The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1904-11-10
STATE UNIVERSITY.

important happenings at the Uni
versity. Old Cobb has always had
several boys here, aud there are
ten here now. As one of them, ]
wish to write of topic of especial
interest.
The Trustees, with their wives,
will go III a body OH the 10Th of
November to visit the University
| of Wisconsin. They will stay
there several days studying the
various departments and methods
pursued in that great institution
Judge Gober is one Of the Trustees.
Some time ago, the faculty of
chat university sent our Trustees
the invitation. The Trustees, real
izing that in this way they can get
ideas that will be helpful to them
in the management and further
ance of the work and usefulness of
our University, have accepted.
The credit of this visit is due to
George Foster Peabody, Treasurer
of the Democratic National Cam
paign Committee, through whose
generosity it is to be made. He
is native Georgian, but his great
business interests keep him in New
York. This is only one of his
gifts to the University. But little
over year ago, he gave $4,000
for building q fire-proof library
It is now practically complete and
the pride Of the campus.
While they will observe closely
the University Of Wisconsin in all
it's departments, they will study
especially the schools of Agricul-
ture and Mechanical Arts. Those
are the departments in this Uni
versity they are now trying to i'm
prove most. The Agriculture is
becoming one of the most import
ant courses given. There are now
sixty or seventy students taking
that course, while few years ago
not more than five or six took it
Wisconsin has these schools con-
nected with her University as
Georgia has, and in this field
takes, perhaps, the highest rank of
any college in the United States
SO that is certainly the place for
the Trustees to look for ideas and
methods of improvement.
They will also make q careful
study of the management and
courses in Wisconsin lin relation to
common school education. State
education is IN the highest degree
of perfection there. The elemen-
tary aid high schools and the
University are so correlated that
boys and girls in the primary
schools go from class to class,
without a break, through the high
schools and the University as
though they were all the same
institution.
1t is hard to estimate the re-
suits of this visit. There is no
doubt that it will have an import
ant bearing upon the future of our
University and State.
The Trustees will come back
with higher idea of a University
and continue in their work of
making this che greatest Univer-
sity of the South-the equal of
the best in the North and West
with greater zeal and enthusiasm.
They will also inspire more inter
est in the University among the
people of the State. They will
get many new ideas and methods
of University work, some of which
they will proceed so try at once.
So we may expect to see some i'm
mediate improvements, especially
in the courses Of Agriculture and
Mechanics.
There will also be an effort put
forth to improve the relations be.
tween the University and element.
! airy and high schools. It is the
wishes of the Trustees and faculty
to get the courses of the high
schools correlated with those of
the University, and those of the
elementary with the high schools,
thereby forming IN unbroken
chain from the primary depart
ment to and through the Univer-
sity. This is done to high de-
gree Of perfection in Wisconsin.
They will get ideas about the
practical workings of this plan,
which will greatly help them and
the faculty, and the teachers of
the elementary and high schools,
in bringing about this desirable
system in Georgia. A. H. Moon.