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‘Mr. Charles C. Davison, Jr.
First Winner of the Golden Age Scholarship.
It is generally known that The Golden Age has
made a liberal offer of scholarships to students de
siring a college course in the various institutions
of learning throughout the South, and it is our
pleasure to announce that Mr. Charles C. Davison,
Jr., of Woodville, Ga., is the first agent to win his
scholarship.
More than four hundred students have entered
the contest, and there is scarcely a college in the
South which has not one or more representatives.
Mr. Davison is endeavoring to secure a course at
Mercer University, and for this end he has secured
sixty full paid subscribers to The Golden Age,
with the result that his tuition at Mercer for the
coming year will be paid by The Golden Age.
In 1898 Mr. Davison completed a course at the
Woodville (Ga.) High School, and then entered
the drug business in Washington, Ga., where he
remained two years. He was graduated from the
Atlanta College of Pharmacy in April, 1902, and
made the highest grade before the Georgia Board
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of Pharmacy that year, his percentage being 97.53.
After this time he was employed by some leading
pharmaceutical firms in the South, but it was not
until 1905 that he felt the urgent call to enter the
ministry.
The real preparation which Mr. Davison had for
active college life was that gained at the Southern
Students’ Conference at Macon, Ga., in the sum
mer of 1905. He entered the sophomore class of
Mercer University in the fall of 1906, and in May of
the same year was granted a license to preach by
the Southern Baptist Church of Savannah. As yet
he has been given no regular church, but is applying
for the Blountsville Baptist Church of Jones coun
ty, Ga.
Mr. Davison’s record as a student and as a busi
ness man are of an unusually high character, and
we congratulate him on his perseverance in secur
ing the scholarship offered by The Golden Age,
while we wish him all success in his future ca
reer.
Although impervious to many vissicitudes the
theory of the 11 divine right of Kings” must event
ually undergo radical alterations. Bavaria, for in
stance, is seriously considering the formal deposing
of the mad King Otto who has nominally held the
throne for years. Despite his insanity Otto is sur
rounded by all formal ceremonial which is carried
so far that his person is considered sacred, and as
it cannot be touched violently the poor King is in
a shocking state of neglect, which would be un
pardonable for even a pauper maniac in America.
A working bee invariably dies as a result of us
ing its stii
The Golden Age for August 16, 1906.
College Notes.
Randolph county, Georgia, recently voted in favor
of a county school tax.
During .the last collegiate year Clemson College
had an attendance of 643 students.
New buildings are being erected by Syracuse Uni
versity which, when completed, will cost $1,000,000.
As a result of the educational campaign in Texas,
it is hoped that the school fund for Baptist educa
tion in that state will be increased $140,000.
Rev. E. O. Ware, who has been for fourteen years
corresponding secretary of the Louisiana Mission
Board, has become the financial secretary of the
new Baptist College in Alexandria, La.
Rev. L. H. Eakes, a Georgian and an A. B. grad
uate of Emory, who has been living for some time
in Arkansas, has accepted a position as principal
of Gentry Hendrix Academy of that state.
The County Board of Education has arranged
for a nine months public school term, and arranged
the salary schedule so that the tuition will be prac
tically free in all the schools of the county.
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College of Lynchburg,
Ya., has become able through some recent gifts
to the institution to add $20,000 to the endowment
and will make an outlay of $95,000 in buildings
and equipment.
The summer number of the Wake Forest College
Bulletin has been issued and is very attractive in
form. A picture of the Alumni building consti
tutes the frontispiece and there are two beautiful
cuts of campus views. The volume also contains
the inaugural address of President Poteat.
Charles A. Stewart, of Macon, Georgia, ten years
of age, will enter the freshman class of Mercer
University at the opening of the fall session. He
will be the youngest freshman the unipersity ever
had, but is fully equipped for the work of that
class.
