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PRESENTATION OF FACTS 
 
 IN REFERENCE TO 
 
 The Appropriations Asked For 
 
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 The University of Georgia 
 
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 The Branch Colleges 
 
 1920 
 
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 Atlanta, Ga., July 8, 1920. 
 
 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 As representing the Board of Trustees of the University, the 
 undersigned committee therefrom, charged with the duty of pre- 
 senting to the Legislature the needs of the University, and those 
 of all of the branch colleges, wish to call the attention of your 
 Honorable Body to certain matters, which under the direction of 
 our Board, is made encumbent upon us. Under the law it is made 
 the duty of the Trustees of the University to present what they 
 conceive to be the needs of the University and its branches, since 
 all moneys appropriated for higher education must be made to 
 the Trustees of the University for the use of these University 
 branches. 
 
 The work of these institutions during the past year has been 
 carried on under the new conditions consequent upon the ending 
 of the great war ; economic changes in money value, and the cost 
 of living have been especially onerous upon the students and 
 teaching force of all these colleges; the world wears a new face 
 in all business relations. The management of all the colleges 
 without exception have been hard pressed to carry on their work 
 and hampered by inadequate provisions for maintenance. Your 
 Honorable Body at the last session did the best you could for 
 these institutions, but many contingencies, unexpected and un- 
 foreseen then, have arisen and the Board of Trustees is face to 
 face with resulting conditions. 
 
 THE WORK OF THE SCHOOLS. 
 
 We have not received as yet the census of 1920. It is well to 
 take our bearings and see what has been accomplished in the last 
 decade in Georgia. The census returns of 1910, placed upon this 
 State a great burden from which she has been struggling to free 
 herself. The educators of Georgia have felt the showing charged 
 against our State, and have smarted under it. The census of 
 1910 showed that 20.7 per cent, of the people of Georgia ten 
 years of age and over were illiterate. There were six other 
 States only in the United States that showed a greater per- 
 centage of illiteracy. While Georgia had 20.7 per cent, of her 
 population classed as illiterates, Oregon, Nebraska and Iowa had 
 less than two per cent. More than half the States in the Union 
 showed a percentage of illiteracy less than five per cent, while 
 Georgia's percentage, as has been stated, was 20.7 per cent. It 
 
is easy to say that the colored portion of our population is re- 
 sponsible for this. At the same time, it shows the great work 
 that was put upon our State in the way of the necessity of the 
 education of our people. At that same time, 22.8 per cent, of 
 the voters, that is, males of voting age, were illiterate in Georgia. 
 Georgia had in 1910 of persons over ten years of age, 196,026 
 males who were illiterate ; 193,749 females who were illiterate, or 
 a total of 389,775 illiterates. There were 308,639 of these ne- 
 groes. There were 141,541 persons of voting age that were 
 classd as illiterates. 
 
 We haven't the figures at hand now to show the present con- 
 ditions, but it is upon this great mass of illiteracy that the schools 
 of the State had to work. It can be easily imagined the difficul- 
 ties under which the school work has gone on where they have 
 had to educate the children of illiterates, and endeavor to teach 
 them. The common schools, the high schools and the University 
 in all its branches, have steadily been making inroads upon this 
 great bulk of illiteracy, and we are confident that the present 
 census will show our State up in a much better light. To show 
 the interest that has been aroused in the State to get rid of this 
 condition, in the year 1919 the State raised for public schools 
 more than nine and a quarter millions of dollars, and this, of 
 course, was the work of the aroused public sentiment. The com- 
 mon schools are the basis of our educational system. They 
 ought to be supported to the extent of the State's ability. But 
 comparatively few who succeed in getting through the common 
 schools and high schools are in position to take the advantages 
 offered by the University, but it is absolutely necessary that the 
 State should have an able teaching force — teachers who are able 
 to teach and can give back the State in their work a considera- 
 tion for the money they receive. It is at this point that the 
 great work of the University and its branches comes in ; it is the 
 business of all these schools to furnish teachers for all the schools 
 in the State, both the common schools and the high schools, and 
 these teachers for the common schools should be of high stand- 
 ard and properly trained for the discharge of their duties. 
 
 AS TO THE TEACHERS OF THE STATE. 
 
