The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-10
MATTERS AT THE UNIVERSITY.
Peabody Library Building to be Be
gun at Once.

feADOuy Library butldtnH TO De ne
gun at Once.
Athens. Ga, Feb. 9.-Chancellor Hill
has addressed a note to Mr.. HARRISON
Bleckley, the Atlanta architect who
furnishes the plans for the new Pea
body literary building on the campus,
informing him that the university au-
thorities are now ready to proceed so
soon as he may be able to furnish the
necessary specifications.
1t was Mr.. Peabody's desire that the
new literary building be completed by
next commencement, but il has been
found to be impossible to complete the
building by next September, and con-
sequently Jan. /, 1904. has been set as
the date upon which the new literary
building is to be turned over to the uni
versity authorities ready for use.
Mr.. Bleckley has just returned from
New York and other points. where at
the suggestion of Mr.. Peabody, he Wis
tied a number of the large literary
buildings and took notice of the differ
ent points of advantage i'm each. II has
not yet been decided what material is
to be used in the construction of the
new building. Georgia marble was sug-
gested but it would be impossible to
use IildI IIldtFflhI anu tOUlt WtlnlH lnt
$50 900 so generously given by Mr.. Pea
body The structure will, in all prob
ability be of brick with elaborate stone
trimmings. The color of the brick to be
used has not been decided upon.
The university authorities are now
looking out for trained librarian and
for one who can catalogue the library
properly. These positions will he filled
at the session of the board of trustees
next month. at which time there will
also be elected professor of psychol-
ogy any a state agent.
Work will be started on the three
story addition to the old library build
ing within the next few weeks. This
new building, when completed, is to be
used for recitation rooms and one of
the buildings now used for recitation
rooms will be converted into a dormi-
tory.
Last week the university was visited
by Hon. Edward Mead. a specialist for
the United States Department of Agri-
culture. who is paying attention just
now to the subject of irrigation and
drainage of lands. 1t is now being
claimed that irrigatnon can be as sue
cessfully employed in Georgia as in the
West. In fact. Messrs. S. G. McLen-
don of Thomasville and Hamilton Yam
cey of Rome have conducted expert
menus on large scale in this line and
have succeeded. These two gentlemen
are graduates of the University Of
Georgia, but not of the Agricultural
Department. yet they have by applying
their knowledge gained here, accom-
plished much for agriculture in the
state.
Mr.. Mead and Charles NJ. Strachan,
of the Department of Engineering.
have gone to Griffin where still further
investigations viii be made The con-
tention seems to be very we'll sustain
ed that such work greatly benefits the
land and causes 1t to become very
much more productive.
Considerable interest is being mani
tested in the two $50 prizes offered by
Judge Horace Russell, of New York,
for the two best essays in Ethics and
Psychology by the students in the
Hill has announced as his subject
'"The Morel Test of the Rhodes
Scholarship" Prof. Bond is to an
nounce his subject later. The contest
promises to be an interesting one. All
papers must be handed in by May Is.
Mr.. Edgar Gordon Murphy of Ala
bama, executive secretary of the
Southern Education Board, will ad-
dress t g university students some
time next month.
Thursday morning in the uni
versity chapel, Mr.. A. L. Hill will
deliver the address on Georgia Day.
He will speak of the life of William
H. CraW ford. the great Georgian of
the early days of the state.