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Vol. VII.
IUiversity of Georgia, Athens, Ga., January 13, l!)00.
No. H.
ORATORY ON FRIDAY.
Six of the University's Best Orators
Will Contest for the Clyde Shrop
shire Medal on January 19th.
Next Friday i, the anniversa
ry of Robert F.dward Lee'*
birthday. Holiday will 1m
given, and the love and rever
ence in which we hold the mem
ory of our great chief will he
appropriately demount rated.
The annual oratorical exercises
which will take place in the
chapel at eleven o’clock promise
to eclipse any in the past. For
the last live or six years the
natural enthusiasm exhibited in
these exercises has heen increas
ed by the awarding of a medal
to the orator making the best
etldrt. This medal is given h\
Hon. Clyde Shropshire, former
ly of this city.
The young ladies of the Lucy
Cobb Institute and of the lloim
School have been invited, and
we hope that nothing will inter
veno to prevent their attendance
Music will be provided, and in
every respect it will lie the great
est oratorical battle of the year.
Following is the programme :
Mr. Doyle Campbell. Phi
Kappa, Monticcllo, <ia. Sub
ject: “The South, Then and
Now.”
Mr. F. C. Jackson, Demos-
tbenian, Athens, <Ja. Subject:
‘•The Women of the South.”
M usic.
Mi - . John B. <1. Jones, Phi
Kappa, Whiteslmrg. (in. Sub-
ject : "Southern Patriotism.”
Mr. (i W. I.egwin, Phi Kap
pa, Crawfordville, (5a. Sub
ject : “The Heroism of the
< 'onfederatc Army. ’’
M usic.
Mr. .1. P. Mott,
niau, Johnston ville
ject: “The Lost
I lefenders.”
Mr. Kdgar Oliver. Demosthe
nian, Kissemme, Fla. Subject
“The South of To-day.”
Music and decision of judges
Ail the friends and patrons of
the Cniversity are extended a
hearty invitation to be present
’OQ Pandoras for Sale
‘bit Pandoras can be secured
from auv of the F.ditors for 1900,
or at the book stores, at 7cent
per copy.
The Harvard Football A»so-
ciatiou cleared ♦ 27.74o.9i> on tin
'99 season. There’s a gain o
about $1000.00 over last year
IDsnles supporting tin* other
branches of athletics, the man
agement lias been enabled to ex
jM*nd over $13 00 on permanent
improvements.
DEATH TAKES TWO TRUSTEES.
f'niversify Loses Tien of Her Ablest Trustees unit Hist
Friends in the 1 tenth of Cot. .Uclnfi/re and of
Cot. Screven.
(hi Nlondav morning, Jan. Before the gloom cast over tli
1th. Col. A. T. McIntyre, of University bv the death of Co|-
riiomasvillo breathed his last,
and in his death, the University
loses a trustee who has served
her faithfully for twenty-four
years.
Colonel McIntyre was born in
Twiggs county, October 27th,
1822. He married Miss Ameri
ca Young, on June 20th, 1845,
mid celebrated his golden wed-
ling four years ago last June.
In 18-19,Colonel Melntvrewas
onel McIntyre had disappcnrei
the whole faculty and student-
body were shocked by the news
that the hand of Death had been
laid on another member of the
Board of Trustees. In the death
of Colonel John Screven, of Sa
van nab, on last Tuesday morn
ing, there has passed a wav a
man who since 1873 has been a
Trustee of the Pnivcrsitv. He
has served the institution in that
Demos tin
(la. Sub-
< 'ansi — It
ulmitted to the bar mid has capacity longer than auv olio
been in active practice everj member of the Board, and du-
sinco—a period of lifty-six years.! ring the long period of twenty-
lie was a member of t he (leorgia ,i\ years he has been ever faith-
legislature from Thomas county fill in discharge of his dutv.
in 1848-49, and a member of Colonel Screven was born in
the Constitutional Convention Savannah, September 8th, 1827
which met in Milledgeville just i and was blest son of Dr
ifier the war. ( olonel Mein- James Proctor Screven and nan-
lyre was elected to the Forty- nah <leorgia Bryan. The father
Seventh Congress and served of Colonel Screven was one of
with distinction in that body, the best known physicians of his
I bis Congress is known in his-,Jay Dr. Screven was Mayor
lory as the “Back-pay Con- of Savannah, was a Stale Semi
rress” and i* famous for its tor, and the founder and first
nembers having voted them
selves back-pay, on an increase
f the congressional salary, lie
it said to Col. McIntyre's honor
that lie refused to accept the
♦ .”>,00(1.(10 additional puv, but
turned the amount over to the
Diversity for u*e in the State
>1 lege of Mechanic Arts.
