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College Notes. Hickman College, Hickman, Ky., has conferred the degree of D.D. upon Rev. N. B. Graves. Prof. R. AV. Edenfield, well known through his work at Hearn Academy, has consented to remain during next year at the head of the school. He will devote his attention during vacation to the erec tion of new buildings. Prof. H. L. Fairchild, of the University of Roch ester, Secretary of the Zoological Society of Amer ica, will spend the summer on the Pacific Coast and thereafter attend the International Geological Congress in the City of Mexico. The bill of Mr. Connor of Bartow county, provid ing for the appropriation of a hundred thousand dollars for the development of the Agricultural College of the University of Georgia, has passed the House of Representatives by a good majori ty. Dr. H. R. Bernard has accepted the position of Assistant Secretary of the Educational Commission of the Georgia Baptist Convention. He will be lo cated in Macon as assistant to Dr. S. Y. Jameson, Secretary of the Educational Commission and Pres ident of Mercer University. The Bainbridge, Georgia, Chapter of the Daugh ters of the Confederacy at a recent meeting, decid ed to send two daughters of Confederate veterans to college during the coming year. The Georgia Normal and Industrial College at Milledgeville, is one of the colleges but the other has not yet been decided upon. The ladies will raise the necessary funds by a series of entertainments. Miss Christine La Barraque, now twenty-eight years old, who has been blind since she was a baby, graduated at the head of a law class in California law school and has been admitted to the bar in that State. She is now in New York City complet ing her musical education. Realizing that a blind woman can hardly practice law successfully, she has decided to make her living out of music. Much interest in college circles has been taken in the attack on sport by President Chamberlain of McKendree College, Lebanon, 111., in his annual re port. Besides recommending the unconditional abolition of football, Dr. Chamberlain virtually attributed much of our current grafting and anarch istic tendencies to the prevailing spirit and practices of inter-collegiate games. President Schurman of Cornell University in a recent address before his students and faculty, made the following statement: “The love of money and the reckless pursuit of it is undermining the national character. But the nation, thank God, is beginning to perceive the fatal danger. The reaction caused by the recent revelations testifies to a moral awakening. At heart the nation is still sound, though its moral sense has been too long hypnotized by material prosperity, ’ ’ Wwnte qi m wM mi. js The Golden Age for July 19, 1906. Two Ambitious Girls. The Editor’s life work for a number of years has been that of giving assistance to struggling girls whose poverty closed the way to higher education. His efforts in this sacred cause have made his name a familiar one to many who do not know him per sonally. The letters given below are published in the conviction that no one can read them without being moved; and in the sincere and prayerful hope that some who are blessed with means will find an avenue to happiness and heartsease by coming to the assistance of deserving girls who have set their eyes upon the upward road: Dear Bro. Upshaw:—You may be surprised to hear from this little middle-Georgia girl again, for I wrote you about two years ago asking if away could be provided for me to enter Monroe. I’ve tried so many times and failed that despair has almost taken the place of hope. You wrote me if I could raise seventy-five dollars the other funds would be all right, but I had a brother in Mercer part of the term and papa was doing all he could for him, so the money was not allowed me, and next session will be the same and I shall be left again. I completed my high school course in 1904, but that’s not by any means a finished education. Papa has done, and is doing all he can, but it’s no easy matter to give nine children a completed education. I am ambitious and shall always be, and, natural ly do not like to see my boy and girls friends out stripping me when all I lack is means. I have been teaching in South Georgia, trying to raise the money to school myself, but had a pro longed case of sickness and my money went for doc tor bills. Seems like Fate is against me, but I am persist ent in the effort, and an advocate of a good educa tion and have begun nearly three months ahead of time trying to find some one to take an interest in my almost perished effort. I think it will revive if I can get some encourage ment from one who knows what an education means to the human soul. Bro. Upshaw, is there away for dependent girls to get an education or is it only for the few? I’ve tried so hard many times to enter college and failed that I am almost afraid to make another attempt, but try once more I shall. I trust this will not be an intrusion, and remem ber my gratitude will have no bounds if you can conceive of some plan to help me. If there can or cannot be away prepared for me, please let me hear from you at your earliest oppor tunity.” My Dear Mr. Upshaw:—l am very anxious to at tend “Monroe,” but my father says, he is not able to pay my expenses. I have heard of your kindness to girls in secur ing an education; and I write to know if you can help me. I attended last year, and completed the Sopho more class there. lam making a specialty in “Ora tory.” My teacher said I could finish the course in “Emerson method” in two (2) years. As this is the method tought in Monroe, I would like so piuch to attend Monroe, and stay two years—and com plete the course. I am so anxious to complete my education, so I can be self-supporting. When I have finished, the first money that I make I will pay you. I can give you good security on the note. My father is a Methodist minister of the North. Georgia Conference. His health failed, and he was superannuated the years 1903-04; and the past two (2) years he has had light work. He has charge of a circuit this year—and it pays him a small salary. It will be impossible for him to help me any at all this year; and I don’t feel like I have any time to lose. Please let me hear from you as early as possible. The Y. M. C. A. at Mercer. By J. L. D HILLYER. When I see the rather frequent references that appear in various publications about the Y. M. C. A. at Mercer, I am reminded of something that ought to be said again. A few years ago I was a boy listening to the stories of old men, before I was aware of it, the scene had shifted, the old men had passed to their various exits. The stage has filled up with young people, and I have assumed the role of the patri arch, to tell the stories of past faithfulness that should never be forgotten. Fifteen years ago everybody in Atlanta knew Dr. J. S. Lawton. In 1835 he was at Penfield with his brother, William. They were students of Mercer Institute, General James Longstreet was there at that time. Among the students there were seven or eight pious boys, to whom religion was a reality, and prayer a delight. The two Lawtons were among them. I don’t know certainly the others, but I think that Tryon and Huckabee, whose lives were given to planting the word of truth in Texas were there. A little later, Thomas Gibbs who serv ed the Stone Mountain Assciation as clerk so long and faithfully was with them. So came Jesse M. Wood and B. F. Tharp a little later. Those boys, away back there in 1835, nine years before the Y, M. C. A. was born and twenty-one years before it began work in Georgia—those boys established as a permanent institution, the “Young Men’s Twilight Prayer Meeting of Mercer University.’’ The suc cessive relays of students from then on, until now, have kept the fires burning on that altar. Many a time as the years have rolled by, the Holy Spirit has descended upon that prayer room in pentecostal power. Many a Mercer student has been led to Christ right there, and in those simple services, seeds of truth have been sown, that have, years afterwards brought forth a harvest of righteous ness and salvation, in the lives of men who left those scenes before they were saved. May the Y. M. C. A. never allow the Twilight Prayer Meeting to fail. If only two met let them hold the meeting and save the occasion. If only one comes let him there and then pray for the con tinuance of the meetings. One stormy night in sixty nine I went to the prayer meeting. The only other attendant that night, was not a Christian. I had the inexpressable joy of leading that boy to Christ a few weeks later, 9 9