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Prize Offer For Best Essay.
The Golden Age will give a first prize of $50.00
in gold, a second of $25.00 and a third of SIO.OO
for the best essay not exceeding 1,000 words, written
by any college student, dealing with some phase of
the ‘ 1 Making and Meaning ,of Citizenship. ’ ’
The contest will close July 4, 1906, and the rules
governing the same can be obtained on application
to the Contest Editor, Golden Age.
Winthrop —An Interdenominational
School.
Hjow very often we hear it said that State
colleges are so far behind in the religious work.
In r lc t we know of girls whose parents have not
Sent them to Winthrop because it was a State school
and they feared their girls would be dwarfed in their
religious training. Now, as regards the work of the
Young Women’s Christian Association at Winthrop
here are a few statistics. The number enrolled in
the college is about five hundred (500), of which
about four hundred and fifty (450) are in the dor
mitories, consequently under the direct influence
of the Association.
Os this 450 there are 280 members of the Associa
tion. The number enrolled in Bible Classes is two
hundred and ten (210), the number in Mission study
about one hundred (100), the average attendance
of the weekly evening prayermeetings is two hun
dred, and of the ‘‘morning watch,” sixty (60).
These are mere numbers and not anything to boast
of, but they stand for something and that some
thing is the spirit behind it. Now, unless you
were here you don’t know what that spirit is, but
there are those who have had some experience, in
different schools and on coming to Winthrop have
said, “I never saw such a spirit of earnestness
among so many.” Another, “There is the finest
spirit among the girls at Winthrop, and to my
mind it lies in the influence of the Y. W. C. A.”
It is true that the influence of the Association
is not small, for its work is not a thing of minor
importance. The best material in the College is in
the Association. The officers are the ones who stand
the highest in scholarship, in strength of character
and influence. They are consecrated girls, and their
work does not end when they leave college. Three
of Winthrop’s graduates go out this year to the
foreign fields, all of whom volunteered while in
college.
She realizes the necessity of keeping in touch
with the Christian work and sends from ten to fif
teen delegates to the summer conferences in Ash
ville and just a few weeks ago sent five delegates
to the student volunteer convention in Nashville.
This association pays half in the support of a mill
kindergarten, also supports one Indian orphan, be
sides her regular association budget.
Now, from these few statements you see that
Winthrop, altho a State college is not behind in her
religious work. ESTELLE BECK,
Winthrop N. and I. College. Corresp.
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The Golden Age for April 12, 1906.
President Branson of the State Normal.
In President E. C. Branson, of the State Normal
School this great institution has been enriched for
years by the love and labors of one of the notable
educators of our country. There are many men in
Georgia now distinguished in the pulpit, the school
room and commercial world who are reflecting hon
or on the “Old North State,” and Eugene Cunning
ham Branson is one of them. Born at Morehead
City, N. C., August 6th, 1861, the son of Rev. L.
and Edith Branson, he has verified again the fact
that preachers, after all, have given some great
sons to the world. Educated at Scott and Atkin’s
Millitary Academy, Raleigh, and at Trinity College,
Durham, he afterwards became twice a Master of
Arts at the Peabody Normal College, Nashville. In
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PRESIDENT E. C. BRANSON.
ISS9 he married Miss Lottie Lanier of West Point,
Ga., thus linking himself to one of the strongest
families of the State. She has been in closest sym
pathy with the educational work of her distinguish
ed husband, and Georgia is indebted to her for the
winsome inspiration which she has poured into his
busy life. Before coming to his present position,
Professor Branson was principal of the Raleigh
High School, and Superintendent of the Public
■Schools at Wilson, N. C., and Athens, Ga. He
filled the chair of Pedagogy at the Normal and In
dustrial School at Milledgeville, and then came to
a similar position at the State Normal School,
where, on the death of the lamented president, Dr.
S. D. Bradwell, Professor Branson became his suc
cessor. Here the great work of his life has been
done. His position has been difficult and responsi
bilities like an avalanche have come upon him. But
he has not only been a successful educator; he has
known how to win the friendship of men who love
to do good with their money. He has wisely and
successfully convinced legislators that the State
Normal 'School needed their friendship, and a won
derful work of extension and enlargement has been
accomplished under his administration. But they
have not done enough. President Branson has felt
the burden so greatly and labored so continuously
that his health has been in great danger. The pity
is—the everlasting pity—that Georgia has allowed
so many of her educators to feel the fatal weight
of financial burden and anxiety, and many of Dr.
Branson’s friends have been fearful that he would
have to lay down his burden in the midst of such
splendid growth and development.
E. C. Branson is a man of inspiring energy, wide
scholarship, brilliant mind, and above all, a golden
heart. Georgia is richer and the world is brighter
and better because he is an educator in love with
his work—receixing his highest commission not
from the State or the Normal School trustees, but
from the God who has called him to be a teacher of
teachers.
Mr. Carnegie Visits the Tech Boys.
Through Prof. Mathesons’ admirable enterprise,
we have received this year a number of distin
guished visitors. President Roosevelt, Doctor Rem
sen, President Francis, of the St. Louis Exposition;
Will I). Upshaw, and several others.
We boys are becoming quite accustomed to act
ing the role of hosts, and we certainly did our best
when Mr. Carnegie, who is to give ns a splendid
library, came to see us last week. We gave him
rousing yells when Ins a”to puffed in sight, cheered
him especially when in his short address he com
plimented our great school and student body, and
went with him in typical school boy enthusiasm as
he emphasized his words with energetic blows of his
soft brown hat.
His visit was over in fifteen or twenty minutes,
but he left an impression which we will not soon
forget. LEWIS R. JACKSON.
Following is a poem by Prof. George Herbert
( larke, written on the occasion of the Memorial
Exercises of the late Walter Barnard Hill, L. L. I).,
Chancellor of the University of Georgia, held
April 10th in the chapel of the University.
To Chancellor Hill.
Honor and worth and work filled up your plan:
To make the little large, the fettered free,
To mould in college halls the gentleman
And Georgian-to-be.
M ho should not dream the dastard dream of gain
Through weaklings wronged, nor of the empty
praise
That babbling words may win, but choose the pain
Os long, laborious days,
And in that toil-pain finding power and joy.
Pursue it, leaving hope of meed with One
Who mints His finest gold with due alloy,
And sees its service done.
0 liberal student of the old and new,
Bred of your spirit other men shall rise,
Serene and wise and brave, and look on you
With unforget ful eyes.
So rest in peace, or, if it chance that Death
Discover wider reaches, ampler rede.
May your strong soul, while it adventureth,
Remember still our need!
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