The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-30
COMPARISON of the modern defi-
 milton of the state university with
 the opening paragraph of the char

I l punishments, and can be claimed only by religion and education. It should therefore. be among the first objects oi those who wish we'll to the nationa prosperity to encourage and support the principles of religion and morality and early to place the youth under tho l forming hand of society, that by in struction, they may be molded to tht love of virtue and good order. Sending them abroad to other communities fol their education will not answer these purposes, is too humiliating an ackonwl edgement of the ignorance or inferiority of our own, and will always be the cause of so great foreign attachments that upon principles of policy, it is inadmissible."
 A School in the Wilderness r It is a tribute to the character anG | intellectual status of the men who con ceived the idea of the state university that, a great part of Georgia was a veritable wilderness. The location se' lected was on what was then the west ern border of the state, in the midst of dense virgin forest, while not more than fifty miles to the westward was the Cherokee nation, with its hordes of Indians, and beyond that lay thou. sands of miles of trackless country un' inhabited by white men.
 The university stands on a bluff which overloks the Oconee river as il winds along the western boundary of the present university property, from which vantage one may look off across miles of rolling country beyond its course.
 But even in such primitive and un- civilized surroundings, and with the ink hardly dry upon the Declaration of In dependence these men never for a mo- ment lost sight of the fact that edu- cation and religion are the corner stones of civilization and progress, and they immediately took the necessary steps to provide for a permanent institution of higher education to be maintained by the commonwealth.
 The men to whom credit is due for the act of the Georgia legislature in granting the first charter to a state university are Abraham Baldwin, Will liam Few, John Habersham and John Milledge. Of the four names, that of Abraham Baldwin probably means more ! to those familiar with American his tory than the others. When the states were divided as to the precise form of the Constitution, his was the deciding vote which was responsible for the Con- stitution as it stands today. His sig nature also appears among these af- fixed to the Declaration of 1ndepend- ence. Although his associates were men of distinction in the south, they were not as widely known as Abraham Bald l win.
 The history of the University of Georgia forms an intensely interesting narrative, many parts of it reaching the heights of romance, and vividly DOT traying the varied activities of intel lectual and cultured men in carrying on the work of education in sparsely set | tied community.
 Has Atmosphere Of "Old South" But emitting that part of its history throughout the nineteenth century, jn- cluding it's struggle for existing during and following the war between the states, and viewing it as it is today, the University of Georgia stands as an institution which has definitely realized many of its highest and finest ideals. The state it serves is essentially agri- cultural and to meet the requirements of a broad and practical farm training, | it has provided an agricultural college which ranks among the three fore most schools of its kind in America. Crops of almost unlimited variety, permitted by the genial climate and the richness of the soil are grown and harvested by students of agriculture, who are taught the secrets of cotton raising, animal husbandry, the growing of alfalfa, corn, oats, wheat and vege- tables.
 The activities of the agricultural col lege are gradually effecting a great economic change throughout the state, due to the doctrine of diversified farm ing which is thoroughly inculcated in the minds of its students.
 In each department of the uL.ver- sity the same high standards are maintained and the same comprehen- sive instruction given.
 Viewed friend a strictly practical standpoint, the University of Georgia, as to methods of instruction and cour- ses of study is much the same as any other state university. There is, how ever, one element, a notably individual trait which immediately impresses one who is sensitive to environment and the mental world in which he lives.
 It is the serene and quiet atmos- phere which savers of the Old South, cherished tradition transmitted from generation to generation from the time that Abraham Baldwin and his asso- ciates drafted the first state university charter.
 The ground of the campus is roll ing and natural. The architecture of the buildings is unobstrusively colonial These, together with the demeanor and appearance of the students passing to and from lectures or enjoying few moments relaxation on the grass, com plete a suggestion of repores which sharply contrasts with the commercial hustle of the city but a stones throw away. This impression, however, does not wear off, and one finds that it is not the trees, the grass. nor the build ings that produce the pleasant and con. genial effect.
 The Chancellor
 As one meets and converses with various students, administrative officers and members of the faculty, one imme- diately becomes aware of the fact that here is a tradition which has been kept intact throughout many years. It is an actual manifestation of the ideals expressed in the first paragraph of the charter, interpreted by those whose lives and personalities constitute the 4rua Old South It is the conscious q