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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.” OWI Inn - Ofwßi 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- ■jBL •T*C'• GUY TALMADGE BERNARD. 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. 9