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cerned in the affairs of state followed the governor to Athens, and all enjoyed the generous hospitality for which the place is famous. Many of the political slates in both state and national politics have emanated from the handsome drawing-rooms that fringe the Campus. Before an audience of this description, made attractive by beauty as well as by renown, the young recipients of college honors made their best bows and delivered their best speeches. Two distinguished orators of older years, often drawn from beyond state lines, graced the occasion with elaborate addresses before the Society of the Alumni and the two literary societies, while the Sabbath preceding these exercises was given to the sermon of some eminent divine. The gathering extended over four days, and offered a feast of oratory well calculated to delight even the cultivated crowds which thronged the college chapel. This comThis commencement programme is still in force; and though the instruction given in the college and the spirit of the times have drifted away from those of this exclusively literary and oratorical period, this commencement usage remains as the evidence of the influence exerted by the college during seventy-five years of its life, the result of which is the cloud of distinguished witnesses which encompass the university in the political and judicial arenas. A marked change is now observable in the student life, shown in the less prominent position of the literary societies and the springing up of such organizations as the Science Club and the Engineering Society. While the past few years have shown many literary graduates, there has also been a goodly number of those fitted for engineering, agriculture, and chemistry.

The story of the benefactions received by the university has a few noteworthy chapters. Honor far more than has been given is due for the donation of land by Governor Milledge. That six hundred and thirty acres not only gave the university its home, but the sale of lots from it in the city of Athens has yielded the means by which several of the buildings and much of the equipment were purchased. The chair of ancient languages now bears the name of Milledge.

The Gilmer fund, yielding an income of a little more than a thousand dollars, for improving the condition of what its denor

calls "the Georgia schoolmarster," was not an original bequest to the university trustees. It became their trust in 1884 by a relinquishment in their favor on the part of the original trustees to whom Governor George R. Gilmer had bequeathed it. Its application to the Institute of Pedagogics will be a happy realization of the intent of its giver.

A donation of a most unique nature came to the board of trustees in 1880 from Charles F. McCay, twenty years a professor in Franklin College, before the troubles of the faculty with Dr. Church. The limitations of the trust require that the seven thousand dollars in railroad bonds originally given shall be carefully held and reinvested in safe securities with all accruing interest, so as to compound the same semiannually if possible, until a period of twenty-one years after the death of the donor's own grandchildren and those of his brothers and sisters. This list numbers twenty-three names, to which he then adds two more in the grandsons of his friend, Judge John J. Gresham. When this bequest shall mature, one hundred years hence, the interest on the sum thus accumulated will be applied to the salaries of the professors in the institution. Having thus allowed full time for the heartburns connected with his separation from the university to die out, and all recollection of it to be forgotten even by his family, Professor McCay becomes the creator of a princely endowment. Should the university survive to that time her finances need never more be straitened.

Dr. William Terrell, by a donation of $20,000, was the first to encourage the study of scientific agriculture in the state. He had himself been the first professor of agriculture in Franklin College, and it is fitting that his earnest efforts in behalf of that study should continue through the Terrell professor of agricultural chemistry employed by his donation.

But the most noteworthy gift to the university comes from Senator Joseph E. Brown, in the shape of $50,000 invested in state bonds, the interest on which is loaned to meritorious young men who stand in need of pecuniary aid while striving to get an education. The fund is a monument not only to the wisdom and generosity of its donor, but in its name perpetuates the memory of Charles McDonald Brown, a son of the founder, who died while yet a

student at the university. From seventeen to twenty young men in the several departments of the university are thus enabled to prosecute their studies and obtain an education otherwise beyond their reach. Since the establishment of this fund in 1881, nearly two hundred beneficiaries have been enrolled, and the principal is now receiving increase from the return of the amounts borrowed by the first beneficiaries.

The university has already felt the impulse which comes from the invigorated energies of her new trustees and new chancellor. The work of the trustees in their

last June meeting was of marked importance. Pressed by the necessities of the parent institution and convinced of the unwisdom of scattering the very limited finances of the university, nearly all the aid hitherto extended to the branch colleges has been withdrawn. More important still, the board has taken counsel with the faculty, and formulated a clear plan for the expansion of the university, a plan which, without disturbing the existing system in its direct application to the students, lends itself with singular elasticity to a development as broad as its fondest friend could wish.

