The Library. I am happy to announce that this valuable property is now complete so far as safety to books and systematic arrangement are concerned. Under your wise instructions, wire doors under lock & key protect the books and a complete catalogue is recorded in a book so large as not to be easily misplaced. In this not only the names of the books, are recorded, and the classes to which they belong and the special topics on which they treat, but their places severally in Alcove and shelf, while labels in all the books show their appropriate places, and corroborate the statements in the Record, or Catalogue, Book. On the briefest inquiry not only definite books can be found, but the Library can be exhaustively consulted as to the books on its shelves that treat on any topic of inquiry. The Librarian reports that 220 books have been added by purchase during the past year. Hereafter all the Library fund, after paying the salary of the Librarian, can be expended in the purchase of books. It would add very much through to the books of the Library if the Board could from some other fund, appropriate money for the purchase of a new carpet.
Museum and Art Gallery. The Board last year ordered that the Third story of the Library Building be modified and fitted up for a museum. This work has been done according to instructions and the Room stands now ready for your inspection. Last year I ventured to suggest that it would be desirable to establish an Art Gallery also in this room, or in another which could be easily arranged for the purpose. Were such a thing earnestly attempted, no
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Chancellors Report. doubt sum of the munificient (sic) friends of the University would contribute to it in painting and statuary. But one thing can be certainly accomplished. It is very important that the University should have the portraits of all who have been its guardians. If the present number (members above in pencil) of the Board as Hon. A. H. Stephens has done, would make presents of their portraits to us and if surviving friends or decendants (sic) could be induced to furnish to us in the same way those of the Trustees deceased, our walls would be adorned by the portraits of a large portion of the distinguished men that have illustrated Georgia in her whole history. What I felt at liberty last year to throw out merely as a suggestion, I beg leave now to present as our earnest recommendation and request.

Party Political Subjects, and Students
Speeches at Commencement.
In the year 1867, the Board of Trustees by Resolution, re-affirmed its conviction of the importance of that law of the University by which party political subjects are excluded from the speeches of students at Commencement; and the Faculty, so far as I know have always sympathized with that Conviction. On examination though I find that, while the prohibition exhists (sic), there is no detailed way prescribed for its enforcement. The Faculty therefore have adopted the following regulation in the premises, and respectfully submit it to the Board for their consideration and approval: All party political subjects and allusions are to be excluded, from the speeches of Students appointed by the Faculty to take part in the exercises at Commencement. All the speeches of those thus appointed shall be submitted to the Prof. of Belles Letters at such time as he may direct; and no student shall make any addition to the corrected copy handed him by the Professor, or deliver any thing on the stage which he has been directed to omit. Should any Senior violate this Law, it shall be the duty of the Prof. of Belles Letters to report promptly the fact to the Chancellor
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July 1881. who is hereby instructed, in conferring the degrees, to pass over in silence the name of the Senior so offending, and thus omit to confer a degree upon him. Should a Junior or Sophomore thus offend, such penalty shall be inflicted on him as to the Faculty may seem appropriate. As Diplomas are delivered to members of the Senior Class by the direct instructions of the Board of Trustees, a regulation of this kind, before it can be legally enforced, must receive the sanction of your honorable Body. The Faculty then, Gentlemen respectfully request you to consider this regulation, and if it meets your approbation, to ennact (sic) it into a law. Or, should this not suit, your views, it would be gratifying to us should you adopt some other regulation that may in your opinion more suitably & efficiently secure the intended object.
Branch Colleges. According to your instructions, I visited all the Branch Colleges at the time of their closing exercises, and found them in the main in flourishing condition. At Dahlonega and Thomasville I attended a part of their final examinations, and was enabled thus to inspect their methods of instruction. At Cuthbert and Milledgeville, I witnessed nothing in the literary department, but the usual Commencement exercises on the stage, though I had the opportunity at Milledgeville to inspect the written examination papers. At Dahlonega the examinations were oral exclusively; but they gave a satisfactory exhibit of the thoroughness of the Professors and the proficiency of the students. The examinations at Thomasville and at Milledgeville, gave me very great satisfaction. These were all written in the case of Thomasville, from the highest to the lowest and in the case of Milledgeville with the exception of the primary studies. I was able to inspect the papers of pupils with this exception in all grades and to examine the questions propounded by the (268)
Chancellors Report. Teachers in all the departments. These questions showed the most thorough analysis of the various topics; and the papers of the pupils while exhibiting the usual variety in degrees of proficiency, showed that they had been taught to go down to the bottom of subjects and to deal with them in all their details. I found all the communities in which the Colleges are severally located units in their support, with the single exception of Cuthbert. This College has labored under some little difficulty, from local divisions during the past year; but its success has been extraordinary, all things considered, and it anticipates complete success in the near future. All these Institutions, excepting that at Milledgeville are laboring under disadvantages, for the want of buildings completed and adapted to their purposes. The College at Thomasville has no room large enough to seat at one time more than forty pupils. There is no daily gathering together therefore of the students in a body; and no recognition of God in daily chapel service. But the local Board and other friends have shown great liberality in their pecuniary contributions and they assure me that as soon as possible, a chapel shall be erected. At Cuthbert they are remodeling the house once occupied by the Bethel Female College. This when completed will go far towards meeting all their wants in this regard. The Trustees at Dahlonega, are still working on their magnificent house; and it is slowly advancing towards completion. The noble audience room, constituting the chapel though unfinished, furnished adequate accommodations for Commencement exercises. It is to be hoped that this College will receive pecuniary assistance, from the state at least to the extent of the cost of rebuilding their house. I had the pleasure of conferring the Degree of Bachelor of Arts on three who had completed the course of study in the North Georgia Agricultural College. One of these was a young lady.
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July 1881. Terms of Graduation.
In August 1878 with the intention to take away from any individual Professor the pernicious power to prevent the graduation of a student, the Board of Trustees enacted a law in the following words: Provided that the graduation of a student, and the Degree, which shall be recommended to be conferred in the curriculum pursued by him, shall be in accordance with the joint judgement of the Faculty upon the general average of the standing of the student in the whole course, and shall not depend upon the judgement of any one Professor in any Department. For some reason without any application to them by the Faculty through the Chancellor and without reference to or formal repeal of the law of 1878, quoted above, the Board passed a regulation in the following words: If in the judgement of the Faculty, a student applying for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts at his graduation has been faithful in his attention to all the Departments necessary to the degree, and has made an average in all the combined marks in those Departments equal to that required in any one of them, he shall be entitled to a Diploma. It will be seen that this rule is limited in its application to students, applying for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. Now we have five other Bachelor Degrees -two in Franklin College, and three in the State College -that we suppose to be of equal rank with the A.B. Degree, that seem to be entirely excluded from the operation of this law. We cannot suppose that this is the intention of the Trustees, and we feel at liberty therefore to solicit further legislation on the subject. In the effort to take unreasonable power from the individual Professor an opportunity was given to the student to neglect and virtually omit any Department so far as it related to his individual curriculum of study. For it is possible for a student by the present rule to obtain a Diploma even though his mark is zero in any one Department.
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Chancellors Report. The Faculty unanimously request your Honorable Body to modify the rule of 1878, so that it may stand in the following words: Resolved, That the graduation of a Student, and the Degree which shall be recommended to be conferred in the Curriculum pursued by him, shall be in accordance with the joint judgement of the Faculty as that judgement is expressed by the general average of the standing of the student in the whole course, and shall not depend upon a like judgement of any one Professor in any one Department Provided that no student shall be recommended for graduation who neglects or refuses to attend any Final Examination, or whose general average falls below 50 in any Department.
Dormitory Buildings. Mrs. Summey in Old College and Mrs. Richardson in New College have managed them as Students homes to the satisfaction of all. On an average, sixty students have occupied these Buildings during the last Collegiate year.
Reports of Departments. I have the honor to transmit to you the Report of Hon. Wm. L. Mitchell LL. D. Professor in the Law Department; of Prof. H. C. White on the work of the Chemical Department; and of Genl. Wm. M. Browne, in reference to the Experimental Farm.
Commencement Sermon. I have engaged Rev. Dr. Boggs of Atlanta, Ga. to preach the Commencement Sermon on the 17th Inst (?). Please make an appropriation of fifteen or twenty dollars according to usuage (sic), to pay his travelling expenses.
Death of Col. Abda Johnson. The painful tidings have reached us of the death of Col. Abda Johnson, one of the honored numbers of your Board. I am not sufficiently informed to speak in adequate terms of his life and character or of the circumstances of his death.
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July 1881. Graduation of Students.
I beg leave to present in a Supplementary Report the names of the Students whom the Faculty would recommend for graduation. My absence in the discharge of duties assigned to me by the Trustees has left as yet undecided some preliminary questions. I hope to report on the subject at least by tomorrow, Saturday 16th instant.
I have the honor to remain Gentlemen,
Your obt Servt. Un. of Ga. P. H. Mell. Athens, Ga. July 15th 1881. Chancellor Univ. of Georgia.

Supplementary Report.
To the Board of Trustees University of Georgia, Gentlemen,
The Faculty have instructed me to recommend to you for graduation the students whose names are given below:
For Bachelor of Arts. Marcus W. Beck John P. Matthews George R. Brown David W. Meadow Enoch H. Callaway Gwinn H. Nixon Joseph G. Camp Wm. L. Radney John E. Gross James B. Sanders Walter W. Hardy John R. Slater Fletcher R. Lowe Henry C. Tuck John T. Malone George Ware Williamson Worrill.
For Bachelor of Philosophy.
Thomas W. Alexander, Clement J. Hood,
G. Morgan Eldridge M. Cooper Pope.
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Chancellors Supplementary Report.
For Bachelor of Science. William T. Bennett Charles H. Brand. Austin L. McRae.
For Bachelor of Chemical Science. James L. Howell.
For Bachelor of Engineering.
J. deBruyn Kops.
For Bachelor of Law. James H. Palmer.
Mr. Lawton B. Evans, a post graduate has been during the past year faithfully pursuing the course prescribed for the Degree of Master of Arts. Unfortunately in consequence of sickness, he has not been able to attend his Final Examination. The Faculty therefore request that you pass an order instructing the Chancellor to give to him the Diploma for Master of Arts as soon as he shall have passed those Examinations satisfactorily.
Scholarship to Schools. I received a letter yesterday from Dr. Dudley President of the Branch College at Milledgeville, asking me to recommend the Board of Trustees to confer on that Institution three scholarships in Franklin College. A similar letter also reached me by the same mail from Mr. Benjamin T. Hunter asking a like favor in behalf of the Boys High School at Albany Ga. I cordially endorse Dr. Dudleys application and respectfully refer Mr. Hunters letter to the Board for their favorable consideration. If the Boys High School has been a large and successful school in the past, & promises to be so in the future, it would be in accordance with the past policy of the Board to grant the scholarships asked for. I am sorry to say that
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I have no further information in the premises than that contained in Mr. Hunters letter.
Committee of the Legislature. I see by the newspapers that the Legislature has honored us by appointing, as visitors to us, twenty members of the House and six members of the Senate. I respectfully call the attention of your Committee on Invitations to this fact; and beg them to consider the question as to what seats in the Chapel shall be offered to these gentlemen. The Numbers of the Faculty who have no official work to do, will take pleasure, if necessary, in vacating their seats on the stage.
I have the honor, Gentlemen, to remain
Your Obt. Servt. University of Georgia P. H. Mell. Athens, July 18th, 1881. Chancellor Univ. of Ga.
See
a.
Minutes pp. 249-250. (left margin.)

a.
The Prudential Committee have held few meetings during the past twelve months: The following Abstract of their minutes will advise the Board of what has been done:


1.
The Committee advised the payment of an Old account for work and materials done and furnished by E. E. Jones, amounting to the sum of $26.00

2.
Mrs. Waddell was notified that the cottage on the lot of her residence must be removed by the end of the Calendar year.

3.
Mr. Cobb was authorized to open a correspondence with friends and R. R. Companies in order to procure for the museum the parts of the Whale captured on the coast of Georgia, and suitable for the museum.

4.
It was ordered by the Committee that a copy of the Report on the Apparatus at the last meeting of the Board be furnished the press for publication after the diction of the Governor, when the excitement will be over.


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5.
Scholarships were granted to the school at Americus, provisionally, upon the usual terms, the Chancellor having already assured that School of the grant.

6.
An exchange of land consisting of two small plats, with Mr. Holeman, was approved by the Committee, & the said exchange, recommended to the Board at their next stated Annual meeting.

7.
The Waddell cottage was purchased for the sum of Two hundred & Seventy five dollars. Respectfully Submitted


Wm. L. Mitchell July 15th, 1881. Chairman
a.
See minutes p. 250.

a.
The Committee on Laws and Discipline have had under consideration so much of the able and lucid Report of the Chancellor, as is properly within their jurisdiction, under the resolution of the Board, and submit the following Report:


1.
Whilst it may be that the University at Athens loses some students from Southern Ga. because there is no winter vacation to permit those from that section to return home at a season free from danger of malarial disease, the Committee cannot recommend a change of the present vacation. Every where vacation from labor is in the summer when the extreme heat renders rest almost essential for recreation to teacher & scholar, and if the vacation were divided the summer rest would be too short to attain that necessary object -We do not understand the Chancellor to recommend in terms any change and we doubt that he and the Faculty really desire it.

2.
The uncertain contingency of the sickness of one or more of the Professors, all now in good health, is not good ground for the employment of another Prof. or teacher; should such a contingency occur and temporary help be needed, let it be temporarily supplied. If the Professors remaining in good health can not supply it, the Chancellor by and with the advice and consent of the Prudential Committee should employ temporary assistance


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either from the advanced classes or graduates of the University or others. To relieve Prof. Charbonnier from the duty of constant attention to the military drill, of the students, let him be authorized at such times and on such days as he pleases to appoint any student to take his place for the particular occasion. We have no apprehension that he will abuse the confidence thus reposed in him.
3.
We recommend that Prof. Barrow continue as adjunct Professor of Mathematics and Engineering and that all the duties appertaining to the latter science be entrusted to him, so as further to relieve the press upon Prof. Charbonnier. As compensation for

the additional labor thus put upon Prof. Barrow we recommend that his salary be increased from $1000.00 to $1600.00 per annum, and it is so ordered.

4.
We recommend that the Board of Trustees unite with the Chancellor and Faculty in appreciation the noble and disinterested work done, and contributions made by Hon. Young L. G. Harris, of Athens; by Mr. P. J. Berckmans A. M. of Fruitland near Augusta; and by Mr. John A. Meeker of Athens; on the Campus Grounds which have been so much improved & beautified by them -and we return thanks to each of them for his several contribution & service -to Mr. Harris, for his labor of love in terracing with so much taste much of the campus & in his attention to the Iron Fence and Buildings & grounds generally -to Mr. Berckmans, for his voluntary patriotism in leaving Augusta & as an ornamental gardener so handsomely laying off the grounds and adorning them with trees & shrubs free of expense -and to Mr. Meeker for service in completing Mr. Berckmans work and his munificent contributions to the Campus. We further recommend that the honorary Degree of Master of Agriculture be conferred on Mr. Meeker


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and that the Secretary be instructed to inform these gentlemen of the action of this Board.
5.
We recommend that a suitable lodge be erected as asked for by the Chancellor for the keeper of the grounds & the Campus and that the Chancellor be authorized to employ a suitable person to take charge of the Campus & grounds and keep the sum in good order & repair, under his supervision & direction.

6.
We concur that a suitable place be prepared for the Gallery of Arts as recommended by the Chancellor, and that his views in regard to the same be adopted as our own by the Board. At the suggestion of Mr. Hammond sections 5 & 6 were amended as follows and adopted: That the Prudential Committee take such steps as they deem necessary for the preservation of the shrubery (sic) &c. on the premises, provided that they shall incur no greater expense than the employment of a servant to have care of the same. That the Chancellor be and is hereby authorized to accept in the name of the Board any pictures or statuary that may be presented to them and deposit the same in the Library or Museum, as the Gallery of Arts he recommends.

7.
We also concur with the Chancellor in regard to the enforcement of the Law is respect to Partisan speeches at Commencement by the students and recommend that the Faculty be empowered to take such action to enforce it as to them shall seem most advisable.

8.
We also recommend that the action of this Board in 1878 and at its last session touching the Degree of proficiency in the various studies necessary to entitle the student to any of the College Degrees he modified as set out in the Report of the Chancellor.

9.
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ability with which he has sealed that union to the advantage of both the University and the State. We have read his Report transmitted to us by the Chancellor with much interest & pleasure, and we recommend that the Board authorize & empower him to continue in the course marked out by him in that Report for future action as the Chemist of the State department of Agriculture. His course aided by the valuable assistance of the efficient Prof. of Agriculture which is gratefully acknowledged in the Report of Prof. White must be productive of great good to the greatest interests of Georgia -the productions of her soil -and the science of her own University be thus made to contribute largely to her glory and wealth. Indeed the entire report of Prof. White meets our approbation, and we recommend that the Board so far from objecting to any recommendation therein, bid him God speed in all the lines of advance he proposes for the future.
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See minutes

p.
252. (left margin.)

a.
To the Board of Trustees of the Univ. of Ga.


Your Committee are fresh from a visit to the Experimental Farm attached to the duties of the Chair of Agriculture, and a partial inspection of the crops, we are ennabled (sic) to report the farm in a very satisfactory condition, the crops promising, the corn unusually fine, and their cultivation all that can be desired. The grounds adjoining the house have been much improved. They have been tastefully laid out and a number of additional ornamental trees & shrubs & flowers planted out. The meathods (sic) and order which prevail throughout the farm are specially noticeable. Prof. Browne is conducting a number of valuable experiments on many points of interest to advanced Agriculture, for further details of which we would
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refer you to the Professors Report. We recommend that the appropriation of $200.00 for which Prof. B. asks for farm horse and some scientific instruments be granted. We take pleasure in commending the judicious management of the farm and should the funds at the disposal of the Board of Trustees warrant, would favor the appropriation of a sufficient sum to widen the scope and increase the usefulness of this valuable branch of Agricultural Education. We observe the decaying condition of steps and the verandas which Prof. B. has had proped (sic) up by common scantling. We suppose the Committee on Buildings will call your attention to the matter and ask for a suitable appropriation to repair them.
Respectfully submitted Ben. C. Yancey Chr.
D.W. Lewis.
Athens, July 15th, 1881.
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See minutes

p.
252. (left margin.)

a.
To the Board of Trustees,


The Committee on Grounds & Buildings report, that through the dilligent (sic) judicious oversight of the excellent superintendent of these interests of the University, all the Buildings belonging to the Institution have been kept in ordinary good repair. The number of Buildings owned by the University and the lapse of time since the erection of most of them, require for their preservation constant watchfulness and expenditure. During the year just closed the usual outlay has been made for repairs to the dwellings occupied by the Chancellor, Professors and others and the fences inclosing the several lots. Besides this a considerable sum has been expended in repairing cisterns, providing new gutters and watter (sic) pipes for the dormitories and in
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miscellaneous work on the Dormitories and other Buildings. The General improvement to the Chapel Building contemplated in the application which was made to the Board at its last session has not been made, for the reason that so large a portion of the appropriation was absorbed by other indespensable (sic) claims and because some parts of the building were in much worse condition than had been supposed. The belfrey (sic) has been leaking for several years requiring frequent mending and patching. Recent thorough inspection revealed the absolute necessity of entire repairing, painting, and covering it with tin. This involved the expenditure of about $200.00 but this part of the structure will not need further attention for some years to come. The Museum hall ordered by you at your last session has been handsomely fitted up in the Third story of the Library Building. The whole story has been thrown into one room. The walls have been frescoed, neat and convenient glass cases provided for the reception of specimens and the hall put in fine order for the display and preservation of whatever may be placed in it. This work cost about $500.00 The general expenditure has been increased by the purchase of chairs for the use of the Board of Trustees in the Library and on the Chapel Stage, by work on the Library building, seats for the room, in which the Chancellor delivers Sunday lectures to the Students, furniture for Professors Recitation Rooms including the replacement of old, with new stories and for posts and wire fencing for the Eastern Campus. Long needed and valuable improvements have been made in the College Grounds. Correspondence was had with P. J. Berckmans Esq. of Augusta and his
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views solicited as to the best plan for laying out the grounds and stocking them with ornamental trees. His response most courteously proposed not only to furnish the plans but to donate the trees. He increased our obligations by visiting Athens at his own expense and making a handsome diagram of the whole Campus. Subsequently he sent us a large number of valuable Trees and shrubs which have been set out and will soon beautify the Campus. Mr. John A. Meeker of this City and estimable gentleman and an adept in farming operations was engaged to conduct the proposed improvements. The soil was thoroughly broken and graded as well in front of the Chapel as between the old College and the Chancellors house, A large number of trees dug up and all stones and roots removed. Mr. Meeker stated that the character of the work was such that he could not make an exact estimate of what it would cost, but that he would be governed by directions given as to the amount of work to be done. He was directed not to exceed $100.00 He became very much interested as the work progressed and evinced a determination to do it very thoroughly. Fearing that his plan of operations would cost too much and learning from him that he had already spent more than the $100.00 he was told again distinctly that he could not pay above the sum of $200.00 and that he must close up within that limit. He persisted in the work without taking counsel of any one, until finally after several conferences with him and most earnest expostulations against the expensive style in which he was proceeding, he was most positively informed that, in no event would the College be responsible for any thing exceeding $1500.00 for any amount of work that he might do, & that he must so regulate his movements as that when that point was reached, he must absolutely suspend
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operations, as we did not wish to be placed in the position of declining to pay for labor bestowed in this way. To all of this Mr. Meeker replied that he understood the matter perfectly -that he knew how the work ought to be done and could not consent to quit until he had completed it according to his own views and that if the Trustees should not pay him any thing beyond the limit which had ultimately been given he would contribute the ballance (sic) himself to the cause of education and improvement. He continues the work until he reports the actual expenditure of $374.25 beyond the $500.00 which has been paid to him and for which he gave full receipts. The work has been done with extraordinary care and completeness without any charge by Mr. Meeker for constant toil and personal supervision, but there is no obligation whatever upon the Board to pay any thing beyond the contract, nor does indeed Mr. Meeker make any claim as matter of right, but to use his own words Unless the Trustees feel able to return the amount which would be quite acceptable. He is quite willing to let it go as a contribution from himself to the interests of the University as the extra work was done at his own expense and without any expectation of remuneration. The House purchased from the widow of the late Prof. Waddell at the price of $275.00 was destroyed by five presumably the work of an incendiary.
Nothing combustible was saved except a few window blinds. The bricks from the chimneys have been used for covering drains on the Campus. The loss of this building is the more to be regretted on account of the useful purpose to which it was hoped the Trustees would have appropriated it. Two things your Committee venture to suggest as indispensably necessary to the preservation of the valuable improvements which have been made on the University grounds during the past two years, as well as such additions thereto as it may
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be your pleasure to direct in the future. The one is a porters cottage or lodge, to be placed at the enterance (sic) of the grounds near the old labratory (sic) to be occupied by some person who services could be made most useful not only in guarding from intrusion the enterance (sic) to the grounds, but in conducting the small repairs and amendments which constantly require attention. The cost of the porters lodge would not exceed $300.00 while the price paid to the porter would be perhaps less than that amount and would be amply repaid by the various services which he could be made to render. The other means of security would be found in a proper system of drainage, especially on the Western Campus, which would cost probably about $200.00 The beautiful terraces and grounds in front of Moore College can not withstand the volume of water thrown upon them during heavy rains from the roofs of the Chapel Demosthenian Hall, Ivy building, and Library. If these waters were collected into an underground brick or terracotta sewer, running from the Chapel Northward, it would protect the grounds from washing rains and might be made with the concurrence of the City authorities a means of greater protection to your buildings from fire, if the water should be emptied into a cystern (sic) between the Commercial hotel & the Library. The College Chapel is in great need of thorough renovation. The roof, plastering, ceiling and painting of this Building will require about $500.00 The roof of the Library Building needs probably about $150.00 Painting the roof of Moore College about $80.00. For the usual fitting up of the Dormitories, dwellings, current minor repairs and cleaning, the sum of at least $600.00 will be required. The grass lawn in the Campus will need attention to keep it in order. Mowing it by hand is tedious & expensive.
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The purchase of a mall one horse mower and small wagon for the purpose of watering the trees and plants in the grounds would meet a felt want. The cost would be inconsiderable. No further improvement of the Campus is deemed necessary at present. The setting of a few trees in the fall will involve a trifling expense.
The large lot of evergreen & other valuable plants generously donated by P. J. Berckmans Esq. of Augusta are for the most part in fine condition and will soon add very much to the attractions of the grounds. The University High School buildings in the occupancy of Prof. Browne are in tollerable (sic) condition except the verandas and steps to the main building. These buildings have been no expense for the past year. The upper verandas are in bad condition the woodwork being much decayed. It will require very nearly or quite 1000 dollars to take down & replace these structures, in good order. You Committee suggest as the best course to be pursued that the upper verandas be taken down and the iron packed away for preservation and such future use as the Board may make of it. The lower front veranda and the steps can be put in good order at an expense of about $300.00 It is much to be desired that a plain cheap structure costing only a few hundred dollars should be erected on the grounds adjacent to the dormitories to be used by the students as a gymnasium. Such exercise and amusement would be greatly promotive (sic) of health. To accomplish all that is indicated in this Report would require in the aggregate about $2000.00 exclusive of the porters cottage and gymnasium. Whatever amount you may think fit to appropriate to these several purposes can be used in the best judgement of those who are charged with these several matters of interest unless it shall be your pleasure
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Respectfully Submitted
Young L. G. Harris Drainage $200.00 Chairm. On Committee of Chapel. _ _ _ _ _500.00 Grounds and Buildings Library _ _ _ _ _150.00 Moore Coll. 80.00 Miscellaneous 600.00 Mower &c 75.00 Univ. High Sch. 300.00
$1905.00
Resolved, That the sum of ($2000.00) Two thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the several objects herein before indicated except for porters lodge and gymnasium, and that said amount be used for said purposes as shall be deemed most advisable.
a.
See minutes

p.
252. (left margin.)

a.
The Committee on Apparatus beg leave to submit their annual Report:


The condition of the Physical Apparatus under the care of the Prof. of Natural Philosophy, Col. L. H. Charbonnier, is in perfect working order and exhibits the vigilance, skill, and taste of the Professor to great advantage. It is a treat to visit the rooms occupied by the Instruments. There have been a great many minor repairs, during the year, made by the Professors own hands, without cost to the University, showing a vast amount of work done out side of the Lecture Room.
In addition to repairs, there have been several new pieces of Apparatus constructed by the Professor; among them a fine dipping Battery, worth in the market Sixty dollars, the materials of which cost fifteen dollars and which were paid for
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This Department will require the sum of five hundred dollars, for the ensuing year to purchase apparatus greatly needed; for the funds furnished by the Legislature, a due proportion of which was devoted to Physical Apparatus, proved insufficient, with greatest care & economy, to buy all that was needed. There are additional pieces which are essential. Our present apparatus is undoubtedly very fine, and it should be our pride to keep it not only equal to, but ahead of other Southern Universities. The additional pieces needed are mainly on the line of Apparatus for Electrical Measurements; and their practical application are found in Tellegraphing (sic) work, on testing Telephone Lines, &c. There is needed also an improved Electric Machine. Moisture in the atmosphere is a great obstacle to Electrical Experiments. Within the past year a machine has been constructed, which over comes this difficulty, and enables the demonstrator to operate in any weather. This new machine is only an improvement upon the one now in our Apparatus, and with a part of the appropriation herein urged, our Electrical Machine can be sent on and changed for the new style, without the great expense of an entirely new machine. One more great need in our apparatus, to wit, a more powerful induction coil than we now have, can be supplied at a comparatively small cost. For our Professor with wise forethought bought our present Induction Coil upon condition that he might exchange it for a larger one and be allowed full value provided it had received no damage.
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Report No.2 of Committee on Laws & Discipline. The Apparatus in the Department of Engineering is in the immediate charge of Prof. David C. Barrow Jr. and is in perfect order. The Chemical Apparatus over which Prof. H. C. White presides with consumate(sic) skill & taste is all that the Board could desire as to arrangement, preservation and instruction.
All of which is respectfully submitted
Wm. L. Mitchell. Chairman.
a. See minutes p. 253, 254, &
255. (left margin.)
a. The Committee on Laws and Discipline report on the Supplemental message of the
Chancellor the following resolutions: 1st
. Resolved, That the Degrees of Bachelor of Arts, of Philosophy, of Science, of Engineering, and of Law and Chemical Science, be conferred on the young men named in the report for each.
2nd
. That, the Degree of Master of Arts be conferred on Mr. Lawton B. Evans, he having here success fully completed the last year of studies and after passing part of his final examinations was prevented by severe illness from finishing the same we having assurances of his ample ability to stand such examinations satisfactorily.
3rd
. That four scholarships be granted to the Branch College at Milledgeville and two to the Boys High School at Albany, upon the same terms on which they have been granted to similar Institutions. Report No. 4. Committee on Laws and Discipline
The Committee on Laws & Discipline on the subject of a change of the investments of the funds of the University and the appointment of a Committee to invoke special legislation thereon at this session of the General Assembly report adversely thereto and recommend the adoption of the following Resolution:
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July 1881. Resolved, That the Treasurer be instructed to reinvest such Bonds as may fall due before the next Annual Session and that other investments remain as they now stand. Report No. 3 Committee on Laws & Discipline.
The Committee on Laws & Discipline have had under consideration the subject of free education at this University and report that the present is not an opportune time to consider a change so radical on account of the absence of so many of the Board, a small minority only being present, and recommend that action on this subject be postponed to the next Annual Session.
The Board having reconsidered these subjects and agreed unanimously to the resolutions submitted, respectively by Messrs. Hammond and Brown, the above Resolution as to reinvestments by the Treasurer of the Board will stand only upon the fact that the Legislature refuse our requests as made in said Resolutions of Messrs. Hammond and Brown.
a.
See minutes p. 255.

a.
To the Board of Trustees of the Un. of Ga.


The Finance Committee respectfully submit the following Report from the itemized account of the Treasurer from 8th of July 1880 to 8th July 1881 it appears that the receipts from all sources were _ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ $32061.80 Cash ballance (sic) July8th 1880 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _7897.48 Total sum available for past year _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 39959.28 Disbursements during the same period _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 34710.86 Ehibiting (sic) Cash Ballance (sic) available for the year 1881-82 including Library fees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5248.42 But as this Ballance (sic) is a mixed fund it may be well to present a sagregated (sic) statement, of it there belongs to the Land script Fund $2204.81 To Genl. Franklin College Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2430.61 To LibraryFund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _613.00
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(This may be left out in subsequent estimates as it is variable, specially raised and specifically appropriated to Library.)
Separate Statement of Land Script Fund.
Ballance (sic) to credit of Land Script Fund _ _ _ _ $2204.81 Annual income _ _ _ _ 17914.14 Aggregate sum available for 1881-82 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 20118.95

Disbursements.
For past year _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ __ _$18524.00 Would leave July 1882 ballance (sic) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1594.95 It may be remarked that in order to meet the demands of appropriations to the four Branch Aggricultural (sic) College the Land Script Fund was not charged by the appropriation by the Board for the half of the Chancellors & Treasurers Salaries a sum amounting to $2000.00 These manifestly legitimate charges upon the fund had they not been suspended would have reduced the ballance (sic) to the credit of this fund to the small sum of 204.81
Separate Statement of the Genl. Franklin College Fund. Ballance(sic) to credit of this fund _ ____ __ _ $2430.61 Income for year to July 1882 estimated _ _ _ _ 13104.16 Aggregate sum available for 1881-82 _ _ _ _ _15,534.77 If the Disbursements for ensuing year should equal those of the past year from this fund, or be a need for them _ _ _ ____ _ _ ___ _ _ _$16186.86 there would be a difficiency (sic) of means to meet the need of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ ___ _ _ _ $ 432.09 The appropriation from this Fund should be limited within its available means.
Your Committee submit estimates of Available means and recommend appropriations for expenditures as herein after stated for the fiscal year 1881-82

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Cash Ballance(sic) (leaving out Library Fees) _ _ _ _ _ _ _$4635.42
Annual payment on debt due by State _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _8000.00
Interest on Genl. Franklin College Bonds _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 649.00 Terrell Endowment _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ 1400.00 Professors houses _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ 937.50
Tuition fees estimated _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ 2000.00
Receipts from Prof. White State Analytic
Chemist for Chemicals & Gas _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 117.66
Interest on Land Script Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _17914.14
Total available per estimate _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ 35653.72 Estimates for Expenditures 1881-82
Catalogues, Advertising & printing $ 540.00
Music $100.00 Servants hire $576 676.00
Postage $122, Stationary $50 172.00
Fuel $102 Insurance $186, Medals $39 327.00
Chemicals $103, Incidentals $100 203.00
Repairs of Apparatus $50 Librarian $100 150.00
North Ga. Ag. Coll. 3500.00
South 2000.00
SouthWest 2000.00
Middle Milit. & Ag. Coll. 2000.00
Salaries of Officers of the University 19950.00
Repairs 2000.00
Dr. Boggs, Sermon Commencement 20.00
To purchase of improvement for Apparatus 500.00
To Expense of Chancellor in visiting four Branch
Agricul. Colleges, if so much be necessary 100.00
Total Expenditures $34138.00
Total available 35653.72
Ballance(sic) unexpended July 1882 1515.72
Of which there belongs to Land Scrip(sic) Fund 189.95
Ballance(sic) to credit of Genl. (Franklin College) Fund
July 1882 1325.77
Of the foregoing expenditures, there shall be charged to the Land Scrip Fund as follows:
For Catalogues, Adv. &Printing_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $270.00
For Music 50, for servants hire 376 426.00
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Postage and Stationary Fuels, Medals, Chemicals, Incidentals, Repairs of Apparatus, Librarian North Ga. Ag. Coll. South Southwest Middle Mil & Ag. Salaries of Officers as follows: To Prof. Wm. M. Browne
H. C. White L. H. Charbonnier C. P. Willcox Williams Rutherford E. W. Speer D. C. Barrow
To purchase farm horse, microscope & Barometer Half salary of Sec & Treasurer Expenses of Chancellor in visiting Branch Colleges of Agriculture if so much be necessary
Total available Ballance(sic) to credit Land Script Fund 1882

Assets of the University.
$ 86.00
247.00 3500.00 2000.00 2000.00 2000.00
2000.00 1000.00 1000.00
1000.00 1000.00 1000.00
1600.00 200.00 500.00
100.00 $19929.00 20118.95 189.95
Your Committee present a statement of the assets of the University.
I Land Script Fund. Bonds of the State of Ga. 8 per cent interest, payable April & October, which fall due April 1 1884 Bonds of the State of Ga. 7% interest payable Jan & July Which all due July 1 1892 In the hands of the Governor paying 7% interest Jany. & July Aggregating II Terrell Endowment. Bonds of the State of Ga., 7% interest payable Jan & July which fall due $5.500 July 1 1886 $5500 Jany 1 1892.
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$96000.00 56000.00 90202.17 $242202.17
16000.00
Bonds of the Ga. R. R. and Banking Co. 7% interest payable Jan & July, which fall due
January 1 1882 Aggregating III General (Franklin College) Fund. Debt of the State of Ga. 8% 4000.00 20000.00 $100000.00
Bonds of the 8 interest,

payable April & October which fall due April 1883 3000.00 Bonds of Ga. R. R. and Banking Co., 7% interest & payable Jany. & July which fall due Jany 1st 1882 5000.00 Bonds of Clarke County 7% (optional) interests payable Jany. & July 500.00 Bonds of the City of Athens, 8% interest payable Jany & July, which fall due July 1st 1898 300.00 Aggregating _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ __ 108800.00 Total Investments 371002.17 Yielding an annual interest of 27963.14
Respectfully Submitted Ben. C. Yancey, Chairman Martin J. Crawford
A. T. MacIntyre.
James H. Fannin Finance Committee.
a.
See minutes

p.
255. (left margin.)

a.
Middle Ga. Military and Aggricultural (sic) College. Resolved, That we proceed to elect a President of the Middle Ga. Military and Ag. College at Milledgeville who shall hold his office during the pleasure of this Board.


Resolved, That the Committee of five annually appointed by the Board to represent the interests of the University before the General Assembly together with any other Trustees that may at any time be present during the present session of that Body be instructed to cooperate with the Trustees of the North Ga.
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Agricultural College in urging the General Assembly of the State to pass the Bill now pending which proposes to appropriate 20000.00 to rebuild the College edifice at Dahlonega destroyed by fire.
Resolved, That the persons elected Subordinate teachers by the several Branch college are approved and rattified (sic) by this Board.
Resolved, That the local Board of Trustees of the Southwest Ga. Ag. College are hereby authorized and empowered to make sale of the land on which the building recently burned stood at their discretion and apply the proceeds of the sale as is indicated in the annual report of the President of the Local Board of Trustees.
2nd
That we leave the selection of other teachers of the Branch Colleges to the Local Boards of Trustees subject to the approval of this Board until we shall otherwise order.
a.
See minutes

p.
255. (left margin.)

a.
To the Board of Trustees of the Univ. of Ga.


The Finance Committee have thought proper to make a Supplemental Report on the subject of the late Gift of Mr. Charles F. McCay resident of Baltimore, Md. As known to the Board it was a gift of twenty thousand dollars in Bonds of the Ga. R. R. and Banking Co., Twenty Bonds of One thousand dollars each bearing 6% interst (sic), the coupons upon the same till 1st July 1895 being cut off and retained by the donor. These Bonds are to be sealed up and not opened till 1st July 1895 eight of them fall due July 1897; twelve of them fall due July 1910. The coupons thereon when collected to be invested in interest bearing investments and the principal when collected
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July 1881. to be likewise invested, compounding all and no part thereof to be used till after the lapse of twenty one years of the last survivor of twenty six children, named in his deed, which is a record upon your minutes, The numbers of these Bonds are entered upon your minutes & duplicate copies thereof are said by the Secretary and Treasurer deposited, one in the vault of the Southern Mutual Insurance Co., in their office in Athens, Ga. and the other in the vault of the National Bank at Athens, Ga. The Bonds are represented by the Secretary & Treasurer to be deposited in the vault of the National Bank in Athens, Ga. Sealed up with his official Signature upon the envellope (sic) attested by some members of the Prudential Committee, endorsed thereon Not to be opened till July 1895. This action & endorsement are in accordance with Report of Messrs. Gresham & Billups to whom was committed the negociation (sic) with the donor and receive his gift. Your Committee respectfully ask the Board to recind (sic) its action in the adoption of said Report so far as relates to not opening and examining said package of Bonds till 1895. It is well that the Finance Committee of this Board should annually open said package to see if the Bonds are there and report to the Board at its annual session. Upon being examined and found right, shall be resealed and superscribed (sic) by said Committee and the Secretary & Treasurer,
Respectfully Submitted,
Ben C. Yancey Chairman.
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Commencement Programme.
a.
See minutes p. 254 & 256. (left margin.)

a.
Resolved, That the Prudential Committee in cooperation with the Chancellor be requested to consider the expediency of making some changes in the Commencement exercise, such as having Monday devoted to Sophomore & Junior speeches. The


Sophomores in the morning, The Juniors at night. Tuesday to be Society day and to be set apart for such exercises of the Literary Societies Demosthenian and Phi Kappa and the Alumni Society. The Annual oration to be at 4 oclock Tuesday and the Alumni Oration at night, with such particulars as can be gotten up in connection with the other exercises. Wednesday to be Commencement with the usual exercises. This resolution intended to be suggestive only, to the Chancellor and Prudential Committee.
If the Committee and Chancellor shall agree upon and approve the above suggestions
they shall publish the same in the notice of the next Annual Commencement.
a.
See minutes pp. 256. (left margin.)

a.
Convention at Rome Resolved, That the Chancellor be requested to attend the State Agricultural in August and the fair of the State Agricultural Society at Macon in October and to visit such other places as he may deem advisable and practicable, for the purposes in view, -to address the convention and Assemblies of the people upon the Character and advantages of the education afforded at the University, upon the value and importance to the Agriculture of the State of forming and perfecting a close union between the convention the department of Agriculture of the State and the department of Agricultural instruction in the University and upon such other kindred topics as may be suggested by the main object in view, the extension and efficiency of the subjects above mentioned.


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And Resolved, further that his expenses be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. By order of the Board Wm. L. Mitchell John J. Gresham Secretary. President
Mr. Emory Speer was elected Alumni Trustee for four years, beginning the day after the first Wednesday of August 1881, and ending with the first Wednesday of August 1885, and so officially communicated by the Secretary of the Alumni Society.
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University of Georgia.
July 14th, 1882.
The Trustees of the University of Georgia met in stated annual convention, this morning at 10 oclock. In the absence of the President & Vice President, Dr. H. V. M. Miller the oldest Trustee present took the Chair as required by the Charter. Upon calling the roll it appeared that a quorum was in attendance, and prayer for the blessing of Almighty God upon the Trustees and the University in all its interests, was made by the Chancellor Rev. P. H. Mell DD. LL. D The members of the Board present at the opening of the meeting were Dr. Miller, Chairman, Messrs. James Jackson, Crawford, Hall, Cobb, MacIntyre, Brown, Yancey, Mitchell and Thomas. There were present upon subsequent days Messrs. Billups, Lewis, Vason, Pierce, Barrow, Colquitt, Toombs, Cooper, Stephens, Gresham, Screven, Lawton, and Byrd. Excuses were made for absence for Messrs. Harris, Felton, & Beckwith. A letter from Mr. Jenkins was read declaring his resignation as a Trustee and expressing his abiding interest in the University, and high regard for the members of the Board, and avering (sic) his age and infermity (sic) as rendering him unfit for such duties which could be better performed by a younger man. His resignation was accepted. The Chancellor then read his Annual communication, which with the accompanying documents was referred to the Committee on Laws & Discipline & the other standing Committees to which the topics properly belong.
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The Chair then appropriated the Standing Committee on Laws & Discipline to wit, James Jackson, Chairman Messrs. Hall, Billups, MacIntyre, Lawton, and Yancey. The petition of the Senior through their President asking for an appropriation of fifteen dollars, to pay for music at their Champion debate to night was presented through Dr. Mell and on motion of Mr. James Jackson was granted.
Mr. Mitchell, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Apparatus read his Report which was laid on the table for the present. Mr. Thomas chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance, submitted his Report, which was also laid on the table for the present. He also read the Report of Mr. Harris, Chairman of the Standing Committee on Buildings and grounds, which in like manner was laid on the table. The Abstract of the minutes of the Prudential Committee for the past Collegiate year was read and with the minutes laid on the table for inspection and use. The Board then adjourned to meet, tomorrow morning at nine oclock.
July 15th, 1882 The Board met according to adjournment. Messrs. Billups, Lewis, Vason, Pierce, Barrow Colquitt, Byrd and Stephens appeared and took their seats. The minutes of yesterday were read and confirmed. The invitation to the Chancellors reception was accepted and also the invitation to the Senior Class exercises before the Chapel.
Gov. Joseph E. Brown made a statement of his intention to donate the sum of Fifty
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thousand dollars to the Trustees of the University of Georgia upon certain terms and for certain purposes which he had reduced to writing and which writing at his request was read by Mr. James Jackson, and on motion of Mr. Stephens was referred to a special Committee of five, appointed by the Chair, to wit: Messrs. Stephens, Chairman, Lawton, Vason, Pierce, & Billups. Mr. Humber, representing the M. Ga. M. and Ag. College was introduced and read the Report of that Branch College. Mr. Thomas read the Report of the S. W. Ga. Ag. College, our Branch College at Cuthbert. These Reports were referred to the Standing Committee on Branch Colleges now appointed by the Chair, to wit: Mr. Colquitt Chairman, Messrs. Hall, MacIntyre, Byrd, and Barrow. Mr. Humber distributed to each member of the Board, a printed petition for the appointment of a Trustee of the University residing at Milledgeville. The Standing Committee on Agriculture and Horticulture was appointed by the Chair and consists of Mr. Lewis, Chairman, Messrs. Barrow, Screven and Livingston to which was referred the Report of Mr. Yancey, Chairman, of the former Committee on the Experimental farm. The Chairman, appointed Messrs. Cobb & Thomas the Committees to invite distinguished strangers to the stage. The Board their adjourned to 4 oclock P.M.
July 15th 1882 4 oclock P.M. The Board met according to adjournment. Messrs. Gresham and Toombs appeared and took their seats. The Report of the N. Ga. Ag. College at
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Dahlonega, was presented and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges. The Report of The Special Committee of five on the donation of Gov. Brown was unanimously adopted and a Committee as therein Contemplated was appointed by the Chair, to wit: Messrs. Mitchell, Thomas, Hammond, Crawford, and MacIntyre. The Chancellors Report in relation to Paintings by Mr. Habersham and also in relation to the Committee on Honorary Degrees was adopted and Messrs. Lawton, and Cobb appointed for this Commencement. The Degree of A. B. conferred upon Rev. Mr. Tenney of Texas a former student of the University and whose career was interrupted by the war as the same has been done by other members of his class. The Report of Standing Committee of Laws and Discipline was adopted after reading and explanation by Mr. James Jackson. The Board then adjourned to Monday Morning at 9 oclock A. M.
July 17th, 1882 The Board met according to adjournment.
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Screven appeared & took their seats. Mr. Cooper Vice president assumed the Chair. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Mr. Billups was appointed on the Committee on Brance (sic) Colleges in place of Mr. Colquitt absent. Dr. Miller was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline in place of James Jackson who was compelled to return home on account of ill health. Mr. Gresham submitted resolutions which were adopted in relation to the donation of Mr. Charles F. McCays donation. Mr. Lawton on behalf of the Committee on Honorary Degrees, submitted a Report on the subject of
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Honorary Degrees to be conferred on Walton Leconte Stevens and Wm. M. Hammond, and the Rule was suspended and the degrees then conferred upon each by separate votes as recommended, to wit: the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy on Walter LeConte Stevens and the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts on Wm. M. Hammond. Board took a recess to attend the Sophomore Exhibition and then returned and ajourned (sic) to 4 oclock P. M.
July 17th 1882 4 oclock P. M. The Board met according to adjournment. Mr. Mitchells three Resolutions as to Commencement to 4th Wednesday of June &c. referred to Committee on Laws & Discipline. vio.(?) p. 350. (left margin.) Mr. Cobbs resolution on speaking twice each term was referred to same Committee. On motion of Mr. Vason the election of a Trustee to fill the vacancy of Mr. Jenkins was made the order of the day for tomorrow at 9 oclock A. M. Mr. Cooper had leave of absence after today. The Board then adjourned to tomorrow at 9 oclock A. M.
July 18th 1882. The Board met according to adjournment. Dr. Miller Senior Trustee took the Chair. The order of the day to wit: the election of Trustee was taken up and upon counting the ballots it appeared that Mr. Joseph B. Cumming of Augusta was duly elected. Mr. Gresham was unanimously elected President of the Board and at once took the Chair which was tendered him by the presiding Trustee, and Mr. Gresham made remarks appropriate to assuming the Chair. The President was authorized to sign all the unsigned minutes nunc pro tunc so as to
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fully authenticate them.
Dr. Dudleys resignation as President of the M. Ga. Mil. And Ag. College at Milledgeville was accepted. The Board then took a recess to attend the Societies and hear the honorary member Mr. Black of Augusta and to return to the Library at the close of the Speaking. The Board at the close of Mr. Blacks Speech returned to the Library. Mr. Vason introduced Resolutions in relation to the Professor of Belles Letters & Oratory for the purpose of moving their reference to the Committee on Laws & Discipline by their Chairman Dr. Miller made their Report which was taken up, and on motion of Mr. Vason its recommendations were adopted. The Committee returned the Resolutions in relation to the Professor of Belles Letters & Oratory without Reporting thereon. And on motion of Mr. Vason the said Resolutions were taken up and the following substitute in lieu thereof by Mr. Lawton was adopted, and is as follows: Resolved,
That in the opinion of this Board the duties of the Professorship of Belles Letters and Oratory are not satisfactorily performed by the present incumbent, and the Presiding Officer of this Board is requested to make this known to the Professor. Mr. Billups submitted the following Resolution which was adopted. Resolved, That should the Legislature at its next session, make an appropriation in aid of the University, the Prudential Committee is authorized and instructed to add Fifteen
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hundred dollars or so much as the said appropriation may authorize in addition to the two thousand dollars mentioned in report of Committee on Finance to the College at Dahlonega. Messrs. Lawton, Vason, and Screven were excused after this meeting. The Board then adjourning till after the meeting of the Alumni Society this afternoon.
July 18th, Afternoon Session. The Board met according to adjournment at the close of the Alumni society and remained in session till after night. Mr. Yancey Chairman of the Standing Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture, moved to take up his Report and adopt the same which was agreed to. Mr. Mitchell Chairman of the Standing Committee on Apparatus moved to take up his Report which was amended on motion of Mr. Cobb by striking out so much as relates to the appropriation of $500.00 and the Report as thus amended was adopted. On motion of Mr. Mitchell, the Board conferred the several Degrees recommend in the Chancellors Annual Communication. Mr. Thomas Chairman of the Finance Committee moved to take up his Report & adopt the same: when Mr. Yancey moved to amend the Report by striking out $1500.00 of the appropriation to the Brance (sic) College at Dahlonega and so make her allowance $2000.00 like the other Branch Colleges which was agreed to and the Report as thus amended was adopted. On motion of Mr. Toombs the Committee of five to represent the interests of the University before the Legislature was instructed to apply to the
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next General Assembly for such aid as we need; which motion was agreed to. Mr. Hall Chairman of the Standing Committee on Branch colleges made his Report which was adopted. The Board then adjourned to meet tomorrow morning at 9 oclock.
July 19th 1882 Board met according to adjournment. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The Degree of Dr. of Jurisprudence was conferred in course on James Whitehead Esq. of Warrenton, Ga. and on Saml. G. McLendon Esq. of Thomasville, Ga. Prof. Speer sent in his resignation to take effect next Commencement and it was accepted to take effect on Jany. 1st, 1883. Mr. Billups moved that when the Board adjourns, it adjourn to meet in Atlanta on the 2nd , Wednesday of November next at 3 oclock of that day, and then & there to elect a Professor of Belles Letters & Oratory and that the Secretary be instructed to advertise said election, which motion was agreed to. The Board congratulates Chancellor Mell upon his success in obtaining Portraits for the Art Gallery and request him to return their thanks to the respective donors, and exhorts him to persevere in his efforts in this direction and he will continue to be encouraged by future successes. He is also requested to acknowledge in the name of the Board contributions to the Museum. Mr. Hall submitted the following paper which was adopted unanimously by a rising vote.
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We miss our valued friend Bery. H. Hill, from the seat which he has occupied at this Board for many years. We miss his wise council, pleasant association and genial manners which have won our admiration, respect and esteem. We deeply deplore the cause of his absence and sympathizing cordially with him in his affliction trust that a Merciful Providence may soon restore him to his family to his country, and this Board. Mr. Lewis submitted the following resolution which was adopted. Resolved, That the Prudential Committee be instructed to inform the Board of the Branch College at Milledgeville, that before any appropriation which this Board may make now or hereafter to the College at Milledgeville, will be paid, this Board requires that the Board at Milledgeville shall take action and communicate the same officially to this Board, said action, to state that the said Board at Milledgeville distinctly recognize the power to elect the President of the College at Milledgeville as existing and vesting in this Board and this Board alone. The Board then adjourned to meet in Atlanta as already provided
John J. Gresham Prest. University of Georgia July 14th 1882 To the Board of Trustees University of Georgia Gentlemen,
I have the honor herewith to present my Report for the Collegiate year now closing.

