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Prize Offer for Best Essay.
It often happens that in a crowded curriculum
there is no place designed for the contemplation and
study of the duties of citizenship. This fact causes
The Golden Age to announce the following prize
offer:
A first prize of $50.00 in gold, a second of $25.00
and third of SIO.OO will be given for the best es
say not exceeding 1,000 words, written by any col
lege student, dealing with some phase of the “Mak
ing and Meaning of Citizenship.”
The subject is thus broadly given in order to
develop originality of thought among students, and
in determining the reward, originality will be re
garded as a special feature.
The contest will close July 4, 1906, and the rules
governing the same will be announced in an early
issue.
In the first issue of The Golden Age the above
offer was made, but because of a press of other
items, it has not been repeated in these columns.
The offer, however, is a standing one, and it is hoped
that students everywhere will compete for the cash
prizes.
The rules governing the contest are the simplest
possible, the only essentials being as follows:
First. Manuscripts must be original and altho
college papers, written for educational purposes
solely, will be eligible even after they have been
submitted to fill college requirements, manuscripts
must not have been published before.
Second. Manuscripts must be written on one side
of the paper only, and type-written if possible.
Third. Each manuscript must be numbered, un
signed and accompanied by a sealed envelope con
taining the writer’s name, while the exterior of the
envelope is marked with the number used on the
manuscript. This enables prizes to be awarded
without knowledgee of the contestant’s name.
Fourth. All manuscripts must be sent to “Con
test Editor, Golden Age, Atlanta, Ga., ” and must
be received before July 4th.
The committee on awards will be chosen from
prominent educators, and all manuscripts will be
the property of The Golden Age.
Any information, further than what is given
here, will be gladly supplied on application to Con
test Editor, when accompanied with self-addressed
and stamped envelope.
A Donation to Mercer University.
It is becoming more and more universal for us
to feel that the best possible memorial of the dead
is to give some tangible help to the living. Such
a memorial has recently been made to Mercer Uni
versity in the form of a splendid addition to the
college library. Forty handsome volumes of “The
World’s Best Classics” have recently been placed
in the library by a wife whose husband has been
called hence, but whose memory is thus kept sacred
by her who is left. For many years both husband
and wife united in an effort to help young men
through college, and in the effort both found per
sonal happiness. It is, therefore, a fitting and
beautiful thought for the wife to continue the good
work alone, which we understand she does, most
conscientiously. The donation referred to is in
line with this work, and it is hoped that others
may be induced to follow this good woman’s ex-
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The Golden Age for March 29, 1906.
ample. Not only to Mercer but to other institu
tions of learning or to any cause which needs prac
tical assistance, this same idea might well apply,
and we welcome in this column all such items of
general interest, and only regret that in the present
instance the donor’s name is withheld by special
request.
Adiel J. Moncrief.
The New President of Cox College.
Tn presenting to our readers this week the picture
of Rev. A. J. Moncrief, the new president-elect of
■Cox College, we seek to serve one of the most gifted
men and one of the most honored institutions in
the South.
For more than half a century Georgians have felt
the enriching influence of the Cox family—one of
the most remarkable in culture, consecration and
achievement that the State has ever known.
La Grange is classic ever more, because this su
perb family wrought there so long and so grandly.
And since their removal to Atlanta’s beautiful su
burb, College Park, the famous institution has felt
the quickening influence of the life of the great
Southern metropolis, yet preserving the wholesome
Christian influence which has so long been the
boon and the crown of this honored institution.
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ADIEL J. MONCRIEF.
Less than a year ago the beloved President Prof.
Charles C. Cox, was called to the Great Beyond.
His cultured and faithful consort, with noble cour
age and wonderful skill, continued the great work
her husband laid down. But the loss of the guid
ing hand, the brilliant brain and the true heart of
Chas. C. Cox left a void that it seemed impossible
to fill. Feeling the need, therefore, of a new presi
dent, the management chose Mr. Moncrief as its
distinguished head. That the choice was a wise one,
it is safe to say the future will prove, for even the
successful past of this famous institution will be
upheld in its great future.
Adiel J, Moncrief is a man of high Christian
spirit, of commanding scholarship and magnetic
eloquence—with a character so pure and so noble
that the tenderest parent or the sternest guardian
■can feel safe indeed, to entrust the beloved child to
his molding influence. As an educator, as an ex
ponent of the Divine Word as well as a Southern
gentleman of true chivalric character, Mr. Moncrief
holds first rank and the patrons of the institution
he represents should congratulate themselves on
the enlarged usefulness of Cox College which we
believe the administration of Mr. Moncrief will
bring.
Dining the time of Milton, the education of the
youth consisted principally of Latin, Greek and
elementary mathematics. While such training de
veloped many of our greatest writers and poets,
and was sufficient at that time, it is absurd to con
sider such an education practical at the present age
for the average youth.
Modernizing education has been accomplished
only by hard labor, as it was greatly opposed and
hindered by the teachers of the ancient classics, but
these men were very impractical and astoundingly
ignorant of the real needs of the young men when
they began their journey through life.
It is only recently that scientific and mechanical
departments have been added to our colleges and
universities, and only the best and largest insti
tutions have been able to afford them.
The high school of this city has been among the
few to offer to the students not only a literary, but
also a technical and commercial training. This
new feature has raised the value of the school to
a higher standard and has greatly increased its
enrollment.
YOUNG B. SMITH,
Atlanta. Correspondent.
Facilities of the Boys’ High School
As we enter the twentieth century, we find that
the course of civilization has greatly changed. It
is an age of development and improvement, and the
world is endeavoring to find the truth not only of
the material things about us, but also the mysteries
of the higher sciences, which treat directly or in
directly of the mind and the soul.
The wooden sailing craft of yesterday has
changed into the mi dity steamship of today, which
spans the ocean within a single week. The stage
coach of our forefathers has grown into the huge
locomotive which dashes across the continent with
incredible speed.
From ocean to ocean we hear the ring of the
anvil, and the hum of busy machinery. The thun
der-bolts of Jupiter have been harnessed by the
hands of men, and all the forces of nature have
been made to work for us.
All around us we find a marvelous change in every
department of human labor.
Probably the most important change which has
taken place is the change in education. This will
have more to do with influencing the civilization
of the coming age than any other factor.
Armed with two hundred letters from prominent
people all over the United States, Michael O’Sul
livan, an attorney, will go before the commission
on codes at Albany next week to present arguments
in favor of the bill providing for the abolition of
capital punishment.
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