GEIPRGIA, University of, an important university which is at the head of State educa tion in Georgia. It was chartered in 1785 and is the oldest State university. The charter co ordinates primary and secondary schools with the university in the scheme of education by the State. The institution was located at Athens, and began academic work in 1801. This is the parent institution and includes four colleges: (1) Franklin College, the college of the liberal acts. (2) State College of Agricul ture and the Mechanic Arts, on the Morrill foundation. (3) Law School. (4) Graduate School. The phrase aUniversity of Georgia)) in the wider sense includes the various colleges in different parts of the State which are declared by law to be aparts° of the university. These are: North Georgia Agricultural and Mechan ical College, at Dahlonega; Medical College, at Augusta; School of Technology, at Atlanta; Georgia Normal and Industrial College, for women, at Milledgeville; State Normal School, for men and women, at Athens; Industrial Col lege, for negroes, at Savannah. The university, in the collective sense, including students of college grade and those in professional schools and in its preparatory schools, had an attend ance of about 5,000 in 1917. The members of
the faculties number 165. These institutions are managed for the most part by local boards or commissions, but legal title and control of all of them is vested in the single board of trustees of the university. This is a unique feature of organization of the higher education of the State and differentiates it from the system of any other State. Understood in the narrower sense, the single institution at Athens has regu larly from 350 to 400 students, and its income is $50,000 per annum. Among the alumni of national reputation are Howell Cobb, speaker of the House of Representatives for one ses sion and (under Buohanan in 1857) Secretary of the Treasury; Alexander H. Stephens; John A. Campbell, justice of the United States Su preme Court; Senators Robert Toombs, Ben jamin H. Hill, Augustus O. Bacon; Joseph and John LeConte, afterward president and pro fessor in the University of California Henry Timrod, poet; Henry W. Grady and J. L. M. Curry, diplomat and educator. As the univer sity is a State institution, tuition is free for residents of Georgia in all schools except the professional schdols;.non-residents pay a small fee.