Number of Students.
During the current year there have matricula
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-ted in the Department at Athens, One hundred and forty six (146) students viz: In Franklin College Ninety one (91); In the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts Forty three (43); and in the Law School, Twelve (12).
Numbers of all those who have received instruction in the various Departments of the University during the Collegiate Year.
In Franklin College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _91 In State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts _ _ _ _ _ _ 43 In Law Department _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12 Total in all the Departments at Athens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 146. (as against 155 reported last year) In Medical Department _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _85 (as against 127 reported last year) In North Ga. Agricultural College Males 128 }
Females 49 }_ _ _ _ _ _ _177 (as against 267 reported last year) South Georgia Agricultural College All Males _ _ _ _ _ _ _185 (as against 217, last year) In South West Ga. Agricultural Col. All Males _ _ _ _ _ _ 155 (as against 155 last year) In Mid. Ga. M. & Ag. College Males 181 }
Females 174 } Total_ _ _ _ _ 355 (as against 388 last year)
Total of those receiving instruction in all Departments _ 1103 (as against 1279 last year) It will appear then that in all of the Departments there has been a loss of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _176 as compared to the Report last Commencement.
Statement of Comparative losses.
The Departments at Athens have lost _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _9 The Medical Department loses _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 42 The Branch College at Dahlonega loses _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _90 The Branch College at Thomasville _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _32 The Branch College at Milledgeville loses _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 33 The Branch College at Cuthbert reports a gain over last year of 30 students. The Law Department here also gains 7 over last year. Franklin College loses one (1) student and the State College thirteen (13) as compared to last year.
College Grade.
Of the pupils reported, there are of College grade In Department at Athens _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _146 In Department at Augusta _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _85 (as against 127, last year) In College at Dahlonega _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _48 (same as reported last year) In the College at Thomasville _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _14 (as against 24, last year) In the College at Cuthbert _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _25 (as against 15 last year) In the College at Milledgeville _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 37 (as against 73 last year) Total of Col. Grade in all Departs. & Colleges _ _ _ _ _ _ 355 (as against 442 last year) making a loss of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 87 as compared to last year.
Undergraduates.
Excluding the Law and Medical Departments, it will be seen that, of the College Grade, there are undergraduates In the Departments at Athens 134 (as against 160, last year) In all the Branch College 124 (as against 160, last year) Of these 124, all are of the grade of Sophomores and Freshmen, excepting 17 at Dahlonega _ viz: 6 Seniors and 11 Juniors. Total undergraduate of College grade 258 (as against 308, last year) making a loss in our whole University system of fifty (50) undergraduate of College grade.

Numbers in Attendance.
No doubt it is a matter of regret and perhaps of disappointment to all, that under the free tuition plan our numbers instead of increasing have slightly diminished. I trust that the Board will make a thorough exam
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-ination into the causes of the disappointment and unhesitatingly apply the corrective to the fault, if it exists here, whether in the shape of persons or things. I may be permitted to say though.
1.
That the difficulty did not originate in any discords here. Perfect harmony reigned in the Faculty and between the Professors and the students. We have never had a year so far as the students are concerned, more marked by orderly deportment and diligent attention to duties.

2.
The Branch Colleges have been our competitors, not feeders to us. Of the one hundred and sixty College Students they reported last year, only five have applied here, four from Thomasville and one from Cuthbert. The Board will remember that in my first communication after the vote inaugurating the Branch Colleges, I put on record my opinion that it was vain to expect large numbers here now. I am not


criticizing or dissenting from the policy of the Board. I am only stating its inevitable
effect on the numbers here.
3. Nearly of the young men intending to go to College had committed themselves to the various Institutions before it was possible for us to announce free tuition since His Excellency the Governor, had signed the legislative act but a few days before the opening of our term. The great body of our students knew nothing about it until after their arrival here. So far as I can ascertain, two young men from South Carolina are the only students drawn here by free tuition. I have had though many letters during the year from other states and the indications are that not a few young men will be drawn here next year from those regions.
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July 1882. Temporarily, our free tuition feature may have furnished an occasion for the exercise of our influence tending to diminish our numbers. The friends of other colleges in the state were stimulated to make desperate efforts to counteract the effect of your free tuition which from legislative action they saw to be impending. And I am sorry to say that we did not receive from some a competition that was generous. By Agents conversing the entire state, attacks were made upon us not only in the private circles, but from the pulpits in all sections of the Commonwealth. Our scholarship was disparaged; infidelity and irreligion charged against us; most exaggerated accounts given of extravagant living with our students and parents were persuaded to believe that immorality and vice reigned rampant here. No wonder that these statements exerted an influence; for parents would be both to believe that one wearing the ministerial garb would make charges so grave without a personal knowledge of their truth. With great reluctance, and after long delay, I gained my consent to (virtually) reply to these charges through the public press. But the mischief had been done, so far as the current year is concerned. It remains to be seen whether the same unscrupulous methods can be successful for subsequent years.
5. Our numbers were certainly somewhat affected by the fact that more than a score of the students of the previous year failed to make a rise with their class. The Sophomore class was composed to a singular degree of young men who either could not, or cared not to master the topics in the course. To these the Professors offered the privilege of another examina
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6. The excitement consequent upon the murder of one of the students and the foolish misapprehension that there was a fend between students and negroes, prevented some from reporting here who had expected to do so. It will be seen though that the Departments here lost less with one exception, than the Branch Colleges whose statistics are given above. The gain though at Cuthbert was to be expected; since a vigorous opposition school ceased to exist about the beginning of the collegiate year.
Commencement Programme. At the last meeting the Board adopted the following Resolution: Resolved, That the Prudential Committee in cooperation with the Chancellor be requested to consider the expediency of making some changes in the Commencement Exercises, such as having Monday devoted to Sophomore and Junior speeches - that Sophomores in the morning, the Juniors at night, Tuesday to be society day, and to be set apart for such exercises of the Literary Societies, Demosthenian and Phi Kappa and the Alumni Society. The Annual Oration to be at 11 oclock Tuesday and the Alumni Oration at night - with such particulars as can be gotten up in connection with the other exercises. This Resolution intended to be suggestive only to the Chancellor and Prudential Committee. If the Committee and Chancellor shall agree upon and approve the above suggestions, they shall
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July 1882. publish the same in the notice of the next Annual Commencement. Supposing that the Board did not intend to suggest the discontinuance of the Chancellors Reception on Tuesday night, we have ventured to transfer the Alumni Oration from that time to 4 oclock P.M. of that day, and have advertised it as the programme for the present occasion. There are in our minds though grave objections to the plan even as thus modified.
1.
It gives the Sophomore, a lower class, a better time than the Juniors, a higher class. It also discriminates against the Alumni Orator in favor of the Orator before the Literary Societies.

2.
It makes Tuesday the day for the Societies and the Alumni Association both. As all the Alumni belong to one or the other of the Literary Societies, there can be no meeting that day for one of those organizations. But one it is true could meet on Monday P.M. In that case though there would be no propriety in calling Tuesday Societyand Alumni Day. We propose for your consideration, and adoption if it meets your views, the following programme for the future.


}10 A.M. Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday }8 P.M. Sermon or adress (sic) before }Students Prayer Meeting Society.
}10 A.M. Address before Literary Societies
} 4 P.M. Meeting of Societies
} 8 P.M. Six original speeches in the
} Chapel. Each Literary Society to elect three of
Monday } its own members, of the undergraduates, not
} Seniors. The speeches like those of the Seniors
} to be approved by the Prof. of Belles Letters and
} practiced before him & the public exhibition to be pre
} sided over by the Chancellor.
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} 10 Alumni Adress (sic).
} 4 P.M. Meeting of Alumni
} 8 P.M. To be left open. It will furnish an
Tuesday } occasion for a social reunion at the Chancel
Alumni day} lors Mansion for all the friends of the University
} male and female, or of the Alumni and dis
} tinguished visitors at Alumni Banquet at some suitable place.
Wednesday} Commencement day i.e. Senior Exhibition.
This plan omits Junior & Sophomore exhibitions entirely, at Commencement. In this we would follow the lead of all the important Universities and Colleges to the east of us. Harvard and Yale and Brown and Williams and Amherst & Princeton and Chapel Hill and others have all many years ago dissevered from Commencement Junior and Sophomore Exhibitions, and referred them to another Season of the year. A Sophomore Exhibition brings us down to the level of all the Academics and Neighborhood schools in the country; and it is worthy of consideration whether it should be continued longer. Under the usage that has for a long time and for some reason unknown to me prevailed here, the declamations of schools and other Colleges here, the declamations of schools and other Colleges will always excell (sic) our Sophomore Exhibition in variety and therefore, to audiences generally in brilliancy and interest. Our students have discovered and it is the subject of remark in the University Community that those who award the prizes never confer them upon those who speak humorous or dramatic pieces. The general rule therefore is that only grave rhetorical speeches are delivered on our stage. The effect therefore in the opinion of the great body of
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July 1882. hearers is monotony, if not dullness. This, it is true, may be remedied by formally, by enactment, making these three kinds of presentation of equal grade: or by giving three medals, one for the best speaker in each class -provided, the best speaker rises to a grade worthy of commendation. There are many reasons in favor of the plan recommended.
1.
In the first place, it would be different from any thing in Georgia, called Commencement, not to mention female Seminaries, six Collegiate Institutions and a multitude of High Schools and Academics in Georgia hold so called Commencements, modeled after the plan now in vogue here. Unfortunately, ours is the last in the series, and the people come here, surfeited and jaded by exhibitions of the kind. It is of the first importance then that our exercises should be sui generis that they should be of such character as to distinguish us from all other Literary Institutions in the State.

2.
The plan if adopted will dignify the occasion by giving prominence to distinguished men. If it be objected that it is questionable whether we have within reach distinguished men in sufficient numbers to make it sure that orators can be secured for Monday and Tuesday A.M. for all the future; it may be answered that there is no


danger of failing to secure the men if we can offer to them occasions worthy to tempt
their acceptance, Gentlemen will come here from distant states if we can offer them
appointments that will attract to them public attention and give to them dignified and
impressive occasions for enunciating their
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Chancellors Report. convictions, and thus operating on the public mind. Under the system hitherto in vogue here the wonder is that distinguished gentlemen have ever consented to accept the obscure positions and inconvenient hours that have been tendered to them. It is admitted that a gentleman accepting the position may fail at the last hour; but the danger will be greatly diminished by the increased dignity of the appointment and it may be entirely obviated by the appointment of an alternate who may be the principal for the succeeding year, should his services not be called in requisition as an alternate. But that in the event that the Orator shall fail to meet his engagement, the occasion need not suffer any disaster on that account. The Societies on Society day, and the Alumni on Alumni day, can very readily utilize the day for the advancement of their important interests.
3.
The plan will make commencement so far as students are concerned, preeminently a Senior Exhibition. It is granted that it would have less effect to draw here the friends of the young men, and it would tend less than the present system to hold the great body of students here up to Commencement and both may be modified by the increased interest and dignity given to the closing exercises. By the proposed plan all the students will have important parts to perform in connection with the Literary Societies, and will have inducements therefore to remain.

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The plan proposed will intensify, and thus cultivate the Literary Societies, and the Society of the Alumni. To the former Monday -morning


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July 1882. afternoon and night -is appropriated exclusively. In the forenoon they escort their Orator to the Chapel in the afternoon, they hold session in which they may be addressed by their Alumni and honorary members; and at night representatives chosen by themselves deliver original speeches from the Chapel rostrum. The Alumni Society would have the whole of Tuesday to devote to their purposes. It is greatly to be regretted that a power so potent cannot be systematically utilized in the interest of the University. Under our present system, when they meet as a deliberative body, they have time only to fill the annual vacancy in the Board of Trustees. But with the whole of Tuesday devoted to them they could have time to consider and act upon practical plans looking to the increased prosperity of the University in all its departments and operations & the Chancellor would unhesitatingly discontinue his Receptions should they desire to crown the day with an Alumni Banquet. Should the Board adopt the programme here offered, it would be well to provide for Junior and Sophomore Exhibitions at another time. The Committee & Chancellor recommend that these exhibitions be held in April of Each year, the Junior at 10 oclock of the Second Wednesday in April and the Sophomores at 8 oclock P.M. of Tuesday the day before. The Sophomore prizes to be delivered at the close of the Junior Exhibition by the Prof. of Belles Letters or by some one appointed by him.
The Faculty unanimously concur with the Prudential Committee in recommending the above programme.
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Chancellors Report. Class Day.
To vary the proceedings and to further interest the students in Commencement, the Faculty, with the concurrence of the Prudential Committee have assigned Saturday to the Seniors as their Class day. It is hoped that they will have many interesting exercises and ceremonies, the effect of which in part, will be, that they will leave upon the Campus something that will serve to be a permanent memorial of the Class. All the great Institutions in the country have Class Days, the effect of which has been not only to give additional interest to the Commencement occasion, but to bind the retiring student by an additional tie to the Alma Mater. In the first attempt the young men may not attain to all possible success; but they are entitled to, and no doubt will receive, the forbearance and encouragement of all their friends who witness their efforts. Should the Trustees however object to the feature, they are respectfully requested to express their dissent, and it will be omitted for the future.
Champion Debate. It has been a custom for many years for the two Literary Societies to conduct a Champion Debate on Monday night of Commencement. I do not know the origin of this custom. Supposing though that the Trustees by assigning Monday night to the Junior Exhibition did not intend formally to abolish the Champion Debate any more than by assigning Tuesday night to the Alumni Orator, they intended to indicate objection to the Chancellors Reception. I took the liberty to authorize the students to select for this purpose any unappropriated night. They have decided to
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July 1882. hold their Debate then on Friday night. I respectfully ask the Board to indicate its wishes in this matter, should the plan recommended by the Prudential Committee and the Faculty be adopted, representatives from the Societies will appear upon the stage on Monday night. In that event it may be well for the Board formally to abolish and prohibit the Champion Debate. This I present as a suggestion not as a formal recommendation.
Meetings of the Societies. By both programmes that are before you, Monday P.M. is set apart for the Meetings of the Literary Societies. It is very desirable that all their Alumni and honorary members present, should meet with them on that occasion. In this I respectfully ask the cooperation of the Board of Trustees as a body & as individuals.
Students Homes. The Dormitores (sic) have been largely occupied as boarding houses by the students during the past year; and the ladies controlling them have managed with consumate(sic) ability and success.

Supply of Water on the Campus.
The water on the Campus has been deficient in quantity and is very bad in quality. I respectfully call the attention of the Board to the accompanying communication of Prof. White, who has subjected the waters of the various wells to chemical analysis. Large numbers of students room upon the Campus whose health is seriously jeopardized by the water the (sic) are compelled to drink.
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Chancellors Report. Public Addresses by the Chancellor.
Obeying the instructions of the Board, I attended the meetings of the State Agricultural Society at Rome and Augusta, and also its Fair held in Macon. By invitation I address the meeting at Rome, on the character, condition and claims of the University. A few days after by special request I addressed on the same subject the General Assembly of the State at Atlanta. I was in hopes that the Alumni in the various important localities of the State would formally invite me to address their several communities. A representative of the University of Georgia has no pulpit or platform by which to reach the people, in its interests. Friends in the different localities must give the invitation, furnish the facilities and create the feeling of interest; for nothing but failure can be expected to befall ones unaided effort to address a community on a theme so unsensational as University education. But all intimations modestly given by me or propositions unequivocally made by others, failed to elicit a response.
Art Gallery. A number of the members of the Board have promised to furnish us Portraits of themselves; but not a few have received my application in silence. I beg again at in this connection to repeat my request; and to ask the cooperation of the Board in attaining an object so desirable. I am happy to say that a superb Portrait of Ex. Gov. Jenkins and another of Chief Justice Joseph H. Lumpkin deceased, now adorn our walls -the former the gift of the Governor himself -the latter presented by the family of the Judge.
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July 1882. The Campus.
Besides planting out some forest trees, and some exotics, which Mr. Berkmans was kind enough to bring to us, nothing has been done towards further improvement of the Campus. The servant whom the Prudential Committee were authorized to hire, has kept the grounds in comparative order. They greatly need a system of drainage; and for lack of suitable walks, between Moore College and other Buildings, students in the winter have to bog their way between one Lecture room and another. A small portion of the grounds have not yet been graded & sodded. I respectfully ask that these improvements, if possible, be carried at once to completion.
The Library. Prof. Wilcox the Librarian, has kept in admirable order this important part of the University. His Report which I have the honor to present informs you that 260 volumes have been added during the past year.

The Museum.
Is now arranged in attractive and useful form. Prof. White whose Report I have the honor herewith to present, informs us that valuable contributions have been added to it during the past year by a generous friend.
Medical Department. It was my privilege to attend the Commencement of the Medical Department of the University this year, and to confer the Degree of Doctor of Medicine on 24 Graduates. The Department shows marked signs of prosperity in spite of the
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fact that its numbers have somewhat diminished.
Centennial Celebration. I beg leave respectfully to remind the Board that, though the University of Georgia did not go into actual operation until the year 1801, the act creating it was passed in 1785, and was approved on the 29th day of January of that year. This act granted a charter to certain persons mentioned by name as the Trustees of an Institution to be called, The University of Georgia. I design in this merely to spring the inquiries; will the year 1885 be the hundredth anniversary of the University of Georgia? and if so, will it be expedient to commence arrangements for a Centennial Celebration in the year 1885? It may be supposed however that these questions are already answered in the negative, in the fact that the authorities have already carried into effect a semi-centennial celebration not in harmony with the present suggestion and inquiry.
Department of Technology. I have had the honor of conversing with distinguished members of the Board of Trustees on the subject of the formal establishment of a Department of Technology here, an thoughtful members of the Alumni have opened correspondence with me on the same subject. Besides the public press & many public speakers have time and again, expressed a desire for an institution devoted to practical education. The fact seems not to be known by the public generally but it is true, that we already have in actual operation here the most important parts of a Technological institute. All that is necessary to make the system complete is for the Board to found here a Work shop.
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July 1882. A Technological Institute, is a school in which practical arts, are taught as already intimated. The University has now in active operation four of the Departments which make up such an Institute, viz: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Agriculture. In each of these Departments, in addition to the old theoretical course of instruction, we have a practical course, in which students are made to perform actual work. This is strictly true of the three first named departments. The work done in them by students is manual work in which the theoretical instruction given in the Lecture Room is practically carried out and illustrated by the student, who after completing his course is a physicist; a chemist or an Engineer, or all combined if he has had the time and talent to become familiar with each (crossed out in pencil) of (crossed out in pencil) the branches severally (inserted in pencil). In agriculture, the student, it is true, does not perform manual labor, but he has the opportunity to see it done. To complete our scheme it would be necessary to have added to the foregoing departments, an industrial school, or rather, workshop. In this a young man would be trained to the actual use of tools. The equipment of such a workshop can be carried to an almost infinite degree; for a complete equipment should be capable of illustrating every process of every kind of manufacture. But in its beginning it should have a good set of wood working tools -such as ordinary carpenters tools, wood plowing machines, circular & band saws, morticing (sic) machines &c. In the next place it should possess a good set of metal working tools, such as are found in an ordinary machine
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Chancellors Report. and Foundry establishment. These two sets of equipment, with a steam engine to furnish the necessary power, would be the foundation, upon which any enlargement in the way of special machines can afterwards be laid. These equipments (sic) should be under charge of a practical man a workman or boss. The object would be to train young men by subjecting them to actual manual (inserted) labor at the tools or machines, to a thorough understanding of the construction and management of them. For instance a young man may have acquired from drawings and from incidental visits to a machine shop a certain amount of knowledge, which will ennable (sic) him to tell at a glance the difference between a lathe & a plowing machine, or a punching machine. But let him obtain employment as manager of a shop or suppose (inserted with pencil him to) be placed in charge of certain constructions In in these relations he may at any time be called upon to direct work to be done, or perhaps have to do it himself. In these cases it will not be sufficient for him to know the machine as a whole: he must understand every part of it: and if it gets out of order, he must be able promptly to go to the cause and remove it. In a word, a young man after going through such a training and being further educated, in Drawing, in Chemistry, in Physics, and in Engineering would be not only completely fitted to enter at once upon the charge of wood and metal machine shops, but his acquaintance with machinery would make him competent to supervise any kind of manufacture. This Industrial Department once established admits of almost endless development in the way of illustrating all kinds of manufacturing processes.
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July 1882. Cost of Equipment.
The Cost of the primary equipment described above I am told, would be as follows Building including a detached one for steam engines and Boiler House _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $8000.00 Enginesand Boilers _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4000.00 Equipment of Carpenters Shop _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _5000.00 Equipment of Machine Shop & Foundry _ _ _ 15000.00 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $32000.00
The estimate for engines & boilers is intended to cover cost of two engines _ one a high pressure, the other a low pressure or condensing engine. It would be well to have both types, so as to make students familiar with the workings of each.
Branch Colleges. As usual I visited all the Branch Colleges at the times of their Commencements I found them in the main, prosperous, At Dahlonega, I witnessed a part of the examinations. These are all conducted orally. At Thomasville & at Milledgeville I had the opportunity to inspect the examination papers. These exhibited good method & thorough scholarship on the part of the pupil generally. These papers show that these two Institutions are able officered. The examinations at Cuthbert were over before I could reach there from Dahlonega and I had the opportunity of witnessing only what are called the commencement exercises. The President promises that hereafter some of the classes shall appear on the days now devoted to Commencement, so that I may be able in you name to inspect in that way the methods of the teachers, and their results.
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Chancellors Report. At Cuthbert & Thomasville I found that the highest classes are called Freshman, Sophomore, Junior & Senior, and at Milledgeville that the corresponding classes are called 1st, 2nd 3rd and 4th, the first two (inserted in pencil) corresponding to our Sophomore, and the last (inserted in pencil) two (inserted in pencil) to our Freshman. I think this nomenclature is hurtful and calculated to deceive. I have therefore formally requested the Presidents severally to change this nomenclature; to have avowedly two College Classes alone; to call them by the names Freshman and Sophomore; and to enforce with them the curricula of study as laid down in our Catalogue. This the Presidents at Cuthbert and Thomasville have promised to do. The efficient gentleman at the head of the college at Milledgeville pleads that the classification is made with reference to some alleged accommodation to the convenience of the Military Department. I did not think best to insist upon the change with him; since I did not wish to embarrass his Military Department. The Military feature has great prominence at Dahlonega and Milledgeville. Their students go by the name of cadets; and they have attained to great proficiency in the drill and in Military service. At Cuthbert the students wear uniforms and attend to the drills; but I witnessed no military exhibitions. At Thomasville I believe the Military feature has been dropped, perhaps temporarily. At Dahlonega I conferred the Degree of Bachelor of Arts on 5 young men. I had the pleasure of meeting gentlemen of your Board at Thomasville, and Milledgeville alone.
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July 1882. I have the honor herewith to transmit to you the Reports of Dr. Mitchell on the Law Department; of Prof. Browne on the Experimental Farm and of Professors Charbonnier and White on matters pertaining to their respective chairs.

Commencement Sermon.
I have engaged Rev. Joseph S. Key D.D. of Macon to preach our Commencement sermon, I respectfully request you to make an appropriation of ten or fifteen dollars to pay his traveling expenses.

Recommendation for Graduation.
The Faculty respectfully recommend for Graduation the following named students:

For Bachelor of Arts.
Lucius C. Adamson, Wm. E. W. Dunson,
Joseph B. Alexander, Davis J. Gaffney, Piromis H. Bell, William Galt, Hugh L. Brock, Gayron G. Glower,
Milton A. Chandler Jr. Walter H. Little, Frank W. Carswill, Marcus H. Pharr, Robert B. Cousins, Harry H. Phinizy,
Wm. A Dodson John D. Pope, Walker Dunson H. Warner Van House,
W. George Woodfin, Jr.

For Bachelor of Philosophy.
Clarence J. Groover, James H. Pitman, Edward W. Wyatt.

For Bachelor of Engineering.
Henry P. Burruss Arminius H. Frazer, Thos. P. Stanley

For Bachelor of Agriculture.
Arminius H. Frazer.
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Chancellors Supplemental Report.

For Bachelor of Chemical Science.
James A. Wotton, Thomas B. Perry.

For Bachelor of Law.
John L. Asbury John Murrow, Marcus W. Beck, Henry C. Tuck, Burwell R. Calhoun George Ware Ebb T. Lamkin Hugh V. Washington, David W. Meadow. Stephen N. Woodward.
I have the honor to remain Gentlemen Your Obt. Servt.
P. H. Mell Chancellor University of Georgia,
Chancellors Supplemental Report, University of Ga. July 15th 1882. To the Board of Trustees, Gentlemen, I have the pleasure to announce to you that Col. R.
W. Habersham artist of Augusta, has presented to our Art Gallery, two Portraits, one of Oglethorpe and the other of James Habersham a former Trustees (sic) of the University. The pictures are in the Library, subject to your inspection.
Honorary Degrees.
I have applications from distinguished gentlemen, requesting that Honorary Degrees be conferred on gentlemen named. It so happens that Col. Young L. G. Harris and Hon. B.
H. Hill, the Trustee members of the Committee on Honorary Degrees are both absent, I respectfully request that a temporary Committee may be appointed with whom I may communicate in the premises.
I have the honor to remain Gentlemen Your Obt. Servt.
P. H. Mell, Chancellor & c.
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Chancellors Supplemental Report No. 2. University of Georgia July 15 1882 To the Board of Trustees, Gentlemen, Since sending in my supplemental Report this morning I have received a letter from Rev.
S. F. Tenney of Crockett, Texas, enquiring (sic) if he is entitled to the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, under a decision made by the Board on the resumption of the exercises of the University immediately after the war. Your records show that all the members of his class who failed to complete the prescribed course, because they volunteered in the Confederate army, were granted diplomas on application to you. I have the honor then to transmit to you the following action of the Faculty in the present case: Resolved, That the Faculty recommend that the Degree of A.B. be conferred on Rev. S.
F. Tenney, on the grounds that he took a three years course at the University: that his class standing, during his course was excellent, as shown by the records; that he left the University in 1862 for the purpose of enlisting in the Confederate Army; and that since the war, his course has been such as to improve himself in Litterary (sic) pursuits.
I have the honor Gentlemen to remain Your Obt. Servt.
P. H. Mell, Chancellor &c.
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Report of Prof. L. H. Charbonnier.
University of Georgia Athens, Ga., 6th July 1882.
To Dr. P. H. Mell, Chancellor University of Georgia, Dear Sir:
I beg leave to submit to the Board of Trustees, through you, the following Report concerning the Department of Natural Philosophy. For condition of Apparatus I refer the Board to the special report made by me to Dr. Mitchell the chairman of the Committee on Apparatus. I would simply state here that the apparatus is in perfect order, that valuable additions have been made to it during the year; and respectfully call your attention to the small appropriation I ask for next year. The needs of the astronomical Department are also fully set forth. During the session I have introduced in my department, a new branch of instruction. I have been anxious to do this since I took charge of my chair in 1877, but want of time hitherto prevented me. As soon as you relieved me, at your last meeting, of active duty in the chair of Engineering, I determined to carry into execution, the plan which I had previously matured. This plan adds to the University another department of Technology, and enables the student to acquire a practical knowledge of Physical Manipulations. Under the usual system of teaching Physics the experiments are made entirely by the Professor, explained and commented on by the class. Where the apparatus is extensive, as ours is, this is, of course, much; and the student can acquire a good, general acquaint
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ance, with Physical principles, and methods of experimentation. But with students wishing to make a specialty of science, this is not enough; and means ought to be provided to enable them to work with the apparatus themselves. Again, many Physical experiments cannot be strictly performed in the Lecture room, for want of time, or because of the great delicacy required they cannot be performed in a crowded room. In the Lecture hour such experiments can only be indicated, the apparatus can be shown, and its working explained, but the actual test has to be omitted. Now these delicate experiments are the very ones which are most interesting and most valuable to a certain class of students. In addition to these considerations there was another of no less weight, This branch of instruction had been in the last ten years opened in many of the more wealthy Northern Colleges and with great success. It behooved the University of Georgia to continue to keep abreast of the best institutions in the land. It was, therefore, with very great joy that on my relief from other duties I found myself able to establish this new field of scientific culture. The old course in Physics, remains exactly as it was. It is a course well adapted to those students who do not wish to make science a specialty: and our fine Apparatus ennables (sic) the Professor to make it attractive, as is evinced by the interest which the students show in the study. The new course is supplementary to the first. The name adopted first in American Colleges is Course in Practical Physics. It consists in making the student (330)
Report of Prof. L. H. Charbonnier. himself go through the experiments illustrating principles or those necessary in making physical tests. In order to guard against injury to apparatus the experiments are performed entirely under the Professors eye, the students explaining them as they proceed and submitting their results for criticism. Thus students are taught to handle apparatus, to improvise and construct apparatus of their own, to make their own verifications of the truth of principles, and to perform such tests as belong to physical work. For instance among other work in this course the students make for themselves all tests necessary in Telegraphy work; tests as to the relative intensity of different lights; tests as to the relative value of different fuels; trials of strength of steam boilers; determinations of Specific Gravity, of Specific Heat, of Latent Heat &c. The course is eminently a practical one, & is specially intended for those students, who work to make a specialty of physical science and fit themselves for teachers of it. They do not only learn the manipulations of the instruments, but they are made acquainted with the equipment necessary for a department of Physics and where and how to purchase the apparatus on the best terms. Twelve students have received during the Session instruction in this special branch, and the interest manifested by them, as well as the progress made have been most gratifying to me. This work requires of me at least six hours per week in addition to my other duties; but the gratification I feel in thus expanding the field of usefulness of the University, amply repays me for the extra labor & care Respectfully Submitted
L. H. Charbonnier Prof. Ph. & Astrn.
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University of Georgia
Department of Agriculture &c.
Athens, Ga. July 13th 1882.
Rev. P. H. Mell D.D. L.L. D.
Chancellor &c.
Sir,
I have the honor to report for the information of the Hon. Board of Trustees, that the experimental farm attached to the Chair of Agriculture, is in improved condition; and that not only has it served a valuable purpose in illustrating practically to the students the science of Agriculture taught in the Class Room, but it has also been of considerable benefit to the farmers of this and other states, in the lessons which they deduce from the experiments which have been conducted on the farm during the past and preceding years, a detailed report of which is made by me at the Semi-annual conventions of the Ga. State Agricultural Society. This field of usefulness might be very largely extended, were the farm adequately equipped with the machinery and implements essential to the full development of scientific truth, and the demonstration of the usefulness and economy of those appliances which inventive genius and skill have provided for the saving of labor, the better execution of all the branches of farm work and the better preparation of produce for market. While the farm is dependent on a toll gin and a travelling thresher for the preparation of its cotton and grain for consumption it is impossible to carry out fully the experiments which are instituted in regard to them. I cite one instance in order to illustrate my
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Report of Prof. W. M. Browne. meaning. It is believed that fertilizers improve the quality as well as increase the quantity of production. It is not possible for me now to investigate this matter or test the comparative merits of the different fertilizers in this regard, because I have not the requisite machinery. The amount paid annually to the public gin and travelling thresher, would in a few years pay the cost of the needed machinery. It may not be improper to add that in every one of the Agricultural Colleges in the United States the legislatures of the States in which they are severally situated have made ample provision for their complete equipment and notably in the States of Tennessee and Louisiana. While I am aware that the means at the disposal of the Board of Trustees are not available for the above purpose. It may be hoped that the General Assembly would make the requisite appropriation were the value and importance of the object brought to their attention under the influential sanction of the Board of Trustees. I am happy to state that the receipts of the farm for the past year have exceeded its expenses and have enabled me to pay the cost of a considerable amount of wire fencing to replace that which had fallen down in decay; of 750 rods of hill side ditches to prevent the washing which in former years did so much injury, to the land; and of all the fertilizers used on the farm with exception of two sacks furnished by the State Department of Agriculture. As evidence of the improved condition of the farm, I may be permitted to cite the following facts asking the Board to remember in connection with them the worn con
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dition of the land in cultivation.
Ten (10) acres in cotton notwithstanding the unfavorable seasons, produced 4660 lbs. of lint cotton -an average of a bale weighing 466 lbs. per acre. Seven and one half (7 ) acres in oats produced 360 bushels of grain or an average of 48 bushels per acre. Seven (7) acres in corn, unpropitious as was the season produced an average of 17 bushels per acre. A number of experiments have been conducted and are still in progress. some of which are of great importance. The most interesting of these is as to the nitrogen supply of our cotton and corn crops. First as to whether cotton & corn derive their nitrogen from the soil or from the atmosphere; Second, if the former, in what form, as nitrates (of soda or potash) as nitrogen of vegetable origin (cotton seed meal) Third to what extent if at all, nitrogenous manures should be applied to cotton & corn; and Fourth does the use of nitrogenous manures for corn and cotton increase production so as to be profitable in a money point of view.
This experiment carefully conducted will, it is hoped aid in the solution of a question the importance of which to the agricultural world cannot be overestimated, when it is remembered that nitrogen is the most expensive ingredient in the commercial fertilizers generally used. I have in progress a number of other experiments as to seeds, cultivation distance, manures, forage crops &c. &c. thus adding annually to the volume of scientific truth, whose development has wrought such great and
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Report of Mr. Stephens on Donation.
beneficent changes in Agriculture during the past ten years. I desire to acknowledge gratefully the valuable aid given me on all occasions by my colleague, Prof. H. C. White. I am also under obligation to Prof. W. O. Atwater of the Agricultural College of Connecticut, for valuable information and advice. Our friend Mr. P. J. Berckmans of Augusta has made this year another gift of shrubs and plants to the ornamental grounds and flower garden of the farm. His liberality in this respect to our University, merits a grateful acknowledgement.
The Select Committee to whom was referred the communication of Hon. Joseph E. Brown to the Board of Trustees made this day proposing a donation to the University of fifty thousand dollars on certain terms and conditions therein expressed have duly considered the same and beg leave to report the following: Resolved, First: that the proposition of Hon. Joseph E. Brown to the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia made this day be accepted upon the terms and conditions therein expressed. Resolved, Second That this Board for themselves and in behalf of the people of Georgia tender thanks to him for this munificent donation. Resolved, Third That a committee of five be appointed by the president of this Board to make known to the donor the action of the Board upon the proposition, to present the matter to the next legislature and ask that an act be passed carrying it into effect, and to see that the papers are recorded according to his request.
Alexander H. Stephens
G. T. Pierce
A. R. Lawton
D.H. Vason
J. H. Billups.
Athens, Ga. July 15th 1882
To the Board of Trustees of
the University of Georgia;
Gentlemen;
I have had the honor to hold the position of trustee and member of your board for over a quarter of a century. During all this time I have felt great interest in the success & prosperity of the University. It has long been my wish to do something, which may afford substantial aid to it and result in permanent future good; to the people of this State who have so long sustained and honored me. I am now in better condition to carry out this cherished object than I have been at any time since my connection with the Board. Nearly one year ago, my son Charles McDonald Brown, a noble Christian youth, of fine intellectual & business capacity, the soul of honor and integrity, who had been a student in the University, was taken from us by death. He was named for my true & cherished friend, the late Gov. Charles J. McDonald. He was possessed of some estate, the bulk of which he left to me and his mother, giving small sums to each of his brothers & sisters, in token of his love and affectionate regard for them. He had bright
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Joseph E. Browns Donation. prospects, and if he had lived, might reasonably have expected at no distant day, at my death to go into the possession of considerable addition to his estate. Now while it is my object to do something that will advance the interests of the University and aid to some useful extent in the education of worthy young men of the state, who are not able to educate themselves; I desire at the same time to perpetuate the the (sic) name of my said deceased son in connection with the University and also that of my old friend Gov. McDonald whose name he bore. As a means of doing this I propose with the consent of your honorable body, and upon the terms & conditions herein after mentioned to make a donation to the University of Fifty Thousand dollars, money that might have been possessed by my son if he had lived; to be known and in all appropriate publications made by the University designated as, The Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund. This donation to be made on condition that the State of Georgia will receive the said sum (which I will pay in cash) into her treasury to be used in payment of the public debt, or in such other manner as may be for the best interests of the State and will issue her bond or bonds to the University bearing Seven per cent interest, the interest to be paid semiannually to the University, the bond or obligation to run for fifty years. At the last Session the General Assembly passed an Act; to make permanent the endowment of the University; which provides in substance that whenever the trustees of the University of Georgia shall
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July 1882. through their duly authorized agent or officer present at the state treasury for redemption any valid, matured bond of the state as the property of the University, that the Governor shall issue to the trustees in lieu of said matured bond, an obligation in writing in the nature of a bond, in an amount equal to said matured bond, falling due fifty years after date of such issue, the same to bear interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, and not to be subject to be called in for redemption by the State before that time, not to be negotiable by the trustees, but payable to them alone, to be issued under the great seal of the state, signed by the Governor, countersigned by the Secretary of the State &c.
All I ask is that the State treat the amount which I propose to donate to the University just as she would treat any other amount of money which may be the property of the University due at the maturity of any bond or bonds of the State belonging to the University. I have long thought it the duty of the State to endow the University liberally, and believe that wise statesmanship & sound policy dictated such a course. While the representatives of the people have not yet done what it seems to me would be wise in this particular, they have shown a disposition to make permanent the endowment which the University possesses, & I think it would be only a reasonable extension of this law to make it apply to all funds that may be donated to the University as well as funds belonging to the University on maturing bonds.
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Joseph E. Browns Donation. I cannot doubt that the legislature will see the wisdom & propriety of doing this & I therefore make the donation conditional upon the passage of an act to carry out this object in accordance with the rule above, mentioned at the next session of the General Assembly; and upon the further condition that the fund shall be used for the purposes, & in the manner hereinafter mentioned. There are hundreds and I believe thousands of young men of good character in Georgia who are intellectual & ambitious to become useful, who desire to obtain a liberal education; some with a view to the profession of law, other the practice of medicine; some for the Gospel ministry, some engineers, architects, chemists, teachers, professors in Colleges and other useful and honorable pursuits: some of whom have at their command part of the means necessary to board & clothe them, while engaged in the pursuit of their Studies in connection with the University. Other young men may be very bright & very worthy who have none of the means necessary to pay for board and clothing while engaged in their studies. I believe there are many young men of both classes mentioned who would consider it their good fortune, to be able to borrow at a reasonable rate of interest, a sufficient amount to carry them through College or to enable them to graduate, in the particular profession or pursuit which they intend to follow, & who would be willing after they had obtained an education & prepared themselves for business to refund the money as soon as they could make it after providing for their livelyhood (sic) in an economical manner until they are able to pay it. Such a young men who takes a proper view of the subject, would not desire to incur more indebtedness than necessity required. He would be willing for the sake of obtaining an education to wear plain clothing & be content with cheap board, if reasonably good and wholesome. I know from experience in early life the feelings of a youth desirous of educating himself without the means to do so; and the good fortune which a loan of money for support while engaged in study was considered as conferring upon the recipient.
I recollect very well, too, that prudence dictated an economical course so as to incur no more indebtedness that was actually necessary. I preferred to live plainly and cheaply, and study hard; rather than be too much loaded with debt; but I considered myself very fortunate when I was able to borrow the amount actually necessary for the prosecution of my studies even to a limited extent. And I doubt not there are at this time large numbers of young men in similar situations who are prompted by the same feelings. The object of this donation is to establish a fund in the hands of the University, the interest of which is to be loaned to young men of the character I mention. First; To aid in part, such young men as may have some means, but not sufficient to carry them through the course selected by them. Secondly: To aid others who have no means, but
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Joseph E. Browns Donation. who are bright and worthy & ambitious to succeed. I desire that the University do this by loaning the interest which may accrue from the principal each year, to young men of the classes above mentioned; No young man to avail himself of the benefit of the fund until he is eighteen years of age; each to sign a pledge of honor when he enteres (sic) the college and commences to receive the fund that he will refund the amount he receives, to the University as soon after he completes his course of study as he may be able to make it, living economically in the meantime; and as this obligation given during the minority of the student would not be legally binding, let him also pledge himself that when twenty one years of age he will give to the University his obligation legally binding for the payment of said sum as aforesaid with four percent per annum interest upon the same. As each will incur indebtedness by borrowing the means necessary to educate himself, each will become more reliant, which will be better for him in the end, if he is manly & possesses talent, than if the amount had been given him. And as tuition is now free in the University, I direct that not more than two hundred dollars per annum shall be loaned to any student, to be advanced to him monthly during the scholastic year. But interest to commence to run on the amount advanced each year at the end of the year. Having no tuition to pay a young man with close economy may be able to get along upon that
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July 1882. sum; and many who have part of the means necessary will not desire so much. I earnestly urge upon each recipient of the fund, the importance of paying back the money as promptly as possible; and I trust each will consider it a sacred obligation, as the repayment increases the amount to be loaned to others, who will be anxious to receive the same benefits enjoyed by himself. If there should be a larger number of promising young men apply for the benefits of the loan than can be accommodated, then I direct that the trustees of the University provide for a selection of recipients from time to time, in such manner, as in their judgment may be most fair and equitable. My wish is that they be selected as impartially as may be formall (sic) parts of the state, so that each section of the state may be represented. If there are many applicants and it can conveniently be done, I think a compedative (sic) examination might be best, but there will no doubt, be many cases, where this cannot be had without difficulty; and where the young man is very bright & worthy; in which case the appointment can very safely be made without a compedative (sic) examination. I wish such young men selected as are bright, of good moral character, apt to learn, in reasonable heath(sic), and ambitious to prepare themselves for usefulness. I do not wish to make a donation to students, but to place a fund in the hands of the University which it will loan them in aid of their education to be paid back by them as aforesaid.
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Joseph E. Browns Donation. I desire the amount paid in by each student in return for the money he has received to be added annually as it is paid in to the principal sum above mentioned, and only the interest upon it to be loaned in future which will from time to time enable the University to increase the number of young men to whom it can make loans, This will ultimately increase the amount of principal which in course of time if properly managed, will grow to a large sum. I trust the legislature of our noble & beloved old state, will make provision for receiving this accumulation, into the treasury from time to time; and issue its bonds to the University, in lieu of it, as the fund may accumulate. But if contrary to my desire & expectation, the state after having given its obligation for the principal, sum of the donation above mentioned, shall at any time refuse to issue its bonds for the accumulated fund in aid of the University; or shall at the end of fifty years refuse to issue its bonds or obligation for the principal sum of fifty thousand dollars & shall pay the same over to the University, then the Board of Trustees may in each or either of said cases invest such fund as my accumulate in the bonds of the United States, or of other state. The general provision above mentioned are subject to the following qualifications: I desire that the sum of One thousand dollars interest accruing annually from the said principal sum of fifty thousand dollars as above mentioned be used by the Board of Trustees aforesaid to aid young men to pursue their studies in the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega upon the same terms as are prescribed for students at the University at Athens;
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July 1882. except that the students who may participate in the benefits of this fund at Dahlonega, must be selected under such rules & regulations as the Board of Trustees of the University may prescribe (to be reasonable and just;) from the mountain counties of North East Georgia; and the Counties of Oconee, Pickens; and Anderson in the State of South Carolina. Pickens District now Oconee and Pickens counties; contains my birth place. My life up to the Commencement of my manhood was spent in the district of my birth place in South Carolina and in the mountains of North East Georgia; and the first credit I received for money in aid of my education was in the County of Anderson, S. C. in which Calhoun Academy, where I commenced my studies is located. The mountain Section above mentioned was the theatre of my early struggle with poverty in my attempt to educate myself; and I wish to pay its people who have sympathized with and supported me in every emergency, this small tribute of my grateful recollection. As the amounts loaned students at Dahlonega are returned, I wish them to be added to the principal which is set apart out of the sum of Fifty thousand Dollars as donated above, to raise the said sum of One thousand dollars annually for said College at Dahlonega; so that it may accumulate as in case of the fund set apart for students of the University at Athens, both being placed upon the same principle of accumulation. If the North Georgia Agricultural College should at any time be discon
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Joseph E. Browns Donation. tinued (which I trust may never occur) and any other school or College of like grade should take its place at Dahlonega or in any of the mountain counties of North East Georgia; that is not denominational in its character, the benefits intended for the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega are to be transferred to the students of such College, or high school as may be selected by the Board of Trustees of the State University, to take its place on said section of country. If unfortunately, there should at any time in the future be no such school kept in the said section of North East Georgia, for as much as five years, then the fund set apart for that purpose shall be transferred to the University at Athens, and become part of the fund to be expended in aid of the students there in the manner, & on the terms already mentioned. If there should be any year when there are not enough of applicants for the fund, of good moral character and promise, to consume the amount of interest accruing during that year, the accrued interest not so used, is to be added to the principal sum and placed at interest to the principal sum and placed at interest, the annual interest to be applied to the purpose already designated. In case of the fund to be loaned to young men at Dahlonega; as living is cheaper there than at Athens, I direct that not more than one hundred and fifty dollars annually be loaned to any young man, while engaged in the pursuit of his studies, to be paid to him monthly, the interests for each year to commence at the end of the year. The amount in each case may
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July 1882. seem small, but a young man without means who is not willing to live economically to secure an education, or who is willing to go in debt to obtain larger sums to be expended in better living, or for greater display at College; is not in my opinion, the person most likely to succeed, or most worthy to be trusted with funds which he is expected to return. Any young man who pursues his studies for the purpose of preparing himself for the ministry in any of the churches, and who after the completion of his studies, devotes his time and talent under the authority of his church to the work of the ministry as his profession or business shall only be required to return to the University one half the amount received by him with interest as aforesaid. Any young man studying to prepare himself for the profession of medicine, may persue (sic) his studies in Augusta where the Medical Department of the University is located.
No part of the fund herein mentioned shall at any time be paid as fees, commission, salary, or otherwise to the trustees or any officer or agent of the trustees; or any officer or agent of the University. As the fund is donated to aid poor but worthy young men, to secure a liberal education; I have full confidence that the trustees and officers of the University, with whom I have acted so long, & their successors; will as heretofore in all cases connected with their trust, administer, this as part of the funds of the University for the good of all, for the usual salaries
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Joseph E. Browns Donation. which the officers would receive if no such fund existed. If it should at any time become necessary to employ counsel to collect money due from any one who borrowed it as a student, & is able to pay it back and refuses to do so; there is will be expected that the usual fees be paid to such counsel, and some Attorney might in such case, be employed to look generally after such collections and see that the University does not suffer loss by in attention to such Collections. I reserve to my four sons Julius L. Brown, Joseph M. Brown, Elijah A. Brown, and George M. Brown, each the right to select one young man to receive the benefits of the loan, and as the one selected, graduates, or leaves College to select another as successor, so that College to select another as successor, so that each may constantly during his natural life, keep one student of his own selection in the University, as a recipient of the use of the funds necessary in his case, subject to the regulations above specified, and in case any one, or each of my sons shall select a kins man as near to him as the fourth degree of consanguinity, such student shall have the benefit of the fund free from the obligation to refund it to the University, if my said son selecting such relative shall so direct; all other selections to be made under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Trustees as already mentioned. And my said sons and the survivors or survivor of them shall have all the usual rights of visitation, with power to see that the trust assumed by the Board of Trustees in behalf of the University is justly and faithfully administered, and in case the
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July 1882. trust is unjustly, illegally, or wrongfully abused to proceed in the proper court to recover back the funds for the use of my legal heirs; but neither my heirs, nor any one of them, shall have the right to recover back the said fund on account of any technical or inadvertent failure, to carry out the trust, if there has not been an important, or substantial failure to do so. The survivor of my said four sons may by his will appoint some one with like power of visitation if he thinks proper to do so.
Joseph E. Brown.
The Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia having by resolution accepted my proposition to donate to the University Fifty thousand dollars to be known as The Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship fund, subject to the conditions mentioned in my communication of this date, I hereby bind myself, my heirs, executors, & administrators to pay into the treasury of the State of Georgia for the benefit of the University, subject to the terms mentioned in my said communication the sum of Fifty thousand Dollars in cash as soon as the legislature of the state at is next session shall have passed an act binding the state to receive the fund, and give her obligation to the University for the said fund payable fifty years after its date with semi-annual interest at the rate of Seven per cent per annum. And I desire the communication, resolution of acceptance, and this obligation, recorded on the regular minutes of the Board of Trustees,
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Report of Committee on Laws & Discipline. and in the office of the clerk of the Superior Courts of Clarke County, Georgia, for preservation.
Executed in presence of Joseph E. Brown Wm. L. Mitchell
Secretary
H. V. M. Miller, Pres. Pro. Tem.
James Jackson Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Georgia.
The Committee on Laws and Discipline recommend the adoption of the following resolutions in relation to the Chancellors Report. First. Resolved, That there be no relaxation of the standard of scholarship necessary to enable students to rise from Class to Class and finally to graduate in any degree conferred by the University and that the Faculty enforce the present grade. Secondly. Resolved, That the programme for future Commencement exercises recommended by the Chancellor in his Report, including the Class day on Saturday before Commencement Sunday, and the exercises on that day, be adopted. Thirdly. Resolved, That the Report on the subject of a water supply for the Campus be referred to the Prudential Committee and Faculty with power to act thereon, having reference to our finances and under the advice & concurrence of the Finance Committee of this Board. Fourthly. Resolved, That the Centennial aniversary (sic) of the University should be celebrated not on the date of one hundred years from the act which authorized its establishment, but from the date it was actually put in operation. Fifthly. Resolved, That the Report in respect to the practical department of technology is approved and that the same be carried into operation (349)
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just so soon as the State shall appropriate the money necessary, and that the Chancellor be instructed to lay the plan before the next Governor and legislature and urge the necessary appropriation. Sixthly. Resolved, That the secretary be authorized to spread on the minutes such reports of Professors referred to by the Chancellor in his Report as may be useful to illustrate that Report or perpetuate the history of the College.
The Committee on Laws & Discipline to whom was referred certain Resolutions beg leave to Report. Firstly. The recommend the adoption of the resolutions in regard to the gift of Charles F. McCay, And further that at the next annual meeting of the Board when the Bonds are counted that a certified copy of the same be obtained and deposited in the vault of a Bank in Augusta. Secondly. Upon the resolution requiring a matriculation and Library fees of fifteen dollars at the respective branch colleges the committee report adversely to its passage. The Committee are not prepared at this time to recommend change in the time of Commencement. The Committee are not prepared to suggest any change of Discipline likely to secure the continued attendance of students during the entire College course. The Blue List as at present made has the sanction of the Board of Trustees and there is no evidence of abuse of power or injustice in the forming of it, but the committee recommend that the subject be commended
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to the attention of the Faculty for such improvement as experience may suggest. The resolution in relation to the delivery of orations by the Faculty and students, is respectfully referred to the Chancellor and Faculty with the expression of the hope that the most efficient means be adopted for improvement in oratory.
On Motion of J. J. Gresham, Resolved that the Treasurer of this Board be directed to have the deed from Charles F. McCay directed to this Institution of seven thousand Dollars under certain trusts and limitations, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Superior Court of Clarke County. Resolved that the Treasurer be instructed in his annual report of the funds belonging to this Institution to include the Bonds belonging to this fund now amounting to twenty thousand dollars in bonds of the Georgia Rail Road Company with the Coupons cut off up to the first of January 1895; and further that at the next examination of the Bonds, certified copies be obtained and deposited by the Finance Committee in the vault of an Augusta Bank.
The Committee on Honorary Degrees beg leave to Report,
That they recommend that the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy be conferred on Walter LeConte Stevens a native of Georgia now resident in New York City. They also recommend that the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts be conferred on Hon. Wm. M. Hammond of the County of Thomas a graduate of the University
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of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Respectfully Submitted
A. R. Lawton Acting Chairman
To the honorable Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia.
Your Committee on Department of Agriculture & Horticulture, would refer to the Report of the Professor of this Department for a more detailed account of the operation of the experimental station attached to his Chair. It is gratifying to us to state that the condition of the farm, so far as we have been able to inspect it, is very good, reflecting credit on the skill and management of the Professor. The crops are promising, thoroughly and judiciously cultivated & well arranged. The experiments in progress are of great interest and value and are ably & faithfully conducted. To produce the best and fullest results the equipment of the farm, in implements and machinery, is altogether insufficient and we would recommend that this defect be supplied so soon as the financial condition of the University will permit. We recommend the appropriation now of one hundred dollars as necessary to renew the old and decayed fences. We would recommend a further appropriation of one hundred dollars to be expended in the publication & circulation of a full report, by the Professor of Agriculture, of the operations of the experimental farm in order that the Agricultural public
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may be informed as to the practical work done upon the farm and of the scope & character of the instruction offered to the students.
This mode of advertising their agricultural Departments, is employed by other Institutions; and we think it would be well for us to adopt it.
Respectfully Submitted Benj. C. Yancey, Chrn.
University of Georgia July 8th 1882 The Committee on Apparatus beg leave to Report;
That a careful inspection of all the apparatus in Moore College has been made, consisting of the instruments and specimens in the Departments of Chemistry Natural Philosophy and Engineering. Every thing in the Building is in good order & the several Professors are entitled to high praise for the manner in which the Apparatus is kept. The Apparatus in the Natural Philosophy Department under the charge of Col. L. H. Charbonnier, the Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy are kept in a manner deserving all praise. Such is the admirable system of the Professor that no instrument is ever put back in the apparatus Room unless it be in perfect order, but is carried to the workshop for repair when any necessary repairs are made by the Professors own hands. In view of the large apparatus under the Professors chair such a system can alone preserve every Instrument in working order. During the past session there have been made
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several important additions to the Philosophical Apparatus. An Induction Coil made by Ritchie of Boston capable of giving an eight inch spark. A Dynamic Electric machine made by same. A magnetic Elective machine made at our University. A Bradleys Apparatus for Electrical measurements. This is a very fine Instrument and with it students are now taught how to make all tests necessary in Telegraphic and other Electrical work. A set of Crookes Tubes to reproduce Crookes experiments on ratiant matter. A fine spectroscope from Browning of England, and upon the same, a Wheatstone. Bridge to use with Bradleys apparatus for Electrical measurements. The old Holly Electrical machine has been remoddled (sic), and what are know as Teiflers attachments have been put on and it is now equal in efficiency to the best modern form of Electrical Machines. In addition a quantity of stores have been bought, consisting of glass ware, connecting wire deviding (sic) posts for electrical experiments, india rubber tubing for Gas connections. The Committee recommend the Board to appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars to improve the system of Dynamic Electricity, by substituting a gas engine of one horse power for the Batteries now in use, which are cumbersome, expensive and inconvenient, provided the funds will warrant it. The Committee fully sympathize with the views of the Professor as to the impor
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-tance of University joining the great family in Europe and this Country devoted to a practical study of the Siderial Heavens. The smallest sum for a proper outfit of Astronomy in a practical manner is $20,000. and the limit upwards is not ascertained. It reaches to hundreds of thousands. Our Legislature ought to begin this great work at once at our University. Few spots upon the Globe have a purer atmosphere for astronomical observations -and while Clarke & Son of Cambridge-port are alive our State & University ought to secure their services for the largest lens ever made by man. They have already acchieved (sic) a lens of thirty inch diameter and by a due appreciation might be tempted to try a still larger lens and thus place us at the head of astronomical observations. And it is much to be first in any good & great and useful thing. The Committee recommend that an appeal be made to our next General Assembly upon this important subject.
Respectfully Submitted Wm. L. Mitchell Chairman.
Report of Finance Committee. University of Georgia. To the Board of Trustees,
The Finance Committee present the following Report. The receipts from all sources for the fiscal year ending July 8th 1882 as per the itemized statement of the Treasurer were as follows.
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Receipts from July 8th 1881 to July 8th 1882 Annual Payment by the State of Georgia _ _ _ _ $8000.00 Interest on the Land Scrip(sic) Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ 17914.14 Interest on the General Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 456.50 Rents _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1092.16 Insurance Premium Paid by Professors _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 26.50 Library Fees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 620.00 Matriculation Fees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1250.00 Interest on Terrell Endowment _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1260.00 Appropriation by Legislature for Milledgeville Buildings 5000.00 Appropriation by Legislature for Free Tuition _ _2000.00 Insurance Collected on Waddell house _ _ _ _ _ _2100.00 Bonds matured & collected _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _9500.00 Total receipts _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$49219.30
Expenditures. The expenditures for the same time have been. Salaries _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$19700.00 Branch Colleges _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9500.00 Repairs on Buildings of Milledgeville Branch College 2821.02 Invested in State of Ga. 7% 50 year Obligation 3000.00 Repairs, Lawn Mower & Grounds _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1364.94 All other items _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 4124.71 Total Expenditures _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$40510.67
The Cash Balance on hand July 8th 1881 _ _ _ _ $5248.42
Total Receipts to July 8th 1882 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$49219.30
$54467.72 Deduct Total Expenditures _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 40510.67 Cash Balance on hand July 8th 1882 _ _ _ _ _ _$13957.05
This apparently large Balance is composed of the following sums: Insurance Collected on Waddell House _ _ _ _ $2100.00 Unexpended balance of appropriation for Milledgeville Builds 2178.98 Cash recd. From matured bonds, not yet reinvested 6500.00 Library Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _520.00 Balance to credit of land scrip Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _233.60 Balance to credit of General Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2424.47
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Report of Finance Committee. So that of the entire cash balance now in hand there is available for current uses only: The Balance from Land Scrip(sic) Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$ 233.60 And Balance from General Fund. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $2424.47 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $2658.07
An analysis of the foregoing statements shows that the actual income, available for operation expenses of the University, after deducting all extraordinary items, was as follows:
Actual Income of 1881-1882. Annual Payment by the State _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $8000.00 Interest on the Land Scrip(sic) Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 17914.14 Interest on the General Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _456.50 Brought Forward _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$26370.64 Rents _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1092.16 Matriculation Fees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1250.00 Interest on the Terrel (sic) Fund _ __ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 12.60.00 Legislature appropriation for Free tuition _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000.00 Total available income _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $31972.80
The ordinary operating expenses have been: Salaries _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $19700.00 Branch Colleges _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _9500.00 Repairs, Lawn mower and Grounds _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _1364.94 All other ordinary items _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3511.71 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$34076.65
From which it appears that the expenses were $2103.85 in excess of the receipts & this accounts for the decrease in the available cash balance in the hands of the Treasurer.
Your Committee submits the following estimate of Income for year ending July 8th, 1883
Cash Balance on hand _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$2658.07 Interest on Land Scrip Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _17914.14 Annual Payment by the State _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _8000.00
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Interest on General Fund _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 600.00 Interest on Terrell Endowment _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _1300.00 Rents _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 937.50 Matriculation Fees _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1250.00 Total _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$32659.71
And the following estimate of the Expenditures for year ending July 8th 1883. Catalogue, Advertising & Printing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $500.00 Music $100. Servants $600. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 700.00 Postage $125.Stationary $50. _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 175.00 Fuel $140. Insurance $400. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 540.00 Medals $36. Chemicals $100. Incidentals $100. _ _ _ _ _ _ 236.00 Repairs of Apparatus $50.00 Librarian $100. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _150.00 Commencement Sermon $20. Chancellors Expenses $100. 120.00 Salaries of Professors _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19850.00 Appropriations to Branch College _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9500.00 Leaving for Repairs & all contingencies only _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 888.71 Total Expenditures _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $32659.71 Branch (left margin) College (left margin) Appropriation (left margin) Reduced to (left margin) $8000. being (left margin) 2000. to each. (left margin)
This estimate not only absorbs the entire estimated income for the year, but also the Cash balance now on hand. Should the Board appropriate the sums set forth for the purposes specified, the following will be properly chargeable to the Land Scrip Fund.
Land Scrip Fund 1882-3 Branch Colleges _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $ 9500.00 Salaries as per Schedule_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9100.00 Music $50. Servants $375. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _425.00 Catalogues, Adv. & Print. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _250.00 Fuel $70 Medals $18. Chemicals $50.00 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _138.00 Postage & Stationery $87.50 Incidentals $50 _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _137.50 Repairs of Apparatus $25. Librarian $50. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 75.00 Travelling expenses of Chancellor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 100.00 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$19725.50
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Your Committee also presents herewith the usual statement of the Assets of the University July 8th 1882.
I. Land Scrip Fund. $96000.00 Bonds of State of Ga. 8% due April 1st, 1884 (arrow up to 96000.00) 56000.00
Do 7% July 1st 1892 (arrow up to 56000.00) 90202.17 Amount in hands of Governor paying &% (arrow up to 90202.17) $242202.17 Total ( arrow up to 242202.17)
II. Terrell Endowment State of Ga. 7% Bonds due July 1 1886 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $5500.00
7% Jany 1 1892 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 10500.00 Cash in hands of Treasurer for Bonds Collected _ _ _ 4000.00 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$20000.00
III. General (Franklin College) Fund. Debt of State of Ga. paying 8% _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $100000.00 State of Ga. Bonds 8% due April 1 1883 _ _ _ _ _ _ _3000.00
7% July 1 1932 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3000.00 City of Athens Bonds 8% due July 1 1898 _ _ _ _ _ _ 300.00 Cash in hands of Tr. for Bonds collected _ _ _ _ _ _ _2500.00
Insurance on Waddell house.2100.00 Total. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $110900.00
Total Assets All Funds _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $373102.17
The amount properly chargeable to the land Scrip Fund in the foregoing estimate is
$19,725.50 We have on hand to the credit of this fund __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $233.60 The Income will be _ _ _ $17914.14 _________ Aggregating $18147.74 $18147.74
Leaving a deficiency to meet charges of $1577.76 If one half of the Chancellors Salary is charged to this Fund, which would be proper there would be a deficiency to
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meet the charges amounting to _ _ _ _ _$3077.76
The income of the University for the last year omitting Library Fees and the appropriation by the State for free Tuition
was _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ ___ __ __ _ _$29972.80 While the Salaries require $19850.00 And Branch Colleges _ _ _ _9500.00 Aggregating _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $29350.00 $29350.00 Leaving the sum of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $622.80 to meet all other expenses of the Institution. These statements force upon your Committee the embarrassing fact that we shall with great difficulty meet the necessary expenses of the University for the next fiscal year, with the income insight, if the present appropriations to the Same Branch Colleges are to be continued -unless some outside aid be received such as that granted by the last General Assembly. The re-establishment of Tuition Fees would only add to the income the difference between the Matriculation Fees estimated at $1250. And Tuition Fees, a sum probably less than one thousand dollars. The only other source of income which could be increased is that arising from Matriculation Fees, by an increase in the number of students -but as the matriculation Fee is only $10.00 the number of students required to make any considerable addition to the estimated income from this source is larger than the University can probably obtain. Your Committee can see no other way out of the difficulty therefore, than those suggested -either a reduction in the appropriations to the Branch Colleges, or a reduction of the other fixed charges, or further
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aid from the Treasury of the State. Your Committee in accordance with the order of the Board at its last session have examined the package of Bonds, donated to the University by Dr. C. F. McCay which are deposited in the vault of the National Bank of Athens and find them correct. We have resealed the package & replaced the same. Appended will be found schedule of expenditures in detail, also of Salaries, and the proportion chargeable to the Land Scrip Fund. All of which is respectfully submitted
W. W. Thomas Ch. Finance Com. Schedule of Expenditures
From July 8 1881 to July 8 1882. Catalogue, Advertising & Printing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _$ 513.95 Music 100. Servants 629.33 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 729.33 Postage 125.15 Stationery 31.80 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _156.95 Fuel _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 148.09 Insurance _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 520.22 Medals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 36.00 Chemicals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 157.69 Incidentals _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 109.35 Repairing Apparatus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _112.40 Librarian _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _100.00 Branch Colleges _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9500.00 Salaries of Officers _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 19700.00
Repairs Lawn Mower &c. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1364.94 Dr. Boggs Commencement Sermon _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _20.00 Apparatus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 579.43 Chancellors Travelling expenses _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 128.30 Horse forAg. Dept. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 175.00 Instruments _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 25.00 Library _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 613.00 Invested in State 7% 50 year Bonds _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 3000.00
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Repairs at Milledgeville _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2821.00 Total _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _$40510.67 Athens Ga. July 8th 1882
Schedule of Officers Salaries Chancellor P. H. Mell _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $3000._ Professor Wm. Rutherford _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000._
L. H. Charbonnier _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000._ C. P. Willcox_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _2000._ H. C. White _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _2000._ W. M. Browne _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2000._ E. W. Speer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _2000._ W. G. Woodfin _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _2000._ D. C. BarrowJr._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1600._
Sec & Tr. Dr. Wm. L. Mitchell _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1000._ Prof. L. H. Charbonnier as inspector _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 250.
$19850.00 Proportion of the above chargeable to the Land Scrip fund For Salary of Prof. Browne _ _ _ _ _ _ _ $2000.00
Barrow _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1600.00 White _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _1000.00 Charbonnier _ _ _ _ _ 1000.00 Rutherford _ _ _ _ _ _ 1000.00 Willcox _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1000.00 Speer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 1000.00 Dr. Mitchell Sec. & Tr. _ _ _ 500.00
$9100.00
Athens, Ga. July 13th 1882 The Committee on Branch Colleges report that W. S. Dudley President of the Branch College at Milledgeville resigned his office and that the local Board of trustees proceeded to fill his place by election. We do not concede the right of the said
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Report of Committee on Branch Colleges. local Board to elect to this position assert that under the act establishing said Branch College the exercise of that right was only temporary and applicable to the first election, that thereafter as in the case of the other Branch Colleges it belongs exclusively to the Board after conference with their representatives. We regard the action of the local Board in this respect as an expression of their preference in behalf of the gentleman they have named for the position & Dr. Dudley having sent his resignation to this Board, which has been accepted, we recommend that the vacancy in the Presidency of said Branch Colleges be filled by election of this Board. We further recommend that the appointment of professors & teachers made by said local board be ratified by this Board. In response to the application of the Board of Trustees of the South Georgia Ag. College to sell a portion of the land held at Thomasville for the use of said College and to appropriate the proceeds of said sale and the material suitable for building on the site of the Fletcher Institute, to the erection of buildings for the use of said Branch College. We recommend that the application be granted & that when said sale is made and the conditions thereof complied with, that the proper authorities convey the title of said land to the professors. We further recommend that the Chancellors place as set forth in his annual report to this Board as to the arrangement and designation of classes in the Branch Colleges especially those at Cuthbert and Thomasville be adopted, and communicated by the secretary of this Board to their re
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July 1882. -spective local boards of Trustees of said Branch Colleges that the same may be carried into effect.
Samuel Hall Chairman Committee
S. M. H. Byrd
J. H. Billups
D. C. Barrow,
A. T. MacIntyre
The Board then took up the Report of the Committee on Buildings & grounds and amended it by changing the appended Resolution so as to appropriate instead of $2000.00 any balance in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to the objects contemplated in the Report and as they amended the Report and Resolution were adopted. The following are the Report and Resolution as made originally to the Board.
To the Board of Trustees
The Committee on Grounds and Buildings, report that during the past year, the interest of which it has the oversight have received the careful attention of one very efficient and judicious Inspector. The usual necessary repairs have been put upon the dwellings & lots occupied by the Chancellor, Professors, & Tenants of the University costing in the aggregate about $400. The sum of $72.42 has been expended on Moore College, $1222, on the two Dormitories occupied by Mrs & Mrs Richardson and $1200 for repairs of Verandahs at University High School. Ninety one
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Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds. Dollars and 10 cents has been spent in the purchase of Lawn Mowers ordered by the Board at is last session, the beneficial use of which is seen in the handsome condition of the grass plots within the inclosure (sic). Only $42.90 has been spent in the improvement of the Campus & Grounds. In addition to the foregoing something more than $200. has been required for such miscellaneous objects as Hardware, Lumber, Painting, Repairs, on Lecture Halls &c. making as the whole amount paid out for the year on account of repairs and improvements, about $1300, being less, by about $700, than the appropriation made for these general objects. An inconsiderable amount will be required to complete the work already commenced upon the University High School Building occupied by Prof. Browne. Nothing of consequence has been expended on the College Chapel, although the improvement of that edifice was one of the objects contemplated in your last appropriation. It was found that with very slight repairs the building would answer for the present commencement, while it was hoped that an economical use of funds for the past year would enable the Board to make a liberal allowance for this important object at this session. Attention to this Building cannot be longer deferred. The plastering is defaced & out of order. The overhead ceiling as well as the floor are showing signs of decay. The cornice around the ceiling cannot be longer repaired & must be renewed. The woodwork inside the Building should be painted & the walls Kalsomined (?) or otherwise improved. The roof
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July 1882. has been patched, more or less, for the last several years and will not longer protect the building. Your Committee would recommend its replacement with tin which will cost not much more than shingles & be cheaper in the end. It will require $900. to put this Building in thorough repair. It is impossible to forecast with any approach to accuracy, the repairs to buildings fences & that will be required during the next year, but your Committee believe that with an appropriation of $2000. the same as that made at your last session, we shall be able to carry on the usual necessary repairs as well as complete the work absolutely necessary to be done on the Chapel & would therefore recommend the adoption of the appended resolution.
Respectfully submitted Young L. G. Harris Chairman.
Resolved,
That the sum of $2000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated for completing the work already begun at the University High School for general repairs & for the improvement of the College Chapel as indicated with foregoing report.
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Atlanta Georgia
Kimball House Atlanta Geo Nov 8th 1882
The Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia met according to adjournment present.
Hon. J. J. Gresham President & Messrs. Barrow, Beckwith, Billups, Brown, Byrd, Colquitt, Cumming, Cobb, Fannin, Felton, Grady, Hammond, Hall, Jackson, Lewis, Livingston, Miller, Smith, Thomas, Toombs, Vason & Yancey.
At the request of the President prayer was offered by Right Rev. John W. Beckwith Bishop of Georgia.
On motion of Mr. Billups Lamar Cobb was requested to act as temporary Secretary.
At the time a communication was received from Gov. Stephens through his Private Secretary Seidell stating that his physician had forbidden his leaving the house and requesting the Board of Trustees to repair to the Executive Mansion and hold their meetings there.
On motion of Mr. Livingston the board repaired immediately to the Executive Mansion & there reconvened.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and having been amended so as to show that Gov. James M. Smith and Hon. W. H. Felton were excused at the meeting in Athens were adopted.
Gen. Toombs first giving notice that
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November 8th 1882. he would move to reconceder (sic) so much of the action of the Board as referred to the donation of Gov. Brown. On motion of Gov. Stephens Lamar Cobb was unanimously elected Secretary & Treasurer to fill the vacancy occassioned (sic) by the death of Wm. L. Mitchell L.L.D. and that the Prudential Committee require of him the same boyd (?) that his predecessor had given and that said Committee audit the accounts of the former Secretary and Treasurer and take a receipt from Mr. Cobb for all property and money that they turn over to him.
By Mr. Billups, Resolved That the Board enter into an election for a Professor of Belle Letters & Orators to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Prof. Speer.
Gov. Brown moved as a substitute for Mr. Billups motion, That the action of the Board in
accepting Dr. Speers resignation be reconsidered.
The substitute was voted down and the original resolution adopted.
Whereupon the Board after hearing all the applications read entered into an election to fill the chair of belle letters & Oratory which resulted in the Election of Prof. Charles Morris of Virginia.
On motion of Mr. Yancey the election was made unanimous.
On motion of Mr. Yancey Hon. Pope Brown, Esq. was unanimously elected to fill the vacancy in the Law Department occasioned by the death of Wm. L. Mitchell L.L.D.
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Atlanta Georgia On motion of Gov. Brown the Board adjourned until tomorrow at 3 oclock P.M. to meet at the Executive Mansion.
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November 9th 1882
Executive Mansion
Atlanta Ga Nov. 9th 1882
The Board met at 3 oclock P.M. according to adjournment Present
Hon. J. J. Gresham President & Messrs. Grady, Brown, Smith, Vason, Toombs, Beckwith, Cumming, Hall, Hammond, Miller, Fannin, Stephens, Lewis, Barrow, Yancey, Felton, Billups, Byrd & Cobb.
By Gen. Toombs, That so much of the action of the Board as related to the acceptance of the donation of Gov. Brown known as the Charles McDonald Scholarship Fund be reconsidered, was lost.
Hon. C. P. Crawford representing the Middle Georgia Military & Agricultural College at Milledgeville was then heard at his request in regard to the status of that College to the University of Georgia.
After which Gov. Brown offered the following resolution which was adopted
That we treat the action of the local Board at Milledgeville as a substantial compliance with the action of this Board under the resolution of Mr. Lewis July 19 1882 and that we proceed to elect a President of the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College at Milledgeville. The Board then proceeded to the election of a President of the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College at Milledgeville when Mr. W. B. Bonnell was unanimously elected and the Secretary was instruc-(sic) to notify him.
Mr. Yancey offered the following resolution which adopted. That the Chancellor be releived (sic) from presenting the matter of Technology to the Legislature and that he be (370)
Atlanta Georgia Requested to act with the Committee appointed to see to the interests of the University before the Legislature.
On motion of Mr. Vason the Board went into an election of two Trustees to fill the vacancies occasioned by the death of Hon. B. H. Hill and Wm. L. Mitchell L.L.D. which resulted in the election of Hon. R. C. Humber and Dr. James S. Hamilton.
Hon. W. P. Price and Wimpy (?) at their request were then heard in regard to the present condition of the North Ga. Agricultural College at Dahlonega.
Mr. Jackson came in and took his seat.
Gov. Brown offered the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved, On account of the past that there is great danger of a suspension of the College at Dahlonega for want of funds: if immediate relief is not afforded, that the amount appropriated at the last annual meeting for the repairs &c. which has not been used, except such sum as may be necessary to stop leaks in the roof, or so much of it as may be necessary be appropriated to the College at Dahlonega.
By Mr. Grady, Whereas since the last meeting of this Board one its Trustees Hon. B. H. Hill and its Secretary, Treasurer & Trustee Wm. L. Mitchell have died.
Resolved, That the Chair appoint a committee of five members of this Board who will report at the next meeting of this Board suitable resolutions on the lamentable event.
The Chair appointed the fol
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lowing Committee-Grady Chairman. Messrs. Jackson, Hammond, Yancey & Hall.
By Mr. Byrd. Whereas the anual (sic) report of the President of the Local Board of Trustees of the South-West Georgia Agricultural College submitted at the last regular meeting of this Board showed that said Local Board, at its regular meeting in June last, had recommended for election to fill certain vacancies on said Board Rev. J. R. Owen, Messrs. Barfield, Wm. H. Cooper, R. T. Crogin and W. D. Kiddoo of Cuthbert Ga. and
A. J. Fort of Lumpkin Ga.: and whereas by oversight this Board failed to act on said recommendation.
Resolved that said recommendation be adopted and that the gentlemen above named be elected to fill said vacancies in said Local Board. Adopted.
The following communication & accompanying document was received from the Chancellor
Kimball House Atlanta Ga. Nov. 8th 1882 To the Board of Trustees University of Georgia
Gentlemen
I have the honor herewith to transmit to you a Communication from Professors Pope Barrow and Geo. D. Thomas, of the Law Department. The latter gentleman, who was at home at the time, responded promptly to my request, and gave to the Law-Students the instruction that threatened to be interrupted by
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Atlanta Georgia by the lamented death of the venerable and distinguished Dr. Wm. L. Mitchell. As a consequence, those students resumed their regular work the day after the funeral obsequies.
Prof. Barrow was absent when Dr. Mitchell died; but his joint Communication shows that he also is willing to render efficient cooperation in the future. To aid you in whatever action you may wish to take in regard to the Law-Department, I requested those gentlemen to address you in such terms as they are able to use. Hence their communication to you.
With this I transmit also to you a letter from W. W. Lumpkin Esq. which will explain itself.
I do not know whether my official presence here will be in any way serviceable to you: but I have come because advised to do so by all the members of the Board whom I could consult. It is desirable that I should return to my duties in the University at once or as soon as it may suit your convenience for me to do so
I have the honor to remain Gentlemen
Your Obt. Servant
P. H. Mell Chancellor Un. of Ga.
Athens Ga. 7th Nov 1882 To the Board of Trustees University of Georgia Gentlemen:
At the August session 1880 of your Honorable body, we, the undersigned, were elected Assistant Professors of the Law Department. The chief duties of the Department have hitherto been performed by Dr. Wm. L.
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November 9th 1882. Mitchell, with such assistance from us as was suggested by him.
At the suggestion of the Chancellor, we have continued the instruction to the Law-Students without interruption since Dr. Mitchells death.
In as much, however, as a doubt exists as to the authority conferred upon us in reference to signing Diplomas so as to entitle Graduates to admission to the Bar, we would be glad for the Board to take such action on the premises as will relieve the matter of all doubt, if any exists
It will impossible for both of us to be always present with the Law classes, but if it is desired by the board, we will undertake to continue the instruction in this Department until next Commencement, one or both of us being present each day.
At the Annual Meeting of the Board at Commencement 1883, should this plan for any reason prove unsatisfactory to the Board, or should our practice prevent a faithful discharge of the duties of the Department some other arrangement can be perfected.
Respectfully submitted Pope Barrow Geo. D. Thomas
The following Committee, were appointed by the President. Committee on Finance
W. W. Thomas Chairman. [Hull (pencil)] Messrs. Crawford, McIntyre, Toombs ,Vason, Byrd and Cumming.
[Thomas (pencil)] [Lawton (pencil)] Committee
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Atlanta Ga. Nov. 9th 1882.
Committee on Agricultural [& Horticulture (pencil)] Colleges Dr. J. S. Hamilton Chairman. Messrs. Yancey, Hall, Screven, Livingston, Smith and Humber.
Committee on Library Lamar Cobb Chairman. Messrs. Stephens, Beckwith, Speer & Grady.
Committee on Grounds & Buildings. Young L. G. Harris Chairman. Messrs. Barrow, Lewis, Gordon & Felton. [Yancey (pencil)]
Committee on Apparatus The Prudential Committee.
Committee on Law Department Emory Speer Chairman [Cobb (pencil)] Messrs. Harris and Jackson. [Cobb (pencil)] Auditing Committee
W. W. Thomas Chairman [Hamilton Chairman (pencil)] Messrs. Thomas and Hamilton [& Hull (pencil)]
On Motion the Board adjourned sine die.
John J. Gresham Lamar Cobb Prest. Secty.
Committee on Branch Colleges Mr. Hull Chairman Messrs. Brown, Vason, Barrow, Humber, Hamilton & Screven.
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Atlanta Ga. March 31st 1883.
Kimball House
The Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia met in obedience to a call of the President of the Board-Present
Hon. John J. Gresham -President & Messrs.
Miller Brown Toombs
Barrow Beckwith Cobb
Colquitt Thomas Hammond
Livingston Grady Humber Hamilton

