The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-18
AT THE UNIVERSITY.
Law school Opened With Fine Pros
pects-Other Matters.

Law school Opened With Fine Pros
pects-Other Matters.
Athens, Ga. Sept. 1.-THE university
law school had a splendid opening yes
terday There We're present when the
registry book was opened twenty-one
students. which is considered a splen-
did opening attendance. Last year
there were less than that number pres
ent the first day. During the next
few days a number of law students
will register and the class for the year
will be beyond its predecessors. For
the present the law class will occupy
the room in the rear of the library,
and upon the completion of the new
recitation building will occupy the two
front rooms on the second story of that
building
The new building on the campus that
is to be the home of all the literary
departments of the university Is being
rapidly completed 1t will cost $4,000
to make the addition to the old library
building. This new building will have
ample floor space and for the first time
in its history the university will have
enough recitation rooms.
Between the two buildings that have
been joined and turned into one struc-
ture there will rise lofty Corinthian
columns which will give a classical
effect. The lower floor of the old Ii
brary building will be used for the
department of mathematics, the second
floor for the languages, the third floor
for the department of history
On the first floor of the addition will
be the offices of the chancellor, the
av-%.@ Is 1.
the trustees, a room for the faculty
and the recitation room of the depart
ment of romance languages. The sec
ond and third floors will be occupied
by the different literary departments
of the university, and the scientific de-
partments will then have all the space
in the science hall and the Moore col
lege
AS soon as the new building is fin
ished and the building now used by
the literary departments can be va
Gated that building will be convert
ed into a dormitory and will afford
room for at least sixty more young
men. This room will be needed by
that time, as quite number of ag-
ricultural students for the winter
course in agriculture will be here.
1t will be impossible to move the
library until the new Peabody library
building is completed, and it is not ex-
pected that that structure will be ready
for occupancy before the next COM
mencement.
The military department, under Com
mandant f. L. Grggs, will do better
work this year than ever before. Col.
Griggs, during the past few years has
done splendid work in this department.
The new students were busy yesterday
having their measures taken for their
new uniforms, which will be at once
ordered.
The university has scarcely opened,
but the talk about football and college
athletics is already being INDUCED in.
Coach Reynolds is looking over the
men and sizing them up. There will
be an unusually large number of ap-
plicants for places on the football team.
This morning at the chapel President
+. Branson of the State Normal School
delivered his famous lecture on "R. E.
Lee, Gentlemen" This lecture was
quite appropriate to the opening of the
university, according to Chancellor
Hill, who emphasized the point that
at the university it was always ex-
pected that the boys would conduct
themselves as gentlemen, and that they
could we'll afford to follow the illus
trious example of the leading Southern
gentleman of his times.