{"id":127,"date":"2016-09-30T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/?p=127"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:17:57","slug":"demosthenian-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/demosthenian-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Demosthenian Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1803, the Demosthenian Literary Society is a student run organization that focuses on the value of debate and intellectual discussion. Forced to meet in classrooms during their initial years, students and alumni raised money to fund the construction of Demosthenian Hall in 1824, giving the society a permanent home on campus. Describing this new addition to campus, the <em>Athenian <\/em>describes the hall as a \u201chandsome Brick Building, with a beautiful hall\u2026in a flourishing condition\u201d(April 18, 1828). Advertising anniversary celebrations and debates in the local paper, the Demosthenian Society appears to have been very active in the college community, frequently engaging in debate with the Phi Kappa Society, a rival literary society on campus. In the years prior to the Civil War, however, the tone of these advertisements begins to change. Published in the <em>Southern Watchman<\/em> on July 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 1860, a note is addressed to the \u201cGentlemen of the Demosthenian and Phi Kappa Societies,\u201d emphasizing the importance of state pride and patriotism, calling on these young men to \u201cstruggle ever for her rights\u201d and to \u201cshed the last drop of your blood rejoicing, to defend her honor and protect her homes,\u201d wishing them \u201ca happy victory or else a glorious grave.\u201d A particularly notable member of the Demosthenian Society was Robert Toombs, who would later become a founding member of the Confederacy, serving as Secretary of State under Jefferson Davis (Reed, 296). While the society\u2019s website includes his name among those they consider notable members, there is no real acknowledgment concerning his role as a founding member of the Confederacy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/images.jpg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/images.jpg 275w, https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/261\/2016\/09\/images-162x108.jpg 162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Resources:<\/p>\n<p>Demosthenian Literary Society at The University of Georgia, \u201cThe Hall,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlsuga.com\/\">http:\/\/www.dlsuga.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Athens Historic Newspaper Archive, <a href=\"http:\/\/athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu\/athnewspapers-j2k\/search\">http:\/\/athnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu\/athnewspapers-j2k\/search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reed, Thomas Walter. <em>History of The University of Georgia <\/em>(unpublished typescript)<em>. <\/em>1946. <a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/reed\/\">http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/reed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1803, the Demosthenian Literary Society is a student run organization that focuses on the value of debate and intellectual discussion. Forced to meet in classrooms during their initial years, students and alumni raised money to fund the construction of Demosthenian Hall in 1824, giving the society a permanent home on campus. Describing this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/demosthenian-hall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Demosthenian Hall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/museumsparksandmonuments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}