At the request of the President -prayer was offered by the Rt. Rev. Jno. W. Beckwith Bishop of Georgia.
The President stated that the meeting was called at the request of three members: to wit Joseph E. Brown, A. H. Colquitt & N. J. Hammond when the following letter was recd and read
Atlanta March 31st 1883
To the Trustees of the University
of Georgia.
Gentlemen:
On the 10th of July last, I proposed in a written communication addressed to you, to make a donation to the University of fifty thousand dollars for the purpose, and upon the terms and conditions therein mentioned.
One of the requirements of the proposition was, that the Legislature of Georgia, at its next session, should provide for receiving said sum into the Treasury of the State and for the issuance of fifty thousand dollars of the
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Atlanta Georgia the Bonds of the State to the University in place of said amount, having fifty years to run with seven per cent interest, payable semi-annually. The Legislature met at the usual time in November, and adjourned without having made provision for the receipt of the money, and the issue of said bonds to the University. The proposition was accepted by your honorable body, when made by one, but as the legislature did not make any provision for issuing the bonds, I suppose neither party is now bound by the proposition or acceptance.
It is still my desire to appropriate that sum of money, for the education of poor young men, in the University of Georgia, as specified in said proposition. And with a view of avoiding all misunderstanding on the subject, and of placing this amount in the hands of the Trustees of the University for the purpose above referred to, I have purchased fifty thousand dollars of the valid bonds of the State of Georgia, which are not now due, but will mature on the first day of April 1883, and I propose now to deliver said Fifty-thousand dollars in the above bonds of the State of Georgia to the Trustees of the University of Georgia, as the property of said University, for the same uses and upon precisely the same terms,(except as herein modified,) as are set forth in my written communication to this board, dated 15th July last, the said bonds on delivery to this board to become the property of the University for the uses and upon the terms above mentioned, upon the condition subsequent that the Trustees of the University
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March 31st 1883. shall within a reasonable time, say within two months from the maturity of the bonds, through their duly authorised (sic) agent or officer, present at the Treasury of the State, for redemption, and shall receive from the Governor of the State, in lieu of said matured bonds so presented for payment an obligation or obligations in writing, in the nature of a bond, in amount equal to the principal of the bonds, so presented as provided in an Act to make permanent the income of the University of Georgia and for other purposes, Approved September 20th 1881.
This will place the bonds, which I now propose to donate to the University through this Board, upon the same footing precisely as all other bonds of the State belonging to the University are placed by the Act of 1881.
I have the bonds now present, ready for delivery, if this proposition is accepted.
Joseph E. Brown
Mr. Hammond-moved That the gift be accepted upon the terms stated which was adopted.
Mr. Toombs called for the yeas & nays upon Mr. Hammond motion which resulted as follows.
Yeas Messrs. Miller, Barrow, Beckwith, Cobb, Colquitt, Thomas, Humber, Hamilton,
Hammond, Livingston, and Grady 11.
Nays
Mr. Toombs 1.

Mr. Toombs asked the privilege of filing his protest -which was granted. Mr.
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Mr. Beckwith was excused from farther attendance at this meeting.
Mr. Miller offered following resolution
Resolved -That the President of this Board, Messrs. Jas S. Hamilton, Lamar Cobb, W. W. Thomas, & Mr. Miller be appointed a committee to receive and count the bonds donated by Senator Brown to the University and to present the same to the Treasury for payment and to apply for and receive from the Governor the bonds or obligation of the State bearing 7 per cent interest at 50 years in lieu there of in accordance with the Act of the General Assembly of 1881 and to deliver the same to the Treasurer of this Board.
Adopted.
Mr. Cobb offered the following resolution
Resolved that the Prudential committee be authorized to withdraw certain bonds of the Geo RR & Bkg Co due in 1897 and to exchange them for similar Bonds of the Geo RR & Banking Co due in 1910, when presented by C. F. McCay the donor.
And that after the exchange is made that the Prudential Committee be directed to have said Bonds registered Adopted
On motion the Board adjourned Sine die.
Lamar Cobb John J. Gresham Secty Prest.
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Athens Ga July 18th 1883
The Board of Trustees met in annual session at 10 A.M. Present Hon. John J. Gresham President Messrs. Billups Grady Harris
Cobb Hall Lewis Felton Hamilton McIntyre Miller Thomas Yancey
During the session the following members appeared and took their seats
Messrs. Barrow Hammond Lawton Brown Humber Pierce Cooper Jackson Vason
The minutes of the last annual meeting and the call meeting of March 31st 1883 were read and approved.
At the request of the President prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. P. H. Mell Chancellor of the University.
The Chancellor read his annual report (Page 406) which was referred to the appriate (sic) Committees.
Mr. Billups offered the following resolution which was adopted
Resolved That so much of the Chancellors report as relates to the School of Technology, and such elaborating of that subject as he may deem advisable, he furnished the Atlanta Constitution for publication at once.
The President announced the following as the Committee on Laws and Discipline.
Mr. Miller Chairman and
Messrs. Billups, Hall, McIntyre, Felton &
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And Hammond.
Mr. Billups offered the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved That Dr. Miller, W. W. Thomas, Grady and Cobb be appointed a Committee to receive the visiting members of the Legislature.
On motion of Mr. Thomas Mr. Billups was added to the Committee as Chairman.
Excuses were made and received for Messrs. Beckwith, Fannin, Byrd & Crawford.
The following communication was read
Athens Ga July 13th 1883
To the President and Members of
the Board of Trustees of the University of Ga.
Dear Sirs
We are here for the purpose of tendering to you the West Georgia A & M College and property located at Hamilton and ask you to receive it as a branch of the University in terms of the Act of the Legislature Approved Sept. 28th 1881 and will be glad to have a hearing as early as practicable
This morning if possible.
Very Respectfully
L. L. Stanford
W. J. Hudson
J. M. Mobley
J. F. C. Williams
Committee of Trustees of West Ga. A & M. C.
Mr. Yancey-moved that the request of the Committee be granted and that they be requested to appear at once if they so desire
Which was adopted whereupon
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July 13th 1883. Hon. L. L. Stanford, James M. Mobley & W. J. Hudson were introduced and urged the claims of their West Ga. A & M College.
At the conclusion of their address on motion of Mr. Billups the Board adjourned to 5 oclock this afternoon.
5 oclock P. M. The Board met according to adjournment. Messrs. Jackson and Humber appeared and took their seats.
Mr. Hamilton as Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture made his report on the Experimental Farm (Page 407) which was laid on the table for the present.
The annual report of the Trustees of the South West Ga. Agriculture College and of the South Ga. Agricultural College were received and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges (Page ).
Prof. White extended an invitation to the Board to visit the Farm some day during this session which in motion of Mr. Billups was accepted and the President appointed as a Committee for that purpose.
Mr. Hamilton Chairman & Messrs. McIntyre Grady
Felton &
Livingston Humber to visit the Farm at 5 P.M. on Monday.
Mr. Thomas read Mr. Harris report as Chairman of the Committee on Apparatus (Page 440) which was laid on the table for the present.
Mr. Thomas also read Mr. Harris report
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Mr. Thomas read Mr. Harris report as Chairman of the Prudential Committee and the abstract of the their proceedings (Page 435) which was laid on the table for the present.
Mr. Jackson moved the adoption of the following resolution which were appended to the Report of the Prudential Committee which was carried
Resolved That the action of the Prudential Committee in turning over to the Treasurer of this Board, the Twenty Thousand dollars in Georgia Rail-Road & Banking Co. 6% Bonds constituting the donation made to the University by Charles F. McCay is hereby approved and ratified.
Resolved That the thanks of this Board are hereby tendered to Prof. H. C. White of the Chair of Chemistry for timely and valuable services rendered in taking the oversight and management of the Experimental Farm since the decease of Genl. Browne.
Mr. Harris tendered his resignation as a Trustee which on motion of Mr. Billups was laid on the table for the present. Mr. Thomas as Chairman of the Finance Committee made his report (Page 455) which was laid on the table for the present. On motion of Mr. Billups adjourned until tomorrow morning at nine oclock. John J. Gresham President
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Saturday July 14th 1883.
The Board met according to adjournment. Minutes of yesterday read &
confirmed. Messrs. Pierce, Vason, Hammond and Barrow came in and took their seat. On motion of Mr. Yancey the application of the West Ga. A & M college was
taken from the table and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges. Mr. Vason offered the following resolution which was adopted. Resolved that the details in the management of the Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund be referred to a special Committee of five.
The Chair appointed as that Committee Mr. Vason Chairman and Messrs. Lewis McIntyre
Hammond Barrow.
Rev. Dr. Cook President of the Middle Ga. M & A College at Milledgeville at his request appeared before the Board and read the Report of that College (Page ) which was referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges.
On motion of Mr. Billups the resignation of Mr. Harris was taken from the table and a Committee was appointed to confer with him and request that he withdraw his resignation.
The Chair appointed as that Committee Messrs. Billups and Hamilton.
The Chair announced the following as the Committee on Honorary Degrees Rev. Dr. P. H. Mell Chmn Messrs. Billups & Cobb
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On motion of Mr. Cobb the claim of the College at Dahlonega was referred to the Finance Committee.
Mr. Miller stated that at the request of Mr. Cobb the Treasurer he moved that the Prudential Committee take a Bond of the Treasurer for the faithful performance of his duties, which was adopted.
After discussion the amount of the Bond was fixed at Twenty Thousand Dollars.
The Board accepted an invitation from Dr. and Mrs. Mell to attend the Chancellors reception Tuesday Evening.
On motion of Mr. Vason the Board took a recess until 12 M in order to allow the Committee to meet.
12. M. The Board reconvened according to adjournment.
On motion of Mr. Jackson the same Committee that was appointed to draft suitable resolutions touching the death of Hon. B. H. Hill and Wm. L. Mitchell L.L.D. were charged with the preparation of suitable resolution in reference to the death of Gov.
A. H. Stephens and Prof. Wm. M. Browne.
Mr. McIntyre moved that Mr. Yancey be added to the Finance Committee which was withdrawn at the request of Mr.
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Yancey.
Mr. Thomas as Chairman of the Finance Committee made the following report and which he moved the adoption of
The Finance Committee, to whom was referred certain claims for money expended on account of the College Buildings at Dahlonega respectfully report. 1st
. That all the vouchers submitted us amounting to $1462.21 are for expenditures made prior to the passage of the Act appropriating the money and therefore would not have been spent in completing the building dating from the passage of the Act.
2nd .
Of the whole amount asked to be paid, amounting to $1462.21 -$1142.20 as per account rendered was expended for furniture. Your Committee construes the Act appropriating the money to apply only to the building For these reasons we recommend that the Board decline to pay the amount claimed. Respectfully submitted Athens July 14th 1883 W. W. Thomas }
A. T. McIntyre }Com.
D.H. Vason }
Mr. Hammond moved to amend the report as follows That all work alluded to in the report done on the building of the North Georgia Agricultural College be paid for out of the Fund appropriated for that purpose, bearing the question of furniture open for the present which was adopted.
Mr. Miller
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4 P.M.
The Board met according to adjournment.
Mr. Cumming was, upon his own application, excused from attendance at this session.
The report of Prof. White on the Experimental Farm was called for and read.
On motion of Mr. Hall the discussion of the verbal report of the Committee on Laws & Discipline so far as relates to Professorship of Agriculture was deferred until Monday Morning.
The Committee on Laws & Discipline recommended that in the matter of the time when the Students should close their studies at the end of the Scholastic Year he left to the Chancellor.
Also that the recommendations of the Chancellor for an increase in the number of the Catalogue be adopted.
Both which recommendations were adopted.
The Committee recommend, that in accordance with the Chancellors recommendation, the conferring of the following degrees upon the young men of the Senior Class
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Saturday July 16th 1883.
Bachelor of Arts
J. W. Bennett Clarke Howell Wm. S. Cheney George F. Hunnicutt Wm. M. Coile Oscar E. Kinnebrew Herschel W. Duggar John T. Lofton Thomas R. Edwards D. Clayton Peacock Washington M. Foy J. Hamilton Phinizy
Bachelor of Philosophy
J. Prescott Brooke Robert N. Holland Luther M. Farmer Eugene J. Jacobs
Civil and Mining Engineer Charles M. Strahan
Bachelor of Engineering John Bostwick Erwin M. Wade Davis Freeman Mann L. Wade Russell R. Reneau Harris R. Wilcox
Bachelor of Law
A. J. Arnold Thomas B. Felder Jr. Bernard Awtry Davis J. Gaffney Wm. N. Conley Henry McAlpin Screven A. McCall Vernon B. Robinson Wm. A. McClean John P. Ross John P. Moore Walter M Ryals.
The Chair appointed the following Committee to invite distinguished gentlemen to seats on the rostrum Messrs. Cobb and Thomas
On motion the Board adjourned until 9 A.M. Monday. John J. Gresham President Monday
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Monday July 16th 1883 The Board met according to adjournment The minutes were read and confirmed. Messrs. Brown, Cooper and Lawton appeared and took their seats.
Mr. Miller Chairman of the Committee on Laws & Discipline made the following report-
The Committee on Laws & Discipline to whom was referred certain portions of the annual report of Chancellor, have had the same under consideration and ask leave to report.
1st
. That the thanks of the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia are due to the Chancellor and Faculty for the wisdom and conscientious discharge of duty, which have secured to the Institution the large measure of prosperity which it has enjoyed during the last Collegiate year.
General Brownes Chair 2d. The Professorship of the late Genl. Browne was designated as the Chairs of History & Political Science and Agriculture and Natural History. As there is no necessary connection between the first of these and the two last, Committee recommend that the teaching of History be divided between Professors Wilcox, Woodfin & Morris, giving Ancient History to Prof. Woodfin and dividing Modern History between Profs. Wilcox
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and Morris.
3d. The Committee do not deem it expedient at this time to create any new chair of Mineralogy, Geology, Zoology or Botany and recommend that the whole subject of Scientific Agriculture be attached to the Chair of Professor White and that his Professorship be known as the Chair of Agriculture, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, with the duty of teaching Agriculture as required by the Acts of Congress and the Terrell donation.
4th
. To enable Prof. White to continue the interesting and valuable series of experiments, and to maintain the Experimental station so admirably managed by Gen. Browne and himself and for the employment of suitable assistance to realize its high promise of usefulness to the Commonwealth the Committee recommend the appropriation of $
Military Department 5th
. The Committee recognize the obligation of the Board to continue and make as perfect as my be within their power the teachings of Military Tactics: but the inability of Prof. Charbonnier to remain at the head of this Department, may render it necessary to partially suspend the drill until the Board shall be able to secure the services of a suitable person to supply his place and the Committee so recommend -In releiving (sic) Col. Charbonnier, at his own request, of such of the duties of this Department as he may desire, the Committee wish to express their high appreciation and grateful recognition of his very efficient and satisfactory, gratuitous services for so long
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Prof. D. C. Barrow 6th
. While fully cognizant of the long and faithful services of Prof. Barrow as Adjunct Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics and with high respect for his professional attainments and personal qualifications, the Committee regret to feel themselves unable to recommend a promotion which would increase the demands upon a diminishing in come.
7th
. Your Committee recommend the appropriation of Twenty Dollars to be paid to the Rev. Henry McDonald D.D. of Atlanta to defray his travelling expenses in visiting Athens to preach the Commencement Sermon.
Other subjects in the Chancellors Report have already been referred to their appriate (sic) Committees or acted upon by the Board: All of which is respectfully submitted Athens Ga July 16th H. V. M. Miller
1883 Chairman
Mr. Vason moved to fill the blank in the 4th Paragraph in the above report with $500 or so much thereof as may be necessary, which was adopted.
Mr. Cobb moved to amend by inserting $750. which was lost.
Moved To amend by inserting $1500 which was lost.
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Mr. Miller moved to fill the blank in the 7th Section with $20 which was adopted.
The report was then taken up by sections and the 1st and 2d sections were adopted. On the adoption of the 3d. Section Mr. Thomas called for the Ayes and Nays which resulted as follows Those voting in the affirmative were
Messrs. Miller Yancey Pierce McIntyre
Lewis Vason Hall Humber
Brown Jackson Lawton Hamilton
Hammond & Felton 14.
Those voting in the negative were Messrs.
Cooper Barrow Thomas &
Billups Cobb Grady 6.
So Section 3d was adopted. The 4th and 5th sections were then adopted.

Section 6th was laid upon the table temporarily
The Board then took a recess to attend the address of Rev. Dr. I. L. M. Curry to the two Literary Societies.
The Board met after the address of Dr. Curry
Mr. Brown moved to take up Section 6th of the Report of the Committee on Laws and Discipline. Which was adopted and on motion of Mr. Cooper that section was so committed.
The Chair added Mr. Humber to the Committee on the reception of the
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Legislative Committees. Mr. Billups had the following Communication read. Athens Ga. July 16th 1883 To the Board of Trustees Gentlemen I gratefully appreciate your courtesy towards me and would gladly do anything in my power to meet your views
Both my health & my business engagements forbid my undertaking additional work, but if there are considerations inducing you to prefer that I should not resign at this time and if I can be relieved from Committee service except on the Prudential Committee during the year and reporting then proceedings and also if desired, reporting on the condition of the Apparatus, I will in deference to your will consent to withdraw my resignation until your next regular session.
Most Respectfully
Young L. G. Harris
On motion of Mr. Lawton the withdrawal of Mr. Harris resignation on the terms stated in his letter was accepted.
On motion of Mr. Cooper the Board then adjourned until 4 oclock this afternoon.
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5 P.M.
The Board met according to adjournment
The Report of the Board of Trustees of the North Ga. Agricultural College was received and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges (Page )
Mr. Hammond from the Committee on Laws and Discipline made the following support in lieu of Section 6th of that Report-
The Committee beg leave to report this resolution
That Prof. Charbonnier be relieved of Engineering and that Prof. Barrow be made a full Professor. To be known as Professor of Engineering and adjunct Professor of Methematics (sic) without any increase of his present salary which was adopted.
The report as thus amended was then adopted.
Mr. Barrow was excused from attendance on the Board on Tuesday.
Mr. Lawton offered the following resolution which was adopted
Resolved that rules No. 8 and 37 in relating to conferring the Degrees of Doctor of Jurisprudence on graduates of the Law Department as a matter of Course be and the same are hereby abolished
Mr. Vason offered the following resolution which was adopted Resolved That the action of the Board
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Athens Georgia Board at the called meeting on the 31st of March 1883 at Atlanta in accepting The Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund and all other matters done at that meeting be confirmed.
On motion of Mr. Miller the Board then adjourned until 9 A.M. Tuesday John J. Gresham President Lamar Cobb Secty
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Tuesday July 17th 1883.
Tuesday Morning The Board met according to adjournment The minutes were read and confirmed
Mr. Cooper offered the following resolution which he move to lay on the table for the present.
Whereas this Board has been informed that the General Assembly of the State of Georgia has appointed a Committee to attend the Commencement of the University of the State now pending and whereas a Committee of this Board has been appointed to meet and receive them
Therefore be it Resolved That the Committee of this Board be and hereby instructed to provide suitable lodgings for the visiting Committee of the General Assembly, meet them at the Depot with appropriate conveyances and conduct them to their lodgings after advising such Committee of the authority by which it is done and notifying then that this Board will be pleased to receive them and the body they represent-Also that at its early convenience the Committee of this Board will ask permission of that Committee to present them to this Board in session
Resolved That seats for both Committees be prepared in front of the President and on the announcement of their arrival and at a signal given the President and the Board shall rise and receive them standing and thereupon the President in his appropriate style and language shall in the interest of & in behalf of this Board receive, greet and welcome them as the repre
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Athens Georgia sentatives of their Honorable body, tendering to them the liberties of the Hall, buildings, rooms and grounds of this University of Georgia-at home here & that Georgians may realise (sic) that this University belongs to them, built and sustained by their fostering care.
Resolved That the Committee appointed by this Board shall attend to the visiting Committee during their stay.
Resolved That during the public exercises the said visiting Committee shall be invited to seats on the rostrum seats having been prepared for them and that on their arrival on the rostrum they will be received, by the Faculty and Trustees there standing, as the representatives of the Sovereignty of Georgia.
Resolved That Dollars be appropriated to pay the expenses of the visiting Committee.
The Board then took a recess to attend the meeting of the Alumni Society.
The Board reconvened after attending a meeting of the Alumni Society.
Mr. Cooper called up his resolution & on motion of Mr. Hammond it was amended by striking out all of it after the
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Tuesday July 17th 1883. word to in the 8th line down to notifying in the 14th line and the last three lines and as thus amended the resolution was adopted.
Mr. Toombs was excused from attendance at this session on account of sickness in his family.
The rules were suspended and Mr. A. L. Hull, who had been elected to fill the unexpired term of Mr. A. H. Stephens and also for the next four years as Trustee by the Alumni Society was invited to take his seat with the Board.
Mr. Hammond from the Committee on the Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund made his report which was adopted and is entered on Page 464.
The Board then adjourned to hear the address of Judge Samuel Hall to the Alumni Society.
The Board reconvened after the address of Judge Hall.
Mr. Cobb offered the following resolution which was adopted
Resolved that the thanks of this Board are due and hereby tendered Hons. W. H. Felton, John Screven, A. H. Colquitt and M. J. Crawford for fine portraits of themselves presented to the University.
Also to Hon. Chas. F. McCay for valuable additions to the Library.
Mr. Hall Chairman of the Com-
Mittee
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4 P.M.
The Board met according to adjournment.
The report of the Committee on Branch Colleges was taken up and adopted by sections and then as a whole. (Page 452)
Mr. Lewis offered the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved That a Committee of five be appointed to go before the Legislature and represent the University in all its interests.
The Chair appointed as that Committee Mr. Brown Chairman and Messrs. Hammond Grady &
Yancey Fannin
The protest of Mr. Toombs to the acceptance of the Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund was received and ordered filed without being read.
Gov. Brown presented a copy of a letter from Genl. Toombs to Col. L. N. Whittle which was read by him to the Board of Trustees at Atlanta with the consent of Gen. Toombs, in which Genl. Toombs takes the position that the Act of 1859 is not repealed by the Constitution of 1877; and that the Legislature
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Tuesday July 17th 1883. has power to borrow money to give to the State University and moved that said copy of said letter be filed with Genl. Toombs protest. He asked this because Genl. Toombs in his protest seems to reflect on the motives of the Board. He therefore desired that the conflicting position of Gen. Toombs in the two documents he filed together
The motion was unanimously agreed to and Gov. Brown was authorised (sic) to file the copy of the letter with the protest without being read.
Mr. Billups offered the following resolution which was adopted Resolved That the order of exercise for the next and succeeding Commencements until otherwise ordered shall be as follows: For Saturday
Class Exercises as at present.
For Monday morning at 11 oclock The Address before the Literary Societies. Monday afternoon at 4 oclock Sophomore Prize Declamation
For Tuesday at 11 oclock A.M. The Address before the Alumni Society Junior Exhibition consisting of original speakers by members of the class selected by the Chancellor and Faculty as before the recent change at such hour in the afternoon or evening as the Chancellor and Faculty may determine. For Wednesday Same as it is at present
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On motion of Mr. Thomas the Report of the Committee on Buildings & Grounds was taken up from the table and adopted -(Page 443)
Mr. Thomas moved to take up the Report of the Committee on Apparatus which was done and on his motion the Report was adopted so far as it asks for $115.
Mr. Thomas moved to take up the Finance report and pending the discussion of this report the Board adjourned until 9 A.M. Wednesday
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Wednesday July 18th 1883.
Wednesday July 18th 1883.
The Board met according to adjournment The minutes were read and confirmed.
Mr. Brown notified the Board that he had designated the Library of the University as a Repository of Public Documents.
On motion of Mr. Hammond the Secty. was instructed to notify the Secty. of the Interior of our acceptance of the Trust and the Treasurer was directed to pay any freight or charges that might be necessary.
Mr. Toombs tendered his resignation as a Trustee which on motion of Mr. Miller was laid on the table and the Secretary directed to request Mr. Toombs to withdraw it.
On motion of Mr. McIntyre Cols. W. P. Price and Weis Boyd were heard in behalf of the North Ga. Agricultural College.
Mr. Brown offered the following resolution Resolved That the Secretary be directed to put the advertisement of the University in only five papers to be selected by the Prudential Committee Adopted.
Mr. Thomas Chmn. of the Finance Committee offered an amendment to his Report & as thus amended the Report was adopted -(Page 463)
On motion of Mr. Harris Dr. J. S. Hamilton and A. L. Hull Esq. were added to the Prudential
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Prudential Committee.
Notice was given that application will be made out at the next annual session of this Board to have the Degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred upon the Rev. Prof. John
L. Johnson of the University of Mississippi
Also the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts on Frank Ward Esq. of Upson County Walter S. Wilson of Dahlonega Ga.
Dr. Hamilton offered the following resolution which was adopted Resolved That one hundred dollars be placed at the disposal of the Prof. of Agriculture for the purpose of supplying any deficiencty (sic) in tools and implements of the farm if so much is necessary.
The Board then adjourned to attend the Commencement Exercises at the Chapel.
Board met after the exercises at the Chapel Mr. Hall Chairman of the Committee on Branch Colleges made a report which was amended and then adopted (Page 458.)
Leaves of absence for balance of the session were granted Messrs. Miller, Felton & McIntyre.
Mr. Cobb Chairman of the Committee
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on the Library moved to take up the Report of the Librarian and adopt it. On motion so much of said report as referred to the enlargement of the Library was referred to the Committee on Buildings & Grounds with power to act and so much as referred to rules for regulating the return of the books was referred to the Chancellor and Faculty with power to act.
Mr. Jackson moved that the Diplomas for the Law Department be gotten up in the same manner as those in the other departments-which was agreed to
Mr. Jackson offered a resolution that all ex-members of the Board of Trustees be entitled to a seat on the rostrum -which was agreed to.
Mr. Brown offered the following resolution which was adopted
Resolved -That the Chancellor require all applicants for degrees at each Commencement to occupy the front seats in the Chapel next to the rostrum on Sunday morning
Hon. Pope Barrow tendered his resignation -as Professor of Law -which on motion of Mr. Hall was accepted
On motion of Mr. Hall Geo. D. Thomas Esq. was unanimously elected Professor of Law vice Pope Barrow resigned.
Mr. Grady Chairman of the Committee on Memorials asked leave to send his report
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Athens Georgia report to Secretary after the adjournment and have it entered on the Minutes which was granted. (Page 404)
Mr. Harris moved to take up the Report of the Prudential Committee and adopt it -which motion prevailed with the amendment that it was adopted so far as it did not conflict with other action of the Board at this session (Page 434).
The Chair announced the following Standing Committees for the ensuing year
Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture Mr. Hamilton Chairman & Messrs. Yancey Livingston & Hull Humber
Committee on the Library Mr. Cobb Chairman & Hull Speer &
Beckwith Grady Committee on Apparatus The Prudential Committee
Committee on Law Department Mr. Cobb Chairman & Messrs. Hall Jackson
Harris &
Auditing Committee Messrs. Hamilton & Hull
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Committee on Branch Colleges
Mr. Yancey Chairman -&
Messrs. Hall Humber
Brown Barrow
Vason Screven
Finance Committee
Mr. Hull Chairman &
Messrs. Hamilton Lawton
Crawford Cumming
McIntyre [Thomas (crossed out)].