So important is it that the policy of the university should be proclaimed in no uncertain terms amid the awakened interest in education in Georgia and the roar of the strong current of progress which is rapidly drawing in new citizens and carrying forward the state to better things, that the report of the committee on re-organization deserves to be included in this running sketch of the university's career:

Whereas, it is of the first importance that the trustees should formulate a definite and comprehensive scheme for the development of the university, to the end that it may be organized upon a basis which shall be in conformity with the advancement of letters and of educational methods; therefore, resolved, that the University Faculty or Academic Council shall be composed of the following professorships [naming fourteen chairs and supplementing them by six instructors and eight fellows as additional officers of instruction].

Within the general university organization,

of which the chancellor shall be the head, there shall be two separate and distinct organizations, as follows: First, A Faculty of Arts, corresponding to Franklin College, and officered by ten full professors, one of whom shall be the dean, with two instructors and four fellows. Second, A Faculty of Science, being the Georgia State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, in which ten full

professors, one being the president, with three instructors, four fellows, and a commandant of cadets, shall constitute the teaching force. In the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts there shall be established a School of Practical Agriculture, to be conducted under the direction of the professor of agriculture at the university farm. There shall also be established an Institute of Pedagogics upon the Gilmer foundation (a donation whose spirit, as above remarked, exactly accords with such an object), to which the members of the faculty shall contribute, and in which instruction shall be given by the professor of pedagogics.

The government of the university, as heretofore, is intrusted to the chancellor and general faculty; and all undergraduates, however classified, shall be upon terms of perfect equality in all reof the faculty, any of the courses of study offered spects, and be free to choose, under the direction by the university.

Of this complete scheme much is in practical operation. The two academic faculties are filled to the extent of nine full professors in each, seven of the chairs being parts of both colleges. The presidency of the faculty of science in the State College is held by Dr. H. C. White, while Dr. L. H. Charbonnier graces the office of dean of the faculty of arts in Franklin College. The chancellor thus stands aided by two of the strongest men in the general faculty. The chair of history and political science, all of the instructorships but two, and the fellowships without exception, are yet to be filled.

It is confidently hoped that another year will bring the Institute of Pedagogics into activity, to supply the need of normal instruction for teachers so widely felt in the schools of the state. No tuition will be charged, and the institute will be opened at a convenient time for the attendance of as many as desire to come. The professor of pedagogics will be non-resident and will be annually drawn from the ranks of the most distinguished educators both within and without the state. For the early establishment of the other parts of the plan the board looks to the next convening legislature, from whose predecessor their trust has been directly derived, and before whom they will lay their conception of what that trust should be. They look further to the generous alumni of the institution and citizens of the state, who might well make the several professorships and fellowships enduring monuments of their generosity, under the guarantee of the state to take in charge any trust funds

of the university, paying the interest to the instructions and training afforded by such. trustees. an institution. The university's progress in the past has been opposed by a lack of appreciation of its merits and needs on the part both of legislators and their constituents, to which the antagonism of denominational colleges in organized efforts for their own advancement has been added for more than thirty years past. From the latter source, the blessedness of those persecuted and reviled for righteousness' sake has been for years past, and is still, made the possession of the university. Having well survived, however, to this hour, and standing on the impregnable rock of the principles laid down in her charter, she feels the impulse of a strong chancellor and a united faculty, of a board of trustees roused to a high sense of duty and opportunity, of an army of influential alumni organized and rallying to her aid; and she looks to the future confidently.

The work of Chancellor Boggs and his faculty has been equally marked on the internal condition of the university. The standard of entrance has been greatly raised, and better still, the gateway from class to class has been so narrowed that faithful work and genuine acquirements are the price paid for diplomas. The faculty, while doing this good work in the academic courses, finds itself greatly hampered by excessive duties in its aspirations for that higher and real university work which takes both professor and student into the realm of original research. No state needs a fully equipped university more than Georgia. Vexed as she is with the intricate problems of race and material progress, the state can find no safer refuge from the former, and no more reliable guides for the latter than in the enlightened

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HE surprise of the people of the town was great, when they saw Governor Bellingham returning across the neck, with Penelope seated behind him upon a pillion. Still greater was their amazement when he drew rein at his own doorstep, assisted the girl to alight, and escorted her within, with ceremonious civility. But it knew no bounds when it became known that the woman to whom he showed such marked courtesy was already his bride. From house to house, from shop to shop, the tidings flew, and great was the excitement and great the indignation of both magistrates and people. "Is it not as I told thee?" demanded Kidby, the fisherman, as he strode into Hudson's Ordinary, and threw a basket of fish upon the floor. "Did I not say," he asked, fiercely," that Richard Bellingham is no friend of the people? But I own that I little thought he would be so ungrateful."

