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College Notes. Prof. W. H. Kilpatrick, formerly Vice-President of Mercer University, has been made Principal of the Columbus High School. Prof. K. G. Matheson who was recently elected President of the Georgia Technological School has received the degree of LLD from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va. The commencement exercises of the Georgia Tech nological School have been recntly concluded. A large class in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical En gineering received degrees. The annual address was delivered by Dean J. E. Russell, of Columbia University. An address was made by George Foster Peabody. Prof. Edward T. Holmes of Mercer Un iversity was married on June 27th to Miss Elizabeth Virginia Jemison, of Birming ham, Ala. Dr. M. B. Wharton, now of Eufaula, Ala., and at one time editor of the Christian Index, has received the degree of LL.D, from the University of Alabama. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars has been given to Furman University, Greenville, S. C., by the general Education Society to be used in the erection of a building to be known as the James C. Fur man Science Hall. The gift is conditional upon the raising of the similar amount by the friends of the institution. A large part of this has already been raised. At a recent meeting of the Board of Education of the Public Schools of At lanta, Ga., it was decided to establish play grounds for the children of the city in two of the public school yards. The rule re quiring teachers to attend Normal school during the summer vacation was dispensed ■with. The schools will be formally opened on Tuesday, September 4th for their next term. The degree of Doctor of Divinity has been con ferred upon Rev. John Roach Straton, formerly of Georgia and now pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Chicago. Dr. Straton is a brilliant young man who has many friends in Georgia and the South. His home was formerly in Atlanta, and he attended college at Mercer University. He taught for some time at Baylor University and was called from there to his present pulpit. George Foster Peabody has recently made a gift to the University of Georgia of three hundred and fifty acres of land to be used in enlarging the Uni versity campus. The campus now contains nine hundred acres and will be made one of the finest in the South. At the Alumni banquet a notable ad dress was made by Hon. J. J. Connor, of Bartow County, author of the bill appropriating a hundred thousand dollars to the University fund for the de velopment of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. \ IHm™! AiKf iMMI• - WMHlMilfFfe-. | w I'iwWT A B\ MM I I II * —' BMgwaßaß' ■I weOslF J|». <& JHußHffll J//k Chancellor D. C. Barrow. The election of Dean David Crenshaw Barrow to the high office of Chancellor of the University of Georgia is very gratifying to the entire alumni, and indeed to everyone who knows him. Continuously since his graduation from the Uni versity in 1871, he has been a member of the Facul ty, and by his sincere interest in them, and faith ful devotion to them, has invariably won a warm place in the regard of the student body. Believing that he speaks the experience of a typi cal alumnus the writer begs to say that he has long since forgotten the calculus taught him by Prof. Barrow, but has not forgot, and can never for get, the beautiful ideal of blameless Christian life so sweetly wrought into reality before us daily by 11 Uncle Dave.” Professor Barrow taught with - y •• • • ' • - ... ■•‘£§888c§«g888» f w < lilll I wIJ * jiHL CHANCELLOR D. C. BARROW. ability the very necessary subject of mathematics, but “Uncle Dave” has walked with God before more than a generation of students. What Professor Bar row taught may crumble and rust in the dusty tomes of memory, but what 11 Uncle Dave” taught ennobles mankind, purifies life, and elevates the ideals of the strong men who make Georgia. It will live to bless the world throughout Time, and in Eternity will rest on his loving brow, a crown of fadeless glory. Without a trace of affectation "Uncle Dave” lives more nearly the loving, trusting, believing life of Jesus than the writer has ever seen elsewhere. He loves the boys—genuinely loves them; he be lieves in them with full and simple faith; he trusts them completely. And the boys—they love 11 Uncle Dave” like a father, and do anything for him. This case occurred recently while he was acting as Chancellor. A student had been guilty of certain conduct which demanded discipline. The wayward boy was up before him. Clearly of the two men Uncle Dave” bore the burden of sorrow. Said The Golden Age for June 28, 1906. he, “you have done something very wrong. You have been doing wrong quite a while. I suppose I ought to expel you,” and here the good man lost his voice from very sorrow, “but that won’t do any good. Suppose you quit your bad ways 'and stay here. That will be better. Let’s try it.” And it is a fact that the boy stayed there, and continued his work in a manly, honorable fashion for the sake of “Uncle Davie.” Let it not be thought that Chancellor Barrow’s strength lies alone in his greatness of heart. He is a very wise man, a great student, has the rare gift of seeing the future mirrored in the glass of the present, and possesses the patience and constructive genius to transmute possibilities into actualities. He will be ably assisted in his great work by the virile and bold Chas. M. Snelling, elected Dean of the Faculty. One in heart and one in purpose with Chancellor Barrow, Dean Snelling, ready and suave, insistent and logical, is the per fect complement to his winsome chief. W. F. UPSHAW, Class of 1898. Prize Essay Contest. Tn response to the many requests which have come to us we have decided to prolong the time fixed for the closing of the prize essay contest from July 4th to September Ist. The reason for this as given by the students desiring to compete for this prize is that during the closing weeks of the ses sion at the various schools and colleges there was not time for this contest and therefore, with the vacation period there would be ample opportunity to prepare and present the essay. We do not think it necessary to repeat here all the rules of this contest as they can be had on appli cation to this office. But we wish to state again that THE WORK MUST BE THE ORIGINAL AND UNAIDED EFFORT OF STUDENTS; we cannot, of course, be cer tain that no outside assistance is given, but on this point WE TRUST ABSOLUTE LY TO THE HONOR OF THE CONTEST ANT. The Prizes offered are SSO, $25 and sls in gold respectively, for the three best essays on some phase of the “ Making and Meaning of Citizenship.” Editor. Major Darwin, son of Charles Darwin and at one time a member of the British Parliament, has been appointed a lecturer on “Municipal Owner ship and Public Service Industries” at Harvard for next year. The hundred and fifth commencement of the Uni versity of Georgia has just closed. The following medals and prizes were awarded: The Freshman prize for general excellence, J. M. Michael. Ready writers prize, L. S. Moore. Prize for best drilled cadet, F. S. Colbert. Senior French prize, fifty dol lars in gold, S. H. Bradberry. The German prize, fifty dollars in gold, C. N. Fuddson. Psychologi cal essay, fifty dollars in gold, J. J. Hill. The W. J. Bryan prize, for best essay on “Our Form of Gov ernment,” M. F. Goldstein. The Junior oration prize, J. K. McDonald. Agricultural essay, R. L. Nixon. Several prizes and medals have not yet been awarded. $ 9 9