The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-18
G8ORGIA's UNIVERSITY.
Report of the Board of Visitors to the
Governor.

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ATLANTA, Ga, June lin its report to
the governor, made this afternoon, the
board Of visitors TO the state university, in
addition TO other important recommends
tions, recommends that women be admitted
10 the university. The report says, after a
preliminary review and compliment to the
| students:
! The number of students now in actual attend
ance is 173. OF these more than half are sons
of farmers, while three fourths of the honors
taken were by farmers sons, which shows that
| our agricultural class is the fountain from
which our intellectual vigor is ever replenished.
About forty candidates for entrance into the
! various college classes who failed to show sut-
| ficient preparations in text books were refused
admission while seventeen students, either
from lack of preparation or idleness
! failed to keep pace with the
during the term. These facts, the failure of
the forty pupils to pass satisfactorily the test
examination for entrance and the dismissal of
seventeen students for failure to keep abreast
the class work, made sad commentarY,a sharp
reflection on the secondary schools of Georgia.
NEED FOR GOOD TEACHERS.
The great need OF the state In this matter is a
class of teachers in the private and public
splendid advantages now afforded by the uni
versity. AS only those prepared properly can
now enter the different classes, the entrance ex-
animation questions will hereafter be sent to
the county school commissioner of each county,
who will under the safest prescribed conditions
conduct the examination of applicants and for
ward the answers to the faculty at Athens, who
VIII pass upon them. This will save unneceS-
sary expense and modification TO all applicants
whose preparation is fatally defective.
Only three students have entered the univer-
slty from the branch college, a fact which we
submit without comment.
MORALS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
OF the morals of the university the
visitors speak as follows:
During the entire year among the 200 students
only one personal alteration has occurred.
About one-half of the students are members OF
the church, and they maintain well-appointed
Young Mems Christian Association, with
seventy-hve active members, at whose
weekly prayer meetings there is an
average attendance Of fifty. Tho exercises
here are conducted wholly by students, and it
Is believed that many of those who have Joined
the church during the year have been so in
duced by this Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion.
The evidence was complete, showing that
profanity card playing and the use of to-
bacco were being rapidly discarded by the
students.
THE NORMAL COLLEGE.
The board gives the following informa-
tton in regard to the normal college this
year:
Beginning July is schools in modern Ian
guages aud mathematics will be opened by
members of the faculty. The cost OF board
and fees will be moderate and it is hoped that
many teachers during their vacation will avail
themselves of this opportunity Of adding to
their attachments, and as a consequences to
their salaries.
We visited the Rock College. an excellent and
commOdious structure situated on the electric
car line within ten minutes walk of the campus
IL is here that commissioner Bradwell has or
gained normal school to be open from July
II to Sept IA of this year. A faculty of
Georgia's best teachers has been engaged. Ar
engagements for teachers to live pleasantly in
the Rock college at a cost of So so per
week, and TO board in the city at So to So so
per week have been made and everything pro
vlded for the success of this highly important
work of instructinR our teachers in the most
approved methods To this work the faculty
In the university have generously offered lect
Ures and other assistance. Your board heartily
indorses this normal work and sincerely trusts
1t will prove success.
RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE BOARD.
After recitiug the fact that the state did
not give 81 as an appropriation to the uni
versity last year, the following recommen-
dations was made:
1. That entrance into the medical college and
law department be conditional on the candi
dates passing satisfactorily an examination
at the university
g That the Of department electrical engineer
ing. with professor and all needed appliances,
be established at the university.
8. That new class room furniture be put in the
place of the uncomfortable and diapitated fur
niture now in certain class rooms.
a. That the literary societies be taken in hand
by the faculty. That the society exercises take
the place of the Saturday morning recitations
as now had and not more than eighteen recita-
lions week be required of any student
g. That all students OF the university be re-
quired to wear the uniform OF all times when in
attendance.
g. That women seeking higher education be
admitted as students to the lectures and courses
of study in the university
Z. That three residences be constructed on
the university grounds to be rented by the pro-
fessors, whose constant supervision Of the stu
dents can thus be secured.