 The total number of scholars of school age in Georgia in 1919 
 was 840,861 ; the total enrollment was 689,120, and the average 
 attendance was 467,081. The total number of teachers was 15,- 
 753. If we but consider this great army of teachers and measure 
 by experience the number that die or quit this work, either from 
 choice or other circumstances, it cannot fail to be less than ten 
 per cent. Teachers like other people die, and it is reasonable to 
 estimate that a number of these teachers pass out of this work 
 in other ways. In any event, the teaching force must be kept up, 
 and it would be a low estimate to say that from one thousand to 
 fifteen hundred new teachers are needed every year. The State 
 
from all its institutions, at the present rate, cannot hope to fur- 
 nish from the graduates of its institutions properly qualified 
 more than seven or eight hundred as replacements. It can fur- 
 nish comparatively few who have completed a four-year college 
 course to take work as teachers in the high schools. Since the 
 teacher should be thoroughly educated and have the ability to 
 impart the knowledge that is required, it would seem to be the 
 most important consideration of all that the State should so 
 support these institutions that the common schools and the high 
 schools could look to the University and its branches for a first 
 class teaching force. The key to the educational system of Geor- 
 gia is the University — the oldest state University in the Union. 
 This institution occupies the capstone of the State's educational 
 system. Upon its vitality and efficiency the intellectual and ma- 
 terial life of the State is largely dependent. If you should tear 
 the record of the University from the history of the State, if you 
 should remove the influence of those minds trained in the Uni- 
 versitjr, much of the State's history would have to be re-written. 
 In the great war just passed, the University had more than 
 twenty-two hundred of her Alumni in the service. Nearly nine 
 hundred of these served as commissioned officers. This record, 
 based upon the number of students matriculated, is unequaled by 
 any civilian college in the United States. Of these patriotic 
 young Georgians, who in response to the call of duty went across 
 the seas, forty-six of them gave their lives, and hundreds of 
 them came back with honorable scars received in the service of 
 their country. 
 
 INCREASED ATTENDANCE. 
 
 It is a satisfaction to know that the people of the State have 
 awakened to the necessity of higher education. Higher educa- 
 tion means broader thinking, higher aspirations, better living, 
 and happy homes. Ten years ago the University had about three 
 hundred students. During the last session it had in attendance 
 upon the University proper twelve hundred and fifty-eight stu- 
 dents. Most of the lecture rooms are so badly crowded that the 
 best work can be done only at a disadvantage. Practically every 
 building on the campus is in need of equipment and repairs ; the 
 members of the faculty are being tempted into other lines of en- 
 deavor in order to get a living. The most urgent of all needs at 
 this time facing the University is the matter of pay for its 
 faculty. Salaries have increased only about an average of twen- 
 ty-five per cent, in the last thirty years; whereas today living 
 costs are two and one-half times as great as five years ago. This 
 has made it extremely difficult for Chancellor Barrow to main- 
 tain the personnel of the faculty. Since 1918 fifteen out of 
 forty-five of the faculty of Franklin College and State College, 
 and twenty-six out of sixty from the College of Agriculture have 
 resigned. Other members of the faculty may submit resigna- 
 
tions at the end of this term, not because the profession is be- 
 coming any less alluring to them but because they are not paid 
 enough to live. It is impossible to replace these men with men 
 as well qualified for the work on the present salary basis. 
 
 THE NEED OF BUILDINGS. 
 
 The last appropriation for a dormitory on the campus was in 
 1901 — nineteen years ago, for Candler Hall, at which time the 
 student body was about 350 in number. Today there is an at- 
 tendance of about three and one-half times as many. The dormi- 
 tories are crowded three or four men to the room, and Athens 
 cannot offer inexpensive rooming facilities to the students who 
 are anxious to enter. 
 
 Our present Chapel will seat only about half of the students 
 enrolled. The Physics Department has reached the limit of its 
 available space and a new building is needed. 
 
 The Denmark dining room was built in 1901 and will accommo- 
 date 250 students. Today about five times that many are to be 
 fed and a much larger building is required. 
 
 The University has increased in numbers to 1258 students. 
 Most of the lecture rooms are so badly crowded that the work 
 must be done at a great disadvantage. Practically every build- 
 ing on the campus is in sore need of additional equipment and 
 repair. 
 
 There is an item of an appropriation asked for of one hundred 
 thousand dollars for a building for the Department of Physics 
 which is imperative. This is the great Scientific Department 
 and the present building is crowded and inadequate. It is hoped 
 this appropriation can be made. 
 
 THE DORMITORY FOR WOMEN. 
 
 In 1919 female students were admitted to all the departments 
 of the University except Franklin College. This Committee is 
 directed by the Board of Trustees at this time to present to the 
 Legislature a bill allowing them to enter Franklin College. Under 
 the law as it existed when they were admitted it covered all the 
 practical studies followed by the female students. The exclusion 
 of them from Franklin College deprives them of the right to at- 
 tend upon but one or two studies that do not come under the pro- 
 visions of the law under which they were admitted in 1919. Dur- 
 ing the past session there were about one hundred female stu- 
 dents who came to the University for the purpose of taking ad- 
 vantage of the facilities offered them in the higher classes, and 
 which facilities were not offered to them anywhere else in any 
 of the State institutions. These girls came to Athens to pursue 
 their studies and there was no dormitory space for them; they 
 had to seek board as best they could anywhere in the city ; some 
 
