Location:
T171 .G42 G49x GTVA-OVZ-700-J

Title:
Panorama of the Georgia School of Technology

Date:
1913?

Content:
Panorama of school buildings dating approximately to 1913. First appeared in a commemorative book of plates, honoring the first twenty-five years of the Georgia School of Technology, 1888-1913.

History:
From the 1888-1899 Announcements: The Georgia School of Technology became a physical entity in 1887. Extract from the Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, entitled an Act to Establish a Technological School. : that there shall be established, in connection with the State University, and forming one of the departments thereof, a Technological School, for the education and training of students in the industrial and mechanical arts. In conformity with this Act of the Legislature, the leading object of the School will be to teach the principles of science, especially those which relate to the mechanic and industrial arts. The school offers an education of high grade, founded on the mathematics, the English language, the physical sciences and drawing, while it gives such familiarity with some industrial pursuit as will enable the graduate to earn a living. The Georgia School of Technology opened its doors the first Wednesday in October, 1888. This panorama photograph appeared in a commemorative book of plates issued to mark the first twenty-five years of the Georgia School of Technology and probably represents the campus as it appeared during the tenure of President Kenneth Gordon Matheson. The introductory essay, "A Quarter Century of Progress," comments on Dr. Matheson's presidency thus: "The present administration has been marked by a continued growth in numbers, a large increase in the campus, the establishment of a Night School, a considerable increase in the instructing force, and the addition of the Carnegie Library, The Joseph Brown Whitehead Memorial Hospital, the Rockefeller Y.M.C.A. Building and the New Shops. But greater than these evidences of material prosperity is the internal development of the school: a better understanding between students and Faculty, the raising of the standards, the elevation of the moral tone of the institution, the unwearying effort of President and Faculty to have the Georgia School of Technology the equal of any other institution of its kind in the United States."