Committee on Grounds & Buildings Mr. Thomas Chairman -& Messrs. Hamilton Barrow
Hull Harris.
The Board then adjourned.
Lamar Cobb John J. Gresham Secty. President
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The Chancellors Report
University of Georgia July 13th 1883
To the Board of Trustees
University of Georgia
Gentlemen
I have the honor to report that during the current year there have matriculated in the Departments at Athens, one hundred and ninety eight (198) students viz -In Franklin college one hundred & twenty eight (128): in the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanics Arts, fifty one (51): In the Law School seventeen (17) and Post Graduates two (2).
Numbers of all those who have recd instruction in the various Departments of the
University during the Collegiate year.
In Franklin College 128
In State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts 51
In Law Department 17
Post Graduates 2
Total in all the Departments at Athens 198
(as against 146 reported last year)
In the Medical Dept. 77
(as against 85 reported last year)
In North Ga. Agricultural College Males 114} 175
(as against 177reported last year) Females 61}
In South Ga. Agricultural College all males 192
(as against 185 reported last year
In South West Ga. Agricultural College all males 121
(as against 155 reported last year)
In Middle Ga. M & Ag College Males 197 386
(as against 355 reported last year) Females 189
Total in all the Departments 1149

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It will appear then that in all the Departments there has been a gain of 40 (as compared to the report last Commencement)
Comparative Gains and Losses The Departments at Athens have gained 52 The Medical Department loses 8 The Branch College at Dahlonega loses 2 The Branch College at Thomasville gains 7 The Branch College at Cuthbert loses 34 The Branch College at Milledgeville gains 31 The Law Department gains 5 Franklin College gains 37 State College of Agriculture & the Mechanic Arts gains 8
College Grade
In Department at Athens 198
(as against 146 last year)
In Department at Augusta 77
(as against 85 last year)
In the College at Thomasville 12
(as against 14 reported last year)
In the College at Cuthbert 20
(as against 25 last year)
In the College at Milledgeville 43
(as against 37 last year)
Total of College Grade in all Departments of Un. 413.
(as against 355 last year making a gain of 58
Undergraduates

Excluding the Law and Medical Departments and the two Post Graduates, it will be seen that of the College grade, there are undergraduates In the Department at Athens 179 (as against 134 last year) In all the Branch Colleges 138 (as against 124 last year).
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Of these 138, all are of the grade of Sophomore & Freshman excepting 18 at
Dahlonega viz 11 Seniors and 7 Juniors.
Total Undergraduates of College grade 317
(as against 258 last year) making a gain of
undergraduates in our whole University
system of
Of which 59 that Branch Colleges in aggregate have gained 14
And the University proper at Athens 45
Total 59
Junior and Sophomore Exhibitions

According to the plan adopted by the Trustees at their last session, the Sophomore Declaimers appeared before the public on the night of Tuesday, April 10th of this year: the Junior Exhibition occurred on the following day, Wednesday April 11th. the Exercises it is thought gave, general satisfaction.
Student Homes The Dormitory Buildings have been largely patronised (sic) by the Students during the past year & the ladies have in the main managed to my satisfaction.
Medical Department
It was my privilege to attend the Commencement Exercises of the Medical Department at Augusta this year, and to confer the Degree, Doctor of Medicine on twenty eight (28) young men, who had completed the course of study there.
Department of Technology The Trustees at their annual meeting passed the following resolution Resolved that the [Chancellors] Report in respect to the practical department
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July 1883. of Technology is approved & that the same be carried into operation just as soon as the State shall appropriate the money necessary: & that the Chancellor be instructed to lay the plan before the next Governor and Legislature, & urge the necessary appropriation. In accordance with the above instruction, I addressed a communication on the subject to the Governor, the substance of which his Excellency communicated to the Legislature, with favorable comments. But the General Assembly, at its first session, was for some time absorbed in conducting elections before it, and our friends were so much divided, if not embittered, by those elections, that I thought it in opportune to bring the matter before the body then. I therefore, through some of your members, requested you body, then in session in Atlanta, to so modify your action as to relieve me from instructions & to make it my duty to act in concert with you Committee appointed to care of the interests of the University before the Legislature. Accordingly, you adopted the following resolution, Resolved, That the Chancellor be relieved from presenting the matter of Technology to the Legislature, and that he be requested to act with the Committee appointed to see to the interests of the University before the Legislature. The Committee, I suppose, thought it not wise to broach the subject to the Legislature, as I received no communication from them.
I was gratified thought to notice in the papers that Hon. N. E. Harris, a graduate of the University, and its warm friend, had introduced a resolution proposing to appoint a Committee of inquiry on Technology. Soon after that resolution passed and the Committee was appointed. I addressed the Chairman, Mr. Harris, on the subject, and laid before him any plans, as I had previously done to the Trustees, and, by their instruction, to his Excellency, the Governor. He was greatly
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surprised because he had thought that no one had moved in the matter before him; but he was much gratified to know that he could come on the potent keep of the University. I argued with him that the Institute if decided on should be located here.
1.
Because it is necessary to complete the organization of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. We have already Laboratories in Physics and in Chemistry, and, virtually in Engineering and in Agriculture; and we need, to complete our equipment here, a Laboratory of the Mechanic Arts.

2.
Because if the Institute be located any where else, there would be needed and(sic) expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars for equipment in Professors and the other appliances of Library apparatus &c that are already available here without additional expense.

3.
Because an Institute of the kind thoroughly equipped, if located at another place, would be a damaging Competitor to the University here.


While reserving the question of location for future consideration, Mr. Harris admitted the force of the argument in favor of this place and ventured the opinion that possibly the result desired could be accomplished, should the Trustees lend their active influence to that end. I beg leave most respectfully, but with emphasis to call the attention of your honorable body to this important matter.
Art Gallery Seventeen of the members of the present
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July 1883. Board have kindly promised to present to us their Portraits. To the remaining nineteen, I have written twice each, but as yet I have received no replies to my letters. It would be a great disappointment to us should we fail to obtain these important acquisitions. I am happy to announce also that we have received the portraits of Hon. W. H. Felton, Senator
A. H. Colquitt, Hon. John Screven and Judge Martin J. Crawford _ The pictures are all in good order, with the exception that the glass over Judge Crawfords was seriously fractured before its arrival here.
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The Campus.
No improvements have been attempted this year, excepting the setting out of additional trees kindly at his own instance, furnished by Mr. P. J. Berckmans of Augusta. Some portions still need grading, and there is a great and felt want of thorough drainage.
The burnt lot remains as it was at your last meeting, presenting an unsightly appearance. Through the recklessness (sic) of drivers the gate of the Campus is frequently left open subjecting it to the depredations of stock, I respectfully recommend that authority be given to throw that lot into the Campus; and to remove to the gate the two outhouses still remaining, These if put contiguous to the gate, could be given to a Janitor free of rent, on condition that his wife or some other member of the family, sees to keeping the gate shut.
Library. There have been added to the Library during the current year 575 volumes -The space is so restricted now that the Librarian Finds
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Athens Ga. finds himself embarrassed in selecting location for new books, according to classification. I respectfully recommend that instructions be given to remove the partitions that seperates (sic) the Library from the Recitation Room of the Prof. of Ancient Languages, and to fit up the whole floor for purposes of Library and Art Gallery combined.
Death. It has pleased God, since your last annual meeting to remove by death three of your distinguished members, and one of the valuable members of the Faculty. Benjamin
H. Hill, Wm. L. Mitchell and Alexander H. Stephens anew of world wide reputation were, at once, cherished sons of their Alma Mater and able and faithful guardians of her interests. In their death, the University shares with the Country in the sense of bereavement, but it can point with maternal gratitude and pride to the enduring monuments of their greatness and usefulness. While it has lost their fostering care for the future, it will ever be strengthened and encouraged by the living principles and potencies their influence helped to incorporate into the very genius of its organism and processes.
Gen. Wm. M. Browne was an accomplished scholar, a genial and cultured gentleman and a successful teacher. The University and his Colleagues keenly feel his loss.
The Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund. Eighty young men, from various parts of the State have already applied to me
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Genl. Brownes Chair. It may not be amiss for me to make some suggestions in regard to Genl. Brownes Chair. It is well known to the Trustees that this was not a normal Chair. It was
composed rather of fragments of three Chairs viz: History & Political Science; Agriculture; and Natural History. It would give us great satisfaction should the Trustees find themselves pecuniarily (sic) able to re-establish and to fill the three chairs. If this is impossible, they may drop the topic, Political Science, and History between Professors Wilcox, Woodfin & Morris, giving Ancient History to Prof. Woodfin & dividing Modern between Professors Willcox and Morris, I have consulted these gentlemen; and they cordially agree to the suggestion.
The Trustees may be tempted, or may feel themselves compelled, to consolidate the other two Chairs into one. But this would be liable to grave objections. It is not auditable (sic) to us, and is not consistent with our claims, and with the obligations resting on us, that we fail to give proportionate degree of attention to such important topics as Geology, Mineralogy, Zoology, Botany &c. The Professors among whom they were divided did their best, and taught them efficiently, so far as the duties of their own chairs permitted: but these topics are so important in themselves, and there is such a demand for experts in them, at this time and in this Commonwealth,
That
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Prof. White, the accomplished Terrell Prof. of Agriculture has had charge of the Experimental Farm since the death of Gen. Browne. No scientific man in the State has more the confidence of the farmers: and, in the event that no additional Prof. of Agriculture should be appointed, I have no doubt that he would readily consent to continue his present connection with the Farm, should the Trustees so desire.
Military Department.
I have the honor herewith to transmit a communication to me from Prof. Charbonnier, the head of the Military Department. He gives cogent reasons why he should be relieved from some if not all the duties of that Department. We greatly need a subordinate Teacher who could render assistance in the lower classes to those officers who are overcrowded with work. In consequence of the increase in the number of students, the classes have become so large that some of them have to be divided
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July 1883. on the same topics. Thus the Prof. has to devote two hours to that for which one hour sufficed before. If the Trustees could afford us such assistant, some young man, competent in other respects, could be selected on the ground that he is a military expert, and Col. Charbonnier could obtain the releif (sic) for which he asks.
Prof. D. C. Barrow
Prof. Barrow has been serving for some years faithfully & ably as Adjunct Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics. I beg leave respectfully to recommend that he be promoted to a full professorship; and that he be assigned specifically to the Chair of Engineering, the duties of which he has been for some time discharging with distinguished ability and success. Col. Charbonnier authorises (sic) me to say the he cordially unites with me in this recommendation.
Branch Colleges
I visited the Branch Colleges at the times severally of their closing exercises, They seem to have a fair share of prosperity, so far as numbers are concerned; and their instruction is still marked with thoroughness and general success.
They have transferred students here during the past year, as follows: Thomasville has sent us four (4); Cuthbert three (3); Dahlonega three (3); and Milledgeville one (1) Total for the year Eleven (11).
During their whole existence, the three Colleges last organized have sent us in the aggregate as follows: Thomasville (9) nine: Cuthbert four (4): and Milledgeville one (1), At Dahlonega I conferred the Degree of Bachelor of Arts on six young men.
Attendance
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It is important that as many as possible of our students should be present at Commencement. The Trustees have instructed the Faculty to close the examinations of the term one week proceeding the meeting of the Board. Many of the Students thus dismissed have gone home and may not return to Commencement. Should we find this to be true, the Faculty respectfully ask that authority be given them, if they should think it expedient to do so, to postpone the closing day to a time further advanced, anterior to the meeting of the Board.
For Graduation. The Faculty beg leave respectfully to recommend for graduation the following named students
For Bachelor of Arts.
J. W. Burnett Clark Howell Wm. S. Cheney George F. Hunnicutt Wm. M. Coile Oscar E. Kinnebrew Herschel W. Duggar John T. Lofton Thomas R. Edwards D. Clayton Peacock Washington M. Fay J. Hamilton Phinizy.
For Bachelor of Philosophy
J. Prescott Brooke Robert N. Holland Luther M. Farmer Eugene J. Jacobs
For Civil & Mining Engineer Charles M. Strahan
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For Bachelor of Engineering John Bostwick Erwin M. Wade Davis Freeman Manor L. Wade Russell R. Renau Harris R. Wilcox
For Bachelor of Law
A. J. Arnold Screven A. McCall Bernard Awtry Wm. A. McLean Wm. N. Conley John D. Moore Thomas B. Felder Jr. Vernon B. Robinson Davis J. Gaffney John P. Ross Henry McAlpin Walter M. Ryals
Report from Law Department
I have the honor to transmit with this the Report of Prof. Geo. D. Thomas of the Law Department; and I beg leave respectfully to call the attention of the Trustees to the recommendation contained in it -I trust though that the Board will feel under no obligation to any action in the case impelled by motives personal to me.
Catalogues
There has been such a demand for our Catalogues that last years edition was exhausted long before the end of the year. It may be well for the Board to authorize the issuing of a larger edition.
Additional Reports of Professors.
I have the honor to herewith transmit also the Reports of Prof. White on the Department of Chemistry, and on the Experimental Farm: and the Report of Prof. Wilcox on the Library. I beg leave respectfully to call attention to the suggestions in this last Report.
Legislative
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Legislative Committee I see by the newspapers that a visiting Committee of twelve is likely to be appointed by the Legislature to attend our Commencement Exercises. I beg [leave
(crossed out)] that the Trustees on their wisdom may make suitable arrangements for their receptions, should we be favored with their presence.
Commencement Sermon
I have engaged Rev. Henry McDonald D.D. of Atlanta to preach our Commencement Sermon. I respectfully request you to make an appropriation of ten or fifteen dollars to pay his travelling expenses.
Conclusion
In conclusion, I will say, I have not hesitated to make such recommendations, involving the expenditure of money, as seems to me to be for the interest of the University _ at the same time that I know our limited resources may prevent the Trustees from complying with my wishes, however favorably disposed they may be
I have the honor to remain Gentlemen
Your Obt. Servt.
P. H. Mell Chancellor Un of Geo
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July 1883. Librarians Report.
Chancellor of the University of Georgia Dear Sir I hand you herewith a brief report on the Library, which I beg you will transmit to the Board of Trustees.
There have been added to the Library during the past year 575 volumes in the various departments of History, Biography, Theology, Literature, Travels, and Fiction inclusive of 30 volumes received from Washington: and 6 vols. contributed by the Smithsonian Institute.
I beg to call the attention of the Trustees to the fact that the Library is rapidly increasing in volume the number of books added this year being double the number of those added last year. The alcoves are full -we are cramped for room: numbers of books are now ranged on the floor in a corner of one of the alcoves for want of space to place them properly -I would most respectfully suggest that the partition between the Library Hall & Prof. Woodfins lecture room be removed and the Library be enlarged to that extent. This simple change, which might be effected with little expense, would furnish us with space enough for several years to come. A few alcoves might be erected for immediate use, others could afterwards be added as necessity should require. The space thus gained would also meet the growing needs of our Picture Gallery.
There is another point which I beg to submit to the consideration of the Board, viz: the increasing laxity of the students in regard to the return of books. Some stringent law is necessary to check this laxity, and secure the return of books within a reasonable
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There is a law to the effect, but it is inoperative as the Librarian has not power to enforce it. Should the Trustees think proper the Faculty might be nested with authority to frame such laws as they shall deem efficient to connect the growing abuse above alluded to.
Respectfully submitted Athens July C. P. Willcox 12th 1883 Librarian
Athens July 11th 1883
Rev P.H. Mell DD. L.L.D. Chancellor University of Ga Dear Sir,
I beg to submit herewith the Report for the current fear of the Department of Law. The Following students have satisfactorily completed the course prescribed & are respectfully recommended for with the Degree of Bachelor of Law. Towit
1.
Henry McAlpin 7. Jno P. Ross

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John P. Moore 8. Vernon B. Robinson

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W. A. McClean 9. D.J. Gaffney

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Bernard Awtrey 10. W.M. Ryals

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T.B. Felder 11. W.N. Conley

6.
S.A. McCall 12. A.J. Arnold


I respectfully recommend that some provision be made by which suitable Diplomas may be provided for Graduates in this Department. The present practice is to secure sheep skins & have them written, and these expenses paid out of the Diploma fees, which rightfully
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Belong to the Chancellor. The fact that these Diplomas are presented in 9open court by Graduates when they are admitted to the Bar and are constantly displayed in their after practice of the profession, seem to render it proper that the University should furnish handsome and suitable Diplomas.
The Department generally is in a very satisfactory condition & we have every reason to expect that the increase in attendance will continue.
Very Respectfully
Geo D. Thomas
Prof. of Law.
University of Georgia Athens July 13th 1883
The Hon Board of Trustees University of Georgia Gentlemen:
On May 4th last, a few days after the death of my lamented colleague, Gen W.M. Browne, I was requested by resolution of the Prudential Committee to take charge of the Experimental Farm of the University & to give such attention to the agricultural experiments then in progress as might be necessary until the annual meeting of your Hon body. In compliance with this resolution I assumed charge of the farm at the date mentioned.
An inventory of the property belonging to the University was furnished me which I have verified and preserved.
Immediately after the sale and removal of the larger portion of the personal effects of Gen Browne I went over the main building & out houses, had them roughly cleansed & put in order, and the rooms
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Report on Experimental Farm rooms securely fastened. At the request of the Hon Howell Cobb, Administration, one room in the main building was set apart for the temporary storage of the library & other property of Gen Brownes estate. It is still used for this purpose. For the better care & protection of the building I requested Mr. Smith the overseer at the Farm with his family to occupy two of the smaller rooms in the first floor.
I have visited the farm almost daily & have given such direction & attention as were needful to the proper conduct of the experiment and the gathering of the crops.
Condition of Buildings, Fences
I have the honor to report that the condition of the buildings upon the farm with the exception of the stables, is good. The main building is in very fair condition & is in need of no repairs of consequence. A small amount of patching of plaster glazing and attention to one of the verandalis (?) will place it in excellent condition. A considerable amount of scrubbing whitewashing & cleansing generally will be needed, however, to render it comfortably habitable.
The servants houses to need no extensive repairs. The stables are very flimsy, insecure and uncomfortable structures and certainly such as no thrifty farmer around be content to have upon his farm. It is probable that entirely new arrangements for the care of stock, storage of grain, forage etc will be imperatively needed within a short time.
The fencing in the main is good. I think careful attention as occasion rises will
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Condition of Crops
The general state of the crops is exceptionally satisfactory. I found the following acreage planted upon the farm proper.
In oats 10 acres
Corn 12
Cotton 25
Rye & Barley, small patches of about acre each. Gen Browne had rented (for the year ending Nov 1st next) some 12 acres of land adjoining the University property, Which was sown in oats.
The oat crop has been harvested and produced 400 bushels of shelled oats, and, in addition, a quantity of sheaf oats representing, perhaps 75 bushels -which has been stored for feeding purposes.
Immediately after gathering the oat crop, the land (of the farm) was thoroughly plowed & sown down in peas. The same treatment has been applied to the small patches from which the barley and rye were gathered.
The condition of the cotton & corn now growing in most excellent, as inspection will show.
Experiments
The papers relating to the work of the farm were turned over to me by the Prudential Committee & I have given their careful examination to make myself acquainted with the nature and status of the agricultural experiments in progress. From my intimate association with Gen Browne in his scientific work I was already acquainted, in some measure, with his plows & general details of arrangements for the experiments. My examination has shown
That
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A upon Corn
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Field experiment upon the relative merits of the following brands of commercial fertilizers Viz: Pendletons Ammoniated Guano: Plow Brand Guano: Walton Wham (?) & Cos Guano.

2.
Comparison of values of home-made compost with commercial fertilizer above named. The bulk of the crop was manured with the compost which was made of Acid Phosphate, Cotton seed & Rainit.

3.
Relative values in compost of cotton seed & cotton seed meal.

4.
Experiment to determine the source of the Nitrogen supply in Corn


B Upon Cotton
1.
Experiments with five varieties of seed.

2.
Experiment to determine the source & character of the Nitrogen supply in cotton.

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Relative values of certain Commercial fertilizers & composts as above mentioned for corn

4.
An Experiment upon Cotton planted in hills, 4 feet apart, each way. The land for this experiment had been badly prepared and the experiment failed. I replowghed (sic) the plot & used it for other it for other purposes.


An experiment had also been instituted with Mills-Maize, owing no doubt to defective seed it was a failure from the outset, & the experiment was abandoned.
Although late in the season when I
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Report on Experimental Farm Assumed charge of the work I have essayed the following additional experiments upon cotton, using plats of about acre each.
1.
The relative values of soluble & reverted phosphates in Manures.

2.
The relative advantages of broadcasting & drilling guano upon land well fertilized previously.

3.
To test the value of phosphate of iron in fertilizers -this substance being now largely imported and casting considerably less than ordinary phosphate.


I am glad to say that the season for the last two months has been measurably favorable & these experiments are consequently progressing finely.
I have also instituted an experiment to determine the exact influence of each recognised (sic) element of fertility upon the growth of cotton. Large pots (33 in numbers) were filled with pure sand, to which were added seperately (sic) the different substances to be tested alone and in certain combinations. One seed was planted in each pot & the germanization (sic)& growth carefully watched. I have observed the results with much interest & have already received some noteworthy hints, at least, which may lead to valuable information. I believe that experiments of this nature, properly conducted must necessarily teach much of the habit of the plant & the true formulations of specific fertilizers.
Financial Statement. The account of Gen Browne show that the net receipts for the sale of cotton since the date of his last report, were $460.17. The expenditures for labor &c to May 1st had been $418 55. The balance of $41 62 was paid by the Administration of the estate into the hands of the treasurer I
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Report on the Experimental Farm
I have drawn from the Treasurer & expended, almost exclusively for labor since May 1st to date $126 75. The balance against the Farm is therefore $85.13. There is on hand, however, about 400 bushels of good oats which, if sold, would more than offset this balance.
My accounts & vouchers have been examined by your auditing Committee & passed upon as correct.
Conclusion
I have now the honor to surrender the charge with which I have been temporarily entrusted, with the buildings & property in neat condition, the crops flourishing, the experiments strictly defined & progressing favorably, without a dollar of outstanding pecuniary obligation, & unencumbered by any contracts or other engagements for the future work.
As temporary incumbent of the Chair of Agriculture I do not deem it necessary, or indeed, becoming -to make any suggestion or recommendation to your hon: (sic) body regarding the future conduct of the Experimental Farm. I may be permitted to express the hope, however that such Experiments, at least, as are now in progress. May be conducted to a conclusion.
I take this opportunity to express my admiration for & appreciation of the conscientious labors in scientific agriculture of my lamented colleague. These labors were performed under many disadvantages some inherent in the man, whose tastes & culture would, perhaps, have led him to prefer other lines of work: many incident to his position, requiring much of his time & attention to be given to tutorial work & affording but scanty means for the prosecution
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Report on Experimental Farm of truly scientific research. That he labored faithfully & conscientiously none who knew him will deny: That the results of his labor were valuable to agriculturists & credible to our University, I have had every reason & opportunity to know to be eminently true; that his labors were appreciated by those in whose special interest they were performed is attested by the direct, unanimous & enthusiastic expression of opinion to that effect on the part of the State Agricultural Society at its last meeting at Macon in February of this year. I am glad to have been permitted, even for a few weeks, to carry out the work of my esteemed friend that his usefulness might not terminate abruptly at the grave.
I speak whereof I know I say that the experiments conducted at the University farm have been, of great benefit to the people of our State, they have been also, of value to the University, in that they have afforded opportunity to its Professors to advertise it extensively before large & intelligent bodies of our citizens.
Permit me to express the sincere hope that the usefulness of our modest Experimental Station in both these capacities may be continued under such proper arrangements as the wisdom of your hon: body may desire.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
H.C. White Prof of Chemistry
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Report of Department of Chemistry University of Georgia
July 12th 1883 To the Hon Board of Trustees University of Georgia Gentlemen:
I have the honor to present through the Chancellor, my usual annual report of the condition of my Department.
I respectfully refer to the annual catalogue for information as to the numbers of students in attendance upon my several classes. The conduct & scholarship of young gentlemen has been satisfactory, & in some instances the degree of proficiency attained has been unusually great. The courses of study have been equally as extensive as in previous years, & I am glad to note an increasing improvement in the preliminary preperation (sic) of students entering the Junior Class. In order to accommodate certain students who wish to persue (sic) their studies in Pure and Applied Chemistry beyond the limit prescribed by the necessities of the curriculum schedule I have established a post graduate course of recitations & reading in these departments, which for the past year has been attended by three very excellent students.
It is my custom to give each year to the Senior Class in Analytical Chemistry, after they have concluded the regular work of the course, some especial subject for original investigation. The class this year has investigated the subject of our native grasses & a number of analyses of great interest have been made. Want of time prevented the conclusion of the investigations which I hope to continue next
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year so as to prepare a report worthy of publication.
The apparatus of this department is in excellent condition & in need of no repairs. It is amply sufficient for all present needs. The official work of the state, which, as State Chemist, I perform requires each year the purchase of a considerable amount of glassware and other apparatus. So much of this material as is suitable I use also in my lectures & other work with the students. I am enabled in this way to maintain my stock of apparatus without calling upon the funds of the University. No appropriation for apparatus for this department is needed, therefore, for the ensuing year.
The amount usually appropriated for the purchase of chemicals will probably be found to be sufficient for the purpose as heretofore.
A few additions have been made to the industrial collection during the year, but none worthy of special mention. My earnest endeavor is to keep this collection abreast of the improvements in various industrial arts, & to be enabled to exhibit to my students the plane & products of new processes as they arise. Many manufactures kindly assist me in this desire from time to time.
Specimens of ores and minerals are constantly sent to me from various sources; such as are of interest are properly catalogued and placed in the cabinet which is thus rapidly increasing in size and value. I have continued through the year the work of classifying the mineral in the cabinet: I hope to have it concluded during the next session. The cabinet room & cases are in good order & present a handsome appearance.
Since the death of my esteemed colleague Gen Browne, I have had charge of his classes in Natural History and Agriculture. Though I knew myself entirely incompetent to instruct
properly
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Report of Department of Chemistry properly in these branches, I have succeeded in keeping the classes together and occupying the time of the students in work which I believe has not been unprofitable to them. Although this work has entailed considerable labor upon myself I have cheerfully rendered the service required by the emergency, in the interest of the students and in respect to the memory of a deceased friend.
I have the honor to present herewith a special reprint of the work upon the Experimental Farm temporarily enlisted to my charge.
During the year I have employed such little leisure time as was afforded me from my official duties in the prosecution personally, of original investigations of a scientific nature, some of which I thought might be productive of results of interest to the people of the State generally and to the agriculturalists (sic) in particular. As heretofore, my researches have been confined to laboratory work, except in so far as the courtesy, of a colleague at the Experimental Farm would permit the testing of laboratory results in actual practice upon the field. I have given special study to the Chemistry of the growth & development of the cotton plant, upon which subject I have been engaged for 5 or 6 years. I have accumulated a considerable amount of material results of this work which I hope to be able to present to the public in some proper form as opportunity is afforded. In August last I attended the meeting of the State Agricultural Society at Marietta & read a paper upon Cotton Seed & its products which embodied a portion of my results. I am led to believe that the participation of members of the Faculty in
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Military Department such original investigation of general interest is not without value as contributing to the fame & influence of the University. I entertain the hope that this opinion. Receives the endorsement of your honorable body.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
H.C. White Prof of Chemistry
University of Georgia Athens Ga 7th July 1883.
Dr P.H. Mell D.D. L.L.D.
Chancellor University of Georgia
Dear Sir,
I beg to present the following for your consideration.
When in consequence of the establishment of the State College of A & M.A. it became necessary to institute a military Department, the Trustees of the University, recognizing the fact that such would entail a great amount of extra work, furnished a drill master, simply requiring me to take general supervision, The arrangement continued for these years, when the drill master resigned; and as no one was appointed in his place, I have had, since then, to undertake in person all the necessary work.
It has been an exceedingly burdensome labor to me: my time is fully taken up in the duties of my chair of Physics & Astronomy: & while I have done the best I could do, under the circumstances it has been impossible for me to give to the military drill the time and care demanded.
The duties of your Prof of Physics are now more arduous than they have ever been in the University. Our apparatus in extensive: the constant
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Military Department
constant care it requires, the daily preperation (sic) of experiments, the putting away of apparatus after lectures, the incessant necessary cleaning and repairs, most of them done by myself, make such pressing demands upon me, that my time from 9 oclock (sic) in the morning, until late in the afternoon, with the exception of a short period for dinner, is entirely taken up in work necessary for presentation of lectures or for presentation of the valuable property in my charge.
You will, I have no doubt, bear me witness Mr. Chancellor, that my rooms & apparatus are always ready for the reception of the frequent visitors whom you bring to inspect our facilities for instruction, & whom I am always happy to see. This, of course is as it should be but it takes time for it: & often, in our short fall & winter days, am I detained after dark to finish some work necessary to be done, and, which I have had no time to finish by daylight.
To a man, then, as occupied as I am in such labor, the demands of time & thought which the military drill require are exceedingly burden some.
I would, therefore respectfully ask you to lay the matter before the Board, and request them to relieve me of this military duty.
The time would thus be out free, & the labor from which I would be relieved would enable me to devote myself with more energy to the duties of my chair. And these duties are not merely made more arduous by the causes already detailed
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Military Department : but also by the instruction of the department of Practical Physics, established two years ago. In this technological branch, the students are taught to handle the apparatus themselves & are practically instructed in Physical Manipulations. For detail of this work I refer to our annual Announcement, pages 21 and 36. This is a very important work: & one that should be continued, if the University is to be kept abreast of the advancement of the age. But, the demands this work ahas made upon me have been ever greater than I expected, and, hence, it is that the burden of the drill has been more heavily on me than before.
I hope you will find it proper to recommend, & the Board will find it expedient to releive (sic) me of this military work by appointing a drill master, who will be able to carry it on better than I have opportunity of doing.
I would suggest to you, Mr. Chancellor, that were a young man thus appointed drill master, he could also render assistance in another department that has been a heavy burden to bear. Prof Barrow in charge of the Engineering has been able the Freshman Class in Mathematics: and not only this but has had a number of extra classes to bear. Young men, coming during the session, and not up with the Freshman Class in Mathematics, have been taken by him & taught in extra hours: and such has been the accumulation of such work, that he has been teaching from 9 in the mornings to 5 in the afternoon, the whole period with the exception of 1 hour for dinner being taken up in teaching. When we remember that Prof Barrow is engaged in teaching a chair of high excellence, I mean that of Engineering, requiring a great deal of reading and study merely to keep up with the daily progress of the science, such, demands, as those made upon him are not just to him. To
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Report of Prudential Committee releive (sic) him of those extra classes, & even of the Freshman Class, would still leave him with his time fully occupied in the legitimate work of the Chair of Engineering: which, I may add, he has filled most ably.
Very Respectfully
Yr obt svt
LH Charbonnier
To the Board of Trustees
The Prudential Committee, report that , the abstract of their records herewith presented exhibits their action upon the several subjects presented to them during the past collegiate year.
The committee in Compliance with the order of the Board, proceeded in November last, To make a settlement with the Executor of Dr. W L Mitchell late Treasurer of the Board & to receive from him the Assets of the University in his hands. It was found that the accounts of Dr Mitchell had been kept with scrupulous fidelity & exactness & that he had accounted for all that was due from him. Every thing was in proper order & arrangement & nothing out of place except one of two vouchers which had been misplaced, duplicates of which were readily procured. Not only did Dr Mitchells Executor respond fully to all of the demands of the University upon the late Treasurer, but he accounted for & paid over a small balance not included in the estimates of a former Finance Committee as chargeable to him, but which in his life time he often insisted belonged to the
College
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Report of the Prudential Committee
The funds received from the estate of Dr. Mitchell amounted to $186,164:03 a list of which is included in the receipt taken from Lamar Cobb Esq the newly elected Treasure, a copy of which will be found on pages 167-169 of the Minutes of the Committee.
The Committee subsequently turned over to the present Treasurer the Twenty Thousand Dollars in 6% bonds of the Georgia Rail Road & Banking Co donated to the Institution by Charles F. McCoy of Baltimore, after making certain exchanges of said bonds & having the same registered agreeably with the directors of the Board.
Under the action of the Board at various times with reference to this donation it was not clear or satisfactory to the Committee as to who was intended to have the custody of these bonds.
In the report made to the Board in 1881 by the Finance Committee of which the Hon BC Yancey was chairman, the Board was requested to resend their resolution directing that the package containing these bonds should not be opened until July 1 1895: & the report adds that, it is well that Finance Committee of this Board should annually open said package to see if the bonds are there & report to the Board at its annual Sessions the package to then resealed & superscribed by said Committee & the Secretary & Treasurer.
At the session of 1882 a resolution introduced by the Hon J J Gresham directed that the Treasurer be instructed in his annual report of the funds belonging to the Institution, to include the bonds belonging to this fund now amounting to $20,000 in bonds of the Georgia Rail Road Company &c: and at the session of March 1883 at Atlanta the Prudential Committee was authorized to withdraw the bonds in question & after making
certain
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This Committee respectfully ask (sic) that the Board shall consider of this matter and either express their approval of the act turning the Bonds over to the Treasurer & taking his receipt therefore: or rectify the error, if error has been committed by making such order in the premises as you deem proper.
At the session of Nov 1882 at Atlanta The Board instructed the Prudential Committee to require from the Treasurer elect the same bond that his predecessor had given. A careful examination of the records disclosed the fact that Dr. Mitchell the last Treasurer of the Board had never given any bond as Treasurer. This Committee therefore did not feel authorized to act in the premises & took no bond. It is due to Maj Cobb the newly elected Treasurer to say, that be proposed to the Committee to name a sum in which he should give bond for the faithful discharge of his duties, but it was considered most advisable to remit the whole question to the direction which you may deem proper to give to it at your present session.
In changing the time for the Sophomore and Junior Exhibitions The Board made no provision for music. The Prudential Committee under the impression that this was an oversight, instructed the Treasurer to pay $50 to furnish music for the occasion & it is hoped that you will approve the order. The usual appropriation for music during the Commencement
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Report of Prudential Committee exercises is $100. It may require a small addition to the remaining $50 to cover the expenses for commencement
Prof White is entitled to the thanks of the Board for kindly consenting to take charge of the experimental farm after the death of Genl Browne until the Board should meet in its regular session.
During the past year sundry bills have been presented for payment by the Treasurer of the Middle [Later notation North] Georgia Military [Later notation ( )]& Agriculture College at Dahlonega.
The Committee were of opinion that larger portions of these demands did not fall within the purview of the Acts making appropriations for these Institutions & Therefore declined to pay them. Such portions of the claims as they thought were covered by the Acts were paid, & the remainder is respectfully submitted to the judgment & decision of the Board.
The Committee append the resolutions which they ask may be adopted of insistent with the views of the Board
Respectfully submitted
Young L. G. Harris
Chairman
Resolved That the action of the Prudential Committee in turning over to the Treasurer of this Board the Twenty Thousand dollars in Georgia Rail Road 6% Bonds constituting the donation made to the University by Charles F. McCoy, is hereby approved and ratified.
Resolved That the thanks of the Board are hereby tendered to Prof H.C. White of the Chair of Chemistry, for timely & valuable services rendered, in taking the oversight & management of the Experimental Farm since the decease of Genl Browne.
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Abstract of Minutes of Prudential Committee 1st
The Committee elected Hon Young L G Harris Chairman & Lamar Cobb Secty. 2nd
The Committee turned over to Lamar Cobb all of the Assets of the University, except the McCoy Bonds, amounting to $186.164.03 & took his Receipt for the same which is recorded on Pages 167-8&9of their minutes.
The Committee did not require any bond of the Treasure as his predecessor had not given any.
The Secty was directed to divide the old Waddell Lot equitably between the occupants of the Boarding Houses on the Campus. Messrs Summey & Richardson 3rd
The Committee declined to pay certain bills presented by the Repair Committee at Milledgeville because the money had not been expended as they construed the Act of the Legislature. The committee believing that only repairs on public buildings, of the State and necessary changes of the buildings to adapt them for several purposes could be paid for out of this money & it appeared from these bills that the money was intended to pay for improvements and repairs on property not belonging to the state. School furniture, Omnibus Hire &c.
The Treasurer was directed to only pay such bills as had been properly spent under this Construction of the Statue
The Treasurer was directed to inform Hon DW Lewis that there was no money on hand at that date Dec 9 to pay Profr Geillard (?) & Singleton at Dahlonega.
4th
The Treasurer directed to pay this salaries of the hno Professors at North Ga Ag college to Jany 1st 1883.
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Abstract of the Minutes of Prudential Committee 4th
Prof Browne was granted leave of absence for two weeks on account of his
health. 5th
The selection of Rev W.F. Cook as President of Middle Ga Mil & Ag College
confirmed & Secty directed to pay that college $500 due 1st Jany 1883. 6th
The Tr directed to pay $50 for Music at Sophomore and Junior Exhibitions.
Dr Hamilton was requested to ask the Board of Directors of the Ga RR & Bkg Co to direct their Cashier to register the Bonds of that Corporation held by the University 7th
Proof White was requested to take charge of the Experimental Farm until the meeting of the Board of Trustees as far as practicable compatible with his other duties.
The Tr was directed to pay such sums for day labor as are absolutely needed on the Farm. 8th
The application of Hon WP Price for the payment was referred to the General Board.
Mr Cobb stated that upon investigation he had found that all his predecessors except Dr Mitchell had given bonds for he requested the Committee to name the amount of the Bond as he desired to give it. The Committee declined doing so because they considered that a matter for the Board.
9th
Committee turned over the McCoy Bonds to the Tr & took his receipt which is recorded on Page 174 of their minutes.
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Report of Committee on Apparatus
To the Board of Trustees
The standing Committee on Apparatus, report -That upon personal inspection of the rooms in Moore College containing the apparatus belonging to the several Departments of the University, it is found that all the instruments & appliances, are in the most admirable order ready for ilustration (sic) & experiments: and that their condition & arrangement reflect the highest credit upon the Professors having them in charge.
The Physical Apparatus in the department of Prof Charbonnier needs a small expenditure for repairs: and the Laboratory, some scales & weights of precision. A list of the articles required is hereto appended, the aggregate cast of which will be about $115, to cover which the Committee earnestly requests the Board to make the necessary appropriation. The sum of $50 annually set apart for repairs in this department will not supply, for the ensuing year, what is absolutely essential.
Prof Charbonnier presented to the Board at its last regular session, a detailed statement of the wants of the Physical & Astronomical departments. As there (sic) wants were not supplied & still exist, this Committee begs leave to repeat that if the means are at command, it would greatly increase the facilities for instruction, if an apparatus for the generation of Dynamical Electricity could be provided. Hitherto this has been done by means of Batteries but there are in convenient & expensive
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Report of Committee on Apparatus Requiring for certain experiments the use of 50 cells of a Battery & Consuming a whole day to get these cells ready for use. These Batteries are now being superceded by Dynamic Electric Machines, run by steam, Water Power or Gas Engines. The motive power recommended by the Professor, would be a Gas Engine, at once compact, safe & convenient. Connected with a Gas Burner, it could be used in the lecture room. It could be started at a moments notice & is perfectly safe from explosion. An efficient outfit of this character would cost $750 or $800.
It is very desirable also that this University should have an Astronomical Observatory with suitable Apparatus. It already has some good Apparatus for teaching and ilustrating (sic) Astronomy &, but is very deficient in observing instruments. The only one on hand is a Telescope bought many years ago, in good order, but not suited for purposes of observation. The Institution ought to have in the Department of Astronomy-
An Observatory detached from other buildings
An Astronomical Clock
A Transit Instrument
An Observing Telescope equatorially mounted and
An Altitude & Azimuth Instrument.
The proper equipment of this Department of Science, would require are outlay of at least Ten Thousand Dollars. The Committee scarcely hopes that you will be able to compass this desirable object at present, but have thought it not amiss to present this reminder of what the University needs, to complete its means of imparting instruction in this branch of learning
The perfect condition of the Chemical Apparatus in charge of Prof White affords the Highest
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Report of Committee on Apparatus highest proof of the skillful care with which it is kept. The Cabinet room is in fine order & the cases containing minerals specimens present a very handsome appearance.
The apparatus in this Department is sufficient for all present needs and requires no repairs. The materials furnished to Prof White in his official work as State Chemist, answers also for use in his lectures & other work with the students. So that he is thereby enabled to maintain his stock of Apparatus without asking for any appropriation for this Department for the ensuing year. He will only need the usual sum of One Hundred Dollars for the purchase of Chemicals.
Everything in the Department of Engineering under the care of Prof Barrow gives evidence of the diligent attention given by that excellent & eminently capable officer to the Duties of his Chair.
A visit of inspection to the rooms of these several Professors would amply repay any member of this Board or any friend of the University
Respectfully Submitted
Young L.G. Harris
Chairman
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Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds
To the Board of Trustees
The Committee on Buildings & Grounds report -That the University High School
building is in a fair state of presentation, & the grounds adjacent & hereto in good order. Since the death of Genl Browne, the main building has been vacant, except that the lower rooms are occupied by Mr Smith, the person in charge of the Farm.
Since the burning of the dwelling formerly used by Prof Waddell, the outhouse which was saved from the flames, has been of no use, but rather an annoyance. It cannot be rented to any advantage & will gradually go into decay in its present position. Unless the Board intend to rebuild the dwelling, it is respectfully suggested that the outhouse alluded to be moved down near the entrance gate, & convenient to the street, so that it would be in position for occupancy as a Porters lodge or otherwise appropriated as it may please the Board: and if you would direct, that the fence which encloses that lot should be so changed as to turn the space formerly covered by the buildings, as well as the front yard into the area south of the Old laboratory, it would greatly improve the appearance of that part of the campus, & make a much more graceful & convenient drive through that part of the grounds in front of the Chancellors & Professors residences.
Up to the time of the passage of the resolution at Atlanta on Thr last inhibiting any further expenditure of the amount which had been appropriated for repairs, Except such sum as may be necessary to stop leaks in the roof, There had been expended for
The
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Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds The general purposes of repairs upon the University property, about the sum of $430 no/100 since that time the expense has been confined to what was absolutely necessary to prevent loss & damage, & amounts to only the sum of $293 90/100 Dollars. These sums aggregated make $723 90 as the total amount spent for repairs
For the rest, & for the purpose of placing before the Board the Condition of the property of which this Committee has the supervision, & what will be required for its repair & maintenance in good order for the ensuing year, we beg most respectful to adopt & substitute the annexed report made to this committee by Prof L H Charbonnier the very judicious & efficient inspector of Buildings & Grounds.
It will be seen that the estimate made by Prof Charbonnier of what will be required for necessary repairs for the ensuing year is $2170 exclusive of anything for the care & improvement of the grounds.
For this latter object $330 would be a moderate allowance: so that it will require for these general purposes the sum of Twenty Five hundred dollars: To meet which the Board is respectfully requested to make the requisite appropriation
Respectfully Submitted Young L.G. Harris Chairman
University of Georgia Athens Ga 26th June 1883
Hon L.L.G. Harris Chairman Birthday Committee Dear Sir. I beg leave to present
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Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds to you the following report concerning the buildings and grounds of the University.
In consequence of the order passed by the Board of Trustees at their meeting in Atlanta, no repairs have been made to buildings except such as were absolutely necessary: and no improvements of any kind have been carried on on (sic) the grounds: these however, have been kept in as good order as possible by the two college servants.
As regards repairs for the next year, I would ask you to remember that all of our buildings, wish the exception of the Moore College, are now old structures. They have been Kept in order by repairs it is true: but the ravages of time & use demand now more than ever the usual ordinary repairs.
Library Buildings The roof of this is in very bad condition. It has been leaking for many years and has been constantly almost under repairs. After a careful personal examination, I am forced to the conclusion that it is useless to attempt to make this roof weather proof by repairs to it as it stands. The slates were laid badly at firs they are only 14 to 15 inches long: show 7 inches in the weather and even more: in many places there are but two laps, & all over the roof the third lap is not more than to 1 inch. The only way to make this roof safe would be to take the slates entirely off and relay them, giving them more lap & properly fastening them. When we take into consideration the additional number of slates that would be required, both on account of increased lap and breakage, and the fact that we have no workmen in Athens who can lay or repair a slate roof, I am of opinion that a tin roof, or a corrugated iron roof would be the most available-
The cost of a Tin Roof would be about $400
This
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This building contains our Museum & Library: It is no condition to go through another winter, without probable damage to the valuable property it contains.
Chapel
For several years past I have maintained the condition of this building. It does not become me to discuss the question as to whether the building should be remodeled or not: but if it is to remain in its present shape, it will require extraordinary repairs to render it both weather proof and sightly.
The shingle roof will have to be replaced by a metal one -The cost of this will be about $450. The ceiling is dry rotting in many places & will need repairs. It is impossible for me to make an estimate of this item. It would probably not cost less than $100. The plastering ought to be done over. It has been patched so much, that it is not only unsightly, but it is actually unsafe. The cost of plastering & renewing the cornice would amount to $350.
The painting would cost probably $200. The seats, are many of them in bad order. They have been in use since 1867, & were inferior even when new. Now that many are worn out, it becomes a question whether they should not be replaced by better ones. The galleries of the Chapel have never been seated, They have only rough benches & broken down settees patched & mended. The good chairs from the floor might be put in the galleries, & the floor fitted up with new ones.
College Boarding Houses. There houses are both old & from their usage, require every year extensive repairs, although
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Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds. I have kept these down to what was absolutely necessary. In both houses, there is really not a door, or window that does not need repairs & in many instances removal. Many rooms which we have for years been patching should be replastered. The ceilings which are of wood are in many places decaying: the floors & ceilings have shrunk from age, & dusts sifts down from one floor to another. Not only should the wooden ceilings be replaced by plastering: but many of the floors should be relaid, & the woodwork inside generally repaired (&) painted. The families, occupying these buildings, take all the care they can of them and the students living in them cannot be said to abuse them, but the constant wear & tear of many years has made itself felt. It is impossible to make an exact estimate of such repairs. The best way to carry them on would be to have an appropriation of a few hundred dollars a year, and apply it to renovating as much of one building as could possibly be done with it: continuing the work under yearly appropriations until both buildings had been thoroughly renewed.
If no more than absolutely necessary repairs & cleaning can be done this year, we shall need not less than $150 for the purpose.
Professors Dwellings
These are in fair order and will only need ordinary repairs, with exception of the house now occupied by Dr Hogan, and in which Prof Morris is about to move. This house requires whitewashing and painting. The cost would be about $100
For the other for dwellings, an appropriation of $150 would probably cover the current repairs. Recitation
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Recitation Rooms.
Several rooms need extensive repairs. The seats in them are very old and worn: & in some there is not sufficient seating capacity for our increased number of students.
Prof Rutherford needs additional seats, and tables for written examinations.
Prof Woodfin needs additional blackboards and seats. The benches now in the room needs repairs
Prof Morris & Wilcox need repairs to the seats & desks.
$200 would be required to properly repair and furnish these rooms This may seem a large amount. But would ask you to remember that the furniture of all these rooms, save Prof Rutherfords has not been renewed since the war, & the common wear & tear have rendered it almost unfit for use.
Stoves Eight of our stoves are burnt out & have barely carried us through last winter. $60 to $70 will probably enable us to replace them. Wood and Coal Room
It is important that we should make a part of the cellar of the Moore College safe for storing our fuel. With all care exercised the cellar has repeatedly been broken into, last winter and our supplies have been stolen. My purpose would be to brick up some of the basement windows, and put up a strong door with fastenings. This work could not be well done for less than $50 It is not desirable to use the Moore College basement as a store room, but it is the only place, in the University buildings that can be made safe. We have been storing wood in the
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Report of Committee in Buildings & Grounds Ivy building, but had to abandon it last winter as depredations got in pretty well as they pleased.
The best plan would be to build a store-room, independent of any of our buildings but I fear it would be beyond our means.
Grounds
The improvements begun should be carried on There is some grading still needed, several trees have died and ought to be reset. The fences are in general good order, and will only need ordinary repairs.
Incidentals
Under this head come many minor repairs, for which there is almost a daily call, many of these are done by the College Janitors, still the materials used cost something. I would name amongst others, putting in sash lights, door locks, patching plastering where defaced by students, mending seats gates &c clearing wells &c $200 at least is spent
every year in these small jobs
Summary of Estimates
Roof to Library Building 400.00
Chapel 450.00
Plastering & painting Chapel 550.00
Boarding Houses 150.00
Dwellings 100.00
Recitation Rooms 200.00
Stoves 70.00
Wood & Coal Room 50.00
Grounds ?
Incidentals 200.00
$2170.00
In Conclusion, I would state that I have

Confined
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Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds confined myself strictly in the above to what is absolutely necessary. As I have stated under head of Boarding Houses, there ought to be an appropriation of several hundred dollars, made yearly to thoroughly renovate these, until they have been put in complete order.
Likewise, there are many other improvements which we ought to make, but which I have not estimated. I would for instance mention the one item of water supply, again all our buildings need more or less painting both inside and out. (Crossed through side)
We have every session many visitors Through them the advantages for the University are becoming known through the State. It is very important we should keep our Buildings and grounds in such a condition as to attract the notice of persons visiting us.
Nothing creates a worse impression on a stranger than buildings showing signs of dilapidation and slovenly Kept. Please excuse the length of this report, I could hardly have laid before you the
condition of things in a shorter limit. Very Respectfully Your Obdt Servt
L.H. Charbonnier
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Report of Committee on Experimental Farm Trustees University of Ga
The Committee on the Experimental Farm respectfully report: That since the demise of the late Genl WM Browne, the resident member (crossed through s in members) of the Committee has repeatedly visited the Farm. And can state that the work has been timely & well executed that the small grained crop has been garnered & while the Yield has not been so large as the crop of the preceeding (sic) year it still has been very satisfactory The crop of Corn & Cotton has been well worked & with continued seasons the outlook is very promising. The fencing is in fair condition the two farm horses have very much improved in flesh appearance & value.
Prof White selected by the Prudential Committee till the meeting of the Trustees at the Annual session to supervise the farm in now conducting the Experiments inaugarated (sic) by the late Professor & others instituted by himself, has made a report fully setting forth the nature and kind of experiments, tho, until the in gathering in the fall, the results can not be fully ascertained. The Committee respectfully invites the attention of the Trustees to this report of Prof White.
Whether the Chair of History & Political Science shall be continued as at present organized or not, the Committee would recommend most respectfully that Prof White be retained in his present position until the results of the Experiments
are fully known In the opinion of the Committee, the Experimental Farm is
calculated to be of much value to the Agriculturists of Ga & can be made self sustaining. Respectfully Submitted
J.S. Hamilton Clc
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Report of Committee on Branch Colleges The Committee on Branch Colleges report
1.
That they recommend that an appropriation be made to the North Ga Agricultural & Military College of the sum of$2000. To each of the other branch Colleges at Cuthbert, Thomasville & Milledgeville of $1500. They regret that the state of the fund will not allow a more liberal appropriation This is as much as can be afforded without incurring debt & neglecting indespensible (sic) repairs for the presentation of the property of the University at Athens.