of them had to go away for the reason that they could not get 
 accommodations. One of the crying needs of the University 
 today is dormitory space for women. Such a dormitory when 
 erected would be put under the charge of a matron, and these 
 female students would have all the benefits of the care and com- 
 forts of a home life. The Trustees think that the grant of $125,- 
 000.00 asked for for this purpose is a necessity. It is important, 
 further, for the reason that almost without exception these young 
 women are preparing themselves for teaching, and with the facil- 
 ities offered in Peabody School of Education and the other de- 
 partments at Athens, they will have such training and attain to 
 such a standard of scholarship that they will be absolutely free 
 and independent as teachers when they graduate. This is a great 
 field for Georgia. The State has no greater assets than the un- 
 trained minds of its boys and girls. It has nothing that will com- 
 pare with the the enhancement in value as the proper training 
 of these young minds. 
 
 INCREASE IN DORMITORY SPACE FOR THE MALE 
 
 STUDENTS. 
 
 Fifteen years ago the University grounds at Athens consisted 
 of 27 acres. George Foster Peabody inaugurated a movement to 
 expand this campus; he was the greatest donor. He was joined 
 by many public spirited Georgians, largely from the City of 
 Athens, and as a result the University grounds were increased 
 to about 1000 acres, all of which is now the property of the State, 
 without any cost to it. Upon this is now located the Agricultural 
 College, its buildings and farm. The patriotic Georgians who 
 gave this property to the State have paid all of the purchase 
 money but $8,000.00, about which the State need not bother, as 
 it will be paid. Much of this property was city property and 
 had to be bought as such, paying high prices for it. Though 
 bought before the present increase in prices, it cost a great deal 
 of money, but enhanced as it has been of late, it may safely be 
 said to be worth from $800,000.00 to $1,000,000.00. Upon this 
 property is located twenty-eight dwelling houses, which now be- 
 long to the University. These houses are out of repair, they need 
 roofs, and they have all the infirmities of old buildings. It is pro- 
 posed to repair these houses, to preserve them for the State, and 
 to use them to increase the dormitory space for boys. If they 
 were properly repaired it is estimated that possibly 150 boys 
 would find rooming space in them. To leave them alone is to let 
 them go to waste and destruction to the loss of the State. The 
 University buildings upon the campus including the present dor- 
 mitories, the class rooms and the Chapel are old buildings, much 
 scattered, but their replacement would cost the State possibly a 
 million dollars. The Board of Trustees have done the best they 
 could to care for these buildings with what money they had in 
 
hand. They have always insisted upon a proper care of the roofs 
 and the replacement of windows. Inside they need paint and cal- 
 cimining and other repairs in order to make them presentable 
 for the purposes for which they are used. At the last session 
 of the Board the estimated cost of repairs upon these buildings 
 was about $11,000.00, and the Board had only $6,500.00 that it 
 could appropriate for this purpose. There is no school or depart- 
 ment of the University but which is not better supplied with 
 equipment than the class rooms of the University proper. Some 
 of the present equipment has been in use for forty or fifty years. 
 It is antiquated and much of it worn out. 
 
 For the repair of the dwelling houses and buildings upon the 
 University grounds, for the necessary equipment to the class 
 rooms, the Board of Trustees have in their budget asked for ap- 
 propriation in the sum of $25,000.00 to cover these needs. We 
 insist that such appropriation under the facts is absolutely 
 needed, and if it is in the power of the General Assembly to ap- 
 propriate the money for it, it will serve a good purpose. 
 
 ALUMNI HALL. 
 
 About fifteen years ago the Alumni of the University set on 
 foot an undertaking through donations from the Alumni, to build 
 an Alumni Hall. The object of this was to house the athletics, 
 the Y. M. C. A., and build a swimming pool and bath house for 
 the students. This building was started, and the Alumni Asso- 
 ciation raised about $60,000.00 which was spent upon the build- 
 ing. The first story is partially completed. It is found that by 
 the finishing of the upper stories that dormitory space can be 
 had for about 75 students. This undertaking will cover several 
 matters. It would finish the building, which stands as an eye 
 sore in its dilapidated condition upon the campus; it would pre- 
 serve a work and expenditure that has already been made and 
 utilize it ; it would further provide dormitory space for about 75 
 students. 
 
 It is further proposed that this building shall be turned into 
 a memorial building for the Alumni who lost their lives in the 
 late war. Of the 2200 Alumni that went into the service, there 
 were 46 that lost their lives in fighting for their country. It is 
 proposed in this building to place proper memorial tablets so that 
 the patriotism of these young Georgians may be perpetuated and 
 may live as an inspiration for the future students of the Uni- 
 versity at all times. This would seem to be a proposition of 
 economy for the University ; it has this unfinished building upon 
 its hands, and to appropriate the "$75,000.00 asked for the com- 
 pletion of the building would serve all the purposes hereinbefore 
 indicated. 
 