"What hath happened, Kidby?" asked Hudson, as a group gathered about the

two.

"Hast not heard, gossip?" he asked, wonderingly. "Am I truly the first to tell it? Listen, then. But yesternight came knocking at my door Ezekiel Bolt; and when I bid him enter, he did seem greatly distraught, and weak and faint, withal. And when my good wife had brought him meat, and he had eaten, he saith: And thou wilt give me shelter, Kidby?' And I said: 'Surely, Master Bolt, thou art welcome to the best that my house can give to thee. But wherefore, I pray thee?' Then he saith Governor Bellingham hath despoiled me. He did despatch me to Winnisimmet, and when I had fairly gone, he hied him to Cambridge and tempted her who was to have been my wife, with his gold, and she hath become his bride and not mine.' And I said: 'Of a truth, she was promised to thee, and ye have already been published in the churches.

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then, under our righteous laws, can she be espoused to another?' And Ezekiel saith to me: 'Behold, Kidby, the governor hath himself taken the part of the magistrate, and hath pronounced himself and Mistress Pelham to be man and wife.'"

"Himself!" gasped the bystanders, in astonishment.

"It is so," said Kidby. "Governor Richard Bellingham hath transgressed our righteous laws, the which he hath sworn faithfully to execute."

"He should be presented by the great inquest," said Hudson, with indignation.

"Even so he should," agreed Waters Sinnott, who stood by. "It is not meet that the governor should break our laws, and we all be holden. He should be presented." And so said all who stood by.

"And what of Master Bolt?" inquired Hudson. "In troth, why came he not hither for shelter, and not trouble thy good wife?"

"Alack, good Master Hudson, and he hath not drawn his earnings of his worship, the governor, save as his need hath required. He had by him but a little "

"And did Master Ezekiel Bolt bethink him that I would require aught of him? He should have known me better. Send him hither to me. He shall not want for shelter while William Hudson hath a roof above him. Full many a kindness hath he done to me."

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"He is much distraught," said Kidby, so that, forsooth, I feared me yesternight that he was beside himself. For he did toss upon his bed and did mutter many times, as he slept: The withered blossoms the withered blossoms !'"

Aye, the poor lad," said another. "Dost know of what he spoke, Kidby? Mayhap it was not he who spoke, but some other through him. Canst see an omen?"

"Nay," answered Kidby, "he talked with her across the palings at Master Wilson's, upon the election day; and as they talked, the blossoms of the morning-glory vines faded away. They but do so from day to day, as the sun waxeth. I see naught in it. But Ezekiel thinks it to have been a warning that he should have heeded."

"Mayhap it was ! mayhap it was!" muttered Sinnott.

Before the night fell, all in the town had heard the great news, but not a voice was

heard to praise the governor's deed. The young men, with whom Ezekiel was a favorite, sympathized with him in his great grief. Many sought him at "The Bunch of Grapes," where he took up his abode, and warmly expressed their indignation at the governor's heartlessness. The older men and the magistrates, with whom Bellingham had never been a favorite, openly avowed their disapproval. The women, old and young, railed mercilessly at the heartless conduct of Penelope, and vowed that she could never more be to them what she had been.

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When the governor first appeared upon the street, after his marriage, he was everywhere greeted with cold and distant looks, with glances of distrust and aversion. was surprised to find himself the object of a crushing unpopularity. Former friends, he realized, were now foes, and those who had been already unfriendly were now more than ever his enemies. He had thought that to take a young wife, who would reopen his mansion, that had been closed to the social world since the death of his former wife, would increase his hold upon the popular heart, and render his triumph at the next election, now but a few months in the future, a foregone conclusion. He had reckoned upon the great popularity of the bright, young girl, Penelope, with the young freemen of the colony. had sailed upon a false reckoning.

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Meanwhile, as the storm of indignation swept over the town, a man broken in spirit sat listlessly in his room at "The Bunch of Grapes." For hours together he would sit, brooding over his great trouble, and gazing out of the window upon the water of the bay, wondering if it would ever be still. One day he was aroused from his reverie by Hudson, who announced a visitor below.