2.
We are of opinion that the entire Agricultural fund should be controlled by the use of the university & appropriated to the establishment of much needed chairs, in the department of the State College of Agriculture & the Mechanic Arts at the earliest possible day. on order to that end, we favor an appropriation by the general assembly of such portion of the fund arising from the Inspection of Fertilizers as may be sufficient to sustain these Branch Colleges & others of like chancellor now authorised (sic) by law or which the legislature may hereafter establish.

3.
In the event of the making this appropriation, the appropriations herein recommended, except that of $2000 to the Nort (sic) Georgia College will be suspended & the amounts received be paid out of said appropriation, in such proportions as shall make all the Branch Colleges equal in point of advancement including in the estimate of $2000

4.
In case the College at Milledgeville is turned over to the State & a Normal School for the instruction of teachers is there established as desired, then the amount herein.


(453) July 1883 Report of Committee on Branch Colleges Recommended, for the current year should be retained by this board. As the scheme of converting this College into a normal school is acceptable to the citizens of Milledgeville we highly approve the change & will do all in our power to aid in its accomplishment.
We recommend, that the West Ga Agricultural & Military College at Hamilton be accepted as a branch of the University and be put in operation as such whenever sufficient funds can be procured by legislative appropriation We have at present no means to apply to such an object.
6 We recommend that the local board of Trustee of the Branch College at Thomasville have power to sell and when sold that the President of this board make to the purchaser titles to all of the Stegall Mitchell land land except three acres including the buildings therein & adjacent thereto which is reserved for the purpose of erecting a Chapel thereon & the funds arising from each sale in hereby appropriated to the building of such Chapel. Samuel Hall Chmn
1 We recommend that the nomination of the local board of trustees of the South West Georgia Agricultural College of James W Stanford of Cuthbert, to fill the vacancy in that board, occasioned by the death of J. McK. Gunn be ratified by the this board & we highly approve the establishment of a boarding department for students, as contemplated by said local board & will give it all the moral aid in our power consistent wish obligations to other departments & interests of the University.
2 In relation to the disbursement of the appropriations made by the General Assembly for Repairs
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Committee on Branch Colleges Report
Repairs & remodelling (sic) of the States building now used by the Branch College at Milledgeville & in adapting them to purposes to which by law now applied & the accounts growing out of the application of that fund, it is our opinion that by the terms of the Act of the legislature making the appropriation, the money can be expended, only for the objects above specified, & that all indebtedness incurred, for buildings other than those belonging to the State, in for school furniture other than desks & seats is not properly chargeable to that appropriation. If it is desirable, that such use should be made of any portion thereof, we would suggest that the proper authority be given by Act of the General Assembly.
3.
In disbursing the appropriations made for the erection of the College Buildings at Dahlonega, the existing liens if any upon the buildings should be first extinguished & subsequent liens should as the (sic) arise be paid off, advances made made (sic) by persons in furtherance of this object should be paid upon proper vouchers. The indebtedness incurred for furniture, (other than souls (?) & desks for recitation rooms &c) if changeable upon the appropriation at all, which the terms of the Acts making the appropriations leave doubtful, should not be paid until the main purpose of the appropriations shall be carried into effect. It would perhaps be well to ( ) an act of the legislature to remove all doubt upon this subject. This recommendation if approved will enable the local board to discharge, the past indebtedness to teachers by resting the fund designed for that purpose, & which was used for the restoration of the buildings.

4.
We recommend that the salary of the


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President of the branch College at Dahlonega he reduced to $1200Samuel Hall Chmn
Annual Report of Finance Committee University of Georgia
To the Board of Trustees The Finance Committee respectfully report, the following, as the Assets of the University -on July 9th 1883
I Assets of the University of Georgia July 1883 The Land Scrip Fund State of Georgia Bonds 8% Due Apl 1, 1884 State of Georgia Bonds 7% Due July 1 1892 Amount in hands of Governor paying 7% -----------Total------ 96,000.00 56000.00 90202.17 242202.17
II. The General or Franklin College Fund Debt of the State of Georgia, paying 8% State of Georgia 50 year Obligations 7% dueState of Georgia 50 year Obligations 7% ---------Total ----- 1932 1933 100,000.00 3,000.00 8,000.00 111,000.00
III. The Ch McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund

State of Georgia 50 Year Obligations paying 7% due 1933 50,000.00
IV The Terrell Endowment Fund State of Georgia 7% Bonds Due July 1, 1886 5,500.00 State of Georgia 7% Bond Jany 1 1892 10,500.00 State of Georgia 50 Year Obligation 7% due 1933 4,000.00
-------Total----------20,00000
V. The C.F. McCoy Donation Fund Georgia RR&Bkg Co 6% Bonds due 1910 registered 20,000.00 -----------Total of all Funds-----------443,202.17
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Report of Finance Committee
Following is a statement of the Receipts from all sources, for the year ending July 9th 1883
General Receipts
Amount of Cash balance on hand July 8.83 13,957.05
Amount paid by Ex2 of Dr Wm L Mitchell balance 9.08
Interest on the Land Scrip Fund 17,914.12
Interest in the General Fund 602.00
Matriculation Fees 1,720.00
Library Fees 860.00
Interest on the Terrell Endowment 1,190.00

Donated by Senator JE Brown for Ch McDonald Brown School Fund 50,000.00 Interest on same from Apl 1 to July 1 83 875.00 Annual payment by the State of Georgia 8,000.00 Rents 833.35 Appropriation by legislature for Dahlonega Buildings 5,000.00 State of Georgia Bonds 8% Due & Collected Apl 1 83 3,000.00 Sale of City of Athens 8% Bonds $300@129 387.00 Deposited by Senator JE Brown for use of HF Dunwoody 160.00
----------Total------104,507.60
The Expenditures for the same period have been

Expenditures
Chas McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund funded in Ga 7% obligation 1933
50000.00
Cash belonging to Terrell Fund
4000.00
Cash belonging to General Fund
8000.00
Salaries
1941.05

Branch Colleges Thomasville $2000 Cuthbert $2000 Milledgeville $2000 Dahlonega $2625 8625.00 Repairs on Buildings at Milledgeville 1224.20 Expended on Buildings at Dahlonega 562.52 Amount paid to H.F. Dunwoody
180.00
Catalogue Advertising & Printing 537.90 Fuel 152.64 Incidentals 116.53 Repairs of Apparatus 85.04 Chemicals 124.00
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Music
165.00
Commencement Sermon $20 Librarian $100
120.00
Travelling Expenses of Chancellor
60.81
Repairs
723.90
Servants
616.00
Postage $9130 Stationary $54 80 Medals $36 00
182.10
Insurance $422 05 Less amt refunded by Professors 37 30
384.75
Traveling Expenses of Treasurer 48.05 -Library $540.00
588.05
Experimental Farm $136 30 Less sale of Cotton $41 60
94.70
Leaving Cash balance in hands of Treasurer
8553.41 ---------Total ----
104507.60
The Cash balance in the hands of the Treasurer is composed of the following items:
Unexpended balance of Dahlonega Appropriation 4437.48 Unexpended bal of Milledgeville Appropriation
954.78
Interest in Ch McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund 875.00 To the Credit of Library Fund 740.00 To the Credit of the General Fund 1546.15
-------Total-------8553.41
All the funds belonging to the Land Srip Fund have been exhausted & a small balance chargeable to it has been paid out of the General Fund.
Eliminating from the foregoing statement of Receipts for the year, all items except those which are available for current expenses of the University and we have remaining
Available Income for 1882-3 Interest on Land Scrip Fund 17914.12 Interest on General Fund 602.00 Matriculation Fees 1720.00 Interest on Terrell Endowment 1190.00 Annual Payment by the State 8000.00 Rents 833.35
----------Total---------30259.47
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Report of Finance Committee For the same period the actual current expenses have been:

Operating Expenses 1882-3
Salaries
19411.05 Branch Colleges 8625.00 Catalogue Advertising & Printing
537.90
Fuel 152 64 Incidentals 116 53 Repair of Apparatus 354.21 Chemicals 124. Music 165. Commencement Service 20.00 309.00 Expenses of Chancellor 61 81 Servants 616 00 Repairs 723.90 1400.71 Postage 91 30 Stationary 54 80 Insurance 385 75 530.85 Medals 36. Expenses of Treasure 48 05 Experimental 94.70 178.75
31347.47
From which it appears that the actual expense of the University, have exceeded its available income, in the sum of $1088 00. This deficit would have been greater still, but the death of a member of the Faculty reduced the expenditure on account of salaries $333 35 and the death of the former Secretary & Treasurer leaves unpaid, whatever portion of his quarters salary, the Board may direct to be paid to his Estate.
Your Committee supposes that there can be no two opinions, as to the wisdom or propriety financially speaking, of pursuing a system by which we pay out annually more than we receive, and we take occasion to remind the Board, that this most important matter was brought to your notice in our last Report as pointedly as we know how to present it, without having any effect upon the amount of appropriations made by the Board
The income of the University for the next fiscal year, is estimated as follows:
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Report of Finance Committee Estimated Income Year ending July 1884
Interest on the Land Scrip Fund
17674.14
Annual Payment by State
8000.00
Interest of Terrell Endowment
1400.00
Matriculation Fees 1600.00
Rents 675.00
Interest on General Fund 770.00
Add Cash balance on hand 1546.15
-------------Total----------
31665.29

The necessary expenses of conducting the University for the next year, according to the requirement of the Institution as set forth in the Reports of the various offices and Committees, will be such, That the Finance Committee respectfully recommend the following appropriations by the Board
Appropriations for Year ending July 8, 1883 Salaries of Officers 19850.00 Repairs [SEE REPORT OF COM ON BUILDINGS.] 2500.00 Catalogue, Advertising & Printing 500.00 Postage & Stationary 150.00 Servants $600 -Fuel $150 -750.00 Insurance $400 -Medals $36.00 Chemicals 100 00 536.00 Incidentals $100.00 Commencement Sermon $2000 120.00 Repairs of Apparatus (SEE REPORT OF PROF CHARBONNIER) 115.00 Travelling Express of Chancellor $100 Music 125.00 225.00
24746.00 Librarian, To be paid out of Library Fund 100.00 -----------------Total -------------------------
24846.00
These appropriations, make no provision for whatever payment the Board may order, to the Estate of Dr W.L. Mitchell -nor for any of the improvement so long and so urgently needed in many of the departments.
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Report of Finance Committee ments of the University, nor for any payment to the several Branch Colleges. To meet all there (sic) and any other contingencies which may arise, the foregoing estimates leave in the Treasury, an unappropriated balance of $6819 29
The attention of the Board is called to the fact that $96000 of the Land Scrip Fund is invested in State of Georgia 8 per cent Bonds which fall due on the 1st of April 1884. This sum reinvested in State of Georgia 50 year 7% obligations, will yield a less revenue by $460 (?) per annum than that heretofore received from this source. Hence the income from This fund, which has here to fore amounted to $17,414 14 will this year fall off to $17,674 14 and for next year will only amount to $16,954 14
This decrease in the revenue, the present unsatisfactory state of the finances, and other reasons not within the province of this Committee, brings your Committee to ask, if the time has not arrived, contemplated by us all, when we should be forced to with draw from granting any further aid to the several Branch Colleges? We are advised that the Branch Colleges far from being feeders to the University actually are drains upon it, instead of sending us students that draw students from us and your Committee feels called upon to say, that the present system of cramping the University, even to the extent of allowing her buildings to become dilapidated, unsightly and unsafe, in order to foster the Branch Colleges, which do not send students here in any adequate numbers, is in their
(461) July 1883 Report of Finance Committee opinion unwise and cannot be justified.
If the Board feels bound by any arrangement heretofore made to pay any fixed portion of the interest from the Land Scrip Fund to the Branch College at Dahlonega, we recommend that the amount required to be paid under that agreement to with: $2000 be paid to that college, and the sum of one thousand dollars ($1000) be paid to each of the other three. If the Board does not feel bound by such a contract, we recommend that $1000 be paid to each of them for the next year, with notice that the Board does not expect to be able to continue even that sum hereafter.
As stated above, the income from the Land Scrip Fund for the next year, will be $17,674 14. And should the Board make the appropriations herein recommended by the Committee and should also make Professor Barrow a full Professor, the proportion of expenditures for the next year chargeable to the Land Scrip Fund would be as follows

PROPORTION CHARGEABLE TO LAND SCRIP FUND
Salaries of Professors & Officers 11,000.00 Branch Colleges $4000-Music 62 50 Servants 375 00 4,437.50 Catalogue Advertising & Printing 250.00 Fuel 75 00 Medals 18 00 Chemicals 50 Incidentals 50 193.00 Postage & Stationary 75 Repairs of App 7 50 Exp of Char 100 232.50
Total 16,113.00
Leaving a balance of 1,561.14
Out of the Whole Income of 17,674.14
And should the additional $1000 be appropriated to Dahlonega, the entire income from the Land Scrip Fund would be appropriated except a balance of $561 14 An item appears in the statements herein submitted, which requires some Explanation
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Explanation to the Board, towit the entry of Amount deposited by Hon Jos E Brown for use of H F Dunwoody $160 and in the statement of expenditures the item Amount paid to H F Dunwoody $180 00 this money was deposited by Senator Brown for the purpose of enabling Mr Dunwoody to obtain the benefit of the Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund, which had not at that time begun to draw interest. This Committee recommend that this sum be refunded to Senator Brown, and charged to the Ch McDonald Brown Sch Fund
We recommend further, in order to save unnecessary entries, that the Treasurer be directed to keep the money belonging to this Fund entirely separate from the other funds of the University and that he make a written Report Concerning the same to the Finance Committee, as soon as practicable after the close of the fiscal year
Respectfully Submitted For the Committees Athens July 13. 83 W.W. Thomas Chairman
The undersigned a member of the Finance Committee dissents to all that part of the Report of the Finance Committee which relates to the Branch Colleges. This report was not submitted before being read by the Chairman
July 14 1883 A. T. McIntyre
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Resolved, that the following appropriations be made by the Board for the following year. Salaries 17,850.00 Assistance at Farm 500.00 Repairs 2,500.00 Catalogue, Adv & Printing 600.00 Postage & Stationary 150.00 Servants 600.00 Fuel 150.00 Insurance 400.00 Medals 36.00 Chemicals 100.00 Incidentals 100.00 Commencement Sermon 20.00 Repair of App 115.00 Travelling Expenses of Chancellor 100.00 Music 2,000.00 Three other Branch Colleges 1500 00 ea 4,500.00 Cost of Dr Wm L Mitchell to be paid to his 3 unmarried daughters 250.00 Experimental Farm 100.00
30,296.00
Report of Finance Committee as amended by the above resolution, adopted.
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CHARLES. McDONALD. McDr SCHOLARSHIP FUND
The Committee appointed to report rules & regalations (sic) for the permanent
administration of The Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund begs leave to
submit the following.
QUALIFICATION OF RECIPIENTS.
SECTION 1. No person shall receive the benefit of this fund who shall not be when he enters the University or Branch College or School Eighteen years old, upright, of good moral character, apt to learn, of reasonable health, & ambitious to prepare himself for usefulness. His age must be proven by the affidavit of father, mother or guardian, his health by the certificate of some physician in the County in which he resides. His moral character, aptness to learn and ambition shall be certified by three officers of said county, one of whom shall be the Ordinary. Noone shall enter the University -proper unless prepared for the
Freshman Class.
OBLIGATION TO REPAY THEO (sic) LOAN
SECTION 2. Before he commences to receive the fund each recipient shall sign an obligation as follows: Athens Ga 18 In consideration of my being allowed to receive the sum of _____ (blank space) Dollars out of The Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund, I do hereby pledge my honor to refund so much as I may receive to the Trustees of the University of Georgia as soon after I complete my course of study as I may be able to make the same, living economically in the meantime
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Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund and when twenty-one years old I will give to The Trustees of the University of Georgia my obligation legally binding one for the payment of said sum with interest whereon at the rate of four per cent per annum.
Which interest shall be recovered only from the end of the year upon so much of said fund as may be received in that year.
This obligation shall be delivered to or taken by the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of said University, and when each student shall become of age the Treasurer shall, as soon as may be, exchange it for the obligation therein provided for. If the student be twenty-one years old when he begins, the obligation to pay shall be taken in the first instance.
Should any one claim to be releived (sic) from half of said obligation by reason of his being a minister of any church, his obligation may be so credited upon satisfactory evidence to the Board of Trustees that he is entitled thereto.
Provided, however, that there (sic) obligations shall not be required from any person selected by the sons of the donor of the fund, Gov Jos. E Brown, if at the time he applies for admission into the University of Georgia he shall produce a writing from the son appointing him that he shall not be required to give any obligation to return the loan because he is his Knisman (sic) within the fourth degree of consanguinity.
THE SUMS TO BE LOANED SECTION 3 No person shall about to enter the University
(466) Athens Georgia Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund or school shall be loaned less than fifty dollars per annum, and the maximum sum to be loaned per annum to any on entering the University shall be two hundred dollars, and to any entering the Branch College at Dahlonega, or such school as may take its place shall be one hundred & fifty dollars. The proportion thereof to be paid students shall be paid monthly during the scholastic years, and bear interest only from the end of the year in which it shall be paid. For each payment the Treasurer shall take a receipt from the
beneficiary.
THE FUND TO BE DESTRIBETED (sic)
SECTION 4. PART 1. Not more than one hundred dollars annually shall be taken from the whole fund for expenses of its administration, and so much of it as may be necessary shall be paid out as the Board of Trustees shall direct. Should any part of it be unexpended it shall go back to the general fund. PART 2. The persons appointed by the sons of Gov Brown, according to the provisions of the deed of gift shall be entitled to said loans, provided that the Board of Trustees shall leave notice on or before the second day of its annual (sic) of such selection by them, or either of them, in writing signed by the son so appointed & have presented to them. Then and there the evidences of qualification aforesaid for admission in the University.
PART 3. The sum of one thousand dollars shall annually set apart for
(467) July 1883 Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund the Branch College at Dahlonega, or such school as may take its place according of the deed of gift to be distributed as herein set forth. But should the general fund he diminished in anyway, said one thousand dollars shall be decreased in proportion as it is to the whole interest annually received. Said sum shall also be taxed with its prorata share of all expenses of administering the fund except that in collecting loans. All loans made from the University fund proper shall pay their expenses of collection, and all loans made out of the fund for said Branch College or school shall pay their expenses of collection.
PART 4. The remainder of the fund shall be for the use of the students in the University proper including the Medical School at Augusta as a part of the University.
WHO SHALL BE BENIFICIARIES DAHLONEGA.
SECTION 4. PART 1. Persons who shall receive the benefits of the fund in the Branch College at Dahlonega, or such school as may take its place qualified as aforesaid, except the grade of scholarship made be waved, must when they enter the same, produce satisfactory evidence to the principal of said college of school that they reside bona fide in one of the following Counties: Oconee, Pickens & Anderson, of South Carolina and the mountain counties of North East Georgia towit: the counties of Rabun, Habersham, White, Lumpkin, Dawson, Forsyth, Cherokee, Murray, Gilmer, Pickens, Fannin, Union & Towns Students for said Branch College or school shall be selected as impartially as may be from all parts of said territory, so that each section thereof may be represented.
(468) Athens Georgia Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund to that end they shall be selected from each Senatorial District of Georgia, in said limits, & said territory in South Carolina, reckoning it as one Senatorial District in equal numbers making due allowance for the difference in the quantum of aid need by the applicants. Should equality be unattainable in each year, it shall, as nearly as may, be perfected in succeeding years.
UNIVERSITY OR MEDICAL COLLEGE
PART. 2. Those who enter the University at Athens or Medical College at Augusta, shall be selected as impartially as may be from all parts of the state, so that each section of the State be represented. To that end, they shall be selected from each Congressional District in equal numbers, making due allowance for the difference in the quantium (sic) of aid needed by the applicants, should equality be maintainable in each year, it shall as nearly as may be perfected in succeeding years.
THE MODE OF SELECTING BENEFICIARIES
SECTION 5. On or before the first day of April, annually, the Faculty of the University at Athens shall prepare questions proper to show the proficiency of applicants, and to show which class in the University they are prepared to enter. Copies of these questions shall be sealed up, and by the Chancellor sent so sealed to such person or persons as may be by them selected to conduct such examination The list of questions so sealed up shall be accompanied by a letter requesting the person receiving the same, not to open said sealed package until the day, and
(469) July 1883 Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund at the place appointed for examination. At said time & place, such package shall be opened & all applicants be required then & there before leaving the room, and without communicating with any one, to write each question & his answer thereto and deliver the same to the examiner or Examiners, who shall forward the same to the Chancellor of the University of Georgia at Athens Georgia, by mail or express, with his or their certificate upon that the package containing the questions was so kept sealed, and opened only at the time & place of examination, and that the answers sent by him were then and there made made (sic) as appears by the several applicants before leaving the room & without communicating with any one. But no applicant need answer any of the questions prepared for a class higher than wishes to enter, and no person already in the University need to be examined. The Chancellor shall submit said examinations, and the standing of those already in the University, to the faculty for consideration and report to this Board of the first day of its annual session designating the persons whom they find best qualified for the place sought, and such other facts as may be needful to decide who shall have the loans.
He shall at the same time, submit all evidences of qualifications which may have been filed by the several applicants.
From the facts aforesaid, the Board shall select the person to receive the meeting so soon thereafter as may be, and report the same to the
(470) Athens Georgia Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund Chancellor who shall notify the applicants of their decision as early as practicable. The places selected for said examinations shall be selected with a view to save all unnecessary expense and travel in reaching the same.
SECTION 6. This plan shall be substantially followed for sections for Dahlonega, or such school as may take its place, except that the questions shall be prepared by its faculty. The examinations shall be held in each Senatorial District, and in one place in South Carolina, and be sent to the President of the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega, or such person as may represent the head of such Branch College or School, be considered by the faculty & by its President, reported to the Board at its annual meeting.
SECTION 7. This plan of administering the fund is tentative & subject to change at any annual meeting of this Board by a majority of those present voting.
SECTION 8. As $875.00 is now in hand, and $1,750 will be collected next January, after deducting one hundred dollars for expenses, the part due to Dahlonega in proportion of one to three & a half, shall be set apart for that institution and the balance, except what may be taken by the appointees as Gov Browns sons, shall be set apart for the University proper.
As soon as may be, the Chancellor shall learn whether said sons will make any selections for the next term of the University, and if so, who and how much
(471) July 1883 Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund money they will wish. As no sufficient time remains for examinations for the next term, it is hereby directed that loans be made to Messrs Hutchenson of Clayton,
B.J. Congress of Bartow County, & H. F. Dunwoody of Darien now in the University.
And the Faculty and Prudential Committee shall select the others for the University, if any money remains after paying the advance mentioned in the next item.
SECTION 9. It Is further directed that out of said fund in hand, one hundred and sixty dollars advanced by Governor Brown for said Dunwoody shall be refunded, and Dunwoody give his note therefore to the Trustees.
Section 10. For like reasons, it is ordered that the selections for the Branch College at Dahlonega for the next scholastic year shall be made by the
Trustees and Faculty of said Institution. N.J. Hammond For the Committee
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July 11th 1884 The Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia met in annual session in the Library at 10 am. Present Hon John J. Gresham President and Messrs Lamar Cobb D.W Lewis
W.H.
Felton L.F. Livingstone Samuel Hall W.W. Thomas James S. Hamilton D.A. Vason

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L. Hull B.C. Fancey


G.O.F. Prierce
During the session the following members appeared and took their seats Messrs DC Barrow J B Cummings
John W Beckwith B.P. Hollis
J.A. Billups W. A. Little Joseph E Brown H D McDaniel S M H Byrd A.J. McIntyre
At the request of the President the meeting of the Board was opened with prayer by Bishop Prierce.
Excuses were made and received for the absence of James Jackson, H.V.M. Miller, A.R. Lawton, Mark A Cooper & Robert C. Humber. Minutes of last meeting read and approved.
On motion of Mr Vason the Secretary was directed to report at the meeting this afternoon whether there were any vacancies in the Board and if so who they are and for what
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cause Chancellor Mill made his annual report (page 498) which on motion of Mr Yancey was referred to appropriate Committees.
The President announced the following as the Committee on Laws & Discipline. Mr. Hall Chairman Mess Yancey Vason
Livingstone Lewis
Mr Yancey offered the following reasons with the request that they be referred to the Committee on Laws & Discipline which was agreed to.
1.
Resolved that it be referred to the Committee on Laws & Discipline to consider and report to the Board some plan by which the glaring deficiency of students even of graduating classes in English Grammar and Orthography can be remedied: Either by requisitions for any admitted who do not stand good examinations to make up the deficiency and any who do not do so be refused certificate of proficiency in the department.

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Resolved By the Board of Trustees of the University that a thorough Course of English Literature be established: that the text books to be regulated by the Faculy (sic)


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By Mr Hall Resolved that a Committee be appointed to wait upon Hon Young
L. G. Harris and request him to withdraw his resignation which he tendered a the last session and at the request of this Board was with drawn to take effect this meeting.
Adopted
The President appointed Judge Saml Hall to wait upon Mr Harris.
Mr Thomas read Mr Harris report as Chairman of the Committee on the Apparatus which was received and referred to the Finance Committee. [PAGE 512.].
Mr Thomas also read Mr Harris report as Chairman of the Prudential Committee with an Abstract of the Minutes -which was received and approved [PAGE 515]
Mr Lewis offered the following resolution with the request that it be referred to the Committee on Laws & Discipline which was agree to.
Resolved that when a vacancy shall occur in the Presidency of any of the Branch colleges during the interim of the sessions of this Board the vacancy may be filled temporarily until the regular session of the Board by the Chancellor of the University
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Mr Hull chairman of the Auditing Committee made his report which was received and laid on the table for the present [PAGE 544]
Mr Hull Chairman of the Finance Committee made his report which was recommitted [PAGE 546]
Dr Hamilton Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture made his report which was received and laid on the table for the present.
[PAGE 524] The following resolution offered by Mr Lewis was adopted. Resolved that Prof White be requested to appear before this Board at 4 oclock this
afternoon and present his views as to the practicability of establishing an Experimental Station and probable cost.
By Mr Cobb-
Resolved that a standing Committee be appointed each year by the Chairman to be known as the Committee on the Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund
Adopted On motion of Bishop Pierce the Board then adjourned until 4 oclock this afternoon
4 P.M. The Board met pursuant to adjournment
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adjournment Major J.B. Cummings & Maj LMH Byrd appeared and took their seats.
Prof H.C. White appeared as requested and addressed the Board very ably and interestingly upon the importance of establishing an Experimental Station at the Experimental Farm and the probably cost of the same.
The Secretary under resolution of Mr Vason made his report touching vacancies in the Board. Which was received [PAGE ]
By Mr Peirce Resolved that the Board now proceed to elect a trustee in the place of Hon James L Seward who has been absent without excuse for two successive sessions of the Board
Adopted. The Board then went into an election and Hon B.C. Hollis of Americus was unanimously elected.
By Mr Hall Resolved That the Board proceed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon M J Crawford. Adopted
The Board then proceeded to elected a Trustee under Mr Halls motion and Hon
W.A. Little of Columbus
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bus was duly elected.
By Mr Lewis Resolved that the Board now proceed to elect a Trustee under the Act of the last Legislature which authorised (sic) the election of the Governor whether there be a vacancy or not.
Mr Yancey moved as a substitute that the election be to fill the vacancy occasioned by Gen Gordons absence for two successive annual sessions without an excuse.
Mr Cobb moved to lay the whole matter on the table until Saturday morning that he might examine the minutes again, which was agreed to.
Mr Hull Chairman of the Finance Committee made an amended report which was received and laid on the table for the present [PAGE ]
On motion of Mr Vason the Reports from Branch Colleges were made the special order for Saturday morning at 9 oclock.
On motion of Mr Livingstone the report of the Finance Committee was made the especial order immediately after the Reports of Branch Colleges.
On motion of Dr. Hamilton the Board adjourned until 9. AM. Saturday
Lamar Cobb Secty John J. Gresham President
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The Board met pursuant to adjournment. The minutes of last meeting read and approved.
Bishop Beckwith appeared and took his seat.
Mr Hall reported that he had seen Judge Harris as requested and that he stated that he appreciated the action of the Board but that he felt that he was no able to satisfactorily discharge the duties of a Trustee and therefore he must insist upon the acceptance of his resignation.
On motion of Mr Vason. The resignation of Judge Harris was accepted.
The special order being the Reports from Branch Colleges the Report of the South West Georgia Agricultural College was read and the Rev Mr Cooper was heard in behalf of that College.
Rev Dr Cook President of Middle Ga Military & Agricultural College and Capt
C.P. Crawford read the reports from that College and addressed the Board in its interest.
On motion of Mr Livingstone then reports were referred to the Committee
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on Branch Colleges.
The special order after Reports from Branch Colleges being the report of the Finance Committee it was taken up and Mr. Livingstone moved to amend the report by striking out the appropriation of $2000-for a Professor of Agriculture.
On motion of Mr Cobb the whole matter was laid on the table to await the reports of the Committees on Laws & Disipline (sic) and Branch Colleges.
The President announced the following as the Committee on The Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund
Mr Beckwith Chairman &
Messrs Thomas Cumming
Byrd Felton Livingstine Vason
An invitation from the Senior Class to attend their class exercises this afternoon was received and read but on account of the pressure of business the Board felt it their duty to decline its acceptance.
On motion of Mr Vason the Board proceeded to the election of Trustee to fill the vacancy occasioned by the absence of Gen John B Gordon from two annual sessions of the
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Board rendering an excuse therefore. Gov Henry D. McDaniel was unanimously elected.
On motion of Mr Yanceythe Board then proceeded to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon Young L.G. Harris and Hon Pope Barrow was unanimously elected.
The Board then adjourned to 4 oclock this afternoon.
4 P.M.
The Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Col A.J. McIntyre appeared and took his seat.
On motion of Mr. Yancey. Col Hammondof Thomasville appeared before the Board and read the report from the South Ga Agricultural College and addressed the Board in its interest.
On motion of Mr Vason the report was taken up and that part of it in reference to Fletcher Institute property was referred to a special Committee.
The President appointed on that Committee.
Mr Vason Chrm -Mess Billups Cumming
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Mr Yancey moved that the Board proceed to elect a President of South Ga Agricultural College in the place of J.H. Alexander resigned Adopted
Mr Billups moved to reconsider Mr Yanceys motion which was done. And in motion of Mr Billups the whole matter was laid on the table until Monday morning.
Mr Livingstone then renewed his motion to strike out the appropriation of $2000 for the Chair of Professor of Agriculture which was adopted
Mr Livingstine then moved to amend the report by giving to each of the Branch Colleges at Thomasville, Milledgeville and Cuthbert the sum of $2000 for 1884-5 Adopted
Mr Thomas moved that the Report of the Finance committee as amended by the Board be adopted. which was agreed to. [PAGE 546]
On motion of Dr Hamilton the Report of the Committee on Agriculture & Horticulture was taken up & adopted. Mr Byrd
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Mr Byrd gave notice he would apply for the Honorary Degree of A.M. for James C. Harris of Cedartown Georgia.
On motion of Mr Thomas the Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds was taken up and adopted as amended.
Mr Cumming offered the following resolution which at his request was referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges.
Resolved that after the expiration of the fiscal year the policy of this Board will be, so far as the law governing it will permit to distribute the funds appropriated for the benefit of the Branch Colleges among said Colleges with some reference in proportion to the numbers of students sent from said Colleges to the University.
On motion of Mr Hull the question of the election of a Tutor was made the special order for Tuesday morning at 9 oclock.
Mr Lewis offered the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved That the Secretary be requested to attach to each of the Portraits a metalic (sic) plate or other
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name ? durable substance, on which shall be inscribed the date of the death or period of expiration of the official connection of the individual with the college.
Bishop Peirce & Mr. Cumming were granted have of absence after today.
On motion the Board then adjourned to 9 oclock Monday Morning.
John J Gresham
President
James Cobb
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The Board met pursuant to adjournment Minutes were read and approved.
Hono B.P. Hollis, W .A. Little and Gov Henry D McDaniel, Gov J E Brown J.A. Billups & D C Barrow appeared and took their seats.
Mr Hull Chairman of the committee on Laws & Discipline made a report from that Committee [PAGE On (sic) of Mr Livingstone the report was taken up by sections and each section being adopted it was then adopted as a whole.
Mr Hull offered the following resolutions which were adopted.
Resolved that the Board of Trustees shall tender to the General Assembly at their next session, the Agricultural Farm & Buildings belonging to the University to be used for all the purposes of a State Experimental Station of Agriculture Provided that the Legislature shall appropriate a sum sufficient for its conduct & provided further that the appointment of the Director of the Station shall be in this Board & that the station shall be in this operated in connection with the Agricultural Department of this University.
Resolved 2 That the President
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Shall appoint a Committee of five members of this Board to make the tender to the Legislature and urge its acceptance.
The President appointed following Committee on Mr Hulls resolution. Mr Pope Barrow Chairman Messr Thomas & Livingstone
Mr Beckwith Chairman of the Committee on The Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund made his report which after being amended was on motion of Mr Vason adopted. [PAGE 517]
Leave of absence after this mornings session was granted Bishop Beckwith & Mr Livingstone.
On motion of Mr McIntyre Mr Screven was excused on account of sickness in his family.
The Board then took a recess to hear the address on Hon P.F. Smith before the Literary Societies.
The Board met and after the address of Hon P.F. Smith and Supplemental Report No 1 was received from the Chancellor and adopted. [PAGE ]
Supplemental Report No 2 of the Chancellor was received and adopted & the action of the Prudential Com mittee
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mittee in the election of Dr S.C. Benedict. Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Andrew J. Cobb Professor of Law in the Department of law confirmed.
Mr Vason Chairman of the Special Committee on the Title to the property of the South Ga Agricultural College known as the Fletcher property made a report which after being amended was adopted. [PAGE 538]
The report of the North Ga Agricultural & Military College was received, read and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges.
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Mr Yancey offered the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved that the Presidents of the local Boards of the Agricultural Colleges are requested to have their annual reports delivered to the Secretary of this Board on Friday the first day of the annual session of the Board. And that the Secretary of this Board transmit this resolution to each President of the local Boards of said Colleges for their guidance.
Board then adjourned until 4 oclock.
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4 P.M. The Board met according to adjournment.
Mr Yancey Chairman of the Committee on Branch Colleges made his report which was adopted.
On motion the Board went into an election for President of the South West Georgia Ag. College which resulted in the election of Mr. B.T. Hunter.
The following named gentlemen were then elected Trustees.
For South West Ga Agricultural College
Mess J.W. Standford J.C. Martin
DR McWilliams A.J. Moye
G.F. Barfield
For North Ga Agriculture & M College
R.H. Baker
Mr Byrd was excused for the balance of the session
Pending a discussion of an election of a President of South Ga Agricultural the Board took a recess to attend the Sophomore Exhibition
The Board reconvened after the exercises. (sic)
Col Hammond excused from attending this session Board adjourned until Tuesday at 9 A.M.
John J Gresham
President
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The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Minutes read & approved.
Mr Fannin was excused from attendance on the Board this session on account of the state of affairs in his town.
Mr Little was excused for the balance of the session on account of sickness in his family.
On motion of Mr. Billups the Chancellor was requested to appear before the Board and give his views on the election of a Tutor.
On motion of Mr. Vason the whole matter of the election of a President of the South Ga Agricultural College was referred to the local Board of that College with instructions to fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting of the Board
The special order being the question of the election of a Tutor an (sic) the Chancellor having been requested to give his views upon that subject, appeared before the Board and addressed them.
After the address of the Chancellor -Mr Hall moved that the 1st & 2nd Sections of the Report of the Committee on Laws & Discipline be reconsidered Adopted
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Mr Hall then moved to strike out from said Report Section 1 & 2 which was agreed to.
On motion of Mr Vason the Board determined to elect a Tutor at a Salary of $800.00 whose duties shall be assigned by the Chancellor & Faculty.
The Board then proceeded to the election of a Tutor and Mr AW VanHoose was unanimously elected.
On motion of Mr. Billups the Board took a recess to attend the meeting of the Alumni Society and to hear the address of Hon N.E. Harris before that society.
The Board reconvened after recess.
On motion of Mr Thomas Mr Pope Barrow was added to the Prudential Committee.
The Committee on Honorary Degree recommended that the Degree of D.D. be conferred upon Rev John L Johnson of the University of Miss and the Degree of A.W. upon Walter P. Wilson of Dahlonega.
The report was received and adopted and the honorary degrees recommended were conferred Mr Yancey
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Mr Yancey read a letter from Rev Dr Cook President of Middle Ga A&M college and offered the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved That the Secretary be requested to explain to the Local Board of the Branch Colleges, That the Legislature did not appropriate any funds for educational purposes, as was hoped for and out of which five hundred dollars additional would have been made to each of the Branch Colleges receiving only fifteen hundred dollars: that the $3000.00 appropriation of which the local Branch Colleges have heard was a specific appropriation confined by the Act for Repairing the University buildings located at Athens which is insufficient for the purpose & which could not be diverted from a specific purpose even if there was a surplus.
Mr Lewis gave notice of the application for the Honorary Degree of A.M. for
W.F. Crusselle (?) of Dahlonega.
On motion of Mr Billups the Board adjourned until Wednesday morning at 9 oclock.
Lamar Cobb
Sect John J Gresham
President
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Wednesday 9 A.M. July 16 1884 The Board met pursuant to adjournment. The minutes were read and approved.
On motion of Mr. Lewis one hundred dollars ($100) was added to the appropriation for Catalogue, Advertising & Printing and the Prudential Committee were directed to have a tri-ennial Catalogue issued.
Mr. Yancey-That the Secretary of this Board be requested to write to Mr Charles P Crawford of Milledgeville advising him of the names of the Committee appointed to represent the interests of the University before the next session of the Legislature towit
Messrs Brown Chairman Hammond Grady Byrd & Miller
And requesting him to confer with said Committee in relation to the bill or scheme as to education. He referred to in his remarks before the Board of Trustees at the present session.
Adopted.
Mr Cobb That the Librarian be required to add all books heretofore and hereafter added to the Library in their proper place in the Catalogue of Books prepared by J.H. (492)
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J H Armstrong in 1879 Adopted
Upon motion of Mr Billups a Committee was appointed to present a memorial
upon the Hon M.J. Crawford at the next session of this Board The Chair appointed Chief Justice Jackson Mr Billups & Mr Little.
Notice was given of the application for the Honorary degree of L.L.D for Joseph Jones of La.
Judge Wm M Reese one of the Trustees of the Gilmer fund (sic) and stated that he had hoped to have had a quorum of that Board present in order to make a proposition to turn over the fund to this Board but that the had been disappointed and that he would like for the Board to take such action as would enable him to present a definite proposition to them.
Pending the discussion of this subject the Board took a recess to attend the Commencement Exercises.
Board reconvened after the exercises
Mr McIntyre offered the following resolution which was
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Resolved That when this Board adjourns it be to meet at the capital Building in Atlanta on the 14th day of August next at 10 AM and that the Secretary be directed to in form the members not present.
The President Hon John J Gresham Mr Yancey & Mr Hall were excused for the balance of this session
The President announced the following standing Committees
Agriculture & Horticulture
Mr Hamilton Chairman
Mess Hollis Humber
Felton Fannin
Library Mr Cobb Chairman Mess Hall Lawton Beckwith Grady
Apparatus The Prudential Committee
Law Department
Mr Pope Barrow Chmn
Mess Hall Jackson
Billups Little

Auditing Mess J Hamilton Hull.
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Branch Colleges Mr Yancey Chairman Mess Vason Miller DC Barrow (struck through with pencil Erwin written beside in pencil) Screven Humber Little
Finance Mr Hull -Chairman Hamilton (struck through with pencil) Lawton Billups Cumming McIntyre Thomas (Reese later added in pencil) McDaniel (DB Hamilton latter added in pencil)
Grounds & Buildings
Mr Thomas Chairman
(Dr written in pencil) Hamilton Pope Barrow
Hull Lewis
Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund (Erwin written in pencil) Mr Beckwith (struck through in pencil) Chairman
Thomas Cumming
Byrd Felton (Struck through in pencil)
The Board then adjourned to meet in Atlanta on the 14th day of August
James Cobb John J. Gresham Secty President
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The Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia me in Atlanta at 10 AM in the Senate Chamber pursuant to adjournment. The President and Vice President both being absent Hon DW Lewis the Senior Trustee took the Chair Present Hon DW Lewis President Pro Tem
Mess J. E Brown R. C Humber
Lamar Cobb W.A. Little
J.H. Fannin H.D. McDaniel
HW Grady A.T. McIntyre
N.J. Hammond &
B.P. Hollis D.A. Vason

Mr Hammond stated that he had been informed that Judge Wm M Reese was waiting to present a proposition on behalf of the Trustees of the Gilmer Fund to the Trustees of the University and he moved that he and his associates be invited to meet with this Board Which was agreed to
In response to this invitation Judge Wm M Reese, Hon A.L. Miller and Col W.P. Price appeared and took seats with the Board.
On behalf of the Trustees of the Gilmer Fund Judge Reese made the following proposition.
To the Trustees of the University of Georgia.
The undersigned Trustees of the Fund known as the Gilmer Fund, about $15000 00 in amount, created by the will of the late George R Gilmer of the County of Oglethorpe a copy of which is hereto annexed, which fund is invested in
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Georgia State Bonds propose to the Trustee of the University of Georgia the
following scheme of disposal of the same:
1st
That the Trustees of said university shall in proper form agree to received said Fund from the undersigned and authorize their Treasurer to receipt for the same & agree also to reinvest said Fund when received as soon as practicable in accordance with the Act Sept 30 1880.
2nd
That the Fund and interest thereof shall be held & applied by them in accordance with the will of said George R Gilmer.
3rd
That if it because impossible to reinvest in a state security similar to the one provided for in Act of 30th Sept 1880 at the expiration of the 50 years provided for in said Act then said Trustees shall reinvest as other funds of the State University may be invested, but always to be Kept as a separate & distinct fund to be used & applied in accordance with the will of said George R Gilmer.
4th
That the Trustees of the Gilmer Fund shall at any & all times be allowed to inquire into the situation & disposal of the same by the Trustees of the University of Georgia & enforce according to law the observance of said will and this agreement.
5th
That the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia
shall furnish to the Trustees of the Gilmer Fund a copy the proceedings of the
Trustees of the University of Georgia in relation to this agreement. Aug 14 1884
Robt Toombs, WP Price, Alex S Erwin, A.L Miller, W M Reese, HD
McDaniel
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Copy of will of George R Gilmer Georgia Oglethorpe County
I George R Gilmer of said county make this Testament & devise for the disposition of all my property at my death.
I give my whole estate to my beloved wife for her life with the addition & qualification as herein after named.
I give to my wife my entire property in all my negroes, to be given away by her during her lifetime or disposed of by her will or to her heirs if not so disposed of.
I also give all my personal property to her to be disposed of by her in her lifetime or by her will or otherwise to her heirs except as hereinafter expressed.
I give all the money I may die possessed of & accounts upon which may be due me & all money on deposit.
I give my wife the right to take from my library and cabinet of minerals whatever she may think proper for her own property the remainder to be given to Franklin College.
In addition to the above request I give my wife $5000 00.
All property not disposed of by the above clause in the will (towit) my lands, houses & lots in Lexington & all notes and bonds which belong to me, I give & devise to form a perpetual fund for Educating teachers of Reading, writing and Arithmetic or to otherwise increase the qualification of the School-masters of Georgia for properly instructing the Children of the State.
I hereby for this purpose commit the disposal of the annual proceeds from said fund (Later noted in red ink Carried to Page 552)
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CHANCELLORS REPORT.
University of Georgia To the Board of Trustees July 11 1884 University of Georgia
Gentlemen
I have the honor to report that during the scholastic year now closing there have been matriculated in the Departments at Athens two hundred and four (204) students viz In Franklin College one hundred and twenty seven (127): in the State College of Agriculture & the Mechanic Arts sixty-six (66): In the Law School ten (10), and Post Graduates, two (2) But one Law Student has been counted also in Franklin College.
Numbers of all those who have recd Instruction in the various Departments of the University during the Collegiate Year In Franklin College 127.
State College of Agri & Mech Arts 66. Law Department (one counted already) 10.
Post Graduates 2. Total in all the Departments at Athens 204. [As against 198 reported last year] In the Medical Department 122. [As against 77 reported last year] In North Ga Agricultural College [Males & Females] 146 [As against 175 reported last year] In South Ga Agricultural College All Males 130 [As against 192 reported last year In South West Ga Agricultural College 106 [As against 121 reported last year] In Mid Geo Mil & Agricultural College Males 186 Females 204 390 [As against 386 report last year]
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CHANCELLORS REPORT. Total In all the Departments 1098 [As against 1149 reported last year] It will appear then that in all the Departments there has been a loss of 51 [As compared to the report last Commencement] COMPARING GAINS AND LOSSES The Departments at Athens have gained 6. The Medical Department gains 45. The Branch College at Dahlonega loses 29.
Thomasville 62.
Cuthbert 15.
Milledgeville gains 4.

The Law Department loses 7. Franklin College [including 2 Post Graduates] gains 1. State College of Agriculture & the Mech Arts gains 15.
COLLEGE GRADE In Departments at Athens 204. [As against 198 last year] In Departments at Augusta 122. [As against 77 last year] In College at Dahlonega 66. [As against 48 last year] In the college at Thomasville 14. [As against 12 last year]
In the College at Cuthbert 25.
[As against 20 reported last year]
In the College at Milledgeville Males 25 Females 23} 48.
[As against 43 last year]
Total of College grade in all Depts of University. 479.
As against 413 last year making a gain of 66.

It will be seen that all the Branch Colleges have gained over last year of students of College Grade.
UNDERGRADUATES. Excluding the Law and Medical Departments and
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CHANCELLORS REPORT And the two Post Graduates, it will be seen that, of the college Grade, there are undergraduates, In the Departments at Athens 193. [as against 179 last year] In all the Branch Colleges
153 [As against 138 last year] Of these 153, all are of the grade of Sophomore and Freshman,
excepting 25 at Dahlonega viz 10 Seniors, and 15 Juniors Total Undergraduates of College grades 346.
[As against 317 last year] making again (sic) of undergraduates in our whole University system of 29
Of which 29 the Branch College in the aggregate have gained (viz of Undergraduates) 15 And the University proper at Athens 14
THE CHARLES McDONALD BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
On the 1st day of May, twenty one young men stood competitive examinations for appointments under this fund. Ordinaries of the several counties consented to undertake the examination of the young men: and those that responded did the work most admirably and successfully. For some reason three have failed to return the papers to me and have omitted to communicate with me on the subject. I supplied them with printed forms & printed instructions so that there was required of them no literary qualifications further than the ability to read. copies of there forms and instructions are herewith submitted. The examination papers of the young men have been
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inspected and graded by the Professors. The average grade on the different topics, and the general average of all have been marked on the envelopes that contain the papers severally.
Besides these twenty one, there are twelve other applicants who are now members of classes in the University, (and written in pencil) one who was a member in 82-3. These certificates of these also are enclosed in envelopes, in which are written their names, their ages, their Post Offices and counties, their classes and their topical and general averages for the year just closed, copied from the University records.
In this connection, there will be some difficult questions for the Trustees to settle
as for instance.
1.
Shall those applicants who have received the advantages of the University training be competitors on terms of equality with those who have not had such advantages I.E. shall these two classes he competitions at all, and if so, shall their competition be decided by the same technical tests?