THE SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY. 
 
 This is a great school. It has had a wonderful development, 
 and as it stands today it is an institution of which the State of 
 Georgia should be proud. It has made for itself a national repu- 
 tation in the field of technical and scientific training. There is 
 no other school like it in the south, and it ranks with the first 
 schools of its kind in the United States. It has done much for 
 Georgia and its future permits more and greater results. 
 
 Former Governor N. E. Harris, then a member of the Legisla- 
 ture from Bibb County, conceived the idea of establishing this 
 institution and he is the founder of it. He was able to see fur- 
 ther and more clearly into the future than any other Georgian as 
 to its possibilities, and help in the development of our State. 
 What he visioned then is a reality today. Since it was estab- 
 lished he has been the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and 
 the school has had his help and fostering care. This work of his, 
 if for no other reason, should enroll his name forever among the 
 list of great Georgians. 
 
 The Board of Trustees were fortunate in placing at the head 
 of this institution Dr. K. G. Matheson, a man who has grown into 
 and become a part of the Tech. In the administration of its 
 affairs, he has done more than any one else; he has seen the 
 needs of the school from time to time and has tried to meet them. 
 He has plead and begged for Tech ; he has secured as donations 
 for the school the greater part of its equipment, which is now the 
 property of the State; his efforts have been untiring, and they 
 have met with great success. It would be a revelation for the 
 Members of the General Assembly if they would visit this school 
 and see the great plant that is there, which is now offering tech- 
 nical and scientific training to the young men of Georgia. This 
 equipment includes almost everything that the great schools of 
 the East have in States where they are not hampered for want 
 of money. It is a great achievement on the part of Dr. Matheson 
 to have gotten together this great plant with so little cost to the 
 State. 
 
 The enrollment at Tech during the last session was about 1500 
 students. This is about three times as many as it had ten years 
 ago. The prospects are that the attendance will be much larger 
 during the next session. It requires a large teaching force of 
 trained scientists to carry on the work at this school. Never in 
 the history of this country have trained technical men been in 
 such demand. These professors are offered in many directions 
 from two to three times the pay they receive now to get them 
 away from this school. There is only one way to keep them, and 
 that is to pay them enough money to induce them to remain. 
 The great complaint with them is the high cost of living, and it 
 is hoped that by a reasonable increase of their salaries they can 
 be induced to remain instead of leaving their chosen life work of 
 
teaching. The Trustees of that school have found that it is ab- 
 solutely necessary that they have an additional appropriation for 
 maintenance of $125,000.00. The State should see to it that this 
 school should maintain its high standard of working efficiency, 
 and any amount of money necessary for this purpose would be 
 well spent by the State. Our future development depends upon 
 trained technical men, just such as' the School of Technology 
 trains and graduates ; men able to run our cotton factories ; men 
 able to manage and run our electric light plants ; men able as en- 
 gineers to lay out and construct the future railroads needed in 
 our State ; men that have the training and ability to develop our 
 water powers and our mineral resources. 
 
 EXCERPT FROM PRESIDENT MATHESON'S ANNUAL 
 
 REPORT. 
 
 Here as under the heading of "Tech's Needs" I must stress 
 with all the emphasis possible the absolute and immediate need 
 of substantially increasing faculty salaries. The time has come 
 when the issue is clear-cut and must be met if the school is to 
 continue to operate. To be explicit over thirty-five faculty va- 
 cancies have to be supplied for the work of next year. The Pres- 
 ident has visited in person, or has corresponded with most of the 
 leading colleges and universities of the North and Middle West 
 in an earnest effort to secure qualified teachers for next session. 
 In addition, he, with the Heads of all Departments, has made 
 every conceivable effort to supply the vacancies referred to. It is 
 a matter of regret and supreme concern, however, that over 
 twenty-five vacancies still remain to be filled, and scarcely a day 
 passes that some teacher does not resign in order to accept a 
 more lucrative position elsewhere. Young men are no longer en- 
 tering the teaching profession and scientifically trained men es- 
 pecially are in such remunerative demand by industrial corpora- 
 tions that qualified teachers of engineering are being reduced to 
 a negligible number. The people of the State have no real ap- 
 preciation of alarming present conditions and unless substantial 
 salary increases be authorized immediately either operation of 
 the school must cease, or its standards be lowered to mediocrity 
 by an inferior teaching force. In giving publicity to this true 
 and alarming status my responsibility ceases, and that of the 
 Legislature to the people of Georgia begins. I am only emphasiz- 
 ing prophecies which I have constantly made during the past 
 two years, and which have now reached the climax of disastrous 
 fulfillment. Either more and better pay for teachers immedi- 
 ately or no teachers worth while is the epitome of present condi- 
 tions. What will the Legislature do ? 
 
EXCERPT FROM THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT. 
 
