The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-23
x-RAYs AT THE UNIVERSITY.
The Electrical Department Receives
New Apparatus-Athens Notes.

The Electrical Department Receives
New ApDaratus-Athens Notes.
Athens, Ca. Jan. 22.-The department Of
electrical engineering in the University of
Georgia has just received a number of
new machines to be used in the various
experiments conducted by the students.
and other valuable apparatus is on the
road. Prof A. H. Patterson. who is in
charge of this department., has spent the
800 appropriated by the trustees last
spring to a great advantage. Among
other things secured is a full equipment
Of x-ray apparatus, including the huoro-
scope.
The work done in this department of the
university is of the very highest grade,
and the curriculum is being advanced
steadily. The juniors are this year COW
ering the same ground Travelled over by
the seniors last year Prof. Patterson gets
the student thoroughly grounded in the
principles Of electricity and then gives him
plenty of practical application. 1t Is his
desire to make the practical feature of his
department more thorough than ever next
year, but to do so will require a great deal
of new equipment He estimates that
with $4,000 the best equipped laboratory for
electrical engineering in the south could
be installed, and If the trustees look at
his department as being one of the great
est Importance to the student this new
equipment will be forthcoming.
Or. II. G. White will not organize the
senior science club of the university until
after Feb. !. lie Is now arranging for a
short trip to several counties in Georgia,
where he will establish farmers institutes,
Prof. A. II. Patterson, who was selected
Z TTniyarGffyr Of Of
the installation of the new President of
the Unive: sity of North Carolina, at
Chapel Hill, on the 9th inst, finds it i'm
possible to attend and the University of
Georgia may be without representation
on that occasion.
The spring debates of the literary socie-
ties of the University of Georgia will be
held in February this year, fully two
months earlier than usual.
Charles Johnson, aged 10, died at the
home of his father in East Athens yes
terday.
Fred P. Evans of this city and Miss
Maud Leary of Edwin, Ga, were married
at the home of the brides parents yester-
day.
For the second time within the past
month the store of r. l.. Bramblett was
burglarized Wednesday night. The two
negro burglars were caught by the police
before they could carry the stolen goods
home.
Col. Charles w. Baldwin, chairman of
the Athens dispensary commission, is ill
at his home with the grip.
The state normal school commission
meets in Atlanta the latter part of next
week. 1t is a pretty well settled fact that
the chair of pedagogy, recently made va
cant by the dropping of Prof. Phillips
from the faculty, will be rendered to Prof.
e. c. Branson.
The state normal school will not open
this year the middle of February as has
been the rule. 1t will open March and
will remain in continuous session for forty
weeks. President Bradwell who has just
recovered from a severe attack of rheuma-
tism. reports the outlook very bright for
a large attendance. He receives dozens
of letters each day from teachers living
in all sections of the state inquiring about
the school. majority of those writing
say that they will be on hand on the OPEN
ing day.