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ft I> ,-. 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. —7l ST- 'll WW ill Fl ;|l® wSfiawl 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 r/i Ji jF * \ I • JI ' • ft' VT. . g J -Jg ■ - * ■ fl I? . fl 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! 9