 Needs. 
 
 First, the vital need is an adequate increase in appropriation 
 for maintenance, which will hold and secure qualified teachers. 
 This has already been mentioned, but it cannot be over-empha- 
 sized. As stated in my report of last year the School's pre-war 
 maintenance appropriation was $100,000.00, when the school had 
 enrolled 724 students, and the value of a dollar was normal. Now 
 the enrollment of regular students is nearly 1,500 and the value 
 of a dollar has been cut in two. In order to operate therefore 
 with any degree of efficiency the appropriation for maintenance 
 must be at least doubled, and I strongly recommend that the 
 Board petition the next Legislature to this effect. I regret to 
 record for the first time in the fifteen years of my administra- 
 tion a deficit has been incurred despite the stringent economy 
 that has been practiced. The deficit would have been much 
 larger had not the President used every available source of in- 
 come from the special departments established and had he not by 
 personal effort secured donations from private and public sources 
 other than the state. 
 
 Second ; as already indicated, all of the buildings should be ren- 
 ovated. This has not been done for years and the buildings gen- 
 erally are not in good condition. 
 
 Third ; the War Department has served notice upon the School 
 that the valuable military equipment sent us must be properly 
 housed. Much of this equipment is now actually exposed to the 
 weather and the Department has submitted plans for a necessary 
 building to cost approximately $10,000.00. 
 
 Fourth; I must report with a feeling akin to humiliation that 
 the School has been financially unable to install the magnificent 
 donation of electrical equipment made by the Westinghouse Co. 
 This equipment is now in the new Power House crated and the 
 students are thus being deprived of the great engineering ben- 
 efits which its installation will give. Should this installation be 
 much longer deferred the donation will be withdrawn, and I 
 therefore most earnestly recommend that sufficient appropria- 
 tion be made to install the equipment promptly. 
 
 Fifth ; I again recommend that an expert appraisal be made of 
 the buildings, grounds and equipment of the School. As no such 
 appraisal has ever been made further commend is unnecessary. 
 
 NEEDS OF THE GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE OF 
 AGRICULTURE. 
 
 1. Increased Emergency Maintenance Appropriation — $20,000.00 
 For Each of the Years 1920 and 1921. 
 
 There have been twenty-eight resignations in the resident 
 staff of the College since July 1, 1919. Others are certain to 
 follow. This represents a change of one-third in the personnel 
 of the institution within twelve months. The increase in the 
 
salaries of those resigning over what the College was able to pay 
 them amounts to approximately $25,000.00. It is impossible to 
 fill many of the positions made vacant at the old salaries. Even 
 members of the present graduating class will not accept posi- 
 tions as instructors at a salary which the Trustees are able to 
 offer. The high character and efficiency of the work done by the 
 institution is therefore in jeopardy, and the maintenance of ade- 
 quate courses of instruction rendered well-nigh impossible. In 
 view of the present high living costs, common justice demands 
 that the salaries of the younger members of the staff in par- 
 ticular be substantially increased. 
 
 The cost of common labor for the care of the buildings and 
 grounds has doubled, and in some instances, trebled in the past 
 two years. Coal which formerly cost at the mines 95 cents a ton 
 is now costing $7.00. Laboratory supplies and material of every 
 kind and description have advanced in like proportion. It is thus 
 apparent that the increase asked for is as conservative a request 
 as could be made, and unless relief is afforded along the lines in- 
 dicated, the institution will either have to withdraw certain fun- 
 damental courses of instruction, limit its sphere of service and 
 activity materially, or face a heavy indebtedness which the con- 
 stitution of the State forbids. We can only appeal as a state 
 institution to the General Assembly of Georgia for relief. The 
 Trustees, therefore, have prepared this memorial to the end that 
 you might be acquainted with the essential facts, and through 
 legislative action this summer make immediately available an 
 increase in the maintenance fund of the institution of $20,000.00 
 for the year 1920. It is, of course, just as essential that the same 
 increase be made available for the year 1921. 
 
 2. Completion of Animal Husbandry Building— $100,000.00. 
 
 A request of $50,000.00 for this purpose is already of file with 
 the legislature. It is needless to point out that the structure 
 could have been built for this sum at one time. Building costs 
 have more than doubled recently, so that the request now made 
 for $100,000.00 for the purpose indicated is very conservative. 
 The General Assembly of Georgia has already appropriated $10,- 
 000.00 with which to begin this structure. This has been spent 
 putting in the foundation and erecting the necessary frame work 
 thereon. Georgia has more than $200,000,000.00 invested in live 
 stock and derives an annual revenue therefrom of at least $125,- 
 000,000.00. It is the industry upon which the fundamental pros- 
 perity of the state rests in the future. It is the one means of 
 combatting and overcoming the depredations of the boll weevil 
 successfully. The success of the live stock industries in many 
 northern states is based primarily on the character of the in- 
 struction offered the farmers and their sons through the me- 
 dium of their agricultural colleges. Several southern states al- 
 ready have facilities for instruction in animal husbandry sur- 
 passing those available in Georgia. The College of Agriculture 
 
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at Athens at this time has no building or equipment for this pur- 
 pose. The enrollment in the long courses the past year was 529, 
 and in the short courses, 518. There were over 1000 students on 
 the grounds anxious to secure the benefits of training which the 
 completion of this building will afford. The growth of the insti- 
 tution is such that laboratories, class rooms, and offices are not 
 available in which to house and care for the needs of the present 
 student body. 
 
