Excerpt from Presentation of Facts in Reference to the Appropriations Asked for by the University of Georgia and the Branch Colleges, 1920

The total number of scholars of school age in Georgia in 1919 was the total enrollment was and the average attendance was The total number of teachers was 15, 753. If we but consider this great army of teachers and measure by experience the number that die or quit this work, either from choice or other circumstances, it cannot fail to be less than ten per cent. Teachers like other people die, and it is reasonable to estimate that a number of these teachers pass out of this work in other ways. In any event, the teaching force must be kept up, and it would be a low estimate to say that from one thousand to fifteen hundred new teachers are needed every year. The Statefrom all its institutions, at the present rate, cannot hope to fur nish from the graduates of its institutions properly qualified more than seven or eight hundred as replacements. It can fur nish comparatively few who have completed a four-year college course to take work as teachers in the high schools. Since the teacher should be thoroughly educated and have the ability to impart the knowledge that is required, it would seem to be the most important consideration of all that the State should so support these institutions that the common schools and the high schools could look to the University and its branches for a first class teaching force. The key to the educational system of Geor gia is the University - the oldest state University in the Union. This institution occupies the capstone of the State's educational system. Upon its vitality and efficiency the intellectual and ma terial life of the State is largely dependent. If you should tear the record of the University from the history of the State, if you should remove the influence of those minds trained in the Uni versity, much of the State's history would have to be re-written.

In the great war just passed, the University had more than twenty-two hundred of her Alumni in the service. Nearly nine hundred of these served as commissioned officers. This record, based upon the number of students matriculated, is unequaled by any civilian college in the United States. Of these patriotic young Georgians, who in response to the call of duty went across the seas, forty-six of them gave their lives, and hundreds of them came back with honorable scars received in the service of their country.

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