Edited sentence: After previous president Isaac S.As president, Hall was noted for his aggressive fundraising and improvements to the school, including his special project, the Aaron S.French Textile School.French Textile School, after its chief donor and supporter, Aaron S.Hall also became infamous as a disciplinarian, even suspending the entire senior class of 1901 for returning from Christmas vacation a day late.He had a solid background in engineering due to his time at West Point and often incorporated surveying and other engineering applications into his coursework.He had an energetic personality and quickly assumed a leadership position among the faculty.His death while still in office was attributed to stress from his strenuous fund raising activities (this time, for a new Chemistry building).Hopkins tendered his resignation in May 1895, Georgia Tech's trustees elected Hall as the chairman of the faculty (acting president) From January 1, 1896 to July 1, 1896.In 1888, Captain Lyman Hall was appointed Georgia Tech's first mathematics professor (and consequently head of the school's mathematics department).In February 1899, Georgia Tech opened the first textile engineering school in the Southern United States, with $10,000 from the Georgia General Assembly, $20,000 of donated machinery, and $13,500 from supporters.It named the A.Later that year, the school's trustees named the new chemistry building the "Lyman Hall Laboratory of Chemistry" in his honor.Lyman Hall died on August 16, 1905 during a vacation at a New York health resort.Lyman Hall's other goals included enlarging Tech and attracting more students, so he expanded the school's offerings beyond mechanical engineering; the new degrees introduced during Hall's administration included electrical engineering and civil engineering in December 1896, textile engineering in February 1899, and engineering chemistry in January 1901.On June 24, the trustees elected him the institute's second president