GEORGE TOWN UNIVERSITY

a Catholic institution under the administration of the Jesuit Order, founded in George town, D. C., in 1789. By an Act of Congre pa ed in 1815 it was authorized to grant academic degrees, and in 1833 it received from the Pope the right to grant degrees in philosophy and theology. It also has departments devoted to the arts, medicine, dentistry and law. In 1921-22 it had a student body of 2,471 and a faculty of 264. Its two libraries contain 128,000 volumes. institution, founded in 1821, in Washington, D.C. It has departments of law, engineering, medicine, pharmacy, arts and sciences. It has a library of 55,000 volumes. In 1921 it had an enrollment of 4,164 students, with a, faculty of 220. rE The tot otal income C during 1921 was ' the most southerly of a United need States; bounded by Tenne ee and N.! Carolina on N.; 8. Carolina and Atlantic Ocean on E.; Florida on 8.; and Alabama on W.; length, c. 320 miles; breadth, | c. 250 miles; total area, c. 59,475 sq, | miles, of which almost 500 are water. | Capital is Atlanta, in N. W. interior. ' G. is divided, naturally, into five regions: the sea-islands—the home of the famous sea-island cotton—lying along the coast, with sand, marches, and woods—oak, palmetto, magnolia, cedar, etc.; the mainland is low and level for some 60 miles inland—with a salt marsh, near the sea—rich in soil and semi-tropical vegetation; beyond are the pine-barrens, with great forests of pitch-pine, but with numerous swamps; then come the sand-hills and fertile tracts with forests and yielding fruit, cotton, Indian corn, | oats, and other cereals; the country then becomes mountainous, with fertile valleys. In N. and W. lie the Appal a chi an Mts. (rising sometimes to c. 5,000 ft.); principal rivers are the Chattahoochee (part of W. boundary), along with the Flint, constituting the A pal a chi cola (navigable c. 300 miles), which flows into the Gulf of Mexico; the Savannah and Altamaha (nav i cable c. 300 miles), flow into the Atlantic. Climate is mild and, except in lowlands and swamp regions in §S., agreeable and healthy; mean temperature is 78° in summer and 47° in winter. Game is plentiful, and alligators are numerous in| the rivers. See Map U.S. G., which is named after George mi was founded by James Ogle thorpe (c. 1733) as a place of refuge for poor debtors and religious refugees, but failed in this object; it succeeded, however, in its aim of protecting N. and S. Carolina from the Spaniards and French. G,' adopted the Constitution of U. S. in 1788. Before Civil War G. joined 8.: Confederacy; rejoined Union, 1868. H About 70 per cent. of the country is farmland, largely worked by negroes, G. is the second largest producer of cotton in U. 8. A.; it is also the greatest grower of sea-island cotton; cereais are cultivated in N. regions, the chief being corn and wheat; rice is grown near ths coast; the cultivation of sugar-cane is increasing; tobacco is grown; much fruit —oranges, melons, grapes, pineapples, peaches, and bananas—is grown, and, along with market vegetables, exported to the N.; large pine forests cover c. 42,000 sq. miles of land; and fisheries— belonging to the State—are of importance, especially oysters and shads. G, is rich in minerals, including gold, silver, coal, iron, and manganese ores: marble and other quarries are worked, and mineral springs occur. _Chief manufa ctures and industries are extensive cotton and woolen manufactures; iron and steel trades, lumber, timber-planing, flour and grist milling. Lumber and naval stores are shipped from Savannah, Darien, Brunswick, and he) _§8t. Mary. Savannah (with a population of 83,252) is the chief port; other cities are Atlanta, 200,600; August a, 52,548: _ Athens, and Brunswick. G. is divided into 146 counties; and is represented in Congre by two senators and eleven representatives. There are many schools and academies in G. and a Univ. of G. at Athens. In religion Baptists and Methodists predominate.. Pop. 1920, 2,895,832.