 In addition, the Federal Board for Vocational Education is ask- 
 ing the institution to take over the training of 500 wounded Geor- 
 gia soldiers who fought on every battlefield in France and freely 
 shed their blood for the perpetuation throughout the world of 
 liberty and freedom. Unless this building is completed, provis- 
 ion for the training of these men can not be made. The United 
 States government provides for their maintenance, and is asking 
 institutions such as the State College of Agriculture to afford 
 these heroes of the great World War an opportunity to prepare 
 themselves for adequate service in civil life. A duty, responsi- 
 bility and privilege therefore devolve upon the people of Georgia 
 in this respect, and the Trustees feel that if the members of the 
 General Assembly understand and realize the situation as ex- 
 pressed above, they will gladly appropriate the funds needed for 
 the immediate completion of this essential unit of the College 
 plant. 
 
 3. Installation of Adequate Fire Protection System — $25,000.00. 
 Fire Marshall of Georgia, Mr. W. R. Joyner, visited the Col- 
 lege of Agriculture last fall and stated that the present fire pro- 
 tection system was totally inadequate, and recommended the im- 
 mediate installation of an eight-inch high pressure main on the 
 grounds so connected with the city system as to insure a proper 
 circulation of water at all times. This and other changes to 
 meet the requirements of the situation which expert engineers 
 advise as necessary will cost approximately $25,000.00, in view 
 of the high cost of labor and materials involved. Coming from 
 so competent an authority and being presented to the Trustees in 
 an official manner, we feel that we would be recreant to a trust 
 and a duty if we did not call this matter to your attention and 
 ask for the appropriation of the sum of money indicated to be 
 used for the purpose mentioned. We have now a dormitory for 
 women on our grounds and a group of buildings which represent 
 an investment of several hundred thousand dollars. The equip- 
 ment in these buildings is costly and would be difficult to replace. 
 
 4. Purchase of Tract of Land Now Occupied by Negroes — $25,000. 
 
 This land adjoins the College campus and is immediately in 
 the rear of the new Womans Building. The attention of the leg- 
 islature has been directed for several years past to the necessity 
 of granting the Trustees the authority to condemn this property 
 and provide the funds for its purchase. It has always consti- 
 
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tuted a menace, as many of the students as well as some of the 
 men and women employed by the College have to travel through 
 this section going to and from their work. Its closeness to the 
 new Womans Building now makes its purchase an imperative 
 matter. The Trustees feel that the responsibility resting upon 
 them relative to this matter is of such nature as to fully justify 
 them in asking for the authority to condemn the land in question 
 and to provide the funds indicated for its immediate purchase 
 for the reasons assigned above. 
 
 THE GEORGIA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. 
 
 This College is located at Milledgeville. It is doing a great 
 work and has a great future before it. For the reasons assigned 
 for increased maintenance in all the other schools, the Directors 
 of this institution ask for an increased maintenance fund of $20,- 
 000.00 and $5,000.00 for an auditorium and $5,000.00 for paving 
 and repairs. There is at the present time a bill before the Legis- 
 lature asking for another dormitory which is sadly needed. 
 
 The auditorium is specially needed for the reason that the 
 College has no place in which all of the students can assemble. 
 The present auditorium is in an upper story of one of the college 
 buildings, and it is small, and besides, the students have to climb 
 steps in order to get to it. This is a matter that is specially im- 
 portant. 
 
 During the last commencement, the grounds and sidewalks 
 during the rainy season were soggy and muddy, and it was only 
 with difficulty that the students could go from one building to 
 another, on account of the condition of the passways. The Di- 
 rectors of that institution wish to attempt to remedy this, and 
 for this reason have asked for an appropriation of $5,000.00 to 
 be used for this purpose, and also for the purpose of repairing 
 the present buildings. It is to be hoped that with this amount 
 of money the proper pavement can be put down and the neces- 
 sary repairs be made. 
 
 The Georgia Normal and Industrial College is a great college. 
 It has a large attendance and is doing a great work. It is a large 
 institution and teaching force, and the Legislature may be sure 
 that whatever money is appropriated for its use will do great 
 good. 
 
 THE BOWDEN NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. 
 
