The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-21
DR.. B0GGS APPEALS TO BOYS.
TELLs THEM TIE ADVANTAGES
THE UNIVERSITY OFFERS.

They Can Go Through on an Expend-
iture of Less Than 500 "a Year.
Close Intimacy Between Faculty
and students One of the Features
of the Institution which Tells for
the benefit OF the BOys-StrOng
Plea for Attendance at the Home
University.
Chancellor Boggs of the State University.
addressed the boys of ihe High School
| yesterday in the interest of the university.
DR.. Boggs carefully presented the univer-
| sitys claims, pointed out The advantages
it possessed in the way of cheapness.
careful training, varied curriculum and
| high standing, and urged the boys 10 take
advantage of every opportunity to secure
the finest education that lay within their
grasp, seeking to develop to The fullest
the powers with which they have Jeen
gifted.
DR. Boggs stated that boy could at
tend the state university without his eX-
penses for year exceeding 500 and 1t
the same time secure good accommoda-
tons, ample and nutritious food, and be
in excellent position to avail himself TO
the utmost of the advantages offered there
for the requirement of a scholastic or
scientific training The influences sur
rounding the university are of the best,
there is less temptation than at the in
stitutons IN the large centers of popula-
ton. the distraction of the mind from the
| serious purposes for which a boy attends
| college is less, and there is a closen4ss Of
| intimacy between the faculty and the
| students which is productive Of the best
results
DR.. Boggs referred to the duty of every
| boy 10 make himself as close an approach
| 10 a perfect man as lies within his power
| To do this it is necessary that he should
| set the very best education that can be
| brought within his grasp.
Dr. Boggs spoke briefly of the early his
tory of the university, after paying a trib-
ute to the excellence of Mercer and EN-
DRY Colleges While the revolutionary pa
triots of Georgia were lighting for the
liberty of their state and country they
were at the same time planning for a sys-
TEN of education that would develop their
descendants into the highest type of man
hood and citizenship. Ten months and
eight days after the signing of the treaty
of Paris the Georgia legislature endowed
the university. They had not gold TO give,
but they gave literally of the best they
had. Forty thousand acres Of the finest
virgin land of the state was dedicated to
the proposed institution. When IL opened
it's doors, in log cabin, in 1901, five Geor-
gia boys were present, each Of whom dis
tfnguished himself in after life. 1t has
been characteristic of the University of
Georgia that it has furnished TO the state
and nation many of its noblest-hearted,
most patriotic and best endowed men. Ev-
cry class that had gone out had in some
way cast new luster on their alma mater,
and been of grand service to the common
wealth and the nation.
The same general lines of study. he said |
are followed at Athens as at other lead |
ing colleges and universities with the ad-
ditional benefit that il adapts its lines of
study, as far as possible, to the condi-
lions of the youth OF Georgia, ere they
can find all the branches of study and it
is Just as good for the UNDERGRADUATE stu
dent as the better known institutions else
where one tremendous advantage its
students enjoyed Dr. Boggs said, was that
whereas in the great moneyed institutions
the men of vast intellectual power and
training who have been engaged as pro-
fessors, do very little, if any teaching,
giving themselves largely to the making
of books. tutors doing nearly all of the
drill work just at the time when young
men most need contact with the best
trained minds and finest developed char
acters: at Athens. on the contrary, there
is the daily contact of the faculty and
the students che development of the feel
ing of personal friendship, and confidence
and mutual esteem between teacher and
pupil that tells for so much In the prepa-
ration OF an all-round man for the work
of life. At Athens the central thought is
90 develop every one of the faculties with
which nature has endowed man, and at
the same time give widest scope TO those
special talents or preferences by which ma
ture distinguishes one man from another
For those born with special aptitude for
languages and literature there is offered
the curriculum of the Bachelor of Arts,
two-thirds study in languages and htera-
ture and one-third in the sciences and
mathematics. while for those who prefer
il there is the scientific course in which
the conditions are reversed.
Boys, before entering on any profession
al course. Dr. Boggs held, should have a
general training to develop the mind. Ger
many. the leader in industrial and scien-
tifc education would not receive into her
technical manual training schools BOYS
who have not had a liberal general edu-
cation. That country does moi want to pro-
duce narrow-minded men for The great in
dustries. 1t wants them broad of compre-
hension as wen as drilled in the details of
their business. Before coming to Athens,
he accordingly maintained, the boy should
have received this foundation for his work.
DR. Bocgs expressed the belief that il was
inadvisable for boys to enter college be-
fore they are II years of age. Until then
they should avail themselves of the insti
tutions at home and remain where their
character viii he moulded by home influ-
ences, where they can have the advice.
encouragement sympathy of their parents
and family Education, he pointed out,
is not merely mental training. 1t is to
make the mind, heart, conscience, WIFI
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