2.
In the event that two or more in the same county or region present papers of high grade, and those in other regions in a degree failed in the examination, shall the question be decided exclusively by the paper, or, in spite of the paper by the territorial locality of the applicants? Of those applying by competitive examinations two reside in Bartow County, two in Greene, two in Jackson and two in Washing


ton
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CHANCELLORS REPOT ton County, and me each in the Counties of Fulton, Butts, Richmond, Newton, Oconee, Terrell, Campbell, Stewart , Wilcox, Muscogee, Byran, Hart, Wayne and Carroll. Of those applying from the University Classes, two live in Tattnell County and one each from the counties of McDuffie, Coweta, Cobb. Fulton Clarke, Green (sic), Wilkes, Hall, Walton, Gordon, Jackson and Milton.
One Law student and five members of the Senior class who during the last year have been enjoying the benefit of this fund, retire from the University this Commencement. Two of the sons of Gov Brown announced to me the appointment of a young (man written in pencil) each to the scholarship, but for some reason, only one reported himself. He is still in the University and expects to rise Senior at Commencement.
The Rules and Regulations for the permanent administration of the fund do not make it plain beyond a doubt as to the length of time a beneficiary is to hold the scholarship he may obtain, whether for one year or to the end of his University Course unless he should voluntarily relinquish if sooner. I respectfully ask the Board to express an opinion of this point.
It seems also that there is nothing in the printed rules & Regulations to prevent a rich mans son from being appointed to a Scholarship under the fund.
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CHANCELLORS REPORT.
ART GALLERY
Dr H.V.M. Miller & Genl A.R. Lawton have presented to our Gallery superb portraits of themselves. Some others of the Trustees have responded favorably to my application for their pictures: and I am in constant expectation of receiving them. Some of your honorable body though have received in silence my repeated applications. I shall be greatly disappointed should I fail to secure for the University the picture of every Trustee: and I beg the Board to assist me to the extent of their ability. The changes ordered in the Library have made it necessary to take down the Portraits already placed in chosen positions on the walls. The Committee on Grounds and Buildings of your body have hung these temporarily in the room fitted up for an Art Gallery, subject to any changes you may order. I respectfully request the positions on that you adopt some system to regulate the positions on the wall of any pictures subsequently received: and that you place the execution of the plan in the hands of your Committee on Grounds and Buildings.
THE CAMPUS
Nothing has been done during the past year towards the improvements of the grounds. On the contrary they have suffered serious deterioration. Because of the impossibility of keeping the gate closed, much of our valuable shrubary (sic)
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CHANCH REPORT shrubbery has been seriously damaged and in some cases, absolutely ruined by cows and, because of the want of necessary drainage, our walks and drives have been washed or gullied by every hard rain.
SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY
Much has been said during the past year by the press and in the Legislature on the subject of Technology, & the public mind has in no small degree been educated to a sense of its importance. It is the opinion of many. And I share in this opinion that so distinguished and influential a body as the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia could guide this question to a satisfactory solution, if its members Could agree upon a plan of operations, & with one heart and mind bring their influence to bear upon it. I must respectfully & earnestly press the subject on your attention.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
I had the pleasure of attending the Commencement of the Medical Department in March. Thirty seven graduates received their Diplomas at my hands. This Department is enjoying greatly increased prosperity.
DORMITORY BUILDINGS The Boarding Houses on the Campus have been quite popular with the students this year; and the ladies in them have
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managed them to my entire satisfaction.
Vacant Professorship.
I cannot too earnestly urge upon the Trustees the importance of filling the scientific chair now vacant. It is a reproach to us that Botany is not taught here at all, and that Geology and Mineralogy receive only such hasty and slight attention as can be given them by a gentleman to whose char they do not belong, and, who has as much as he can well do in his important department, which he fills with distinguished ability.
Library
There have been added to the Library, during the past year, 761 volumes. The Trustees will agree with me that the Library Room would be greatly improved by a new carpet and other needed articles of furniture.
Branch Colleges
In accordance with your wishes, I visited the Branch Colleges. At Dahlonega, I conferred the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, on six young men, who, the authorities testified to me, had completed satifactorily (sic) the prescribed course of study. The College, during the past year, has not had the assistance as usual of an officer of the U.S. Army, detailed by the Secretary of War; but the military feature seems to have been maintained with its accustomed efficiency. The officers
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Chancellors Report had no examination papers for my inspection, but the oral examinations I witnessed were satisfactory. The individual Professors have promised me to conduct final examinations here after and to keep the papers for me.
The Institution at Cuthbert has labored under special difficulties. Almost from the beginning, it has encountered bitter and ungenerous opposition. Then, last Fall, it lost its President by resignation; and some radical changes occurred in its Local Board of Trustees. The President not only resigned his office but dissolved his connection with the body itself. When Mr Hunter, the newly elected President of the Faculty, arrived on the ground, he found the whole region filled with the report that the doors of the school had been definitely and finally closed. The consequence was that the attendance in this calendar year has been reduced to a total of 58 viz: in the collegiate Department, 17; in Academic Department, 22; and, in Primary Department, 19. But Mr Hunter has managed with consummate address. The whole community have become united in him, and they have the most enthusiastic hopes of the future success of the school There is no doubt that within the the next year this school will be as prosperous as it has ever been. The examination papers submitted to me attested to the thoroughness and efficiency of the teaching. The President thinks they have no student pre.
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Chancellors Report pared to enter our Junior Class next year-though one of his pupils may apply for the Sophomore class in the University.
The College at Thomasville seems to have been managed with ability and success during the past year. The examination papers showed that the instruction had been thorough. Seven young men completed the course of study there at commencement. Four gentlemen constitute the corps of instruction (Three of whom are alumni of this Institution inserted). They have done their full duty to their Alma Mater in the influence they have intentionally exercised on their pupils to induce them to complete their course of study here.
The College at Milledgeville maintains its successful numbers and its high grade of scholarship. It is an admirably officered school and seems to be doing valuable service to the cause of education in that region. But it is a noteworthy fact that it has never transferred a student to our Halls. True one young man entered our Freshman Class from that school; but he had gone there first by my advice in order that he might prepare for that class. It is a singular fact that, while large numbers of boys enter at Milledgeville every year very few remain to the end of the course. Last year, there graduated one boy and three girls and this year, also, one boy and three girls. The young man who completed the course last year was elected Military Commandant and teacher of lower classes. The one who passed through this year lives in
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During the past year, there was transferred to the University, from Dahlonega, one student from the other three, none. I have learned though on inquiry that two others, who had been studying at Dahlonega the previous year, joined our Junior Class. In the same way, one also from Thomasville entered one of our lower classes.
Death
During the past year, the University has been called to mourn the death of one of the distinguished members of your body. Hon Martin J. Crawford, the jurist, the statesman, and the Affable Gentleman was removed in the midst of his usefulness, and in the prime of his intellectual vigor.
Charles McDonald Brown Fund.
While writing this report, I received today, July 10, from a young man, who has completed the course at Thomasville, an application to compete for the scholarship on the same terms accorded to young men who are students here. I Respectfully refer the application to the Board for its decision.
Historical Tree The noble oak in front of the Chapel because of manifold associations, possesses dignity enough to justify me in formally communicating to the Board, the
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Chancellors Report sad fact that (it inserted) was struck by lightning on the 4th of July. It seems inevitable that it must die.
Students Recommended for Degrees The Faculty recommend that Degrees as stated below, be conferred on the following Students;
Master of Arts Bennett J Conyers, of Bartow county.
Bachelor of Arts. James W. Anderson, of Jones county. Samuel C. Atkinson, of Cobb county.
J. Walker Binns, of Wilkes County Arthur F. Bishop, of Clarke County. James C. Bloomfield, of Clarke County Ashton H. Cary, of Troup County Harry F. Dunwoody, of McIntosh County. William T. Garrard, of Putnam County.
R. Harvey Johnson, of Missippi (sic) Jasper J. Kennedy, of Tatnall County. Robert L. Moye, of Randolph County. John D. Mell, of Clarke County. Joseph E. Pottle, of Warren County. Jere M. Pound, of Pike County.
Bachelor of Philosophy. Charlie M. Nix, of Florida. John J. Phinizy Jr., of Richmond County. Thomas J. Ripley, of Fulton County.
Bachelor of Engineering Robert A. Crawford, of Clarke County. John G. Walker, of Fulton Crinty (sic) Frank Upson, of Oglethorpe County.
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Arthur C. Blain, of Glynn County
Bachelor of Agriculture. Thomas J. Britt, of South Carolina John G. Walker, of Fulton County.
Bachelor of Law. John T. Allen, of Hancock County. Albert P. Henly, of Greene County. Edgar R. Hinton, of Bibb County. John P. Perry, of Gilmer County. Pinckney D. Pollock, of Floyd County. Julius N. Rowland, of Fulton County. James W. Schell, of Coweta County. Milton J. Tompkins, of Florida. James R. Williams, of Schley County.
I am sorry to say that the Faculty decline to give recommendation for graduation to four members of the Senior Class. One arrived at the conclusion himself that his case was hopeless, and courteously announced to me in advance his intention to (int) respectfully decline to stand any of the final examinations. My remonstrances were in vain the more so as he was acting under the advise of his parents. He is a worthy gentleman; and his course was dictated by no complaint against the Teachers. Inflamed eyes prevented him from studying to his satisfaction. The other three failed in whole departments. One is a case of peculiar hardship. Having no early advantages, and pressed by pecuniary
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Chancellors Report difficulties he resolved after attaining to mans estate, to struggle for an education. This he has done strenuously, and to the best of his ability. But he has not been able to study French at all which is necessary for his degree; and his general average in the other departments is below the standard of graduation. His case excites profoundly the sympathy of the Faculty.
This painful incident is by no means an index of the condition of the University during the past year. On the contrary, during my long experience as a college officer, I have never known a year so distinguished for good order and contentment among the students, and for industry and proficiency in study
Reports of Departments &c
I have the honor here with to transmit to the Board, Reports from Prof. White of the Department of Agriculture and Chemistry; and from Prof. Wilcox, the Librarian; and from Prof. Rutherford, of the Department of Mathematics
I have the honor to remain, Gentlemen, Your Obt. Servt.
P.H. Mell. Chancellor Un. of Ga.
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The Committee On Apparatus report, that they have made personal inspection of the Apparatus belonging to the Philosophical, Chemical and Civil Engineering Departments of the University, and find that all instruments, models and appliances pertaining to each of these chairs, are kept in perfect order ready for use in illustration and experiment; and that their comment arrangement and general order attest the careful supervision of the officers having them in charge
Prof. Charbonnier, who fills so acceptably the chair of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, would be pleased to add to his means of instruction, an Astronomical Observatory, an Observing Telescope an Apparatus for generating Dynamical Electricity, but as the means at command of the Board are supposed to inadequate to so large an expenditure, he will continue to make the best use of the facilities at hand, and ask only such articles for the Philosophical Department for the ensuing year, as are absolutely necessary. These are embraced in the following list to wit:
Battery supplies, to replace worn out and broken parts.$25.00
Insulated copper wire 2.00
India rubber tubing 6.00
10 lbs Mercury 10.00
Sulphuric Acid 5.00
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Report on Apparatus.
Bichromate Potash. 5.00
Sulphate Copper. 2.00

1 Standard Thermometer 15.00
Platinum wire 3.00 (2 later added in pencil)
Platinum plate or foil 20.00 (3 later added in pencil)
Incidentals 20.00
95.00

An appropriation to cover this small bill is respectfully recommended.
Prof. White, of the chair of Chemistry having made to the Board, a full statement of the condition of his Department and of its needs, the Committee feel called upon to present for your consideration only the necessity of providing an additional number of of (sic) Desks for the Chemical Laboratory. The number of students seeking instruction in this department has largely increased. There is not sufficient room at the Desks now in use, for the number in attendance last session, and if, as it is most probable, the number shall be increased during the next Term, additional accommodation will be indispensably necessary.
To repair old desks and construct such additional numbers as the want of the department require, will involve a cost of $250. Your Committee ask that this sum may be set apart for that purpose.
It is to be regretted that the large and valuable cabinet of mineralogical and Geological specimens belonging to the Department of this able Professor should for the want of room, have to be kept in a
(514) Athens Georgia. Report on Apparatus. building at an inconvenient distance from his lecture and operating rooms.
The admiral (sic) condition and arrangement in which the various models and other instruments in Prof. Barrows Department of Civil Engineering are kept, give proof of the pains taking care of this excellent and laborious instructor.
A few inexpensive facilities added to this Department would greatly increase the efficiency of teaching in Surveying and Drawing and as Prof. Barrow has not during the several years of his connection with the University asked any appropriation for his use it is earnestly recommended that the small sum asked for, be granted.
The articles needed are: A Prismatic Compass, worth $20.00 A pantograph 22.00 A plain-meter 30.00 Amounting in all to $72.00
Respectfully Submitted
Young L. G. Harris
Chairman Ordered
That the following sums be & the same are hereby appropriated agreeably with the recommendation of the foregoing report. To wit: For Philosophical Department $95.00
Chemical Engineering 250.00 72.00
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Abstract Minutes of Prudential Committee. 1st
In accordance with order of the Board the Secretary was directed to advertise in the Atlanta Constitution; Macon Telegraph & Messenger; Savannah News; Augusta Chronicle and Athens Banner-Watchman.
2nd
Mr Thomas was requested to investigate the matter of water supply and report.
3rd
The inspector was requested to make an estimated of the needed repairs on the buildings and when made the Treasurer was directed to apply to the Governor for the $3000 appropriated for that purpose.
4th
Maj. Cobb the Treasurer presented his bond in the sum of $20,000 as directed by the Board, which was approved and ordered filed is recorded in full in our minutes.
5th
Col. Charbonnier made a report of the necessary repairs which was approved and the Treasurer was directed to forward the report to the Governor and make application for the appropriation.
6th
The resignation of Prof. V. T. Sanford President of South West Ga Agricultural College was accepted to take effect 1st Jan 1884.
7th
Secretary directed to inform the Board of Trustees of South West Ga Ag. College that we could not only confirm a selection of President made by them could not elect one.
8. Mr Thomas made a verbal report of the
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Abstract Minutes of Prudential Committee matter of a water supply and offered the following resolution which was adopted: -that the Secretary be directed to inform the Water Works Co. that on account of the high price charged by the Company that the matter of a water supply on the campus had been indefinitely postponed.
9th The treasurer reported that theappropriate by the last General Assembly. Governor had paid him the $3000
10th Committee appointed to confer with the Chancellor on subject of a Ball ground.
11th Upon the representation of Chancellor Mell that several young men desired to enter the Freshman Class who are deficient in the necessary preparation, especially in their mathematical studies & that it is impossible for either of the Professors to perform any service in addition to their present duties. It is ordered, that the Chancellor be authorized to employ some competent person to give the necessary instructions to the students thus unprepared, at a cost of not more than $75.00
12th Upon the application and recommendation of Mr. Geo D Thomas that he needed assistance in the Department of Law, Andrew J. Cobb was elected Professor of Law.
13th The Chairman of Com. on Building & Grounds was authorized to sell a part (sic) the old slate at 8 per.

(517) July 1884 Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund. The committee on the Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship fund, report, that they have considered the question suggested in the Report of the Chancellor in regard to the administration of the Fund, and they recommend the following additions to the regulations of the subject:
1st
All applicants forth benefits of the Fund, most be competitors upon equal terms whether they have had the advantages of University training or not and must be subjected, as to examinations ,to (the inserted) same technical tests.
2nd
Applicants not up to the University standard of admission must be refused deficiencies in any of the Congressional Districts, caused by such failure, may be supplied from other Districts, and inequalities amongst the Districts thus created, may be corrected in succeeding years.
3th (sic) A Beneficiary having been awarded a scholarship, shall be entitled to hold it until he completes his University course.
4th
To Clause 1. Of Section 1. Of qualifications of Recipients (page 29 of pamphlet) add following ands:
and who shall not show by affidavit of himself or his parents, or guardian, that he has not the means to carry him through the Course selected.
We recommend also that all future applicants be required to state in their applications what amount per annum they desire to borrow from the Fund. This information was not furnished by the Committee, and we have been obliged to assume that each applicant
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Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund desires to receive the full limit of $200 per annum. At this rate there are 12 scholarships for the next collegiate year of which 2 are already filled by appointment of the Sons of Govenor (sic) brown, having 10 for the Board to Appoint.
As this would allow one for each congressional District; your Committee having examined the papers submitted, do recommend that the following applicants be awarded scholarships: to wit: First Congressional District W. A. Kennedy, Tattnall
Second Mr. J. Webb, Terrell Co.
Third Charles F. McCrimmon
Fourth Sixth Edgar F. Whatley, Coweta Co J. M. Lutes, Buttes
Seventh Eighth Ninth Saml. L. Conyers, BartowA. P. Howell, Greene R.B. Clarke, Hall
Tenth Jos. L. Gross, McDuffie

No appointment is recommended for the 5th Congressional District for the reason that of the 5 applicants from that District 3 who furnished all the required certificates are deficient in scholarship, and the other two (2) now in the University and with high grade of scholarships, furnished none of the certificates required by the rules. The Committee respectfully refer this case back to the Board, with the suggestion that the applicant having the highest grade for scholarship, might be notified that if he would furnish the certificates required by the rules, he might receive the appointment. This suggestion is made under the belief that
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Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund. that the papers may been omitted on account of some misunderstanding of the rules as applied to students already in the University.
The appointments recommended above, will consume the Fund for this year only on the basis of $200 for each applicant. In case any of them should require less than that amount, and thus leave a sufficient sum to admit another beneficiary, then such appointment, we recommend be given to
W. T. Coggin, Washington Co 10th District, and should a second vacancy occur, we recommend for it, W. G. Brown, Walton Co. 9th District. We recommend further that all of these applicants be required, before drawing any money, to furnish the Treasurer with the affidavit herein referred to, as to his lack of means sufficient to pursue the course selected.
Finally we call attention of the Board, to the fact, that the $32800 unexpended balance of interest now in the hands of the Treasurer, is required by the terms of the gift, to be added to the principal. It should be done at once, so as to draw interest and thus begin to enlarge the available fruit of this munificent gift.
All of which is respectfully submitted
For the Committee
John W. Beckwith,
Chairman.
(520) Athens Georgia Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds
To the Board of Trustees,
The Committee on Buildings and Grounds respectfully submit the following Report:
The Expenditures for repairs on the various Buildings for the last year were $218793, as per detailed Exhibit attached, being $312.07 less than the appropriation for that purpose
The amt has been most judiciously expended under the direction of the efficient Inspector of Buildings, and is the cost of repairs, with the exception of the expenditure for enlarging the Library and providing accommodations for our collection of Portraits.
Most of the Buildings on the Campus are old and expensive to keep in repair and nothing has been spent on them for years except what was necessary to keep them order, -hence the unsightly appearance of many of them. If the Board could appropriate a sum sufficient to thoroughly overhaul them & put them in really good order, the the (sic) expense of repairs would be materially diminished for some years.
As the Board may not feel able to do this, Committee submits the following estimate of necessary expenditures for the next year.
Chancellors Dwelling, painting & roof. $50.00 Prof. Woodfins House , new & fencing 350.00 Prof. Willcoxs House, principally fencing. 150.00 Prof. Morris House, 75.00 Old College. 60.00 New College 60.00 Replastering exterior 350.00
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Report of Committee Buildings & Grounds Lecture & Recitation Rooms. $450.00 Fencing around the Campus. 150.00
Sundries & Trees $55.00
Library Building, painting 100.00
Moore College 150.00
------Total---- $2000.00.

The above estimate, it will be seen, provides nothing for grounds, -for the Chapel or for Water supply.
The grounds are in fair condition: nothing has been done on them except plant a few trees. They do not require much attention more than the College servants can give them to preserve their present condition, and no improvements are urgently demanded. The fences have been patched until that is no longer economical, hence the estimates for new fencing.
Nothing has been done on the Chapel, except to put on it except a new tin roof, and it is now weather-proof. So much is required to make it presentable, that your Committee thought best to defer action on it, indulging the hope that the Board would make an appropriation large enough to remodel and re-arrange its interior, -the present condition of which renders if unfit and inappropriate for the public exhibitions of the University. A large expenditure will soon be necessary to make it habitable, and economical considerations will suggest, that desirable improvements shall be made as the same time. If therefore, the Board would authorize the Committee to expend the $200000 required above, as well as the $3000 appropriated by the last General Assembly for
repairs
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Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds of the University Buildings, it is believed that all needful repairs as well as remodelling (sic) the Chapel can be accomplished. The work contemplated on the Chapel includes new floor, gallery, plastering & seats arranged in amphitheater style, and the improvement would make a desirable change in the acoustics of the room.
The need of a Water Supply on the Campus is as pressing as ever the pressing as ever the present supply is wholly inadequate and at times unfit for use. Since the last meeting of the Board the Athens City Water Works Co. has completed its works and is now prepared to supply our needs in this direction. The cost will be $225.00 for pipes & fixtures to two yard Hydrants located one north and one south of the Old College, and the Charge for water will be 30cts per 1000 gal, and $8.00 per annum for rent of water-meter. If the Board should prefer to purchase the meter, the cost will be $60.00 The whole cost for the first year including the meter, will not, it is believed exceed $40000 and afterwards only the charge for water used at the rate named. The committee earnestly recommends that this much needed work be ordered at once.
According to instructions from the Board, the Committee has enlarged the Library, by adding to it the room formerly occupied by Prof. Woodfin, -has provided sufficient shelf-room for some time to come and furnished a a (sic) place for the valuable and growing collection of portraits. As to the arrangement of the portraits, the Committee reports that they are hung safely with regard to appearances,
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Report of Committee on Buildings & Grounds considered as pictures, and no attempt whatever has been made to assign places to them upon any principle of order or precedence. The present arrangement may be regarded as a temporary one, and the Committee asks that the Board will give expression to its wishes on the subject, and any rule or order they may designate will be carefully carried out.
All or which is respectfully submitted, For the Committee.
W. W. Thomas, Chairman.
Library building. $787.10
Chapel. 359.42
Chancellors House. 115.02
Prof. Woodfins House. 32.00
Morris 154.00
Wilcoxs 48.50
Old College 82.75
New 50.00
Prof. Woodfins Lecture Room 145.14
Enlarging Prof. Morris 47.08
Wilcoxs 44.50
Whites Laboratory 45.79
Stoves. 87.15
Moore College. 22.48
Trees 20.00
Sundries 147.00
----------Total--------- $2187.93.

Resolved That this report be adopted substitute $1800 for $2000 for Repairs of Buildings & Grounds.
(524) Athens Georgia. Report of Committee on Horticulture & Experimental Farm.
To the Hon Board of Trustees of the University
The Committee on the Experimental Farm respectfully report: that the Farm has been much improved in its value by the removal of a very large number of stumps and stones from the land. There is still much to be done in that line, but will soon be accomplished if the same energy which has been displayed during this year be continued for two or three years longer. The cultivation has been good: but the chief value to the Agriculturist is the experiment to determine the best method of Culture of Fertilization, and the requirements of plant growth. The Committee beg to invite the especial attention of trustees to the nature and kind of experiments detailed in the book kept for the purpose, by the Prof. of Agriculture.
There is some necessary building to be done at the farm, stables two years ago burnt have not been replaced, and recommend that $200 be appropriated for that purpose, and if the Farm is to be made as it should be would recommend an amt. sufficient for the purchase of two good mules, aggregating for building, two hundred dollars.
Respectfully submitted,
J. S. Hamilton. Chairman.
Receipts From Treasurer of University $500.00 Sale of Cotton 324.25 $824.25
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Horticulture and Experimental Farm.
Expenditures. Superintendance (sic) and labor. $346.75 Chemicals and manures. 152.80 Lumber, rails, &c. 32.40 Repairs to buildings 21.75 Work on front yard. 26.30 Removing stumps & rocks 52.60 Toll on Cotton, & oats 35.10 Black smith accounts 44.60 Hire of stock 55.00 Freight & Express charges 32.75 Minor items incidentals. 14.85 Cash on hand. 9.35
$824.25
The day book in my possession will show an itemized account of above general statement.
Respectfully submitted
H.C. White.
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Athens Georgia. Report of Departments of Chemistry &c
The Hon. Board of Trustees University of Georgia:
Gentleman: I have the honor to present the unusual annual report upon the work and condition of my Department. The annual Catalogue shows the numbers of students that have been in attendance upon the different classes.
In General Chemistry the class has been an unusually fine one, of marked intelligence and very attentive and punctual. In consequence I have been able to extend the course to a considerable extent and have embraced in the lectures more topics than in any previous year of my connection with the University.
In Industrial and Agricultural Chemistry the class has been an average one and the ground usually covered by instruction in these branches has been gone over.
In Mineralogy and Geology the usual text-book course has been given. I regret that the limited time allowed for this very important study, together with the distance of the mineralogical Cabinet from my lecture room renders it practically impossible upon these subjects and prevents (sic) from making the course as practical and technical as would desire
I would especially call the attention of your honorable body to the large increase in number of students in Analytical Chemistry. Up to the present session the number has
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Report of Departments of Chemistry &c ranged from 8 to 20 students the latter number reached last year. This year I have had working in the laboratory 36 students in the regular course and 3 Post Graduates working alone in this branch. This increase is very gratifying to me for a number of reasons, and, I trust, may be equally so to your honorable body. It is an evidence of a rapidly growing demand for technical, practical education in the science of Chemistry and of the confidence of the people in the ability of the University to give such education. I trust I may be pardoned, in this connection, the expression of a personal opinion upon a matter of public policy connected with education. A great deal has recently been said and written in this state upon the subject of so called practical education. Schemes have been proposed and measures suggested for transforming our educational institutions in part or in whole into work shops and labor-schools. The term Technological Institute has been employed to convey the idea of an establishment in which young men may be made skilled artizans (sic) and profound scholars at the same time Without lengthy argument to sustain the position I may be permitted to express the opinion that this idea of a genuine Technological Institute is an entire misconception and that the greater number of schemes proposed are impracticable and would be found futile. And without giving in detail the results of my observation and information I may further say that there is no institution in
the world that does or professes to do what is proposed by some to be done in this state
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Report of Department Chemistry &c. viz: -to turn out from a public school an intelligent, skilled mechanic or laborer in any live trade. I agree fully with the Chancellor of this University on the subject of technical education given one year ago in his report to your honorable Board.
The University has already a full curricula and many of the appliances of a genuine Technological Institute. We are prepared in the first place to give good sound mental training in all ordinary branches of education. We give practical information in all of our scientific schools. And we give hand and eye training in the chemical laboratory, the physical laboratory, the drawing hall, and on the farm. This done, and the facilities which we now have extended and improved upon, I am free to claim that every thing will be done that ought properly to be done in the line of practical education. If a young man wishes to become a carpenter, a blacksmith, a machinist or a farm laborer he cannot acquire his mechanical skill in a school. If we wished to become an intelligent and cultured man (sic) capable of properly understanding and directing the work of a farm, a machine shop, a mill, or indeed any industry, he can best get his necessary scientific training in a Technological Institute such as the University has now established; not all of the young men who are at work in the chemical laboratory expect to become professional chemists. Indeed, a very small proportion of them have in view that line of work. A few will become engineers, a few, physicians or pharmacists, many of them, farmers. Others
desire
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Report of Department Chemistry & Agriculture &c the laboratory training because it alone enabled them perfectly to understand and to remember the principles of chemical science and the rationle (sic) of natural phenomena.
In view of the very evident and vary great public interest which has lately been aroused in regard to these matters, and in view of the great danger of unwise legislation upon the subject rendered possible by the wide spread misconception of the proper manner of satisfying a very commendable demand for true practical education in the best sense of the of the term I respectfully submit the hope that your honorable body may consider with special favor those Departments of the University which will be called upon to render service in this cause.
I am moved to make these statements to your honorable body in view of the following facts which affect closely my own department:
Our laboratory facilities are not sufficient to meet the demands made upon them. With 39 students I have but 32 desks, a number of these not completely furnished as they should be. It will be absolutely necessary to enlarge the laboratory by a wing to the present building or other wise, if the number of students should increase. I may note incidentally that such addition to the building would permit the tranferrance (sic) of the Mineralogical Cabinet to a position where it would be much more valuable for practical instruction than where at present located.
In order to properly equip the laboratory as it is at present and for present needs I respectfully ask an appropriation of $250
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Report of Department Chemistry Agriculture, &c for purchase of reagent bottles, desk lamps and similar necessary appurtenances, to prepare the laboratory for next sessions work.
One other point I would respectfully bring to the attention of your honorable body. This large number of students working in the laboratory some of them every day and others several hours of each day and as different times, requires the constant attendance and supervision of an instructor in order that the best work may be most effectively done. My habit has been to present in the laboratory each day from 9 oclock in the morning until 5 oclock in the afternoon except when in the lecture room or at the farm. These other demands upon my time and service are now so great, however that I find it impossible to give such detailed personal supervision to the students work as I would desire. I would respectfully commend to your consideration, therefore, whether it would be wise to employ an assistant in Analytical Chemistry whose duty it should be to give attention to the technical work of the chemical and agricultural laboratories under the supervision of your Professor in those departments. A competent graduate in the department could be secured for such a position, perhaps for a salary of $500 per annum. I trust your honorable body will understand me as not asking assistance in my own behalf. I am still young enough and strong enough to perform faithfully all the labor that pertains properly to the conduct of the chairs by appointment to which you have honored me. But I deem it my duty, as the same
time, (531) July 1884
Report of Department Chemistry, Agriculture, &c to point out the best manner perhaps the only manner in which, in my opinion the efficiency of my department may be maintained and increased, especially in view of the increasing demands made upon it.
The apparatus of my department is in good order and requires, at present, no repairs and no urgently necessary additions. The usual annual appropriation of $100 for chemicals is all that is required.
During the year 162 articles have been added by gift to the Industrial and Mineralogical collections These are properly recorded in the catalogues of the collections.
At the last meeting of your honorable body the school of Agriculture was consolidated with the schools of Chemistry and Geology under my charge, and given precedence in the title of the chair. I was, at the same time, directed to give such instructions in Agriculture as was required by the terms of the Terrell Endowment and the Act of Congress establishing the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. So far as I considered my self capable to do so I have endeavored faithfully to carry out the directions of the Board. The terms of the Terrell Endowment are specific and provide for a course of lectures on Agricultural Chemistry which shall be free to the public. These lectures have been given as in former years and have been, I think of such character as to comply strictly and fully with the terms of the endowment The Act of Congress prescribes that the leading object of the College shall be, to teach such
Branches (532) Athens Georgia.
Report of Department Chemistry Agriculture &c of learning as are related to Agriculture, &c Applying this requirement to my chair I have interpreted my directions to mean, that instruction in my department should be given with special reference to the applications of the sciences I taught to Agriculture. I was not required to teach Agriculture either practically or otherwise but distinctly and as all times to show applications of Chemistry and Geology to Agriculture. My lectures have been modified accordingly and I have done my best to make Agriculture the leading object in the applications of scientific truths. Considering Agriculture an art in which all the natural sciences find constant application, I have endeavored to teach Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural mineralogy, and Agricultural Geology if I may use the terms. Agricultural Physics, Agricultural Mechanics and Agricultural Engineering are taught by my colleagues Natural History, with its applications to Agriculture is, as yet, unprovided (sic) for in our faculty. In order, however, to make the course in Agriculture a distinctive one, to properly dignity the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture, as a truly professional one and also to forestall possible criticism, I have, in addition, given two courses of lectures, of 3 hours per week each, to the students regularly in the agricultural course in which, those portions of Physics, Chemistry and Geology which especially find application in Agriculture have been singled out and the circumstances and the mode of their application shown. In connection with these lectures the Experimental Farm has been used in
(533) July 1884 Report of Department Chemistry, Agriculture &c much the same manner that the chemical laboratory is used in the chemical course.
The Experimental Farm of the University has been under my charge for the year, and I have given serious thought to the subject of its proper conduct and its most instructive use. As a factor in Education both for our own students and for the people generally there are two ways in which a farm may be conducted: 1st. As a Model Farm, in charge of a skilful intelligent and educated farmer, on which the land should be at once brought to a high state of fertility and see the operations of farming illustrated and explained by use of all the various machines and modes suitable for each operation. Such a farm would require a considerable capital for its establishment in the out set, but might possibly subsequently be conducted on a paying basis. 2nd An Agricultural Experiment Station on which experiments should be conducted to determine the best methods of culture, of fertilization, and of improvements in seed; the requirements in plant growth, the influences of various physical and chemical factors upon plant life, and numerous other genuinely scientific questions. Such a station could be established even upon poor land (perhaps preferably so) could be made as modest or pretentious as the available means would permit, but could, certainly, never be made to pay expenses.
Both of these establishments are useful. But in different ways. My individual opinion ascribes much greater value to the Experimental Station
(534) Athens Georgia Report of Department Chemistry, Agriculture, &c As an educational appliance and a generally useful establishment.
In case of the University farm, however, there is, at present no choice. I have, therefore conducted it, on a small scale as an Experimental Station. The record book which I have the honor to submit herewith, will show in detail, the character of the work which has been undertaken. I respectfully ask the attention of the Board to its contents. The experiment (sic) in progress are comparatively few in number. Some of them might be replaced to advantage by others which are more useful. I have been governed in these particulars by the means at my command.
In regard to the farm itself, I may say the land is generally poor. A portion of it has been injured by over use and injudicious culture. There are a great many stumps and rocks which should be immediately removed, and altogether, a great amount of work is required to put it all in proper condition. During the year I have removed a great number of stumps and rocks, have brought a good portion of land to fair fertility and have accurately plotted, measured and arranged the experimental sections into which I have divided the farm The grounds attached to the main building have also received such attention as was necessary to make them fairly presentable. The main building and out houses are in very good condition and require no repairs of importance. The fences are not good, as a whole, and will
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Report of Department Chemistry, Agriculture, &c probably require considerable repairs within a year. The stables were destroyed by fire about two years since and have not been replaced. The wretched shelters now in use are totally unfit to protect any stock that may be employed upon the farm. By building suitable stalls as an attachments to one of the outhouses properly situated for the purpose, a very excellent stable could be provided as relatively small cost perhaps as not more than $200.
An inspection of the farm will show much more clearly than I can describe, the character of improvements necessary and desirable. The stock upon the farm is reduced, practically, to one good horse. A second horse which has been in the possession of the University for more than 10 yrs and is probably 25 yrs old at least, is now, by reason of old age and infirmities unfit for further service. For the work of the farm a pair of good mules would be best suited, and indeed are required, in addition to the one good horse.
I would respectfully request an appropriation for the farm, sufficient to purchase a pair of mules and to provide the stall above mentioned. As the last session of your honorable body an appropriation of $100 for was made for the purchase of such tools and implements as might be necessary. I have not drawn upon the fund trusting that strict economy in this direction might justify other expenditures which I foresaw would be necessary.
The appropriation of $500 for the conduct
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Report of Committee Chemistry, Agriculture &c of the farm is, as I take is the smallest amount that could possibly be used to carry on the establishment at all. I shall be glad if the Board can see the way clear to increased it. If not I shall be content to carry out your instructions to make that amount do as good service as possible.
During the year I have had (in inserted) employment an honest, faithful man as Superintendant at the farm. Though not competent to assist me in arranging experiments or in keeping records and accounts, he has managed the work well and, for a man of his station, has rendered valuable service.
The students in Agriculture have taken part in the arrangement and conduct of the experiments, with advantage to themselves.
Your Committee on Agriculture, and especially its chairman, Dr Jas. S. Hamilton has rendered me valuable and appreciated assistance by visiting the farm during the year and giving me valued advice upon many points.
Hon. J. T. Henderson, state Commissioner of Agriculture, has also visited the farm, has evinced much interest in the experiments and has kindly assisted me by donations of chemicals, fertilizers and seeds.
I have attended the two semi-annual meetings of the State Agricultural Society made an address at each meeting and reported upon the work of the farm. In conclusion I beg to say that in my judgement the location, the buildings and the character of the University Farm, fit it
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Report of Department Chemistry, Agriculture, &c very well for use as a State Agricultural Experiment Station. A small initial and annual appropriation by the State would suffice to establish, in connection with the University a very efficient Station. I shall be pleased to present my views on this subject in detail to your honorable body at the proper time, if it should be deemed desirable.
I have the honor to be, with high esteem, Very Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant,
H.C. White, Prof. Agriculture
Chem & Geology.
(538) Athens Georgia. Report of Committee on Fletcher Property
The Committee to whom was referred the matter of the investigation of the titles of a portion of the Real Estate Consigned to the Board by the Trustees and Citizens of Thomasville in trust &c., known as the Fletcher property beg leave to report that we have investigated the titles of said property and are fully satisfied that our titles to incumbrance (sic) and can say that it is safe and prudent to locate the college buildings upon said land and recommend that permission of this Board be given to the local Board for that purpose.
All of which is respectfully submitted 14 July, 1884
D.C.
Vason.

J.
A. Billups.


J.B. Cumming. Committee.
(539) July 1884.
1st
1st Directed to be reported that a thorough course of English Literature be established the textbooks and curriculum to be regulated by the Faculty. That Prof. Morris be placed in charge of that Chair this Professorship be
changed and entitled: Chair of English Literature, Belles-Lettres & Rhetoric.
Also,
That the Faculty be directed on all applications for admission to any department of the University, rigid examinations on English Grammar, & Orthography shall be had, and if the applicant be deficient in either of these branches, he can be admitted only on condition of making up the deficiency; to that end the Faculty have weekly examinations on English Grammar and Spelling for two years and no certificate of Proficiency or honor be conferred, unless proficient in these branches.
2nd
Whenever a vacancy occurs in the presidency of either of the Branch Colleges or in the local -Board of directors of such Branch Colleges, during the interval between the regular meetings of this Board, the vacancy shall be filled by the local Board of Trustees of such Branch Colleges subject to the ratification of this Board as its next annual session.
3rd
That the several degrees recommended
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Athens Georgia by the Faculty, be conferred upon the persons named under each degree.
4th
In relation to the school of Technology, we can only repeat the
recommendations of the Board and urge that the Committee appointed to wait
upon the general assembly present to that body the advantages possessed by this
University as a location for the school and urge the appropriation of such amount
as will establish and equip such a school as a part of this University where the
state has buildings.
(541) July 1884.
To Board of Trustees of the University:
Your Committee report on matters referred as follows
As some confusion has arisen as to how a vacancy in office of President should be filled, occurring in the interval of the annual sessions of this Board, we request the Board to direct our Secretary to communicate to each President of each Agricultural College, the Rule, as follows:
The election of President, as well a Trustees of each local Board, of the Agricultural Branch Colleges, is vested in the Board of Trustees of the University. But where any vacancy occurs, either in office of President or membership of the local Board, the local Board is authorized to fill such vacancy which may occur in the interval of the annual sessions of this Board; the action of such board to be reported to the next annual Board of Trustees of this University for election or rejection.
The Committee report an election for President of the South West Ga Agricultural college to be had, as also to fill the Board of local Trustees reported as vacant as to four out of the five members; we recommend the five persons for the local Board as recommended by J.E. Godfrey Prest. Of the local Board.
There is also an election of President of the South Ga A. College to be had.
As to the request of the Middle Ga. A. College to elect one or two supernumerary teachers to supply absences of regular teachers to be paid
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Athens Georgia only for temporary services. The committee reports this Board only elect the President and the local Board elects such teachers as their necessities require, paying such teachers, if the appropriation of this Board be insufficient, from fund to be raised by matriculation fees which said local Board is authorized to charge.
As to the claim of the three Branch Agricultural Colleges to be paid arrearages now to be paid them the Committee report there are no arrearages: the board annually orders the amounts allowed and recognizes no claim or ground for any claim beyond. The Board cannot allow an appropriation for North Ga. Agricultural College beyond the $2000 appropriated.
As to the claim of the South Ga Agricultural College to be paid the sum of $187.50 as due in 1879. The matter was decided by former secretary Dr. W. L. Mitchell this act approved by the Board being an alleged deficiency in the amt of $2000 which should have been paid to their Treasurer the first year of the organization (in 1879). The committee report that the College was to organized and did not commence operation till Sept -thence this Board did not consider the college entitled to draw the $2000 until it went into operation and as the payments to the Agric Colleges are made semi-annually, only paid the proportional part of the amt. From 15 Sept 1879,to Jan 1, 1880 and holds the receipt of that College for $58333 as due from said date to Jan 1, 1880. The Committee report the matter
closed.
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As to the application of the South Ga A. College to be authorized to sell a part of the land, reserving from sale however as cash, three acres and the brick and other houses and appropriate the proceeds, with other fund reported on hand, to erect a chapel on the Campus with assembly and recitation rooms the Committee report that such authority be granted and that this Board direct proper deeds be made to the
Respectfully submitted,
Yancey
Hall
Brown Committee
Vason
Barrow
(544) Athens Georgia Report of (Finance) Auditing Committee
To the Board of Trustees, Your Committee appointed to audit the Treasures accounts submit the following report of that officers receipts and expenditures for the past year:
Receipts for General Purposes. Balance in hand July 5, 1883 8,553.41
Int. on $96000, 8% Bonds to Apr 1. /84 7,680
, 7% July 1. /84 1,680
$56000, 7% 3,920
$90202.17 in hands of Govenor (sic) 6,314.14
$100000 Debt of the State 8,000
$20000 Terrell Fund 1,400
Matriculation Fees 1,893.35
Appropriation by Legislature for 678.35

repairs upon buildings at Dahlonega 5,000
Appropriation for do at Athens 3,000
Repaid from Chas. McD. Brown 40
Scholarship Fund. 40
Rents Total Receipts. 678.35
Library Fees. 946.65
-------------Total Receipts ---------- 4 9,875.90
Payments:
Salaries 1 7,850
Experimental Farm. 5,548.35
Branch Colleges 6,500
Catalogues, Advertising & Printing 369
Postage & Stationery. 200.55
Chemicals. 100
Commencement Sermon. 20
Fine. 168.57
Insurance $473.72 less 37.30 retd. 436.42
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Report of Auditing Committee
Incidental Expenses 462.30
Music 115
Medals 36
Repairs 2, 279.57
Servants 598
Travelling Expenses of Chancellor. 43.35
Repairs on Apparatus. 127.77
Repairs at Dahlonega. 9,437.48
Do Milledgeville 954.78
Librarians Salary 100
Misses Mitchell 250

Transferred to Chas. McD Brown Fund 875
Library account Cash Balance on hand 7,600.76 49,875.90 803
Receipts:

Interest July 1, 1883 875.00
January 1, 1884 1,750 July 1, 1884 1,750
4,375.00 Payments: To Beneficiaries at Athens 1,555.20
Dahlonega 690 Expense account 51.20 Balance in hand. 2,078.60 4,375.00 We find each disbursement accompanied by its proper voucher, and the Bonds
and Obligations to Correspond with the statement of the Assets of the University Respectfully Submitted, July 10, 1884.
A.L. Hull. Committee.
(546) Athens Georgia Report of Finance Committee
To the Board of trustees. Your committee on Finance beg to report the following Assets of the University on July 5, 1884, comprising five classes of securities:
Assets
1.
The General Fund. Debt of State of Ga paying 8 per. ct. 100,000 State of Ga 7% 50 yr obligation 3,000

7% 50 8,000 -----------------Total-------------------111,000

2.
The Terrell Donation fund.


State of Ga. 7% Bonds. Maturing July /86 5,500 7% Jan. 1892 10,500 7%, 50 yr obligation 4,000
-----------------Total ------------------20,000
3. The Land Scrip Fund. State of Ga. 7%, 50yr. Obligation 96,000
7% Bonds Maturing 1892 56,000 Amt. Held by the Govenor (sic) for which no Obligation has been issued, paying 7% 90,202.17
-----------------Total-------------------242,202.17
4.
The Chas. McD Brown Scholarship Fund. State of Ga 7%, 50 yr Obligation 50,000

5.
The Chas. F. McCoy Donation Fund.


Registered Bonds of the Ga R.R. bearing 6% int.
coupons cut off to 1895. 20,000
--------------Total Assets-------------443,202.17
The Receipts from all sources for the Year ending July 5, 1884 were as follows:
(547) July 1884 Report of Finance Committee. Receipts 1883-84.
Cash in hands of Treasr. July 9, 1883. 8,553.41
Interest on General Fund. 8,770
Terrell Fund. 1,400
Land Scrip Fund. 17,594.14
Chas. Mc D. Brown Fund. 3,500
Rents 678.35
Matriculation Fees 1,893.35
Library Fees 946.65
Refunded by Chas. Mc D. Brown Fund. 40
Appropriation by Legislature for repairs
on buildings at Dahlonega 5,000
do do at Athens 3,000
-----------Total Receipts.------------------ 53,375.90
During the same period there has
Been expended:
Expenditures 1883-84.
For Salaries of Officers 17,850
General Expenses ( 5,504.88
Branch Colleges 6,500
Chas. McD Brown Scholarship Fund. 2,296.40
Repairs at Dahlonega 9437.48
Milledgeville 954.48
Library account. 903
Misses Mitchell 200
Balance in hands of Treas. July 5, /84 9,679.36
----------Total----------------------------- 53,375.90
The Balance in the Treasurers hand
comprises the following items:
Unexpended balance of int. on the
Chas. McDonald Brown Fund 2,078.60
Unexpended Balance Library Fund. 783.65