Colonel McIntyre was a mem
ber of (low Joseph F. Brown's
tali' for a time during the war.
president of the old Atlantic and
< 1 it I f Bail w a.v.
Colonel Screven entered tin
Confederate service al tin* linn
of tli e W.’l f III* serve, I i || t lie]
army until tin* later part of 1802.
wln n ha vu ordered bock to
Savannah as president of tin
Atlantic and < litlf Bail road ('mu
pan v, at the reptest of tin* Board
of Directors, lie h<*ld tin* posj
lion of president until lHHtl
md In* was also elected ('olonel when tin* company was slice*
if a regiment of (leorgia State ,*d by tin* Savannah. Florida and
troops during the same period. Western Bailwav.
He was fora number of years In IH.V.I, ('olonel Screven win
trustee of the State Insane elected a member of the State
Asylum and has been a trustee Legislature from Screven eouiitj
“ f 1 and served during two sessions
It was this I/Pgislrtilfe which
called tin* Secession Convention
of 18(51.
(Concluded <m third page.)
strictest fidelity and unswerv
ing integrity. As a lawyer lie
stood at the bead of the profes-
sion—ever trip* to clients, their
>f tin* I’niversity since 1 H7<»
lie always took the greatest in
terest in the University's inter-
sts and her good was always
nearest his heart. Ho was. in
iddition, for many years Presi-
lent of the Board of Trustees of
Young Female College.
Colonel McIntyre was a mem
ber of the Presbyterian denom
ination and for more than tliir- cause, and inter,*,!,,
t v years had been a ruling elder The six sons of Colonel Mclii
in bis church. His ripe Bible tyre are all graduates of th,
tcholarship and Christian char- Cniversity, and this fad attest*
icter mad,* him a most effective the loyalty of the father to tin
worker among the young who institution of which for so long
nine within the scope of hi* a time he was a trustee,
teaching; and lie taught by ex- As a mark of respect to tin
ttnple a, well as by precept. memory of Colonel McIntyre,
II is life has l>een long and use- all exercises <>,' the Cniversity
fill IB* tilled many position* were «u«p<*n>b*d between tin
>f high tru*t. and in every ca-* hour, of twelve and two on tin
In* discharged his duty with the day following his death.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
MISS ANCdER, OF LUCY COBB. AND
MISS OATES, OF THE HOME
SCHOOL, WILL REPORT
LOCAL ITEMS
(hving to the fact that it is
impossible for the Cniversity
Local Fditor to obtain the many
new * items of interest at Lucy
( obi, Institute and the lloim*
School, the Athletic Council ha*
authorized the appointment of
orrespondents at these schools
for Tilt. Itm* i\n Black. Mis,
Iblen A ngier, of Lucv Cobh, and
Mi,* Marian (tales, of the Home
School, hav e accepted the places
>f local correspondents, and will
send in weekly the happenings
4 interest at their respective in-
titutioiiH.
Mi** A ngier i, a member of
the Senior class at I Cobb,
titering tin* Institute at the
opening of the past fall term.
She has made an enviable record
for herself during the few
mouths of her slay in Athens.
Her home is in Atlanta, and she
i* one of the most charming
(libers of t ill* younger society
set of that city.
'I i Marian • tat,,. of An*
gitslit, i* deservedly one of the
im>,t popular of iIn voting la,lie,
who attend the Horne School.
I'll is is her second year in Aili
n', and -lie numbers many
friends in the Cniversity and in
town, who will l„* glad to learn
»f her at plan,*,* ,,f the place of
ocal correspondent.
This change in tin* local de
partment will loubt add
much to the interest in tin* pa
per, and prove highly
in every wav.
S. I. A A CONVENTION
ANNUAL MEETING HELD IN ATLAN
TA DECEMBER 22, 1999
The Southern Inter-Collegiate
Athletic Association met in att-
nunl convention at tie* Kimball
House in Atlanta, Friday, Do-
*emher 22d, 1899. Representa
tive* were present from live of
tin* institutions in the Associa
tion. These representative,
were: Dr. \V. L. Dudley, of
Vanderbilt; B B. Boss, of Au
burn ; A L. Bondurant, of the
I ’niversitv of Mississippi; Luke
Lee, of Sewanee, and || T.
Biggs, of Clemson. Mr. A. J.
McBride. (Georgia’s represent,i
live, reached Atlanta too late fot
tin* meeting, owing to a train
delay.
Mercer sent Mr. (Jeorge as her
representative, but, owing to the
fad that Mercer was suspended
last spring for playing prof**-
-ionaL on her btH-MlI team, ho
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