 This is the youngest branch college of the University. The 
 present Legislature during the session of 1919 established it. It 
 is located at Bowden, in Carroll County, in one of the most pros- 
 perous sections of the State. Previous to its establishment the 
 State had no branch college in this section, and such an institu- 
 tion was much needed. It is proposed to start its college work 
 this next September, and up to this time about 200 pupils, boys 
 and girls, have been enrolled to enter it as students. The sum of 
 
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$20,000.00 is asked for maintenance, which would seem to be a 
 reasonable sum, and also the sum of $50,000.00 for the building 
 of a dormitory. The buildings and grounds of Bowden College 
 were made over to the State by the Trustees of Bowden College, 
 and these buildings and grounds are now the property of the 
 State. As a practical proposition, it is possibly cheaper to edu- 
 cate students at Bowden than at any of the older institutions for 
 the reason that the State would be called upon to appropriate less 
 money. If the 200 girls and boys who desire to enter Bowden 
 College are to be educated by the State, it would require increased 
 appropriations for other institutions in order to accommodate 
 them, but having located this branch college at Bowden in a 
 splendid agricultural section of the State, doubtless board and 
 cost of attendance upon the college would be less there than any- 
 where else. The State is as much interested in the education of the 
 boy and girl in one section of the State as in another ; is as much 
 interested in educating the students that desire to go to Bowden 
 College as those that wish to go elsewhere. 
 
 We wish to impress upon the Legislature especially the claims 
 of Bowden College to these appropriations, and we hope and trust 
 that it may in its wisdom be able to give this help. 
 
 THE STATE NORMAL COLLEGE. 
 
 The great work being done by the State Normal College is the 
 training and furnishing of teachers for the State. The students 
 that go there go especially to be trained as teachers, and the 
 work of the college is directed to that end. All of the schools 
 that the State has for the teaching of teachers cannot turn out 
 enough to keep pace with the loss from the teaching force from 
 death and circumstantial reasons that cause teachers to leave 
 their profession and assume other relations. This school asks 
 for an appropriation of $30,000.00 for increased maintenance, 
 caused by the increase in attendance and the necessity for pay- 
 ing greater salaries to its teachers. The arguments that obtain 
 everywhere apply here. For the want of money, Dr. Pound, the 
 President of the institution, has had a hard time to keep his 
 teaching force together. 
 
 This institution also asks for $100,000.00 for the building of a 
 new dormitory and laundry. Both of these things are needed, 
 and it would enable the school to reduce the laundry cost to its 
 students. 
 
 The work at the State Normal School is thorough. Teachers 
 who take the full course there are equipped to teach in any of 
 our schools. They graduated from that school this year more 
 than 150 students who had taken a full four-years course. These 
 graduates will be a great help to the State in schools where thor- 
 ough training and efficient teachers are needed. 
 
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THE NORTH GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
 
 The North Georgia Agricultural College is located at Dahlon- 
 ega. It asks this year $50,000.00 for a dormitory and also an in- 
 creased appropriation for maintenance of $5,000.00. This col- 
 lege is located in the northeastern part of the State, it is a splen- 
 did institution and has been and is doing a great work. In the 
 past it has not cost the State much money. There was a small 
 appropriation nearly ten years ago for a building, and since then 
 it has had no help in the way of appropriations for buildings. It 
 has long needed this dormitory, and a class room building com- 
 bined in one. It has needed them all the while and they are 
 needed today worse than ever. This college should not be dwarfed 
 any longer, but should be put in position to offer to the people 
 of that section and the State adequate facilities for the educa- 
 tion of the young. 
 
 THE SOUTH GEORGIA NORMAL COLLEGE. 
 
 This college is located at Valdosta, Georgia, and is a compara- 
 tively young institution. Its work has been successful and 
 through the able management of its Trustees and the successful 
 conduct of its officers by the President, Mr. R. H. Powell, who 
 has been in charge from the founding of the institution, and the 
 work of its faculty, it has made a good showing. It has grown 
 enormously and the curriculum and character of the teaching 
 given in that College is not surpassed by any other school in the 
 University system. Being located in South Georgia and far 
 away from any other branch of the University, it should have 
 the special care and support of the Legislature. The people of 
 South Georgia have supported the University in all of its 
 branches for a long number of years previous to the establish- 
 ment of this college. 
 
 It asks for an increased appropriation for maintenance of $5,- 
 000.00 and $75,000.00 for the completion and equipment of a 
 building now in course of construction. These appropriations are 
 asked for on account of the increased cost of teaching force and 
 of material for construction. 
 
 Located as it is in that section of our State, and having the 
 great field it has before it, together with an almost unlimited 
 amount of material that desires to enter that institution, no other 
 school in the University system has more equitable claim to the 
 generous support from the Legislature. 
 
 THE CHANCELLOR. 
 