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Report of Finance Committee Unexpended Appropriation for repairs To Credit of Gener at Athens. 3,000 To Credit of General Fund 3,817.11
------------------Total----------------------9,679.36
The Available income for current Expenses during the year 1883-84 Was $33921.99 received from the Following sources:
Available Income for Current Expenses 1883-84
Interest on General Fund 8,770 Terrell Fund 1,400 Land Srip Fund. 19,594.14
Matriculation Fees. 1,893.35 Rents 678.35 Balance in Treasurers hand July 9,/83 1,586.15 -----------------Total-----------------------33,921.99 The Actual Current Expenses for
1883-84 were: Salaries of Officers 17,850 General Expenses. 5,754.88 Branch Colleges. 6,500 ------------------Total----------------------30,104.88 The Income for the next year is Estimated as follows:
Estimated Available Income for 1884-85
Interest on General Fund. 8,770 Terrell Fund. 1,400 Land Srcip fund. 6,954.14
Matriculation Fees $1700 Rents $700 2,400 Cash Balance on hand July 5, 1884. 3,817.11 -------------------Total---------------------33,341.25
(549) July 1884 Report of Finance Committee
The requirements of the University as reported by its Officers and the Committees of your Board are such that we recommend that following appropriations for the next year:
Appropriations for 1884-85
Salaries of Officers 21,050 Catalogues, Advertising & Printing. 400 Servants $600 Fuel $175 775 Insurance $450 Medals $36. 486 Commencement Sermon $20 Music $125 145 Chancellors Travelling Expenses. 100 Experimental Farm for Operating Expenses 500 Purchase of Apparatus 175 Chemicals $100 Incidentals $200 300 Repairs on Buildings & Grounds. 1,800 Librarian to be paid out of Library Fund 250 Water supply to College Buildings 400 Extension of Laboratory Desks. 250 Mules for Experimental Farm. 300 Branch College at Dahlonega. 2,000
Milledgeville. 1,000 Thomasville. 1,000 Cuthbert 1,000
------------Total---------------31,931.00
The increased appropriation recommended for Salaries, contemplates the employment of a Tutor at $800 and the addition of $400 to the Salary of Prof. Barrow, giving him $2000 instead of $1600; a change which your Committee deem just and deserved, in as much as that Officer occupies a full Profs Chair upon the Salary of an assistant. The necessity for aid in bringing up unprepared students to the Standard required for continuance
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Report of Finance Committee in the lower classes is so urgent that the Board must employ more teaching force or the Faculty will be compelled to reject many applicants for admission into the University What direction such assistance should take is not within the proving of this report.
The excess of Cash Balance this year over that of last is explained by the collection of three months interest on $ 96000 refunded bonds belonging to the Land Scrip Fund amounting to $1680 which otherwise would not have been paid until October 1, 1884 and further by the fact that the chair of Agriculture being vacant no salary has been paid on that Account.
Respectfully Submitted, July 10, 1884
H.L. Hull . Chairman.
Supplemental Report Of the Cash Balance on hand July 5, 1884 available for General purposes, to wit $3817.11 the sum of $2742.73 stands to the credit of the Land Scrip Fund and $1074.38 to the credit of the General Fund. To the first amount $2,742.73 add the Income for next year 16,954.14 ---------Total--------19,696.87 Proportion of appropriations 18,278 Leaving of the Fund: -1,418.87 This assumes that there will be charged to the Land Scrip Fund Salaries All of the Prof. Agriculture. $2,000 All of the Prof. Barrows 2,000 All the Tutors 800 Half of Chancellors $1500 & Secretarys $500 2,000
July 1884
Report of Finance Committee Half of Profs Charbonnier, White, Rutherford, Wilcox and Morris $5000 All Chancellors Traveling Expenses 100 All Expenses of Experimental Farm 500 Half Expense of Catalogues, advertisements, servants, fuel, Medals Music, Sermon, Chemicals & incidental expenses. 878
-----------------Total-----------------$18,278.00 Charging the rest of the appropriations recommended viz: -$13403. To the General Fund, will leave a balance of $541.38 in the Treasury on that account.
Respectfully Submitted,
A.L. Hull, Chairman
July 11, 1884.
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Atlanta Georgia In trust to my friends Asbury Hull, Lewis J. Deupree, Benjamin F. Hardeman, Adam Alexander, Robert Toombs & Alex H. Stephens.
My desire is that upon the death of my wife, the said Trustees will proceed to convert said notes, bonds, lands, houses & lots into money giving due indulgence to the maker of said bonds, notes & their securities & to place the money so collected in the Treasury of the State of Georgia, not doubting but that the Legislature will provide by law that a sum equal to the interest which would be derived from said money at lawful per cent be paid annually to said Trustees and make said Trustees a body corporate they and their successors in office and said Trustees & there they may choose to fill such vacancies as may happen, will make such rules as may provide in the best way for the perpetual distribution annually of the interest arising from said sum for the purpose expressed already.
I give and bequeath the gold headed cane given me by Dr Branham to his son Walter B. Branham or if he should be dead at the death of my wife to the next oldest son of Dr Branham.
I appoint my wife sole executrix of this will dispensing with taking any oath or making any inventory & appraisement asking the witnesses thereto to prove the same and have it recorded.
It is my will that my said
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August 14, 1884 Trustees proceed immediately upon her death to take possession of the property left to them in Trust & not until then. And the Execution of any will is authorised (sic) to have all the notes & Bonds the interest arising from which will belong to her for life, received from time to time or collected or released as may best secure the punctual payment or principal & interest.
To prevent all possible mistake in the meaning of the request to my wife I repeat that my lands, houses & lots & bonds & notes and all the possession & yearly profits & interest are given to my wife to be taken and enjoyed as unreserved (?) by her as I could have done myself if alive.
I request my friends the Trustees of my estate after the death of my wife that they will in the meantime aid her by their advice & assist her in the management of the estate bequeathed to her for her life subscribed the 31st day of May 1855 in presence of following witnesses George R Gilmer
S. W. Harris
C.C. Hammock Lewis J. Deupree
Georgia Oglethorpe County
I George R Gilmer do make & publish this a codicil to my last will bearing date 31st May 1855 & witnessed by S.W. Harris C.C. Hammock & Lewis J. Deupree.
I give, devise and bequeath to my beloved wife in fee simple my lot in Lexington & all my real estate wherever the same may be
I further will and desire & so order
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Atlanta Georgia that neither my wife nor her representative be answerable for any loss of on the notes & bonds or for any property given in her life.
Out of my great regard for my friend & pastor John W Reed I make him one of the Trustees of my property as mentioned in my will George R. Gilmer
On motion of Mr Brown the donation was accepted upon the terms specified in the proposition of The Trustees of the Gilmer Fund.
On motion of Mr Brown the Treasurer was directed to pay the interest on the Gilmer fund to the Trustees of the North Georgia Agricultural & Military College until the further orders of this Board.
Mr McIntyre stated that Hon A.P. Wright President of the Board of Trustees of the South Ga Agricultural College was in the City and desired to be heard before the Board and moved that he be invited to appear and address the Board in behalf of the College he represents.
In response to this invitation Hon A.P. Wright appeared and stated that a mistake had occurred in the leave to sell the Stegall Lands and they desired the matter corrected.
On motion of Mr Hammond It was resolved that the authority to sell a portion of the Stegall Lands be en
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August 14th 1884. larged so as to permit and authorise (sic) the sale of three acres including the Brick building thereon
On motion of Mr. Brown the action of the South Ga Agricultural College in electing L.S. MacSwain as President of said College was confirmed.
Mr. J.H. Alexander former President of the South Ga Agricultural College appeared before the Board in his own behalf in reference to a balance due him on his salary and on motion of Mr Brown the Treasurer was directed to pay Mr Alexander $22500 out of the appropriation to the South Ga Agricultural College and that the Treasurer give him credit for any sum he may have paid to his predecessor or any other officer of said college.
Mr McIntyre offered the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved that the Treasurer of this Board pay to the Presidents of the Faculty of the General Branch Colleges their salaries & pay the balance of the appropriations made to the several colleges to the Treasurers of the several local Boards
Mr Brown offered the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved that John J. Gresham Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia is hereby authorised (sic) to sell or exchange to the best advantage & for the best
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Atlanta Ga Aug 14 1884 Premium they will command $5500. Of the 7% Bond of the State of Georgia, belonging to the University which mature in 1886: and $66,500 of like bonds of said State which mature in 1892 and that he invest the Principal, interest and premium recd in the sale of said bonds in other bonds of the State of Georgia which are to mature very soon and which can be bought at par or for very small premium.
And resolved further that it shall be the duty of the proper officer or officers to prevent such short term bonds so purchased as soon as they have matured to the Governor to be refunded in the 50 year seven per cent bonds of the State of Georgia as authorised (sic) by the Act of 1880
Mr McIntyre offered the following resolution which was agreed to.
Resolved that this Board will elect the Presidents of the Faculty of the Several Branch Colleges annually and that in making such election they will consider any recommendations made by the several local boards and that this Resolution be referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline to be reported to the next July meeting of this Board.
Excuses were made & received for Messrs Byrd, Cumming, Felton & Hamilton.
On motion of Mr McIntyre the Board adjourned.
John J. Gresham
Samuel Cobb President
Secty
(557) July 1885 The Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia convened in annual session in the Library at 10 A.M.
Present
Hon John J. Gresham President. Messrs
Poke Barrow A.J. McIntyre.
Lamar Cobb John Screven.
Saml. Hall W. W. Thomas.
A. L. Hull D.A. Vason. Jas. S. Hamilton At the request of the President, the Chancellor opened the meeting with prayer. The minutes of the last annual meetings at Athens and Atlanta were read and approved.
The Chancellor made his annual report (Page ) which was received and referred to the appropriate committees.
The communication ofrom (sic) Mr. Chas. Morris was on motion of Mr. Cobb referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline. (Page )
The report of Prof White (Page ) was referred to Committee on Agriculture and Horticulture
A communication from the Hon C.P. Crawford was received and read and referred, on motion of Mr. Hull, to
(558) the Committee on Branch Colleges ( Page )
On motion of Mr. Vason, Messrs Byrd and Hollis were excused.
Tutor A. W. Van Hoose tendered his resignation, which was accepted.
Mr. Hamilton, Chairman of the committee on Agriculture and Horticulture made his report (Page ) which was received and laid on the table for the present.
Mr. Hamilton, as Chairman of the Prudential Committee made his report on the apparatus (Page ) which was received and laid on the table for the present.
Mr. Hamilton, as chairman of the Prudential Com. Made his report with an abstract of the proceedings of the committee (Page ) which was received.
Mr. Thomas Chairman of the committee on Buildings and Grounds, made his report (Page ) which was received and laid on the table for the present.
Mr Hull received a communication from the Engineering class and an application from Prof. Barrow, which were referred to the Finance Committee.
Mr Hull Chairman of the Auditing committee, made his report (Page )
(559) which was recd.
Mr Hull chairman of the Finance Committee made his report (Page which was recd and laid on the table for the present.
A communication from the City Council of Athens in reference to the Land Scrip Fund was recd and on motion of Mr Cobb was referred to the Committee on Laws and Discipline.
Leave of absence was granted Mr Thomas for Saturday.
The Board the adjourned to 4 P.M.
4 P.M. Board met according to adjournment Messrs A R Lawton
N.J. Hammond
& J.H. Fannin appeared and took their seats.
The President requested Mr. Vason to take the chair and made his report in pursuance of the Resolution of the Board at the August meeting in Atlanta, requesting him to sell certain Bonds belonging to the University and on motion of Mr Hull the report was received.
The President having resumed the chair Mr Vason moved that the
(560) action of the Pres. be ratified and that his Report (#1) be spread upon the minutes which was unanimously adopted.
Mr. James Jackson desired to be excused on account of sickness, which was granted.
Mr. D.C. Barrow tendered his resignation as a Trustee and on motion of Mr Vason, it was accepted.
An invitation from the Senior Class to attend their exercises Saturday after noon at 4 P.M. was received and on motion of Mr. Hammond was laid upon the table for the present.
The Report from the South-West Ga Agricultural College was read and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges.
The Printed Report from the North Ga Agricultural and Military College was received and distributed and on motion of Mr Hammond its reading was dispensed with and it was referred to the Com. on Branch Colleges.
In (sic) motion of Mr. Hammond it was determined that at the meeting of the Board tomorrow morning, all persons representing Branch Colleges, would be heard.
A Petition from the students in reference
(561) to a school of Physical Culture was recd and referred to the Com. on Buildings and Grounds on motion of Mr Hammond.
The President then announced the following as the committee on Laws and Discipline.
Mr Screven Chairman.
Messrs Lawton.
Hammond
McIntyre
and Fannin
In motion of Mr Hammond, the Board adjourned until 9 oclock Saturday, morning
John J. Gresham Prest.
(562) Saturday July 11, 1885 The Board met pursuant to adjournment. The minutes were read and approved. Messrs R. C. Humber
W. A. Little Appeared and took their seats.
The regular of the morning being to hear the representatives from the Branch Colleges Cols. A. P. Wright &
W.D. Mitchell of Thomasville appeared of the South Ga. Agricultural College and Judge Wm. D. Keddoo on behalf of the South West Agricultural College and addressed the Board in the interests of their Colleges.
Col. A. P. Wright read the report from the South Ga Ag. College which was received and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges. The Report of the Middle Ga. Ag. & M College was received and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges.
Mr. J. A. Billups was excused on account of affliction in his family.
The chair announced the Com. on Branch Colleges Mr. Vason chairman. Barrow. Humber Little Hall.
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Mr Screven chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline made a verbal report on the communication of Prof. Chas. Morris in reference to speakers places which received, amended and adopted is as follows
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The Report from the Law Department was read and referred to the Committee on the Law Department.
In motion of Mr. Vason the Board went into an election to fill the vacancies in the Board.
The election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Mark A.
(564) Cooper, resulted in the election of Hon D. B. Hamilton of Rome.
The election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Bishop Pierce resulted in the election of Judge Wm. M. Reese of Washington.
The election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Col. D. C. Barrow resulted in the election of Judge Alex. L. Erwin of Athens.
Mr. N. J. Hammond was nominated.
Mr. HVM Miller was eleced (sic) Vice Pres. Board then adjourned until 4 P.M.
4 P.M. The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Mt. Vason introduced the following resolution which was adopted
Resolved That the Librarian be requested to leave the key to the Bookshelves of the Library, at the Chancellors Office during the session of the Board.
Messrs Beckwith, Cumming and Livingstone were excused from attending
Mr. Little was excused after today on account of public duties. The Pres. added Mr. Lawton to the Com. on Honorary Degrees. Mr Vason, Chairman of the Com. on Branch Colleges made his report which read
and received and pending the discussion of its adoption The Board adjourned until Monday Morning
John J. Gresham President
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Monday July 13, 1885 The Board met according to adjournment. The minutes were read & approved. Messrs J. E. Brown
H.D. McDaniel
B.C. Yancey
W.H. Felton
D.B. Hamilton
D.W. Lewis
appeared and took their seats with the Board. The discussion of Mr Vasons report was resumed. Mr Brown moved to amend by appropriating $2000 to each of the colleges at
Thomasville, Milledgeville and Cuthbert.
Mr McDaniel moved to amend by striking out that part of the Report that divides the proceeds of the Gilmer Fund among the three Branch Colleges at Milledgeville, Thomasville and Cuthbert.
Pending the discussion the Board adjourned to hear the address of Rev. Dr. J.B.
Hawthorne before the two Literary Societies Leave of absence was granted the President of the Board after today Pending the discussion the Board adjourned to hear the address of Dr. J.B.
Hawthorne before the Literary Societies. Board met after the address & resumed the discussion of Mr Vasons report & pending the discussion adjourned until 4 P.M.
(567) Monday July 3rd 4P.M.
The Board met according to adjournment and the President and Vice President
both being absent Hon D. W. Lewis the Senior Trustee was called to the chair. Judge Alexander S. Erwin appeared & took his seat with the Board. The Board resumed the discussion of Mr Vasons Report & pending this
adjourned to attend the Sophomore Prize Declaration. After the above Exercises the Board met & on motion of Mr. Hammond Messrs Barrow & Erwin were appointed a Committee to receive the Legislative Committee. After which the Board resumed the discussion of Mr. Vasons Report & pending
this adjourned until Tuesday morning at 9 A.M. John J. Gresham President
(568) Tuesday July 14th 1885
The Board met according to adjournment Mr Barrow announced that the Legislative Committee were present on his motion they were invited to seats on the floor The Board then took a recess for five minutes after which they reconvened and
leave of absence was granted Mr. Grady. Upon motion of Mr Yancey the reading of the minutes were suspended. Judge Wm. M Reese appeared & took his seat with the Board.
On motion of Mr. Yancey the Board took a recess to attend the Alumni society and hear the address of Hon C.Z. McLend before the Alumni Society. The Board reconvened after the address and resumed the consideration of the
Report of Branch Colleges Mr Screven offered the following Resolution which was adopted Resolved that the Report of the Committee on Branch Colleges be laid on the
table for the present and when this Board adjourn it adjourn (sic) to meet in Atlanta at the call of the President
Mr. McIntyre offered the following Revolution
That
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a Committee of (blank space) be appointed by the President of this Board whose duty it shall be to investigate all the questions arising under the Act of the Branch Colleges & especially to investigate & report to this board on the first day of the (sic) its next session the powers of the Board: under the Act of Congress -whether the right & power to control & manage this fund is perfect until the Legislative shall exact a law conferring such powers.
What are the rights of the several Branch Colleges under the several contracts made with their authoring before the Board: all questions as well as facts necessary for the Board to act Knowing & wisely in reference to the future management of said Branch Colleges.
Resolved further That the Fund now under the control of this Board Known as The Gilmer Fund be looked into in reference to the requirements of the will of Gov Gilmer & report to this Board as to the practicality of forming a Chair which may discharge the duties imposed by the terms of said will in conjunction with the Chair of Agriculture.
Resolved further that the Report of said Committee be set down for consideration on Saturday of the next session of this Board.
Mr. Brown requested that the President releive (sic) him from the Chairmanship of the committee to represent the interests of the University before the Legislature and that Mr. Hammond be substituted in his place.
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Mr Brown then moved that the Committee be increased to ten which was agreed to & the Chair announced as that Committee
Mr Hammond Chairman
Messrs Brown Humber Felton
Grady Vason D.B. Hamilton
Barrow Scriben & McIntyre
Mr Hammond Chairman of the Committee on The Chas McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund made his Report which was recd & adopted {Page }
The Board then took a recess to attend the Alumni Society and to hear the address on Hon C Z McLend before the Alumni Society.
Reconvened after the address
Mr Thomas offered a resolution adding Mr. Erwin to the Prudential Committee which was agreed to.
On motion of Mr Vason an election was held for Tutor which resulted in the Election of Charles M. Strahan
Leave of absence for the balance of the session was granted to Mr. D. B. Hamilton & Mr Humber.
Board then adjourned to 4 P.M. John J. Gresham President
(571) Wednesday July 15th 1885
The Board met according to adjournment
The minutes were read and approved
Mr Hull Chairman of the Finance Committee offered the following resolution which was adopted
That the Prudential Committee be authorised to borrow not more than $7000 to meet the October payments
Mr Hall chairman of the Finance Committee moved to adopt the Finance report with the exception of the appropriations for a Professor of Agriculture $2000: the repairs $2000 and the Insurance $50000 which was adopted.
The matter of procuring the States obligation for $90,202.14 held by the Governor as related in the Report of the Finance Committee was referred to the committee to wait on the Legislature
Mr Barrow made his report as Chairman of the Committee on the Law Department which was adopted.
On motion of Mr Vason an election was held for President of the Middle Georgia Agricultural & Mech. College which resulted in the election
(572) of Gen. D.H. Hill
On motion of Mr McIntyre an election was held for President of the South Georgia Agricultural & Mech. College which resulted in the election of Mr. L.L. MacSwaine
Mr. [blank space] Bass was elected Trustee of Mid Ga. Ag. & Mech. College.
Mr McIntyre called up his resolution offered at last meeting in reference to the election of President of the Faculty of the Branch Colleges which was adopted
On motion of Mr Cobb the report of the Committee on Honorary Degrees was adopted conferring the Degrees was adopted conferring the Degree of A.M. on W.P. Crusselle of Dahlonega Ga. James C. Harris Cedartown
Mr Hall moved to reconsider Mr McIntyres resolution which was done and he then moved to lay it on the table. Adopted.
On motion of Mr Yancey the Chancellor was requested to address the General Assembly at as an Early a day as practicable.
On motion of Mr Brown the
(573) Secretary was directed to call the adjourned meeting of the Board in Atlanta whenever notified by the chairman of The Legislative Committee that it was ready.
On motion of Mr Screven the Board adjourned to meet at call.
John J Gresham President
(574) Atlanta Ga. Oct. 26th 1885 Board met according to adjournment. Present Hon J.J. Gresham Messrs McIntyre McCord, Lewis, Erwin, Miller, Beckwith, Fannin, D.B. Hamilton, J.S. Hamilton, Hall, Lawton, Cobb, Hammond, Jackson and McDaniel.
Prayer by Bishop Beckwith. The President stated the object of the meeting.
Mr. Hull offered (sic) a resolution appropriating $50000 for Insurance Adopted.
Mr Hammond moved to appropriate $120000 to the Branch Colleges at Milledgeville and Thomasville, Passed.
Mr. Jacksons Substitution that Interest on Gilmer fund be appropriated to Dahlonega for the year Passed.
Mr. Lawton moved than an appropriation of $100000 for Cuthbert Branch College be made provided that they can Satisfy the Pres. of the Board & The Prudential Committee That with This appropriation they can carry on successfully their college for the current Scholastic year Passed.
Communication from Chancellor read.
Communication from Athens City Council read.
(575) Mr Hammond moved that a committee of three from This Board be appointed to Cooperate with the city of Athens and see what tender we can make to the commission of Technological School whenever they are appointed, Adopted,
Mr. Jackson offered a resolution that it is the opinion of this Board that the Technological School should be located at Athens Georgia, and that we will do all in our power to cooperate with that city, which was adopted,
Gov. McDaniel was excused from voting on this resolution.
Mr. Fannin moved that the chair of Natural History and Agriculture shall be filled at July Meeting 1886 and that the Secretary give six months notice of this, Passed.
On motion of Mr. Jackson Gov. Smiths resignation was accepted.
On motion of Mr McIntyre the Board went into election to fill the vacancy caused by Gov. Smiths resignation when Hon N.J. Hammond was unanimously elected
John J. Gresham President
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University of Georgia
July 10th, 1885 To the Board of Trustees University of Georgia
Gentlemen: I have the honor herewith to present my Report for the University year now closing:
Number of Students During the past year there have matriculated in the Department at Athens One hundred and eighty-four students viz; in Franklin College, one hundred and twenty-five: (125) in the State college of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, forty-six (46): in the Law School fourteen (14): and Post Graduate one (1). But two have been counted both as in the Law and in the Literary Departments.
Numbers of All Those Who Have Received Instruction In the Various Departments Of The University. During the Collegiate Year.
In Franklin College State College of Agriculture & Mech. Ar Post Graduate 125 ts 46 1
Law Department (two counted already) Total in all Departments at Athens 14 184

(as against 204 reported last year) In the Medical Department 107 (as against 122 reported last year) In North Georgia Agricultural College. Males 122
Females 21 143 (as against 146 reported last year) In South Georgia Agricultural College (all males) 117 (as against 130 reported last year)
(579) In South West Georgia Agricultural College (all males) 92 (as against 106 reported last year) In Mid Georgia Military & Agricultural College Males 194
Females 207 401 (as against 391 reported last year) Total in all the Departments and Colleges 1044 (as against 1098 reported last year) It will appear then that in all the Departments there has been a lost of 54 (as compared with the report of last year) Comparison of Gains and Losses The Medical Department loses 15
Branch College at Dahlonega loses 3
Thomasville 13
Cuthbert 14
Milledgeville gains 10

Franklin College neither gains nor loses State College Ag. & Mech. Arts loses 20 It will be seen then that all the Departments and Colleges have lost, excepting Franklin College, the Law School and the College at Milledgeville, The first hold its own, the second gains 4 and the third gains 10.
College Grade In Departments at Athens 184 (as against 204 last year) In Department at Augusta 104 (as against 122 reported last year) In College at Dahlonega Males 32 Females 22 54 (as against 66 last year) In College at Thomasville 2 (as against 14 last year.) In college at Cuthbert 22 (as against 25 last year)
(580) College Grade (continued) It will be seen then that all the colleges as compared with last year have lost Students of College Grade. Excepting Franklin College and the college at Milledgeville, the later school gains 65. But 59 of its College Grade are Females.

In College at Milledgeville Males 54 Females 59 113
(as against 48 last year) Total of College Grade in all Departments As against 479 last year making a gain of 482 3

Undergraduates Excluding the Law and Medical Departments and the one Post Graduate it will be seen that of the College grade there are undergraduates, In Departments at Athens (one also in Law School) 173 (as against 193 last year) In all the Branch Colleges 191 (as against 153 last year) But 80 of these are Females, so there Have been this year in all the Branch Colleges 111 male undergraduates, Total Undergraduates of College Grade 364 (as against 346 last year)
State College The loss in the State College here has been exclusively in the two lower classes. The two higher classes in the University here are larger than last year: and we recommend a larger number of students to you for graduation
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School of Technology On this topic it is only necessary for me to remind the Board of their own action last year in adopting the Report of one of their committees. I quote from page 540 of the minutes: In relation to the School of Technology, we can only repeat the recommendations of the Board and urge that the Committee appointed to wait upon The General Assembly present to that body the advantages possessed by the University as a location for The School ,and urge the appropriation of such amount as will establish and equip such a School as a part of this University, where The State has buildings.
Chas. McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund Six young men in various parts of the State stood competitive examinations as applicants for the benefits of this fund. I have the honor, with this, to deliver to you their papers. Five (5) others have applied to me since the 2nd day of May. These applications were of course too late. Seven (7) young men, now in the University, are applicants also, Their papers, with the Facultys general averages of their standing in the several topics are herewith also presented. The Trustees have prescribed no qualifications for the fund who desire to enter the Law and Medical De (582) partments: nor have they indicated the manner in which the applications shall be made I respectfully ask legislation on this subject. Of those now enjoying the benefit of the fund two are candidates for graduation this year: viz; Mr Street of The Law Dept. and Mr Gross of Franklin College & The Law Dept. Mr Street was appointed by one of the sons of Gov. Brown.
Medical Departments I attended the commencement of this Depart of The University and in your name conferred the Degree of Doctor of Medicine on thirty-four young men. The College seemed to be enjoying its usual degree of prosperity.
Campus Grounds With the exception of planting our same forest trees our attempt has been made this year to improve the Campus Grounds. They lack some additional grading, and greatly need a system of drainage
Library There have been added to the Library during the past year volumes.
Art Gallery Maj. Lamar Cobb, your honored Secretary, has, during the past year,
(583) presented to us a Portrait of himself admirable as a likeness, and finished as a work of art. I regret to say that numbers of the Trustees have failed to respond to the request for their Portraits. Some have promised and I am in constant expectation of the fulfillment of the promise. I regret to say that some who responded favorably to my request have died without carrying into effect their expressed intention notably among these the lamented
B.H. Hill and the venerable Mark A. Cooper. The Portraits, intrinsically valuable to the University, are greatly enhanced in value by the fact that they are personal gifts of the honored subjects of them. Of the present members of the Board, twenty-five have omitted to comply with my urgent solicitations. I respectfully solicit your aid gentlemen, in the attainment of an object that, to me is so disirable. (sic)
Dormitory Buildings The Students Homes on the Campus have been unusually popular with the young men during the past year. I am sorry to report though that the ladies in them have not been able to maintain as good a degree of order in them as heretofore. In one of the houses the table manners of the students have been so
(584) objectionable that I have found it necessary personally to interpose: and in both there has been a reprehensible amount of damage done to the building. The Faculty unite with me in a respectful recommendation that you restore the custom of assessing damages inflicted on the property of the University, by the students either carelessly or recklessly.
This was a custom here from time immemorial which since the war, has either been abolished by the Board, or has simply fallen into disuse. Each student can be required, on his admission to deposit with the Treasurer one dollar or more, to meet the demands of special or general damages assessed on him, Should the Board decide to restore this system, it will of course, be necessary to discriminate between the Dormitory Buildings and the other University property on the Campus. Responsibility for damages to the Dormitories should be limited to those students who occupy them, excepting where it can be shown that specific injuries were inflicted by others. The Faculty request me respectfully to ask the special attention of the Trustees to this matter.
Deaths During the past year, two of the venerable and distinguished members of
(585) your body have been removed from the scenes of Earth. Bishop Geo. F Pierce, who, after he had faithfully served his own generation by the will of God fell on sleep and was laid unto his fathers: and Hon. Mark A. Cooper who, venerable in years and in honors, came to the grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.
A promising member of our Junior class also died during the past year at his Fathers house whither his physician here had sent him with the hope that the change would recuperate him.
Branch Colleges I attended the closing exercises of the Branch Colleges, severally. All of them now conduct their examinations in writing. These papers were inspected by me and gave evidence that the schools maintain their accustomed high grade of scholarship At Dahlonega I conferred The Degree of Bachelor of Arts on three young men. At Cuthbert ten (10) completed the course of study prescribed for the Sophomore class; at Thomasville two (2): and Milledgeville four (4): but all four of these last are females. There seems to be a peculiar law governing in this last named school. While eminently flourishing in other respects, it will be seen that of the twenty-three (23) boys reported as
(586) members of the Sophomore Class now have remained till the end of the year, and of the twenty-seven (27) girls reported only four (4) have completed the course. For each of the last two years preceding this, only one boy completed the course. But the school is doing a great work in the cause of education. During the past year there have been transferred to the University from Thomasville three (3): from Cuthbert one (1): from Milledgeville one (1) and from Dahlonega none. At Thomasville the Military Dept. was suspended during the past year. The three other institutions maintained it with more or less of efficiency though the President at Cuthbert, in his report to the Local Board, advises them to follow as he expressed it, The example of the University, and suspend the Military Dept. there also, I understood that the School at Thomasville omitted the Military feature from necessity, and that they hope to be able to resume it next year. They have laid the foundation of a large building, which promises to be handsome, and which will furnish ample accommodations for all the purposes and processes of the school.
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Vacant Professorship I beg respectfully to call the attention of the Board again to the important Professorship in the University that remains vacant.
Reports from Departments and Communications from Professors I have the honor herewith to transmit to your honorable body the Reports of Prof. Thomas of the Law Department and of Prof. White, The accompanying communication from Prof. Morris, which I specially solicited, I beg leave to call your favorable attention to.
Students Proposed for Graduation The Faculty beg leave respectfully to recommend for graduation, under various courses mentioned, the following named students, For Master of Arts P.O. Langdon For Bachelor of Arts
P.H. Adams E.M. Mitchell
J.R. Burdett W.W. Osborne
W.D. Carswell H.C. Quinn
W.H. Cobb W.K. Stansell
J.L. Gross W.W. Turner
R.M. Harbin W.H. Whipple
T.W. Harbin P.A. Willcoxson
H.M.
Holdin T.A. Williams

C.
Edgeworth Jones M.R. Wright


For Bachelor of Science
E.M. Mitchell
For Bachelor of Engineering
O.L. Cloud T.N. Kitchens
(588) For Bachelor of Philosophy Irwin Alexander C. Edgeworth Jones W.H.Barrett R.L.J. Smith
A.L. Groover D.W. Waggoner For Bachelor of Chemical Science Asbury Hull For Bachelor of Agriculture
O.L. Cloud T.N. Kitchens
For Bachelor of Law John W. Cox J.M. Merritt Joe L. Gross Benj. E. Morgan
R.H. Johnson John Morris
N.B. Jones Geo. R. Street John D. Mell O.L.J. Walker
D.C. McLennan M.M. Wilson
For Civil & Mining Engineer
B.M. Hall
Portrait of David Bradie Mitchell Just as I am about to close this report I receive a Portrait of Gov. David B. Mitchell, a Trustee from 1801 to 1811, This Portrait is presented to you by the three daughters of your late venerable colleague Dr Wm. L. Mitchell viz: Messrs Francis L. Rue and Julia Mitchell, The ladies regret that it is not in their power to frame it. I respectfully recommend that the Board receive this Portrait with thanks, and order that it be fitted with a suitable frame. I have the honor to remain Gentlemen yr. Obt. Sert.
P.H. Mell Chancellor University of Georgia
(589) Athens Ga. Oct 24th 1885 To the Board of Trustees University of Ga. in session at Atlanta Oct. 26th 1885 Gentlemen,
You will no doubt consider the propriety of attempting in terms of the Act just passed by the Legislature, to secure the location of the Technological School at this place. In this way will be completely organized The State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. I have not been able to obtain a copy of the Bill as it passed: but I am informed that the original proposition was so amended as to place it in the power of the University of Georgia also to make a bid for it. I do not know whether the adopted amendment placed the University on the same basis with a Town or City in Georgia, and put it in its power to bid independently for the school: or made it necessary for the Institution to act in conjunction with the city of Athens, I have the most Satisfactory assurances through that Athens is ready and anxious to cooperate with your Honorable Body in the premises and is willing to make a handsome contribution of money toward the attainment of the result so desirable. Supposing
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that you may wish to take same decisive action in the matter, I venture to give below the amounts in detail that the Faculty think the University of Ga can virtually offer for the Technological School Six Professorships viz: Mathematics; Physics; Engineering; Chemistry; Natural History; English each with a virtual endowment (omitting fractions) of $28,541, making a salary to each professor, at 4 per cent of $2000. The whole amount aggregating $141,426 Apparatus 40,000 Library 75,000 Cabinet of Minerals 2,500 Rock College & Sufficiency of Grounds Attached20,000 Moore College 22,500
Total 331,426 The facilities that could be furnished by the Farm may also be added as equivalent to a money contribution. The Town authorities in Athens I hope will send a communication to your Honorable Body. I know that they are profoundly interested in the matter, and are prepared to render you cheerful and potent assistance. I do not attend on your meeting because I am engaged here and because I do not know that you need my presence, I should promptly respond through to a telegram from you summoning me
(591) to Atlanta. I have the honor to remain Gentlemen, your obt sevt
P.H. Mell Chancellor University of Georgia
Athens Ga. Oct. 29th 1885 To the Trustees of the University of Georgia Gentlemen:
The undersigned committee on the part of the City Council and citizens of Athens respectfully and earnestly ask your cooperation in the effort now being made to secure the location of the school of Technology here. The committee feels that if your Board will permit the city council at the proper time to tender the appended list of advantages the University can offer supplemented by some pecuniary consideration that the School can be secured, Your Body will observe that the University advantages which we ask you to permit us to offer in the aggregate amount to a large sum greater by far than any city in Georgia can offer, You will observe too that the advantages we solicit from you will not take directly from the University any of its available resources, We only ask that we be allowed to have access to these
(592) advantages. It is not necessary to call your attention to the importance the location of the School here will give the University. The provisions of the Bill placing the School immediately under the supervision of the Chancellor make it necessary almost to have it here. We again ask your hearty cooperation and beg to be allowed to enumerate the appended advantages in our list of inducements. Viz: Six Professorships Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Natural History, English Each with an endowment in round numbers of $28, 600. Making a salary at 4% of $2000. The whole endowment aggregating 141,600 Apparatus 40,000 Library 45,000 Cabinet of Minerals 2,500 Rock College & grounds attached 20,000 Moore College 22,500
Total 331,600
W.L. Wood Chairman Council Committee
C.G. Talmadge Citizens
H.H. Phinizy Secretary
(593) The committee on Laws and Discipline to whom was referred a communication from Prof. Morris in relation to the difficulty of securing the necessary number of Senior speaker from the Honor Men, and also the Annual Report of the Chancellor, beg leave to report as to the former the following amended rule a a (sic) substitute for the fourth clause of the regulations as to Appointments see page seven of the Annual Announcement of the University &c for 1885 under the head of Appointments to read as follows: If the aggregate number of Honor Men does not furnish a sufficient number of Speakers, or if any appointee be excused from speaking, the number may then be made up from Students other than Honor Men, according to standing: and the name of no appointee excused shall appear in the list of speakers. This substitute will, in the opinion of the Committee relieve the embarrassments existing under the present rule, It is the duty of Appointees to speakers places to speak, and if excused from that duty they should not be permitted to enjoy any of the honors by which it is attended, and which justly
(594) belong to those by whom that duty is performed. The committee recommends the substitute to the original rule as not only enlarging the limit of Appointment and assuring the required number of speakers, but as also assigning such value to these appointments as that they will not be inseparably associated with the highest honors of the University, but will be restored to their intended rank as public evidence of high distinction and therefore proper objects of emulation, not only to Honor Men but to students of every class in the University. The Committee beg leave to report the following recommendation as to that portion of the Chancellors Annual Report recommending the restoration of the custom of assessing damages inflicted on the property of the University by the Students either carelessly or recklessly. To wit: that where such damages occur in the private apartments of students (being University property) the occupant or occupants of the same shall be required to pay for such damages unless they are found to have been inflicted by a person or persons other than such occupant or occupants: when such other person or persons shall be required to pay such damages. But if the damages shall be carelessly or recklessly inflicted on
(595) property of the University not occupied as private apartments of students, and the person or persons inflicting such damages is or are not known to him, The Chancellor may in his discretion levy on all the students then being in the University at Athens, by assessment per capita the amount of money necessary to repair such damages; or if it found that this method of assessment is inexpedient or inefficient, then the chancellor is authorized in his discretion to require each student on his admission to deposit with the Treasurer not exceeding one dollar to be applied to the repair of such damages as are inflicted on property of the University not occupied privately by students, when the person or persons inflicting such damage is or are not known to the Chancellor. In these recommendations The Committee unite in the opinion of The Chancellor, that the enactment of such a rule may prove all that is necessary to arrest the damages complained of which are in fact of comparatively recent occurrence, and not defensive in their character. The committee recommends that the various Degrees be conferred on the graduates for the year 1885
(596) as recommended by the Chancellor in his Annual Report. The Committee have had referred to them certain papers relative to withdrawing from the Branch Colleges and concentrating on the University Department of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at Athens all the appropriations derived from the Land Script Fund, which papers they respectfully ask may be referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges as the Appropriate Committee
Respectfully Submitted John Screven July 10th 1885 Chairman
Report of Committee on Buildings and Grounds July 9th 1885.
The committee on Buildings and Grounds, respectfully reports that the expenditures for Implements and repairs for the last hear have been as follows: On the Chapel Building $2951.00 Chairs for Same 394.90 Carpets and Matting 110.00 Dormitories 48.16 Library Building 8.00 Woodfin Residence 175.65 Willcox 17.00 Chancellors 210.00 Hogan 39.00 Fencing 259.12
(597) Moore College 77.56 The Various Lecture Rooms 243.06 Campus Privies & Planting Trees 100.35 Sundries 61.37
Total 4535.17
For the next year, your committee recommends for this department an appropriation of $200000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, upon the following estimate of necessary additions and repairs: Painting and Repairs of Woodfin House $235.00
Willcox 110.00
Morris 90.00
Chancellors 50.00
Wilcox: Lecture Room 5.00
Prof: Barrows 45.00
Charbonniers 15.00
Rutherfords 20.00
Whiles 20.00

New Glass Specimen Case 196.00 4 New Analysis Tables, gas & Water Counters 120.00 New partition to gain more room 50.00 Fence of Jackson St. 60.00
Gates 12.00 Repairs on Dormitories 200.00 Outside Painting Library Building (and work) 56.00
Moore College 70.00 Privies 40.00 Sundries 250.00 New Stoves 50.00
Water Supply for the year 120.00 Planting Trees & Grounds 186.00
On the 20th May 1885 a fire occurred in the Model Room of the Engineering Department
Total $2000.00
Over
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in Moore College, which was promptly extinguished by the Athens Fire Department, resulting in a damage to the building of $253.31 and to the Apparatus of $12560. But these sums are covered by Insurance, and the University suffers no loss. Your Committee, in This connection however, calls attention of the Board to the fact that the Insurance now carried by the University is not sufficient to protect it from serious loss, in the event of less prompt and efficient fire service. We have a total insurance, on Buildings and Apparatus and Library (Exclusive of Dwellings) of $57,50000 . An increase should be ordered by the Board at least on the Library and Apparatus, now insured for $10,000 each. This committee recommends further that some steps should be taken by the Board to stop the careless and in many case malicious, damage to property, by students: and we suggest that the Chancellor and Faculty be required to formulate some method of accomplishing that end, and upon approval of the Prudential Committee, put the same in operation.
There is no suitable place (599) on the Campus for the pursuit of Athletic sports although the City Council of Athens have during the last year gratuitously graded, in part, the ground Southeast of Moore College, The sum of $18600 in the foregoing estimate, your committee proposes to use principally for this end, and it is hoped will do much to complete a suitable ground.
Respectfully To the Board of Trustees submitted for The Committee by
W.W. Thomas July 9th 1885 Chairman
Macon Ga. July 4th 1885. To the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia Gentlemen:
At an adjourned meeting of your honorable body, held in the city of Atlanta in August last, the following resolution was passed: Resolved that John J. Gresham. Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Ga. is hereby authorized to sell, or exchange to the best advantage, and for the best premium they will command $5,500 of the 7% bond of the State of Georgia belonging to the University of Ga. which mature in 1886, and $66,500 of like bonds which mature in 1892: and that he invest (600) the principal, interest and premium recd. On the sale of said bonds in other bonds of the State of Georgia which are to mature very soon and which can be bought for a very small premium.
And further that it shall be the duty of the proper officer or officers to present such short term bonds, so purchased, as soon as they have matured, to the Governor to be refunded in the 50 years 7% bonds of the State as authorized by the Act of 1880. In obedience to this resolution Lamar Cobb Esq. The Treasurer of the University turned over to me the following named bonds to wit: $5,500 Georgia State 7% due 1886
$66,500 1892 making a total of bonds placed in my hands $72,000. Which bonds I have sold and invested in State of Georgia 8 & 4% bonds, and in connection with the Treasurer have funded the same in Ga. 7% 50 years bonds amounting to $79,000 according to the Statement as follows, which bonds are in the Treasurers hands.
The Trustees of the University of Georgia in a/c with J.J. Gresham cr. By cash for $16,000 Ga. 75 or 92 sold at 114 18,240.00
50,500 1132 57,317.50
5,500 86 1042 5,747.50
Coupons Collected forward $81,35400 49.00
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To 79,000 Georgia State 8s & 4s bough (sic) and funded in 50 years 7s $79,00000
Cash Paid premium and int on same 1403.73 H. Castlemans Expenses to N.Y. 50.25 Expenses on bonds 48.80 H. Castlemans Commissions 660.00 Lamar Cobb Treasurer bal 191.22
$81,354.00 Macon Ga. July 4th 1885
It will then be seen that the permanently invested fund of the University has been increased by the amount of seven thousand dollars. It is true that in selling the long date bonds I had to sell them with the coupons running to maturity attached, which resulted in the loss of some interest to the University or rather a part of the current interest was funded which the resolution of the Board authorized. This may have resulted in a temporary inconvenience to the Treasury which is more than compensated by the permanent addition to the endowment of the University. In addition to this amount funded I will state that during the spring fourteen thousand dollars of Georgia 7% Bonds due in 1886 with the July coupon cut off were turned over to the treasurer by Genl Toombs representing the Trustees of the Legacy of the late Gov. Geo. R. Gilmer, with the request that they also be funded in
(602) Georgia 7s 50 year bonds, These bonds I have had exchanged for fourteen thousand Georgia 8s & 4s which have been funded in Georgia State 50 year 7% bonds or Certificates leaving only one thousand dollars in money which the Treasurer received from Genl Toombs that has not yet been funded. The bonds turned over by Genl Toombs had the July current coupon cut off which affected their value in the market and they could only be sold at a small premium. They were accordingly exchanged bond for bond with the 8% bonds. The remaining one thousand dollars of 8s and 4s we are still trying to fund, but it is difficult to say when we shall succeed. In the mean time the transaction remains incomplete. We owe Mr Castleman his commissions on these last named bonds, which can be paid from the interest on the certificates, unless the expense of the funding shall be paid by Genl Toombs, All of which is respectfully submitted
John J. Gresham
President One thousand of this amount has been funded since the finance committee report was prepared which is now in the Treasurers hands
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(628) Athens Georgia July 16th 1886
The Board of Trustees met in annual session Present Hon J.J. Gresham President Messrs Pope Barrow B.P. Hollis
J.W. BeckwithA.L. Hull Lamar Cobb James Jackson Alex D. Erwin W.A. Little
W.H. Felton C.Z. McLend Jas S. Hamilton W.W. Thomas
B.C. Yancey
The minutes of last two meetings were read and approved.
The meeting was opened with prayer by the Chancellor. The Chancellor read his report which was received. [Page ]
On motion of Mr Jackson the Chancellors Report was referred to the several appropriate Committees except that past in reference to the power of the Chancellor and that portion was referred to a special Committee.
The Chair appointed as that Committee-
Messrs Jackson Yancey & Little
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Mr Thomas as Chairman made the Report of the Committee on Buildings & Grounds which was received and laid on the table for the present.
Mr J.S. Hamilton as Chairman made the Report of the committee on the Experimental Farm and the Report of the Committee on Apparatus both of which were received and laid on the table for the present.
On motion of Mr Barrow the Report of Prof White Accompanying the Report of the Committee on Experimental Farm was referred to the Chancellor with the request that he make such remarks and recommendations as he desires to this Board.
Mr Hollis offered a resolution that the Election of Trustees to fill vacancies in the Board take place at 3 PM on Saturday Which was agreed
Mr Hull offered the following which was adopted.
Resolved that all the papers in reference to the chair of Natural History and Agriculture be referred to a committee of three who shall report the name, residence & recommendations of all applicants.
The Chair appointed
Messrs Barrow
McLend
Cobb
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That the Commissioners of The Technological School be invited to participate in our deliberations with all the rights, powers and privileges of regular members of this Board.
The following substitute was offered and passed
That the question of when they are members of this Board shall be referred to Messr Jackson, Hall & Erwin to report this afternoon:
Hon, N.J. Hammond & D.A. Vason were excused from attendance at this session.
The resignations of Mr. B.J. Hunter as President of the South West Ag & Milty College and of Mr L.S. MacSwaine as President of The South Ga Ag & Mil College were received and accepted in motion of Mr Yancey.
A Communication from Prof Ch Morris in reference to a reduction in in (sic) Rent was received and referred to the Finance Committee.
The invitation of the Senior Class to attend their Class Exercises on Saturday afternoon and of Prof & Mr White to the Reception at their Home Complimentary to the Senior Class were accepted.
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Mr McLend moved to reconsider Mr Hulls resolution in reference to the Committee to examine and report on the application for the chair of Natural History and Agriculture which was lost.
The Board then took a recess until 4. PM.
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The Board reconvened Messrs Samuel Hall
J.A. Billups &
H.W. Grady Appeared and took their seats.
Mr Cobb reported the Abstract of the Minutes of the Prudential Committee which received and adopted [-Page ]
Mr D B Hamilton was excused from attendance at this session.
The Chair announced the following committees
Laws and Discipline
Messrs Billups, Erwin, Little Hollis, Hall & Beckwith
(632) Branch Colleges Messrs Yancey, Thomas, Felton, Barrow, McLend & McIntyre
Hon W.P. Price read his Report as President of the Board of Trustees of the North Ga Ag & Milty College which was received and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges
The Report of Hon A.P. Wright as President of the Board of Trustees of the South Ga Ag & Mil College was read and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges.
Board then adjourned until 9 o clock Saturday Morning.
John J. Gresham President
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Saturday July 17th 1886
The Board met pursuant to adjournment. Messrs R.C. Humber
A.T. McIntyre
L.F. Livingstone &
Henry D. McDaniel Appeared and took their seats
The minutes were read and approved.
On motion of Mr Billups Gen D.H. Hill and Capt W. T. Conn were invited to address the Board if they so desired in behalf the Middle Georgia Ag & Milty College.
Both gentlemen appeared and addressed the Board and read the Report from their college which was received and referred to the Committee on Branch Colleges.
The Chair announced as the Committee on The Chas McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund
Messrs Erwin McCord Humber & Grady.
Mr Barrow made his Report as Chairman of the committee on applications
(634) plications for the vacant chair of Natural History and Agriculture which was received.
Mr Hull offered the following resolution which was lost.
Resolved That the Chair of Agriculture and Natural Science established at the last meeting of this Board, and the Chair of Chemistry and Geology be re-organized so that the first shall be called the Chair of Natural Science comprising Geology, Botany & Zoology and the second shall be called the Chair of Chemistry and Agriculture comprising those Chairs.
On motion of Mr Jackson the Secretary was directed to correct the Minutes of Friday so as to make it appear that the election to fill the Chairs of Natural History and Agriculture was set for Monday.
Mr Livingstone moved a reconsideration which was adopted.
Then on Mr Livingstones motion the Board agreed to bring on the election at once.
After the ballot Dr. W.L. Jones was declared elected and motion of Mr Yancey his election was made unanimous.
The Board then took a recess until 3 P.M.
3 PM. Saturday
The Board reconvened & the special order being the election of Two Trustees to fill the vacancies in the Board occasioned by the death of General Robert Toombs and Hon David. W. Lewis the board proceeded to hold said election which resulted in the selection of Capt Henry Jackson in the place of Gene Toombs and of Hon Henry W. Grady in the place of Mr. Lewis.
Messrs Beckwith and Barrow were excused from attendance on the Board after today.
The Chair announced the following Committee.
Honorary Degrees
Chancellor Mell
Billups &
Cobb
On motion of Mr Barrow the Board then took a recess until after the Exercises of the Senior Class.
7 P.M. The Board reconvened after the Senior Class Exercises
(636) Capt Henry Jackson appeared and took his seat with the Board.
On motion of Mr Barrow the Board proceeded to elect a President for the North Ga Ag & Mil College which resulted in the selection of Hon Wm. S. Bassinger
The Board then adjourned until 9. A.M. Monday
John J. Gresham
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Monday July 19th 1886
The Board met pursuant to adjournment.
Mr D.A. Vason appeared and took his seat.
The minutes were read and approved.
Mr J.B. Cumming was excused from attendance at this session.
Mr Billups Chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline made his report and on Motion of Mr Hall it was received and taken up by Sections
The 1st Section was adopted
The 2nd Section was lost
The 3rd Section was adopted
And then as thus amended the Report was adopted as a whole [Page ]
Mr Yancey Chairman of the Committee on Branch Colleges made his Report and on Motion of Mr Cobb it was received and taken up by Sections
Section 1st was adopted
Section 2nd Mr. Livingstone moved to amend by striking out $120000 and inserting $150000 & pending the discussion of this motion the Board took a recess to hear the address of Hon Walter B Hill
(638) of Macon Ga before the two literary Societies.
The Board reconvened after the address and resumed the consideration of Mr. Livingstones motion to strike out $120000 & insert &150000 which was agreed to.
Section 3rd as to a surplus was on motion of Mr. Livingstone stricken out.
Mr. Little was excused for the balance of the Session.
Section 4th was read and pending the discussion of it the Board took a recess until 3 P.M.
3 P.M.
The Board reconvened at 3 P.M. and resumed the consideration of Section 4th of the Report of the Committee on Branch Colleges, in reference to the South West Ga Ag & Milty College.
Mr Gresham called Mr Vason to the Chair and then moved to amend the Report by inserting. Therefore Resolved that in as much as the South West Ga Ag
(639) College has made no report to this Board for the year just closed and this Board having no official information of the present condition of that College that no appropriation be made to the South West Georgia Ag college at Cuthbert for the year present and until a further conference with them in relation to their ability to carry on their College.
Which was adopted.
Mr Cobb offered a resolution which was adopted that the members of the Technological School be requested to meet with this Board at all of its sessions.
Pending the consideration of the Report of the Committee on Branch Colleges the Board took a recess to attend the Exercises of the Sophomore Class.
The Board reconvened after the Sophomore Exhibition and resumed the
consideration of the Report of the Committee on Branch Colleges. A resolution was offered to pay Mr B.T. Hunter $10000 more but was lost. The remainder of the Report was adopted and the whole report as amended was
then
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Mr Livingstone was granted leave of absence after today.
The Board then adjourned until Tuesday at 9 A.M.
John J. Gresham President
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Tuesday July 20th 1886 The Board met pursuant to adjournment The minutes were read & approved Mr Hull Chairman of the Finance Committee was granted permission to amend
his Report by inserting a charge that had been overlooked by the Treasurer.
On motion of Mr Yancey the rules requiring a ballot in all elections were by unanimous consent suspended and Gen M Lovejoy was elected President of the South Ga Ag College Viva Voce.
Mr Erwin Chairman of the Committee on The Chas McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund made his Report which was received and adopted.
The following resolution offered by Mr. Hull was adopted.
Resolved That Commencement day be changed from the Third Wednesday in July to the Second Wednesday in July and that the Board of Trustees meet the Friday previous.
Messrs Brown and Screven were excused from attendance on this session.
On motion of Mr Cobb. Prof White was granted three months leave of absence next summer to (642)
visit Europe according to the terms of his request.
The Board then took a recess to hear the address of Hon Logan E. Bleckley of Clarkesville to the Alumni Society
The Board reconvened after the recess and Mr. Cobb offered the following Resolution with the request that it be referred to the Committee on Laws & Discipline which was agreed to
Resolved That the offices of Inspector of Buildings and Grounds and Librarian be consolidated and that one person be elected to fill that position who shall keep the Library open each day 9 A.M. to 12 M (sic) and from 2 P.M. to 5 P.M. during the Collegiate year
That the salary shall be Five Hundred Dollars to be paid as these Officers are now paid
Messrs Humber
Yancey &
Vason
Were excused after today.
Mr Grady offered the following resolution which was adopted.
Resolved that a Committee
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of five be appointed by the Chairman of this Board to take into consideration the subject of establishing and maintaining a system of physical culture for the University with power to act & provided it does not involve the Board in any Expense or create any liability and provided no charge is made in the grounds of buildings erected thereon without the written approval of the Prudential Committee of this Board.
On motion of Mr Thomas the motion adopting the Report of the Committee of The Chas McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund Was reconsidered and that Report was recommitted to that Committee.
On Motion of Mr. J.L. Hamilton the Report of the Committee on Apparatus was taken from the table and adopted.
Mr Jackson Chairman of the Special Committee on The Powers & Rights of the Chancellor made his Report which was recd and adopted
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Notice was given by the Secretary of the Alumni Society of the Election of Hon
P.W. Meldrin of Savannah in the place of Mr Grady and of Mr P.A. Stovall of Augusta to fill the vacancy of Mr N.J. Hammond, as Alumni Trustees
(644) tees and they were introduced and took their seats with the Board.
The Board then took a recess to hear the address of Judge Logan E. Bleckley to the Alumni Society
The Board reconvened and on motion of Mr Hull took from the table the Report of the Committee on Finance.
Mr Hall moved to amend the Report by appropriating the interest on The Gilmer Fund for the next year to Dahlonega.
Pending the discussion the Board took a recess to 3 P.M.
At 3 PM the Board reconvened & Mr Barrow offered the following as a preamble to the resolution of Mr Hall
Whereas, at the time the securities composing what is known as the Gilmer Fund, were turned over by the Trustees of that Fund to the Trustees of the University there was an implied understanding that the income was to be continued to the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega as an appropriation so long as that College complied
(645) with the conditions of the will of Gov Gilmer, to which understanding the Trustees of the University, the Trustees of the Gilmer Fund & the President of the local board of Trustees of the North Georgia Agricultural College were parties -therefore:
Mr McIntyre moved to postpone the whole matter in reference to the Gilmer Fund until the next meeting of this Board and that the interest on said Fund be kept separate and apart from all other funds. Which was agreed to.
On motion of Mr McIntyre a Committee of five were appointed to investigate our relations with The Gilmer Fund.
The Chair appointed the following as that Committee
Messrs Erwin H Jackson Barrow Lawton & McIntyre
The Board then took a recess to attend the Junior Exhibition.
The Board reconvened & on motion of Mr Hull the Report of the Finance Committee was adopted with the Exception of the Salary of the Librarian which was left blank
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(646) On motion of Mr Hull the Prof Morris rent was put at $19000 and insurance.
Mr Erwin Chairman of the Committee on The Chas McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund made his Report which received and adopted [Page ]
On motion of Mr Cobb the following resolution was adopted
That all beneficiaries of The Charles McDonald Scholarship Fund who fail to report within thirty days after the opening of the Collegiate term shall forfeit their appointment unless they shall forward some good and sufficient excuse to the Chancellor for their absence
On motion of Mr Thomas the Report of the Committee on Buildings & Grounds was taken from the table and after being amended on motion of Mr Cobb so as to recommend the sum of fifty dollars or so much thereof as may be needed to put the building at the Farm in repair for Prof Jones, was adopted
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Mr McIntyre moved that all the degrees to the graduating
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A communication from Mr J.R. Owen Secty of the South West Ga Ag College notifying this Board of the selection of a President of that College by their local Board
and requesting his election was received and on motion of Mr Hull was laid on the table for the present.
On motion of Mr Hull the following resolution was adopted
Resolved:
That the Secretary be requested to have printed each year an abstract from the minutes of this Board showing all unfinished business and any other business which is likely to engage the attention of the Board at its regular meeting and mail a copy to each member not later than the first day of June each year.
Board then adjourned until 9 A.M. Wednesday John J Gresham President
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The Board met pursuant to adjournment and the minutes were read and adopted.
Mr Hull stated that he was requested to offer the following resolution which was agreed to
A letter having been received from J.R. Owen Secretary of the S.W. Geo Agricultural College at Cuthbert.
Resolved that the Secretary of this Board be instructed to answer said letter and state that the letter was received just on the eve of the adjournment of the Board and after all the appropriations had been made, that many of the members of the Board had left and that it was impossible to reverse the action already taken in relation to the College at Cuthbert.
Resolved that the Secretary also sent to the Sect of the S.W. Ga Ag College a copy of the resolution passed in relation to that College.
On motion of Mr Erwin it was resolved:
That the Board of Trustees tender to the Commission of Technology, the use of the Library,
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apparatus and museums of the University the use of the lecture rooms and all the educational facilities of the University. The use of the Rock College and four acres of land for mechanical or other purposes in the discretion of the Commission and sufficient ground on the Campus, selected by Prudential Committee, whereon to erect buildings necessary for the purpose proper conduct of the Schools to be established.
Provided the School of Technology be located at Athens Ga.
Mr Billups Chairman of the Committee on Laws and Discipline by direction of that Committee offered the following Resolution which was adopted. (made his Report which was adopted written over in pencil)
That no diploma shall be delivered except to a graduate in person unless for providential reasons to be judged by the Faculty the absence of the graduate may be
on or prior to Commencement day. Diplomas which have not been delivered on Commencement day on account of the absence of the graduate without excuse cannot thereafter be delivered except by a note of the Board of Trustees. [Struck through with pencil See Page 654 written in pencil in the margin]
Mr Billups as Chairman of same Committee reported back from that Committee the resolution of Mr Cobb consolidating the offices
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of Inspector of Buildings & Grounds and Librarian with the Statement that there was not a quorum present.
Mr Cobb then changed the hours for opening the Library from 9AM to 1PM & from 3PM 5 PM and moved to refer it to the Prudential Committee with request that they put it in operation if possible & that if they do so then $2050 is appropriated from the Library Fund.
Which was adopted.
On motion of Mr H Jackson it was Resolved that if Mr Cobbs Scheme is not adopted by the Prudential Committee then the sum of one hundred dollars be appropriated from the Library Fund to pay the Librarian.
The following resolution offered by Mr H. Jackson was adopted.
Resolved that the Prudential Committee, in connection with the Librarian to be selected adopt such rules for the Government of the Library as may secure good order.
On motion of Mr Billups the Degree of A.M. in Course was conferred on Joseph Daniel Pope of Columbia, S.C.
And the Degree of A.B. was conferred on J.H. Belchu of Dry-Grove Abbeville Co So. Ca he having been a member of the Senior Class broken
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The special Committee on when the Commissioner of the School of Technology become members of this Board through their Chairman Mr J. Jackson reported that they would not become members until said School was established which report was received and adopted
Notice was given that the degree of Doctor of Philosophy would be applied for by Mr Billups for Prof H.C. White and by Mr Cobb for Prof L.H. Charbonnier.
Notice was also given of the application of the Degree of Doctor of Divinity for Rev J.B.S. Davis.
The President then announced the following Committees
Physical Culture
H.W. Grady Chairman Thomas, McLend Meldrin & Hollis
Technological School
W.W. Thomas Chairman
J.S. Hamilton, Erwin Hull & Cobb
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A.L. Hull Chairman Brown McLend Hall Reese
Branch Colleges
Alex S Erwin Chairman
Yancey Cumming
Meldrin & Hollis
Chas McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund
W.W.
Thomas Chairman

H.
Jackson Grady Stovall & Humber

Buildings and Grounds

W.W.
Thomas Chairman Little, DB Hamilton Felton & Byrd


Agriculture Farm
J.L. Hamilton Chairman
Livingstone Fannin Screven McIntyre
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Samuel Cobb Chairman James Jackson Hammond.
Law Department
Barrow Chairman Billups Hall
Auditing Committee
A.L. Hull Chairman
J.S. Hamilton
Honorary Degrees
Chancellor Mell Chairman Billups Cobb
The Board then adjourned
John J. Gresham President
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Resolved That diplomas shall be delivered only on Commencement day and then to graduates in person: if however any graduates shall be absent having previously been excused by the Chancellor for providential cause or other sufficient cause his diploma may on that day be delivered to another for transmission
Resolved further
Diplomas which are not delivered in consequence of the absence of the graduate of Commencement day and without his having been excused by the Chancellor shall not be delivered except by direction of the Board of Trustees.
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University of Georgia
July 16, 1886 To The Board of Trustees University of Ga
Gentlemen:
The past year in some respects has been marked by more than unusual signs of prosperity. The number of the students has increased: in the main, the young men have been studious; and a larger number will graduate at commencement than has ever issued in any year from the University during all its history.
Number of Students. During the past year there have matriculated, in the department at Athens two hundred and four (204) students viz: - in Franklin College, one hundred and forty five (145); in the state College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts forty seven (47); in the Law School eleven (11); and Post Graduates , one (1)
Number of all those who have received instruction in the various Departments of the University during the Collegiate year. In Franklin College 145
State Coll. of Ag. & Mech. Arts 47 Post Graduate 1 Law Department 11
Total in all Departments at Athens 204 As against 184 reported last year. In the Medical Department 130 As against 107, last year .
(656) In North Ga Agricultural College Males 118 Females 21 139 As against 143 reported last year . In South Ga Agricultural College (all males) 85 As against 117, last year. In Middle Ga. Mil. & Ag Coll. Males 196 Females 211 407 As against 401, last year We have nothing to report from the Institution at Cuthbert The three Branch Colleges, whose student statistics are here given, reported last year an aggregate of 661, as against 631 this year.
Total in all the Departments & Colleges Now in our system (leaving out Cuthbert) As against 952, without Cuthbert, last year. It will appear then that in all the Departments & Colleges, there has been an aggregate gain of 965 13
Comparisons of Gains and Losses The Medical Department gains The Branch College at Dahlonega loses Thomasville 4 32 23
Milledgeville gains Franklin College gains (with one Post Graduate) State Coll. of Ag. & Mech. Arts gains The Law Department loses 6 20 1 3
College Grade In Departments at Athens As against 184 last year. In Department at Augusta. As against 107, last year. In Coll. at Dahlonega Males 46 Females 3 204 130 49
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As against 54 last year In the Coll. at Thomasville (all males) As against 2 last year. In Coll. at Milledgeville Males 71 Females 69 As against 113 last year Total of College grade in all Departments As against 482 last year. 5 140 528

It will appear there that the Departments here have gained 20 students of College grade over last year. Augusta has gained 23; Dahlonega has lost 5; Thomasville has gained 3; and Milledgeville has gained 27. Of the 140 students though of College grade reported by Milledgeville, 69 are females.
Undergraduates.
Excluding the Law and Medical departments, and the one Post Graduate, it will be seen that, of the College grade, there are undergraduates, In Departments at Athens. 192 As against 173, last year. In all the Branch Colleges 194 As against 191, last year. But 72 undergraduates reported
By Branch Colleges, are females. So So that there have been in all the Branch Colleges this year 122 male Undergraduates Total Undergraduates of College Grade, 386 As against 364 last year .
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Through the joint action of the citizens of Athens and the Board of Trustees of the University, the indications seem to be favorable to the completion of this Institution in form according to the original intention. The town authorities have resolved to take the necessary tips towards holding an election on the 7th day of Aug next to determine the question as to whether or not the city shall issue $35,000 of 6 per ct Bonds the proceeds of the sale of which to be offered to the Board of Commissioners of the State Technological Institute on condition that the school be permanently located in the city of Athens (I quote from their advertisement in the News Paper) Your honorable Body, in accordance with your resolution in Atlanta; will no doubt render your cordial and efficient co-operation.
It is gratifying to know that in accordance with your advertisement it is your intention to elect a Scientific Farmer who shall reside on the University Experimental Farm and redeem as far as possible the pledge made to the farmers to give practical as well as theoretical instruction: and to approximate as afar as possible to the ideal in the minds of those who secured the organization of these Agricultural Institutions. Some whose opinions are worthy of our profound respect, have publicly expressed dissatisfaction as to the Agricultural results Many of these complaints are groundless but some of them should not be dismissed.
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by us without respectful thoughtful and candid consideration. Science 1. There are certain claims which can be most unhesitatingly made by us:
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We have given in the State College the most thorough instruction in those Departments of scientific that have the most intimate relations with scientific Agriculture. Scattered all over Ga. are accomplished Physicists and chemists who are competent to give scientific instruction and such practical aid in such scientific analyses as the farmers need who have obtained their culture in the halls of the Agricultural College here. Through this agency of this instructions then not a small number of men have been given to the State who are thoroughly versed in all those sciences that make the important factors in scientific Agriculture Again.

