Rearview Mirror: The Commerce of Corruption

Georgia Tech Archives/George C. Griffin Photograph Collection (http://history.library.gatech.edu/items/show/21038)In their last letter, addressed to the first chairman of the Board of Regents, the Board of Trustees reflected on what it meant to serve the Institute, and what their place in the changing tides of time were. And that Board of Regents was, without exaggeration, composed entirely of no one connected to Tech. Rather, with the way the state legislature had connived independent oversight away from the Institute, Tech was no longer in charge of its own destiny. Rather, the Board of Regents was a new construct controlled entirely by graduates of the school in Athens. That would only spell doom, with the Athenians finally having a way to pull strings on the Atlanta campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dark clouds loomed over the school on the hill on the north side of Atlanta.

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