The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14
UNIVERSITY or GEORGIA.
Summary of the Annual Report of
Chancellor Boggs.


Athens, Ga, Junea73.-Chancellor Boggs'
annual report to the board of trustees
contains many interesting statements and
recommendations. 1t shows that during
the past year the attendance upon the
University has been $50, an excess of
IA over any previous attendance. Forty
one of these students are lawyers.
The crowded condition of the physical
laboratory is commented on. The report
recommends the full and complete estab-
lishment OF a school of electrical engineer
ing, in charge of Prof. A. II. Patterson.
Chancellor Boggs says II Is Just
question between establishing such
school or letting the young men of Geor-
gia seek their education elsewhere In this
The chemical laboratory is so crowded
for room that two students have to use
one desk and good results cannot be Cd
tanned. Mr.. Homer V. Black Is recon-
mended as fellow" in the department
of chemistry.
Mr.. G. p. Hunt of the graduating class
IS recommended as a tutor IN Latin and
Greek. Chancellor Boggs considers the
Latin and Greek course az the University
now equal to that of the University of
! Virginia. He favors making Greek obli-
gatory on all A. b. students through soph-
omOre year. He recommends the division
of the school of Latin and Greek, so as
to put all Greek students under Prof.
Bocock and all Latin students under Prof.
| Hooper.
HTOI. barrow was cOmpluenIeQ IOF the
work done in the department Of mathe-
MATES. The chancellor recommended the
reappOintment Of Mr.. II. c. Moreno as
tutor in mathematics.
The chancellor recommended that the
| English department be divided into a
school of English literature and rhetoric.
by Or. 3. F. Riley, and school OF
English language and Anglo-Saxon, in
charge Of Prof. John Morris.
An assistant was recommended for DIR.
7 = M
ology, and for Prof. c. p. Wilcox in the
department of modern languages.
Prof. G. NJ. Straton asks for leave of alb
sence for 1881, he TO put professor in his
place He wishes to go to Europe TO COM
plete certain studies. The chancellor re-
commends that architecture be added to
| the engineering course and be made a
special feature.
The agricultural department is pro-
crossing admirably. The winter school of
agriculture and the farmers institutes are
doing good work.
Chancellor Boggs recommends the fill
ing of the chairs of geology and astron-
omy at as early date as possible. He
also asks the appointment of a surgeon
for the university cadets who will pass
on all excuses asked by the boys for
exemption from drill duty.
Compulsory membership in the literary
societies meets the disapproYal of the
chancellor The county school commits
sioners of Georgia are recommended as
eaminers of all applicants for admission
to the university. The college Y NJ C "A
ferences Is made to the donation by Miss
Mitchell, daugter of the late William L.
Mitchell, Of a number Of valuable books
and THE Cartoons Of Raphael"
Chancellor Boggs in his report takes
firm stand in favor of college athletics,
and on that subject says: LAS to the gem
eral subject of college athletics / have
only to say my convictions Of their ability
have been confirmed by further observa-
ton and experience. The demand for
physical culture Is world wide The civ
ilized peoples were all represented at the
recent games in Athens, Greece, and the
space given to the contests by the great
newspapers Of both continents showed
plainly that in the worlds esteem they
took rank along with the Armenian mas
sacres and the movements of Russia on
the Pacific ocean. Men may object, but
the facts remain For me / believe that
there is a Providence behind all this, and
that the outcome will be a higher and
stronger type of physical manhood, to be
in time the projectors Of a finer race of
men and women.
"Some will continue to say, let them
do something practical; let them chop
wood or hoe corn" But everybody who
understands college Ife knows that the
suggestion IS utterly impractical. Coal
has dlsplace wood as fuel. and for the
large portion Of the term time there is no