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For many years the College farm has subserved the purposes virtually and to some extent of an Experimental Station. Results of experiments there made, reported annually or oftener to the State Agricultural Convention have been

acknowledged by that distinguished body as valuable contributions to the cause of scientific and practical farming.

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Finally, the Institution during its whole history has been doing a noble work in the Department of Engineering. Before the organization of the State College, the University had been conferring the Degrees of Civil and Mining


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Engineering, and up to 1876, 35 such young men had issued from its halls. Since 1876 and up to last commencement the State College has graduated 26 Bachelors of Engineering and 16 Bachelors of Chemical Science.
2 But it must be admitted:
(1)That Engineering bears but a slight relations to farming; and that, while the State College is doing a noble work in this regard, it did not originate the Engineering Course but, at its organization took up the work as it already found it in the University in which, as has been said, 35 Civil Engineers and Civil & Mining Engineers had already graduated. And as to the State College Degree of Bachelor of Chemical Science, it may be admitted that as many students of Franklin College gravitate to it because of their aversion to Higher Mathematics as young men from all other sources enter from choice into it as a State College Course that gives thorough equipment in Chemistry as a specialty.
Claiming all that we rightfully can on the score of the scientific instruction that can be incidentally used in the interest of Agriculture by the 42 young men who have borne off from the State College, Diplomas in Engineering and Chemical Science, the question may be pertinently asked, What has the State College done, and what is it now doing directly for Agriculture? It has a (661)
course terminating in the Degree of Bachelor of Agriculture. How many young men have taken its Diploma in this course? how many are now in the University studying for it? and how many of its graduates in this Degree are directly engaged in farming? Since the foundation of the State College, 8 young men have taken the Degree of Bachelor of Agriculture. If these 2 are reported to be farming. 2 are engineers 2. Teachers, one a superintendent of an Iron Furnace. And one Judge of a County Court: The State College of Agriculture there up to this time has furnished but two Bachelors of Agriculture that are engaged in practical farming.
There have been in the State college during the past year, seven (7) young men who report themselves as intending to pursue the Bachelor of Agriculture course three
(3)in the Freshman three (3) in the Junior class, and one in the Senior. But some or all of these Freshmen, as is sometimes done, may abandon the course in succeeding years: and of the three Juniors pursuing the course, only two have attended to Agriculture as laid down in it, and one of those left the University in the middle of the year. So I may say while writing this Report, that only two students are pursuing the complete course of study for the Bachelor of Agriculture Degree. Only one Bach
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elor of Agriculture will graduate from our halls this year, while there are eight (8) other young men in the Senior class who are striving for the other Degree of the State College.
The question may be asked, why has there been such an apparent failure of purely Agricultural results in our Agricultural College?
It may possibly be ascribed
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For the fact of the deplorable condition of farms and farming in Georgia. Under the insane system to which so large a number of farmers in the state are subjected, multitudes, if not a majority, of farms are mortgaged to merchants, and are annually slipping out of the hands of their owners. The sons of such are returning from College with their B.A. Diploma in their hands will find no farms on which they can exercise their skill and where they can make their scientific knowledge a means of support and happiness and usefulness. It would not be surprising then that such young men as see their fathers farms slipping away should abandon the B.A. Course while in College or, after graduation, use the knowledge and culture represented by the B.A. Degree in other pursuits more profitable than Agriculture.

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A Bachelor of Agriculture without a farm of his own could not find lucrative employment on a farm. No farmer in Georgia thinks he needs such an employee, and, if such a rare


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specimen could be found, his farming operations could not be so fruitful of results as to authorize the payment of a salary commensurate with rightful demands of a scientific agriculturist, who has expended so much of time, of money and of labor to equip him for his profession. Indeed, that word profession, in this connection is a misnomer. The overseer of a farm is not a professional man; and the only other kind of employee that a farmer needs is a laborer and for this employment our Bachelor of Ag. could not successfully compete with a brawny negro. The case is very different with the Engineer, Civil Mining and Mechanical. These can obtain lucrative and permanent positions as the head or in the employment, of great enterprises that work out in the aggregate great results. There seems to be but little demand in Georgia for Bachelors of Agriculture, and the supply seems to be at least commensurate with the demand.
3. Again, our own influence has been in favor of the meager results obtained. We have had in our system four Branch Colleges every one of which has in its name the descriptive word, agricultural but from every one of these all instruction and practice in agriculture have been conspicuously absent. It does not necessarily follow though that for this we and they are justly liable to censure. The
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law of Congress authorizes other studies to be incidentally pursued besides the topics relating to scientific agriculture. Both the Letter and the spirit of the law then could be fulfilled by us and them if the pupils of those Colleges generally completed their course in the Agricultural College here and if this Institution could come up to all the requirements of the law and could redeem all the pledges if continues to make in that direction. But unfortunately; but few of the pupils of those schools are transferred here, and we have had for much, if not most of the time, no scientific farmer occupying our premises; and our Experimental Farm, as we call it, has served chiefly the useful purpose of giving employment to a worthy man who supports his family by his labor on it.
All that I have said is meant to be impersonal. I entered no reflection on anyone least of all is it my purpose to call in questions my accomplished colleague now connected with the farm, who has ably and I doubt not satisfactorily to the Trustees, performed all that he was asked, and I engaged, to do.
But if it may not be in, our power to obtain lucrative employment for our Bachelors of Agriculture, we can at least strive to create and maintain here a model farm where precept and example can indoctrinate the farmers, and entice them to imitate the best methods, for the attainment of the best ends.
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I shall hail with joy the competent man whom your honorable Body will write to be the head of this important though now in a measure, languishing interest. Under his wise direction our agricultural students can obtain practical instruction not only in the cultivation of all the products of the field, in his latitude and climate, but in horticulture also in the cultivation of the vineyard, in pisciculture, in the management of the Apiary; in landscape Gardening, in Floriculture and other ornamentatious; in the choice and management of all the farm animals those of the stable, of the dairy, of the stye, of the barnyard and of the fold with a knowledge of all the diseases of animals and the scientific remedies for them. Under the lead of the Scientific farmer whom you may select. I beg that at least we make an earnest effort to redeem the pledges made in our Catalogue as to Agricultural instruction.
Deportment of Students
The deportment of the students during the past year has been in the main, unusually good. There was one unfortunate exception, however that was so attended with newspaper notoriety and public scandal as to make it necessary perhaps that I should explain it to the Trustees. The difficulty originated in no desire to disregard the University authority, but arose very naturally and
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spontaneously by complications and antagonisms among the students themselves.
There has been a custom here of long standing, for the classes in the written examinations to hold all their members to a rigid accountability and to demand that they in good faith should conform to the pledge they would sign that they had received no aid in preparing the papers they resolved and announced that they would report to the Faculty all that were found cheating. This rendered it necessary that they should as a class investigate and decide upon the cases of those against whom charges were made previously to bringing the accused before the Faculty. These inquiries were always and inevitably accompanied by great excitements, and soon last the feature of a preliminary investigation, and assured the character of a tribunal of ultimate decision. A tribunal thus organized is well qualified to work great wrong to a timid student ignorantly, maliciously or through rivalry accused; or great commotions and collisions among it own components when it attempts its processes against a brave boy unjustly accused who has friends to rally around him. While a class may be very efficient in the character of a prosecutor, it is singularly disqualified to discharge the functions of this judge and jury. In the first place, through inexperience, their very noble impulses themselves in opposition to dishonorable conduct
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are likely to make them indignant against one tainted by a plausible accusation of wrong; and then, in the next place. The ardor and resentment of the prosecution tends to make them unable in an unprejudicial way to see both sides. The consequence has been that in some cases not detected by the faculty before the catastrophe, very worthy young men have been driven off, in the court itself has been turned into a battle ground where questions have been decided by pugilistic rather than by forensic disputations. In the particular case this year, a member of the Sophomore, class brings the charge of cheating against five of is classmates. Others form with him in the testimony in regard to two of them after some excitement, he consents to withdraw the charges against three, admitting that he could not prove them and giving a written (admission) to that effect. It happened unfortunately that all the accused excepting one were members of the same secret fraternity the exception being a non-fraternity man and that the accuser belonged to another club. Suspecting and charging that this was an attempt to smirch the fair name of their club all the members of the fraternity rallied around their fellows thus accused; and this caused antagonistic combinations on the part of some of the other Clubs in the University soon after the accusation is made, one of the
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three, from whom the charge is ultimately withdrawn, has a stand up fight with the accuser with the knowledge and concurrence of parents. It was thought that honor required the other two to challenge their accuser to pugilistic combat also; but, as they were small in size and he large and muscular, it was thought right that one of their clubmates more on terms of physical equality should champion either cause. All parties acquiesced in this arrangement and agreed that the duel should be a final settlement all around. Entering heartily into this arrangement dragooned to it by the prevailing public opinion in the University, encouraged by an undisguised sentiment, even among some of the ladies of the town, acting under the approbation of their parents, and inspired by one of the leading merchants in the town, the parties eluded the police, and at a safe place, four miles from town punished each other as the phrase is, according to the rules of the Marquis of Queensberry whatever that may be.
As soon as I discovered that the class was about to deal with some of it members, I had an interview with it as the members assembled in a recitation room and made an address to them, the design of which was to show the dangers that would attend upon their efforts to adjudicate the case. They listened respectfully to me, and finally gave their cordial consent to prosecute the case before the faculty. A committee of that
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body met the class and, after patient and careful investigation convicted one of the accused and acquitted the other. It was hoped that this would terminate the excitement; and it did, so far as the class as a body was concerned. But individuals had become experated because as they said, their honor had been called in question; and others writhed under innuendoes to the effect that their courage had been impugned; and the whole inflammable University community became involve on one side or the other, demanding that the controversy should be settled by blows and aiding all in their power to that end. The matter commenced with the Sophomore Class, but in the final catastrophe there was but a solitary Sophomore engaged. The other champion and the two seconds were all three Seniors.
The day before the battle I summoned before me the two principals, one at a time. Each one in a frank way made his own statement to me, and, when I pointed out the exceptional part of his own course, frankly admitted it. I had for a time hopes that I could mediate between the noble fellows, and help them settle their artificial trouble; but it did not take me long to realize that they were held hopelessly to their championship by the relentless crowd on the campus, in the town and at their houses. I there addressed myself to the effort to induce them to postpone the fight until the
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close of the term -reminding them that they were proposing to violate University law, warning them of the danger to themselves personally of University penalties, and appealing to their sense of obligation to the University authorities, who deserved better things at their hands. These considerations received such respectful and apparently candid attention, that I had hopes of accomplishing my object. Knowing that neither of the principals could take the initiation in a proposition to postpone the fight but encouraged by the respectful and apparently candid attention given to the proposition, I sent for the seconds and laid the matter before them. They took it into the most respectful and serious consideration and while they gave frank opinions on other things opposed to those advanced by me, expressed no dissent to this, but left it for me to infer that they would see if anything could be done in this direction. They even promised to call again let me know the result of the proposition. But the time was approaching now that had been appointed for the collision; and they had no sooner left my office than they were caught up and wafted off by the wave of excitement out of doors. I did not see them again until the folly had expended itself. In a day or two the four young men engaged in the affray addressed a written acknowledgement to the Faculty disavowing any intention to treat with contempt constituted authority.
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It may be asked why I did not prevent this uncomely event by having all the parties arrested? I answer
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These young men the two principals and the two seconds were mere straws floating on a mighty tide whose momentum gathered its force from confluent currents issuing from the University from the town and from exasperated family circles. I had not chains fitted or strong enough, to bind all these forces; and any summary attempt by me would only have intensified the difficulty and precipitated disaster as well as disgrace.

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Besides I may well have hesitated to commit the governing power of last resulting them; and it was impossible to summon the Faculty in time to meet the emergency. To justify myself, it may not be amiss to enter into a brief discussion of the question of the chancellors powers. The independent powers and prerogatives of the chancellor as compared to those of the Faculty


(672) under our system have never been defined. In one occasion, I asked your late distinguished and experienced Secretary, Dr. William L. Mitchell, to define for me those limitations. His reply was that he did not know what they were, and he did not suppose that any body knew or could know. He thought more over, that it was firtunate (sic) the uncertainty existed; for the tendency was to put and to keep the Chancellor on his good behavior. Perhaps the Drs remark contained a profound philosophy certain it is that, if this ignorance has any potency for good, all of us here stand in a position favorable to receiving the benefit. It is sometimes asserted that this is Faculty not chancellor government. To a certain extent the assertion is true; but it must admit of some limitations. Indeed if the Chancellor is merely the presiding officer of the governing body, he has, if any at all, less power than the youngest and most inexperienced Professor for he has not the right to make motions to speak or to vote, excepting in very rare instance of a tie. But it may be justly claimed and admitted.
That the Chancellor has some rights prerogatives and powers that do not emanate from the Faculty but are independent of that body and cannot be legimately (sic) encroached on or limited by it, consequently, that officer has some governing power peculiar to his office that cannot be alienated without destroying
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2. It may be claimed again that as he is the presiding officer of the Faculty not by their suffrage but by appointment of a higher power he is in no respect subject to their dictation, and that, in the last analysis, he is not their executive officer, bound to carry into effect always everything they prescribe but that when he differs with them on serious matter, as they make decisions that would seriously embarrass him in the performance of the duties and the exercised of the prerogatives clearly pertaining to his own jurisdiction, he may decline to carry into effect their decisions; this asserting asserting that in some sense this is a government of the chancellor and the Faculty. This however is a mere negative not a positive power; and one that thought very clear to him may not be so obvious to all minds that have a right to an opinion on the subject; so that even when occasions occur for the assertion of the negative right so clear to his mind he may be embarrassed by the doubts in the minds of others and according to the Philosophy of Dr Mitchell, may feel himself hedged in and trammeled by the obligations of good behavior of his part. It is most cheerfully admitted though that, under this system of Faculty Government, the Chancellor
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has no right to enact University law, or prescribe any rule for the guidance of all the Professors and students. He has no power to give original instructions to the individual professors, to hold them to a personal responsibility to him, and to inflict pains and penalties on any of them for failure to discharge that duties imposed upon them. Is it said he has the power to report them to the Trustees? The answer is
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This is Faculty government. The reasonable supposition there is that the individual officers are responsible proximately to that body; and the Chancellor then might be guilty of impertinence if he affected to have the right self moved to arraign a Prof. before the Trustees. But,

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If it be said that in some extreme cases Chancellor as the head of the University could arraign not only a Prof. but the Faculty itself before the Board, it may be admitted as a dangerous duty in such extreme cases but not claimed as a privilege and a power. To arraign an officer before the Board would not be to perform an act clothed with power, but, with self-abnegation to voluntarily throw away much of the legitimate power that he has and to clothe himself with weakness instead, an arraignment of a Professor by the Chancellor reduced to its last analysis would be simply an invitation to that


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officer to measure strength with him before the Board, and to defy all the friends of the arraigned in the outside world. If it should ever be his duty to arraign a strong Professor or the Faculty, of course he would do it; but in doing so, he would exhibit no power excepting that which is potent in offering himself up a sacrifice for the public good. If his act should not act official suicide immediately, it would inevitably set in operation influence that would cause him to die by inches. (Work written in the left margin perhaps as a substitute for act)
All this is said on the basis of the present system, as I understand it. But it may be asked, would it not be wise to change the present system radically so as to make it chancellor rather than Faculty government? Before answering as to its wisdom, let us see what would be the items of the change.
1. Suppose it be proposed that all the power to decide questions in the ease of individuals, and in the general government of the University, be taken from the Faculty and given to the Chancellor? The answer is, that in that case, what would appear to be an increase of power would really be an increase of weakness. It would be placing on the chancellor all the responsibility of making decisions without the power to counsel others to aid him in the execution of those decisions. Nothing would be more natural than for the Professors to say
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The Chancellor has all the power, let him wield it. We will attend prayers when it suits us and as to the discipline in other respects, all power is taken out of our hands and the responsibility goes with it.
2. Suppose it be proposed to give to the Chancellor such power over the Professors that he can in the last report demand the resignation of any of them or dismiss him from office. This would be to place real power in his hands, but it would be also to make him a despot, and to prevent all high minded, competent men from accepting office as Professors. None but a fool in this county and in these times would accept of the position of Chancellor then endowed with such apparent power, but in fact with such real weakness. And no one could continue to hold it for any length of time after the first successful exercise of arbitrary power. In thus giving the important item that would constitute the essence of the change from Faculty to chancellor government. I have sufficiently indicated my opinion as to the wisdom of any such change. The fact is, whatever may be his jurisdictions and prerogatives, the only
legitimate power that can be successfully wielded by the Chancellor is moral power. A part of this comes from the prestige of the office, part from the evidence that he has public confidence and respect, and part from his own personal character and neutral endowments. If he is a competent man, unselfish, disinterested, free
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from conceit and endowed with common sense if he has the confidence and respect of the University community and is of good report among those who are without if, endowed with personal magnetism and positive traits that, though gentle and kind, admit of no suspicion of weakness if, by self-abnegation and devotion to duty and to the interests of others, he can gain the hearts of all, all classes will joyfully co-operate with him the combined powers of all will be wielded in accordance with his wishes and plans; and satisfactory results will be attained with harm to nobody. While conscious of painful deficiency in the only legitimate power at present pertaining to my office. I wish no endowment of powers that can be conferred by Trustee enactment and desire no change or modification of our form of government. I am satisfied with the relation I sustain to the admirable gentlemen who compose the Faculty; and I wish no power wrested from their hands, nor responsibility taken from their shoulders. I have gone into this some what extended discussion of the powers and prerogatives of the Chancellor to justify myself in the minds of those of the Board who may have thought I should have used force to prevent the young men from carrying out their frankly avowed plans.
And yet after all, I am not blind to the fact that I cannot possibly escape
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public censure for permitting the uncanny thing to occur. Right or wrong all parties hold the Chancellor responsible for order and government even though no formal statutory power is vested in him and though the legal territory of his jurisdiction is so shadowy that nobody as yet has ventured to mark down its limitations. It may be alright perhaps, in these circumstances, to hold him conspicuously to this special responsibility, but he experienced a peculiar hardship in cases of the kind now under consideration, where the power to anticipate and prevent irregularity and disaster is lodged in other hands. In all cases where the students can be taken as individuals not banded together by exciting combinations, with ordinary address, he can place influences in their heads and hearts that, all unconsciously to themselves, can make them inclined to favor of government and disposed to co-operate with him heartily in the maintenance of law and order. But when these class excitements occur and they are liable to occur at every written examination he and the whole University community are placed in the chapter of accidents.
To me the most distressing consequence is the disastrous effect placed produced upon the poor fellow who may be convicted of cheating and falsehood. I consider that the young men are confided by their parents to us, not only that we may aid them in the acquisition of
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an education, but that we may assess them in building up a noble character. If any of these boys here swerve from the path of rectitude, I consider it my duty to discover it as soon as possible and as a wise parent would do to his son, to bring such influences to bear on him as would Correct him not expose and ruin him. So long as I could be satisfied that by my processes his mind was suitably affected by an apprehension of his wrong and, his danger, I would keep his secret for him, and use that indiscretion or fault to work out its own correction, and to redeem the young man from its thralldom. I would never give publicity to the boys wrong and in that way harden him or ruin him in reputation. And if the worst should come to the worst. I would quietly and privately request him to be withdrawn. If I cannot benefit the boy, in Gods name, let me not injure him! But in the case of one prosecuted by the class conviction, after the publicity, notoriety and sensation accompanying an investigation of this kind, always places the poor fellow out of the reach of reformatory processes, and puts a brand on him that may last through life nay , that may make a promising life worse than a failure. Falsehood is an excusable thing, but when perpetrated under the force of the over-whelming temptation, it need not be considered an unpardonable sin.
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The Savior did not send Peter to hell when he lied as denying all knowledge of Him and when Abraham the Father of the faithful, prevaricated, God did not with draw from him his gracious promises. I esteem it a fatal loss of opportunity when a public scandal snatches from my kind offices a promising boy whom his Father has confided to my care and culture. And it is a hardship that I keenly feel that a parent is liable to hold me responsible for the horrid system that has worked his sons ruin! But I have no power to forbid a thing that, perhaps has accomplished some (to me, undefinable) good, but which hardly ever fails to work irreparable mischief and wrong.
Before dismissing this topic, I beg to say that, in the narration given above it is not my intention to throw any discredit on the secret societies in the University or to give to the Trustees any occasion to take legislative action against them. These clubs, while possessing in addition mutual insurance features are genuine literary societies, not bands for the purpose of dissipation. They are not simply local organizations, but great confraternities extending all over the country and found in almost every collegiate institution in America. Membership in them is not ephemeral ceasing when the individuals issue from College halls, but is perpetuated by alumni organizations called alumni chapters in regions remote from the Alma Mater,
(681) from which delegates go to meet those from the Colleges in annual national conventions where assemble some of the most distinguished men in all the classes and occupations in the land. It would be less of a blunder for the University to declare war against all the masons and Odd Fellows in America than on all the College Greek Letter Fraternities. We could not exterminate these fraternities if we tried; and the effort to do so would damage us more than them. And if these class adjudications are to continue, the clubs are indispensable; for they serve as break waters to surging excitement sometimes, and furnish protection to individuals accused and aid them in obtaining a fair trial. I give it as my testimony that these clubs have in the main been to me coadjutors in the maintenance of order and quietness in the University.
Charles McDonald Brown Scholarship Fund.
I have the honor of presenting to the Trustees, the names and papers of nineteen (19) young men who are applicants for the appointment under the Brown Fund three from the University and sixteen from various parts of the State. Of these sixteen three apply for the Medical Department, ten for the State College, and
(682) three for Franklin College. The three who apply from the University are at present connected with the Franklin College. Five of the present beneficiaries of the Fund are recommended by the Faculty for graduation this Commencement. I have received no intimation from any of them of an intention to pursue a Post Graduate Course.
Medical Department.
At the Commencement of the Medical Department in March of this year, I conferred the Degree of Doctor of Medicine on thirty four (34) young men. As previously stated, this Department has had an increase of students during the past year.
Branch Colleges. I attended the Commencements, severally of the Branch Colleges at Dahlonega at Thomasville, and at Milledgeville. The papers submitted to my inspection showed that, as usual, the instruction was thorough. I conferred the Degree of Bachelor of Arts on six (6) young men at Dahlonega. Six persons completed the Sophomore course at Milledgeville
three boys and three girls. The Faculty hope that at least two of the boys will report themselves here next. The school at Thomasville has not been so prosperous during the past year as usual but the Trustees believe, and I agree with them, that the
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depression is put temporary. They have nearly completed one of the best school buildings in the State, and have elected an entirely new set of Teachers from the President down, and confidently expect favorable results. So far as I could discover, the entire community are in accord with the Local Board and share with them in the confident expectation of recuperation in the near future. Dahlonega has suffered serious disadvantage during the past year by the death of its President and by the consequent decrease in the corps of Instructors already deficient in number Milledgeville is a magnificent school and has enjoyed during the past year an unusual degree of prosperity.
With the concurrence, and by the advice of your honored President, I did not visit the school at Cuthbert this year.
There were transferred to the University during the past year from Cuthbert two (2), from Thomasville, one from Dahlonega, none and from Milledgeville, none. The letters of transference for the two from Cuthbert were written by ex-President Hunter after the school had dissolved.
The Dormitories
The Dormitories have been filled with students during the year, and the order maintained in them has been
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above the average. These buildings greatly need repair. I know the University is unable to spare all the money necessary to put them in complete repair; but it is my duty
nevertheless, to bring the fact to the notice of your honorable body. In the same way also it is my duty to continually repeat that.
The Campus.
Has never been blessed with a suitable system of Drainage. The consequence is that our walks and drives are hardly ever in a presentable condition for every heavy rain scars them with incipient gullies.
Art Gallery
During the past year our Art Gallery has been enriched by the acquisition of two valuable Portraits one of Dr Henry Hull, former Trustee and Professor of the University presented by his son, a member of your body, and the other of Hon. A. T. McIntyre, presented by himself. Others have promised their portraits which I am constantly expecting to receive. But I greatly deprecate delay. The Portrait is greatly enhanced by the fact that it is the personal gift of the subject of it; and by delay we lost the Portraits thus enhanced of Benj. H. Hill, of Mark A Cooper of Robert Toombs, and of Junius Hillyer. A portrait of himself presented by D.W. Lewis would
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have been greatly prized but I could never induce him to promise me one. The other distinguished men named made me such promise but it cannot now by any possibility be redeemed by them. I earnestly ask the aid of the Board in the effort to obtain portraits of all Trustees living and dead.
Reports of Departments
I have the honor herewith to transmit to your Honorable Body the Report of the Professors of the Law Department and to call your special and favorable attention to the two recommendations they make. I heartily agree with them in the justice and propriety of giving the Law Department a proportionate representation on the stage at commencement.
I have received no Report of the University farm. Prof. White informed me verbally that he had written one, and that he would serve me with it, but up to this time it has not been received by me.
Library Prof. Willcox the Librarian, has made to me the following statement of books added to the Library during the current year. By regular purchase 106
purchase at the sale of the late Gen. Browns library. 267 Public Documents 68 (686)
By presentation 5 Reports: - Smithsonian, Commissioner of Education, Astronomical &c 11. Georgia Reports sent to Library in pursuance of Act of the Georgia Legislature to that effect. 48.
Total 505.
Deaths.
During the past year the Trustees have met with signal loss in the death of Gen. Robt. Toombs, by the profound lawyer and brilliant statesman and of Pres. D. W. Lewis, the able and successful teacher of youth. Two students also died during the year. He brought from home the disease that terminated his life within a few weeks after his admission: the other received a fall which first produced parallysis (sic) of the whole body; and ultimately led to his death, which occurred a few days after.
Recommended for Degrees.
The Faculty recommend for Degrees to your Honorable Body the following named students:
Degree of A.M. (Degree of A.B. continued) John M. Slaton, John D. Carswell, John W. Fain. Will L. Upshaw.
Ebb. P. Upshaw. Degree of C.&M.E. Peyton L. Wade. Marcus B. Bond James J. Gilbert.
Richard D Meader. Degree of A.B. Alfred L. Franklin. William L. Clay. Edgar T. Whatley.
(687) (Degree of A.B. contin.) Degree of B.E. Nathan L. Hutchins. Jr. Marcus B Pond Joseph B. Carter. Cecil H. Willcox Samuel L. Conyers. George N. Wilson William C. Cousins. Walter B. Cook James B. Dudley. Nath. H Ballard Benj. F. Hawkins. Arthur W. Jones Thomas C. Jackson Jacob M. Lutes Degree of B. Ph. Sanders McDaniel Chas. E. Morris Charles S. Mell William L. Clay James W. OKelley. Charles H. Herty. Charles C. Rudicil. Robt. F. Cassells. George C. Selman. Jr. Saml. T Conyers Henry L. Sewell. James P. Shattuck. Peyton H. Snook William E. Wooten.
Degree of B.C.S. John W. Grant George W. Lamar.
Degree of B.A. Will. P. Williams.
Theodore D. Powers Michael. F Ramsey Jas. F. Williams George H. Williamson.
Degree of B.L. Joseph D. Cheney. Eugene M. Mitchell Robt. L. Moye. Robt. L. J. Smith. Frank L. Stone. Frank L. Upson.
J.L. Williams.
C.A. Ward.
The Faculty decline to recommend for Graduations two of the members of the senior Class one because of radical failure the other, though he has made the general average of eighty (80) in the University he has failed to stand pass the preliminary English examination
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after repeated trials. The Faculty have informed him however that whenever he shall have passed said examination they will recommend him for graduation at first opportunity.
The Faculty recommend that in addition that the
Degree of A.M. in Course
Be conferred on Hon Joseph Daniel Pope Law Prof. in South Carolina College, Columbia. Mr. Pope graduated here in the year 1840 consequently long before the adoption and publication of the curriculum of study for the Masters Degree. He has made formal application for the Degree and the Faculty think he is entitled to it. His letter is here with submitted to you.
Mr. J. H. Belcher of Dry Grove, Abbeville Co. South Carolina makes application for the Degree of Bachelor or Arts. I was absent on my visit to Branch Colleges when the Faculty considered his application and I do not know why they declined to decide for or against it. He was a member of the Senior Class that was broken up by the opening year. The faculty make no recommendations to the Board, but advised him to make a personal application to your Honorable Body. His letters are here with submitted.
Attendance of Commencement by Candidates for Degree. It is a growing evil that some candidates for
(689) Degree under one pretext or another, absent themselves from the University on the day of their graduation, leaving a request that their Diplomas be delivered to some persons named; or even omitting to say anything on the subject in advance. The Faculty respectfully request the Board to pass a law making it obligatory on Candidates for Degrees to be present at Commencement to receive their Diplomas in person.
I have the honor to remain, Gentlemen
Your Obt. Servt.
P.H. Mell Chancellor, Un. of Ga.
The special Committee on the powers and duties of the Chancellor report
That by the Code of the State, the Chancellor is clothed with the powers which formerly belonged to the President.
By the action of the Senatus Acedemicus in 1853, a Code of laws was enacted for the Government of the Institutions.
By that Code the government of the College is vested in the President Professors and Tutors, styled the Faculty of Franklin College Chap 1. Sec. 1.
By the seventh section of the same chapter to the President is committed the general superintendance (sic) of the interests and reputation of the Institution.
By the 14th Section of the same chapter it is enacted that Every matter brought before the Faculty shall be decided by votes; and it shall be the privilege of the President of the College when present to vote in all cases that come before the Faculty and also to give a casting vote when otherwise there would be a tie.
By the first Section and succeeding sections of Chap. XII. it is enacted that punishment for all offenses embracing even reprimand, shall be by the Faculty.
So that while the Chancellor is held responsible for by law and by the Board of Trustees and the public for general superintendance (sic) of the interests and reputation of the College he is not authorized to inflict any sort of punishment for misbehavior of any sort by the Students.
Your Committee think that this is all
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wrong and that he who is responsible must have power in the supervision of those interests and that reputation.
We are of the opinion that this Board has the power to amend this enactment of the Senatus Acedemicus of 1853 so as to confer power where responsibility rests.
Therefore, it is hereby enacted by this Board, that complete power is vested in the Chancellor in all disciplinary supervision and punishment for misbehavior and remissness of duty by the Students and shall not be required to consult the Faculty thereon, except at his option unless the offense be such as in his judgement shall amount to serious gravity and raise the issue of expultion (sic) from College.
Provided, nevertheless that it shall be the duty of each member of the Faculty to cooperate with the chancellor in the enforcement of Discipline and each member is especially required to preserve order and enforce discipline in his own department.
James Jackson, Chr.
Ben. C. Yancey
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The Committee on Laws and Discipline respectfully report
1st
In regard to delivery of diplomas
2nd In regard to Law Department. 3rd
to Pro. Whites chair, its official title of Prof. of chemistry and Terrell Professor of Agricultural Chemistry.
Passed Resolved That as recommended by the Chancellor, the Law Department have a proportionate representation on the Stage at Commencement. The number of speakers from this Department to be determined by the Faculty.
Lost Resolved That Diplomas shall be delivered only on Commencement day and then to graduates in persons. If however, any graduate shall be absent, having been previously excused by the Chancellor for providential or other sufficient cause his diploma may on that day be delivered to another for transmission.
Resolved further That Diplomas which are not delivered in consequence of the absence of the graduate on Commencement day, and without his having been excused by the Chancellor, shall not afterwards in any manner be delivered except by direction of the Board of Trustees.
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Passed Resolved That as recommended by the Chancellor the official title of the chair now held by Prof. White, be known as The chair of chemistry and Terrell Professor Agricultural Chemistry.
Resolved That Prof. White be permitted to retain control of the growing crops and the work connected therewith on the experimental farm, in order to complete the experiments now in progress.
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The Hon. Board of Trustees: Gentlemen
The Committee of the local board on 9th inst. visited and inspected the different departments of the Professorships of H.C. White, Charbonnier and Barrow. We noted the improvements that had taken place during the last year by enlarged accommodations for the use of the students in analytical chemistry and noted the neatness and perfect order of the chemical apparatus. By a partition wall another room has been added particularly for the use of the advanced students. This room has desks for 2 additional students. We would respectfully recommend that, the appropriation solicited by Prof. White, of 100$ for the laboratory, to supply reagent bottles, gas burners &c and of $50 to complete equipment of the tool room, be granted also the usual annual appropriations of $100 for material used in illustrating lectures in Industrial Chemistry and Geology.
The apparatus of the Department of Physics is in perfect order. For the additions in this department, we respectfully refer the Board to Prof. Charbonniers report. The Prof. requests $100 for the purchase of a delicate Thermo-Pile and the balance of the said sum to be expended in supplies for the Batteries We recommend it be granted
Resptly Submitted
J.S. Hamilton, Pope Barrow.
A.L. Hull Alex. Erwin.
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To the Trustees;
The Committee on Buildings and Grounds respectfully report that the following expenditures have been made in this department, during the last fiscal year; viz;
Chancellors Dwelling. 48.75
Prof. Willcoxs 129.80
Morriss 32.35
Woodfins 219.85 Chancellors Lecture Room. 27.25
Prof. Morriss 6.10
Whites & Laboratory. 386.40
Moore College 207.60
Library Building 95.25
Ivy 44.00
Chapel. 37.00
Old College Dormitory 100.50
New 45.75

Campus Ball ground, Water pipes & trees 438.75 Closets, Windows Glass and Locks. 65.00 Furniture. 29.50 All other items. 118.63
Total $2,026.48
Following is an estimate for necessary repairs for the next fiscal year;
Prof. Rutherfords Lecture Room. 80.00 Willcoxs 30.00
Morriss Whites Prof. Barrows Lecture Room. and Laborat ory 25.00 179.30 105.00
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Prof. Charbonniers Lecture Room Strahans Recitation Woodfins Lecture RoChancellors Residence. Prof. Willcoxs Residence. Morriss The Two Dormitories Campus and Closets. Incidentals. om. Total 40.00 20.00 75.00 225.00 74.00 140.00 200.00 60.00 200.00 $1,453.80

Your Committee finds that there is no room ready for occupation by the Professor of Agriculture and natural History, to be elected by the Board at this session, as all the rooms in the University are in actual use. A suitable room can, however be fitted up in the third story of the Library Building. This was, in fact, originally used for this purpose department and has upon its walls very valuable diagrams, illustrative of Botany, Zoology and Geology. On this same floor is a small room which can be easily arranged for an office for the Professor.
The cost of making this arrangement is estimated by the inspector of Buildings, as follow:
Ten Benches for Students 50.00 Stand and Table for Professor. 20.00 Blackboards. 50.00 Fitting up office. 50.00 Stoves. 25.00 Folding doors connecting with Museum 125.00
Total $320.00
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In addition to the foregoing items, the Chancellors desires to have the dwelling occupied by him painted, which is estimated to cost $250. And Prof. Woodfin desires to have folding doors and a new stairway erected in the dwelling occupied by him, at an estimated cost of $180.
If the Board should be willing to make these last named improvements, the whole amount needed by this department for the next year, maybe stated as follows:
Lecture Room Prof. of Agriculture 320.00 Sundry Repairs as per foregoing list 1,453.80
(omitted) Painting Chancellors Dwelling 250.00 (omitted) Improvements on Prof. Woodfins dwelling 180.00
Water Rent for the year. 150.00
Total 2,353.80
The sum asked for in the foregoing estimates for the two Dormitories is for ordinary annual repairs, such as white washing, patching the plastering replacing glass and sash broken by students, &c. to make the two buildings really comfortable and presentable would require several thousand dollars.
A large percentage of the amount annually expended for repairs, is for damage carelessly or willfully done by the students. This committee recommened (sic) in its last annual report that some plan should be formulated by the Faculty to prevent this wanton
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injury to the property of the University, and on approval of the Prudential Committee should be put in operation. Nothing has been done however in this direction, and we respectfully repeat this recommendation, for the prevention of an evil which seems to have a tendency to increase rather than diminish.
We transmit herewith the report of the Inspector of Buildings showing the details of the figures given herewith, and in conclusion cannot too highly commend the conscientious and efficient services of that Officer.
Resptly submitted for the Committee
W. W. Thomas Chr.
Resolved That the foregoing report as amended by the Finance adoption of the Finance Coms Report, be adopted.
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To the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia. Your committee on Branch Colleges beg leave to report.
North Ga. A. College Your committee report that the Board can only appropriate two thousand dollars, as per contract to this Institution. That, out of this sum, the salary of its President is to be paid; and the amount of the salary be twelve hundred dollars.
M.G.M. & A. College
And
S.G.A. College
Your committee recommend the appropriations of fifteen hundred dollars for salary of Pres. of S.G.A College and three hundred more to local Board of S.G.A. College, and in the event of any surplus fund to the credit of the Landscript fund, the committee ask that the Board will direct its distribution equally among the other Branch Colleges, provided the aggregate amount appropriated to each College shall not exceed the amount of two thousand dollars; the North G.A. College not being included in this recommendation.
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South West G.A. College At Cuthbert
In reference to this Branch College there exist difficulties and confusion. The Committee Report the facts as comprehended for the Board to settle and determine the legal status between this Branch College and the University.
It appears that at the annual session of the Board, no appropriation was made for this Branch College its consideration being postponed to the adjourned meeting at Atlanta in Oct. last.
That at that meeting one thousand dollars was appropriated conditionally.
That a special committee consisting of the President of the Board and the Prudential Committee at Athens, were empowered to look into the condition of the College, and determine its ability, with the appropriation of one thousand dollars to sustain such a school as was contemplated, in its establishment by the Board: and to pay the appropriation; or not, as might be determined.
It appears, from papers before us, that this special committee determined to appropriate only four hundred dollars to pay the late President Hunters salary up to first of January past when his resignation took effect: and informed the local Board of Trustees that no more of the one thousand dollar appropriation would be paid without the action of the Board of Trustees of the University.
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This last clause necessitates the reference of the matter to the Board, as your committee do not deem it to be in its province to pass upon the legal relations now existing between this Branch College and the University.
Certain correspondence and Resolutions of the Board of Trustees of this Branch College are before your committee. This local Board contending that not with standing the reduction of the appropriations to the sum of one thousands dollars, they could carry on successfully for the Scholastic year.
The special committee had, however these resolutions before them when they acted.
Your committee have derived the foregoing facts from irregular to papers handed, but has no report from the special committee referred to.
Your Committee call the attention of the Board to the fact that the Cuthbert Local Board S.W.G.A. College attention to the contract with this College, and express the opinion that the dilatory action of our Board had embarrassed them; and was injurious to them; and yet, the reduction should not be allowed to impair the permanent usefulness of this Branch College.
Your Committee can only recommend that the Board take considerate action in reference to its relations to this Branch College, so that no impression of want of good faith may be entertained.
(702) There are two claims for salary presented one from the late Pres. Benj. L. Hunter; the other from his assistant teacher Professor H.B. Willcox.
The claim of Mr. Hunter is based upon the allegation of a contract. That he was elected by the Board at the Salary fixed by the Board at twelve hundred and fifty dollars. That he accepted and entered upon the service beginning of 1884, That he was paid regularly at this rate till 1st July 1885. That no reduction of salary was made at the annual session of the Board in July part of the session; that the reduction to one thousand dollars was not made till the October part of the session, after he had entered upon the duties of another Scholastic year. That he is entitled under the existing contract to be paid at the rate of twelve hundred and fifty dollars. Hence he asks to be paid the sum of two hundred and twenty five dollars a balance claimed to be due him, as the Special Committee only paid him four hundred dollars The matter is referred to the decision of the Board.
The other claim is that of Prof. H.R. Willcox. He wants the Board to grant him remuneration for services rendered from Sept 1st 1885 to Jany 1st 1886. Acknowledges his contract was made with the local Board for $700 per year. That he has been paid regularly save from the said term from said 1st Sept. to said 1st Jany 1886 That the contract for said term his pay was to be $350. That said contract was
(703) based on the presumption that this Board would appropriate the sum of two thousand dollars. But as only $1000 was appropriated after the Scholastic year commenced: and his remuneration, in consequence there of, has fallen, far short of the amount named in the contract. How much short is not stated. With the view entertained by this committee that assistant teachers are to be paid by Local Boards of the Branch Colleges, and that this Board is not responsible for such or any other contracts or debts incurred by Local Boards, it has not deemed it Important to ascertain what amount is asked. Your committee report against the allowances of any amount
Resptly Submitted
Messrs McIntyre.
Felton.
Livingston.
Barrow.
McCord.
B.CYancey, Chr.
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To the Board of Trustees Your Committee on Finance report the following assets of the University on July
7th 1886.
1.
The General Fund: Debt of the State of Ga. 8% Obligations of do do 7%

2.
The Terrell Fund: Obligation of the State 7%

3.
The Landscript Fund: Obligations of the State 7% Amt. Held by the Governor.


100,000 18,000 118,000
20,000 20,000
152,000 90,202.17 242,202.17
4.
The Chas. McD. Brown Scholarship Fund: Obligation of the State 7% 50,000 50,000

5.
The Chas. F. McCoy Fund: Registered Bonds of Ga R.R. & Bkg Co. Coupons cut off to 1895. 20,000 20,000

6.
The Geo. R Gilmer Fund: Obligations of the States 7%. 15,000 15,000 Total Assets 465,202.17


(705) The Receipts from all sources for the year ending July 7th 1886.
Cash in Bank July 7th 1885 2,301.68
Interest on General Fund. 9,260
Terrell Fund. 1,400
Landscript Fund. 16,954.15
Gilmer Fund. 997.50
Chas. McDl. Brown Fund. 3,500
Rents 550
Matriculation Fees. 7,840
Library Fees. 920

Appropriation by Legislature for Repairs. 2,500 40,223.33
Expenditures for same period:
Salaries of Officers. 19,050 Branch Colleges. 5,314 Brown Scholarship Fund. 3,509.25 Library Fund. 1,027.98 General Expenses (see report) 5,963.76 Balance viz: Unexpected bal. Library Fund 755.67
Brown 2066.80 General Fund 2535.87 5,358.34 40,223.33
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The condition of each Fund will be seen from the following Statement:
The General & Terrell Fund : To Balance July 7th 1885. 599.86 Interests received 9260 1400 10,660. Legislative Appropriation 2,500 Rents & Matriculation Fees. 2,390 By Salaries 9,250 General Expenses. 4,114.89 Balance 2,784.97
16,149.86 16,149.86
The Landscript Fund: To Interest received. 16,954.15 Bal. Overdrawn. 769.34
By Bal. July 7; 1885. 1,274.62 Salaries [X off to the side] 9,800 General Expenses. 1,848.87 Branch Colleges. 4,800
17,723.49 17,723.49
Brown Scholarship Fund: To Bal. July 7, 1885 2,076.05 Interest received. 3,500
By Payments to Beneficiaries. 3,509.25 Balance. 2,066.80 5,576.05 5,576.05
Library Fund: To Bal. July 7, 1885. 863.65 Fees. [ X off to the side] 920 By Librarian Salary 250 Books purchased. 777.98 Balance. 755.67 1,783.65 1,783.65
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The Gilmer Fund: -Bal. July 7, 1885 36.74 Interests received 997.50 By paid Dahlonega and 514 (Treasurers Expenses) Bal. (due Dahlonega) 520.24
1,034.24 1,034.24
Balance Sheet.
General & Terrell Fund. 2,784.97 Landscript Fund. 769.34 Chas McD. Brown Fund. 2,066.80 Gilmer Fund. 520.24 Library 755.67 Cash in hand. 5,358.34
6,127.68 6,127.68
To meet the requirements of the University as indicated by the reports of the officers and the various Committees of Your Board, we recommend the following appropriations for the ensuing year.
Appropriations for 1886-87.
Salaries of Officers 21,050
Catalogue advertising & Printing. 500
Postage & Stationery 150
Experimental Farm (operating Exp) 500
Chemicals 100

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Fuel 200
Servants 600
Insurance on Buildings 500
Incidental Expenses. 200
Commencement Sermon. 20
Music 125
Medals. 36
Traveling Expenses of Chancellor. 100
Repairs on Buildings & Grounds. 1,850
Water Supply 150
Purchase of New Apparatus. 100
Reagent Bottles for Laboratory. 50

Branch College at Dahlonega. 2,000 Milledgeville 1,500 Thomasville. 1,500
Total Appropriations. 31,231
Librarian to be paid out of Library Fund 250
Proportions of Appropriations recommended chargeable to each Fund:
General & Terrell Funds: Salaries of Officers 9,250 General Expenses. 3,715.50 12,965.50 Landsrip Fund: Branch Colleges. 5,000 Officers Salaries 11,800 General Expenses. 1,465.50 18,265.50 Bal. Due Dahlonega. 520.24
to carry over. 1,698.78 33,450.02
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Estimated Income 1886-87 available for expenses:
Cash in hand 2,535.87
Interest on General Fund. 9,260 Terrell Fund 1,400 Landsrip Fund 16,954.15
Matriculation Fees. 1,700 Rents 550 Interest on Gilmer Fund 1,050
33,450.02
Your Committee recommend that the Treasurer be empowered to borrow sufficient money to meet the demands upon the University until the semi-annual interest shall be paid the amount borrowed not to exceed $5000.
Respectfully Submitted For the Committee
A.L. Hull. Chr.
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The Committee on Chas. McD. Brown Scholarship Fund, respectfully report
No nominations for scholarships have been made by the sons of Senator Brown for the next year. We recommend for scholarships the following applicants:
1st Cong. Dist J.W. Bennett of Wayne Co. 1 R.L. Cox Bryan 2 Wesley Peacock Thomas M.J. Webb Terrell J.E. Twitty Mitchell 4 R.L. Johnson Muscogee W.M. Glass Meriwether 6 Hope C. Polhill 9 M.G. Brown. Milton W.C. Horton Gwinnett
10 H.N. Gallaher Washington W.M. Hawes McDuffie
Should any of the above named fail to attend or fail to exhaust the sum available for the next year, we recommend the vacancies to be filled by the appointment of
8th Cong Dist B.W. Hall. Elbert Co. 5 Maxey R Hall. Gordon Co 9 J.R. Cooper Gwinnett
in the order named. In making these selections the committee gave preference to those applicants who
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were already in the University and then endowed as among those whose general average was up to the standard required to conform to the rule of equalizing as nearly as possible the distribution of the benefits of this fund among the different congressional Districts of the State.
The Treasurer informs the Committee that he has received the sum of five dollars interest on the sum borrowed from this fund, by Mr E.P. Frazier of Oconee County. This is the first sum repaid by any of the beneficiaries and under the terms of the donation must be added to the Principal and when large enough invested.
Alex. L. Erwin Chr.
C.Z. McCord
R.C. Humber
H.W. Grady.
W.WThomas.
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To the Board of Trustees:
Your Committee appointed to audit the accounts of the Treasurer find the following expenditures for the year ending July 7, 1886, each payment accompanied by its proper voucher.
Chas. McD. Brown Scholarship Fund. 3,509.25 Salaries of offices including Librarian. 19,300 Branch Colleges 5,314 Library acct. for books purchased. 777.98 Incidental Expenses. 181.93 Catalogue, advertising & printing. 891 Postage and Stationery 186.99 Commencement Sermon 20
Music 125 Medals 36
Chemicals 100
Fuel 210.70
Repairs of Apparatus 303.35
Buildings 2,108.69

Insurance less repaid by Profs 514.05,42.50 471.55 Water supply 89 Servants 622 117.55 Chancellors travelling expenses 177.55 Experimental Farm. 500
Total Expenditures 34,864.99
All the bonds formerly held by the University have been funded in non transferable 50 year obligations of the State which, together with $2000. Registered Bonds of the Ga RR & the Treasurer now holds.
Resptly Submitted
For the Committee.
A.L. Hull, Chairman.
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(714) Atlanta Ga Nov 11th 1886
The Board of Trustees met in pursuance of an order of The president upon the request of more than the number required by law for an extra session Present Hon J.J. Gresham President
Messrs
Jos E Brown Lamar Cobb
Jos B Cumming W H Felton
R.C. Humber Henry Jackson James Jackson H.V.M Miller Chas Z. McLend H.D. McDaniel
Mr Jas Jackson offered the following resolution which was adopted
Resolved That without binding this Board at all as to their future action disposition of the interest on The Gilmer Fund and without conceding any legal right that for the present scholastic year that the treasurer be directed to pay the interest on that Fund to the Branch College at Dahlonega Ga.
Provided that the sum of Fifty dollars be reserved for administering said Fund.
On motion of Mr Jos E Brown the sum of one hundred and seventy five Dollars was appropriated for necessary repairs on
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the main building at the Experimental Farm.
Mr Cobb offered following resolution which was adopted
Resolved That the Prudential Committee be authorized to pay at the rate of Two Hundred and fifty-Dollars for a Librarian out of the Library Fund
Provided said Librarian shall keep the Library open during the Scholastic hours
On motion of Mr Humber it was Resolved that this Board petition the Legislature for an appropriation of $500000 for repairs to the dormitories in the College Buildings at Athens.
On motion of Mr McDaniel the Secty and Treasurer was directed to be paid the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty dollars for the preperation (sic) of the Alumni Catalogue:
Provided it did not interfere with any other appropriation
By Mr McLend
That it is the sense of this Board that the Act of 1872, in reference to insuring Public Buildings, should be so amended as to include the Buildings and other property of the University of Georgia at Athens On Motion Board adjourned
John J Gresham
President