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JUl 19 1940 MvUl I 1^ 79 A X1) y .w f 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 (Concluded on third page.)