CHAPTER EIGHT
 THE STRUCTURE IS ENLARGED

 The Teachers' College
 "This earth with its infinitude of life and beauty and mystery,
 and the universe in which we are placed, with its overwhelming
 immensities of suns and nebula, of light and motion, are as they
 are, firstly, for the development of life culminating in man; sec-
 ondly, as a vast school house for the higher education of the
 human race in preparation for the enduring spiritual life to which
 it is destined." -ALFRED RUSsEL WALLACE.

 -N LINE with his policy of expanding the University
 as rapidly as the growth permitted into college
 units, Dr. Murphree foresaw early in his' adminis-
 tration a college for teachers. In 1912 the time
had arrived when steps could be taken definitely toward start-
ing such a college. The Peabody Education Board gave
$40,000 to the University for the purpose of erecting a build-
ing to house the education courses. Peabody Hall was built,
and the college launched under the leadership of Dean John
A. Thackston. Twenty-eight students were enrolled that first
year.
 During this term also, correspondence courses were started
for the instruction of non-resident teachers.
 The college grew steadily until the world war, when the
enrollment was about a hundred. In 1916, Dr. Harvey W.
Cox of the the Teachers' College faculty became dean. It was
at the beginning of that year that Dr. J. W. Norman, present
dean of the college, joined the faculty.
 "I shall never forget my first meeting with Dr. Murphree
and my first impressions of him," Dean Norman related.
"Dr. Cox took me over to introduce me to the president. I
felt a great desire to inquire of the president if his outstand-
ing appearance or his intelligence had won him his position!
But of course I contented myself with an amiable conversa-
tion with him.

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