"What manner of man is he?" asked Ezekiel.

"Plainly to tell thee, it is Malchus, the serving man of his worship, the governor," answered Hudson.

"What doth he desire?"

"Nay, I know not. He hath not told me; neither did I ask of thy affairs. Come thou down and ask of him, Ezekiel.”

Ezekiel arose wearily and walked heavily down the stairs.

"Thou didst call for me, Malchus?" he said to the man in waiting.

"Yea, Master Bolt. His worship, the governor, did despatch me to find thee, and to give to thee this bag of gold," said Malchus, placing a bag of coin upon the table.

"Take thou back the governor's gold," said Ezekiel," and say to him that Ezekiel Bolt hath no need of his charity.”

"Nay, sir," entreated the man, "it is not charity, but thy due. Behold, these are his wages,' saith his worship."

"Nay, nay, I cannot touch his gold. I want it not. Take it back to Governor Bellingham and say to him that I want it not. 'Twould taint my touch."

"Nay, Ezekiel," urged Hudson, "it is thine own due. Why shouldst not take it?"

"T the price of my heart's blood," said Ezekiel, with a shudder. "Take thou it, Hudson, if thou wilt, and give it to them who order the town's occasions, that they may bury the poor withal. His Worship, the governor himself, is one of these, and may tell how best to order it."

When Malchus had gone, Ezekiel turned toward the window again, and resumed his gaze upon the water.

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Come, then, my friend, an' this will never do," said William Hudson, laying his hand roughly, but kindly, upon his shoulder. "Thou must not brood, after this wise, over thy sorrow. There are still good fish in the sea. Let not thy life be despoiled by the vagaries of a fickle woman. Get thee up and go hence with Kidby. See, he waiteth for thee in his boat," continued Hudson, pointing from the window. "Go thou and cast thy line and forget thy grief."

"My grief I cannot forget," answered Ezekiel. "But I will go with Kidby."

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And so it came about that the governor's secretary, forgetful of his former calling, went forth daily with his line, and became one with the fishermen of the port. His buoyancy of spirits was gone. became a silent man, but not morose. seldom spoke unless addressed, and then answered, often with a sad smile. As, year after year, the spring-time came, he made it his custom to visit the forest of Rocksbury, and the earliest blossoms of the mayflower he was sure to find.

Still the feeling of indignation toward the governor continued, and the opinion of the group of fishermen was echoed as

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the universal sentiment of the town. who breaketh our righteous laws," said they all, "must be presented, be he governor or magistrate or the humblest dweller among us." And so it came about that as Governor Bellingham sat in his library there came a great knocking at his door, and a voice without cried :

"Open thou, Richard Bellingham, in the law's name!"

Then entered Nicholas Willys, the constable, bearing his white wand of office, and stood before the governor as he sat at his desk. Penelope, or, as we must now call her, Madame Bellingham, sat in the crimson cushioned alcove, half concealed by the heavy folds of the curtain.

"Know thou," said the constable, "that the great inquest hath presented thee, Richard Bellingham, for trial at our court, that thou hast broken our righteous laws. Take thou heed, therefore, and answer to this summons."

As Willys spoke, he laid before the governor the warrant, and, without a bow, withdrew.

An impudent fellow, forsooth," said Madame Bellingham, when the constable had gone. "Why made he not his obeisance to thee, the governor?"

"Nay," answered Bellingham, "Willys hath the right of it. He came in the law's name to wait upon Richard Bellingham, the freeman, and not the governor. should not have made obeisance."

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"But what wilt thou do," asked his wife, anxiously, "that the great inquest hath presented thee?"

"I am Richard Bellingham," answered the governor; "have thou no fear."

The gratification of the people of the colony was great when it became known that an indictment had been found against the governor. It had been feared by some that, since he was himself a magistrate, this fact would serve to deliver him. But Puritan justice was stern and no respecter of persons. It was, therefore, with the greatest interest that the people awaited the coming of the day when the trial of the governor should be held. When it at last came, the room was crowded with the freemen of the colony. Here in the judges' seat sat Winthrop the elder, and Sir Richard Saltonstall, from among the magistrates. Hibbens and Tyng, the deputies, were here, and here, too, were the men of the town,

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