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College Notes.
The Board of Trustees of Andrew Female College,
at Cuthbert, Ga., has elected Rev. J. W. Malone
President of that institution. Mr. Malone has ac
cepted the position and is beginning an active cam
paign in the interest of the school. He is a native
Georgian, and a graduate of Hiawassee College in
Tennessee and Vanderbilt University. His princi
pal work heretofore has been at the Conference Fe
male College of Mississippi, and the Woman’s Col
lege of Mississippi. Prof. 0. S. Dean has been
elected Vice-President of the institution.
Plans are being made for the beautifying and
development of the land recently donated to thei
University of Georgia by George Foster Peabody.
Charles W. Leavitt, the celebrated landscape engi
neer of New York, has gone over the property and
says that it is ideal for the purposes intended. On
the part of the land to be devoted to the department
of Forestry, it is proposed to construct a large
lake of some twenty-five acres in area. It is pro
posed to use a part of this tract in establishing
a cattle farm in connection with the department of
Agriculture in the University.
Vice-Chancellor B. L. Wiggins, of the University
of the South at Suwanee, in his annual report to the
Board of Trustees, takes up the cudgel in behalf of
the game of foot-ball in the South. Referring to
what President Eliot of Harvard says of foot-ball
in his last annual report, Professor Wiggins says:
“The evils of which President Eliot complains are
not present here at Suwanee. In recent years no
one has ever questioned the eligibility of our play
ers, nor the purity of our athletes. Serious injuries
are unknown, and minor injuries comparatively
few. ’ ’
It is probable that after this expression has been
made the Trustees of the University of the South
will not engage in legislation against the game of
foot-ball in that institution.
Shorter College, at Rome, Ga., has issued its
twenty-ninth annual catalogue. The volume con
tains a bulletin of the college, and is very handsome
ly prepared. Pictures of the main building and of
the proposed group of new buildings are given. Un
der the Presidency of Dr. T. J. Simmons, the insti
tution is entering upon an era of largely increasing
prosperity and usefulness.
The new “English Hymnal,” issued by the Ox
ford University Press in England, contains selec
tions from many modern authors.
Aubrey De Vere, the Irish poet, is represented
by one hymn; Laurence Housman, the author of
“An English Woman’s Love Letters,” has twelve,
and William Canton, who wrote “The Invisible
Playmate” some years ago, contributes two.
Here are a few names famous in literature found
in the index: Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle,
William Cullen Bryant, Thomas Moore, Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, Edmund Spenser, Lord Tennyson,
Christian Rossetti and J. G. Whittier.
Together appear the names of poets so adverse
in style and age as the venerable Bede, Charles’
Kingsley and Rudyard Kipling. Kipling is repre
sented by the “Recessional.” Mr. Gladstone is
credited with one, “Oh, Lead My Blindness by the
Hand.”
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The Golden Age for July 12, 1906.
Guy Talmadge Bernard.
We take pleasure in presenting a picture of Guy
Bernard, who was chosen by his class-mates of Au
gusta College of Medicine, to represent his college
at the recent commencement of the University of
Georgia. He is the son of Dr. H. R. Bernard, well
known and distinguished for his work in the min
istry, and in connection with Mercer University.
He has completed his third year at the Augusta
Medical College, having borne his own expenses
during that time by his work during vacation. His
record in the college does him great credit, and he
reflected credit upon his class and the institution
by his speech. Throughout his address was distin
guished by a clear and dignified conception of the
duties of the physician to his profession and his
fellow men, and we cannot forbear quoting a pas-
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sage or two which voice the entire tone of his ad
dress :
“Medicine is now in the midst of a notable period
of its history, a period of reconstruction and reno
vation, a true Renaissance, not only an extraordina
ry revival of learning, but a complete transforma
tion in our educational methods. As much has been
done in the prevention as in the cure of disease.
We recognize to-day the limitations of the art, we
know better the diseases curable by medicine, and
those which yield to exercise and fresh air; we have
learned to realize the intricacy of abnormal proces
ses and to meet them by improved methods of thera
peutics and surgery. The list of diseases which can
be positively cured is an ever-increasing one, the
number of diseases, the course of which can be fa
vorably modified is an ever-growing one, the num
ber of incurable diseases (which is large, and prob
ably always will be large), is diminishing, but year
by year, as disease is known better, it can be treated
more successfully. ’ ’
“The medical profession demands of a man not
the best that he can do, but it exacts of him the
very best that can be done in the light of our pres
ent knowledge.”
“Aside from the general purpose of treating the
diseased conditions of the body, the medical pro
fession assumes a moral responsibility. A certain
amount of responsibility should be felt by every
loyal citizen, but most heavily does it rest on the
shoulders of the three liberal professions, the law,
the ministry, and medicine. On the tripod, the
members of which are in constant living contact
with all ranks of society, rest the walfare of our
body politic, and should we prove recreant to our
trust, where is the hope for the body at large?
The minister and the priest deal with the man as
a responsible agent in his relationship to God; the
lawyer who sees man differentiated in his complex
relationships, deals with the fundamental princi
ples of the Justinian Code, which says: ‘Thou shalt
do thy neighbor no hurt.’ It sometimes becomes a
province of the physician to act the role of both
priest and lawyer. These three professions, to a
superficial view entirely distinct, are yet closely
united by common bond on one aim, the upholding
of public morals. Each is saturated with humani
tarian ideas, and the term liberal advertises the fact
that he who claims it, stands in relations of tender
sympathy and helpful interest to his fellow-man to
whom his services belong for the establishment of
good and the relief of the oppressed. Eliminate the
moral side of any great calling, it is no longer a
calling, but a mere trade.”
A “Corner” in Genius.
Blue Mountain can justly lay claim to a “corner”
in genius, for I found the three leading literary
lights in Mississippi in the faculty of the college
there. Professor Booth Lowrey is one of the four
distinguished sons of General Lowrey, the great con
federate chieftain, “preacher of righteousness” and
and educational pioneer who founded Blue Mountain
College just after the close of the Civil War. He
has the remarkable record of having delivered more
than four hundred pay-lectures in his native state.
Some of his bright poems of sentiment and “para
bles in verse” will sparkle in the columns of The
Golden Age.
Professor A. 11. Ellett is a scientist, a poet, a
philosopher and an orator. His superb genius, too,
will occasionally enrich our readers. And Prof.
David A. Guyton, the “Blind Milton” of Missis
sippi, is one of the most truly remarkable young
men I have ever known. Blind from childhood, ed
ucating himself through all the difficulties that the
owner of sightless eyes must face and feel, David
E. Guyton has already won a place among Southern
thinkers and writers that is at once the pride of his
friends and an inspiration to deathless effort when
ever his life-story is known.
That three such men of genius should be found
together in one great faculty shows how wisely
Lowrey and Berry have given their students the
best while building up one of the largest private
institutions in America. W. D. U.
Professor B. F. Pickett, the newly elected Presi
dent of Gordon Institute, has begun his duties, and
is very enthusiastic in his expectations for the
school. He has been engaged for the past five years
as Superintendent of the public schools of Newnan,
Georgia.
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