Rearview Mirror: A. French History Column

Captain Lyman Hall was a mover and a shaker, in every sense of the word. Not content with a meager tripling of the academic majors, moving Tech away from the hybrid shop-school concept and into the institutional model we know today, the man kept working. And working. While his peers were pushing academic boundaries, and his impending hire of international Renaissance man and football coach John Heisman (spoiler alert: they were eventually seen in the same place at the same time), advanced athletics, Hall was busy campaigning for Tech, pushing investment past the limits of the financially strained young school.

Not content with his dormitory and three new majors, no sooner did the Knowles…