 The Chancellor is the chief executive officer of the University 
 system. Dr. D. C. Barrow has held this office for a long time. 
 Backed by an ancestry that goes back to the Colonial days, he 
 was born a Georgian and is proud of it. He graduated from the 
 University with the highest class standing; he was a model stu- 
 dent. He was called to the Chair of Mathematics in the Uni- 
 
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versity, and taught as Professor in that Department for a long 
 time until he was elected Chancellor. His administration has 
 been successful, and his relations with the different branch col- 
 leges have been pleasant and helpful. It was largely his work 
 that the extension of the campus was made, expanding it from 
 27 acres to about 1000, without any cost to the State ; it was he, 
 through his influence in getting donations and giving his own 
 time and money that secured for the University and the State 
 the present commodious law building, which was so much needed. 
 It might be remarked here that the law department is the only 
 department of the University that is self-sustaining through fees 
 from the students, and which department is run and managed 
 without cost to the State. From his long connection with the 
 University, no man knows more of its history, its genius, and its 
 traditions than the Chancellor. He is loved and appreciated by 
 the student body, and by every one connected with the system. 
 He is kind and considerate, yet firm in the face of necessity ; he is 
 a father and friend and counsellor to every student ; a successful 
 business man, trained and practical. He has the administration 
 of the financial affairs of the University. Not a dollar appro- 
 priated by the State for the use of the University ever failed to 
 reach its destined purpose. His influence upon the students for 
 good has been great; the discipline has been all that could be 
 wished. Through his influence every student during the last 
 session has been in some way connected with church work. 
 
 A born teacher, he is ever upon the alert as to the work done 
 in the different departments, and insists upon the highest stand- 
 ard. The Trustees would offer his attainments and accomplish- 
 ments, his life and character as an inspiration to every young 
 Gerogian who would fill out to the full measure a life of useful- 
 ness. 
 
 It would be a pleasure here to refer individually to the work of 
 the heads of the University branch colleges, and the teaching 
 force throughout the system. Under the past economic changes 
 and untoward circumstances, these men have worked hard and 
 heroically at their tasks. During the war, when heavy burdens 
 were placed upon them, they worked with renewed energy, and 
 great credit should be given them for the showing Georgia made 
 on her part in the great struggle. The record does not show in 
 their ranks a single laggard in his work. Loyal and patriotic, 
 they enthused proper spirit into the students, and the cause and 
 claims of higher education with all its imports can be safely en- 
 trusted in their different fields to their care. 
 
 There are items under the heads of the different Branch Col- 
 leges for increased maintenance. The University proper has an 
 item of twenty-five thousand dollars asked for to hold its teach- 
 ing force together. Most of these professors have been with the 
 University for a long while and for them to part company with 
 the institution would be like beginning life anew both on the part 
 
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of the men and the University. We have lost many men already 
 and we cannot afford to lose any more of these tried and faithful 
 officers. When changed conditions and the increased attendance 
 are considered along with the additional work put upon them, 
 there would seem to be no reason why this should not be granted. 
 
 It may be said that higher education costs money. There are 
 few things that are worth while that can be had for nothing. 
 Our churches and Sunday schools cost money, but who would 
 shut them up because we must contribute to their support. It is 
 a privilege to help them, and we think the world would be as dark 
 and cheerless without them as without the sun : so to cripple our 
 educational institutions for lack of help would be to usher in a 
 future dark and fraught with impending ruin and disaster to the 
 interests of our people and Georgia might descend even lower in 
 her educational standing when compared with the other States 
 of this Union. 
 
 Georgia is not poor. Last year she paid about forty millions 
 of dollars as taxes into the Federal Treasury. This money was 
 hard to pay but much of it came as a result of the progress she 
 has made in scientific education; from her improved farming, 
 from her manufactories and from the development of her natural 
 resources. Yet she has just started upon the great future that 
 lies before her. With a population now of three millions, she 
 would have twenty millions if she were as thickly populated as 
 Germany; she would have twenty-five millions if her population 
 was as dense as that of Belgium. The largest State in area East 
 of the Mississippi river, she has the greatest diversity of cli- 
 mate, soil and products of all the States. In 1785 our forefathers 
 founded the University and since then Georgians have kept the 
 faith; through Civil War and dark days of oppression the Uni- 
 versity has existed and expanded and beat time for the progress 
 of our State. The foundation was laid broad as shown by its 
 original charter ; its founders intended it should grow great nour- 
 ished by the love and affection of all the poeple. In this spirit 
 with our endeavor let us so give it to posterity. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 GEO. F. GOBER, Chairman, 
 W. E. SIMMONS, 
 BYRON BOWER, 
 HUGH J. ROWE, 
 J. E. HAYES, 
 R. B. RUSSELL, 
 L. G. HARDMAN. 
 
 Committee on Legislation of Board of 
 Trustees of the University of Georgia. 
 
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