CHAPTER Six
THE FOUNDATION FOR A GREAT UNIVERSITY

 All are architects of Fate,
 Working in these walls of Time;
 Some with massive deeds and great,
 Some with ornaments of rhyme.


Nothing useless is, or low;
 Each thing in its place is bet;
And what seeas but idle show
 Strengthen. and supports the rt.


 For te structure that we raise,
 ,Time is with materials filled;
 Our today and yesterdays
 Are the blocks with which we build.
 -LON LU LOW.

 CELY had President Murphree begun his work
 with the University of Florida than he began to
 lay plans for the great expansion and growth which
 he felt sure lay ahead of the institution. There
were only one hundred eighty-six students during that term of
1909-10. But during that term Dr. Murphree gathered his
faculty together and said to them in substance:
 "Gentlemen, it will look a little pretentious for our
University to be organized into separate administrative groups
known as colleges, but I am looking to the future. I pro-
pose that we establish four colleges in the university group
from the four outstanding departments of instruction. You
will have to start with small enrollments, but all great things
have small beginnings. Gentlemen, you will see the day
when more colleges will be added. It is imperative that we
lay a foundation for big things in the future."
 Dean J. N. Anderson of the College of Arts and Sciences
was one of the group who listened to those words. As he
discussed that memorable meeting of the University of Flor-
ida faculty, he said:


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