The indications are that every room in the dorm
itories of the State Normal School at Athens, Geor
gia, will be taken for the coming term. The two
new buildings on the campus are nearly completed,
and the equipment for the Smith Science Hall is
being installed. Two new teachers will assume
their duties at the opening of school: Miss Chloe
Allen, as laboratory assistant in Physics and Chem
istry, and Miss Clare Hardin, assistant in the music
department.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton University,
author among other books of “Fisherman’s Luck,”
is a great sportsman. This is his idea of the ideal
country for a vaction: “A trout country where
the nearest town is ten miles away and w-here this
town, w’hen you visit it, is so primitive that the
storekeeper will say to you, ‘No, sir; them’s two
articles I don’t keep, but the clams, I reckon, ye
kin find at the postoffice, an’ the onions ye kin git
at the barber’s acrost the way.’ ”
“Earnest Willie” at Carson and Newman
Several Years Ago.
By PROF. SHELBY E. JONES.
One can only wonder what changes; time /works.
We have kept pace with Mr. W. D. Upshaw just a
little, through the press. Since he was here lec
turing to our students he has grown and so have
we (I mean the college people who hung on his elo
quent lips during the presidency of Prof. J. T.
Henderson). What wonderful things the now far
reaching editor of The Golden Age has wrought in
the last few years for Christian education! Many
young but especially the young ladies, "5
ever hold his name in grateful remembrance for his
marvelous enterprise and endeavor in their behalf.
Merit always succeeds, and now our “Ernest Wil
lie” is on a throne whence his vigorous thinking will
sway a helpful scepter over hundreds and thou
sands of hearts and homes. Carson and Newman
has not forgotten him. A few months ago, Dr.
W. D. Jeffries, the ever-active, alert president, an
nounced in the chapel that “Earnest Willie” was ed
itor of The Golden Age, and he desired that a gTeat
many of the students would subscribe. I do not
know how many subscribed; at any rate said editor
visits us in golden thought and word. We all con
gratulate you, Air. Editor, and wish you a long and
glorious golden reign for truth and righteous/ess,
peace and purity, for which you so ably stand.
I know you will rejoice to hear from Carson and
Newman. Let me give yourself and readers a few
dots:
Since you were here there have gone up two
magnificent buildings, both for young ladies. The
Young Ladies’ Home costing about $12,000, and
The Sarah Swan of last year costing about $35,000.
Another young men’s home is now nearing comple
tion to cost about $12,000. This gives us accom
modations for about 300 students, say noth
ing of private homes open to the students. The
buildings have all modern conveniences. We be
lieve our institution is the cheapest in the South,
everything considered. You know our situation is
one of the most beautiful, and beautiful in the world.
If any of your readers want to live a while in the
purest atmosphere, anywhere to be found (except
Georgia) ; if any of your boys and girls wish to stay
off from your excellent schools for a while, we will
bid them a hearty welcome and send them back in
fine condition.
Come up yourself Air. Editor and see for yourself
that the half has not been told. I think next spring
you will find on our roll about 400 names of some,
of the brightest and prettiest girls anywhere to be
found (except in Georgia).
Carson and Newman College,
Jefferson City, Tenn.
P. S. I cannot describe your great new paper.
As one of our bachelor professors said concerning
a certain young lady, so I say of The Golden Age:
“She is immense.”
(Note: The editor hopes that the publication of
the foregoing communication from Professor Shel
by E. Jones of Carson and Newman College will not
be regarded as an “offence to modesty.” Profes
sor Jones sends a personal letter as urgent as the
article is generous, asking that this tribute from
Tennessee friends of other days be not sent to the
waste basket because of editorial “modesty.”
This letter “touches a spring that unlocks the
past” and makes memory fling “her wondrous
pinions o’er me.”
That lecture at Carson and Newman away back
in ’95 was the first invitation to go and speak in a
“foreign land.”
Fresh from an imprisonment of seven years on
bed the writer went on rolling chair to this college
town in the mountains of east Tennessee. Harley
Afountcastle, as loyal friend as mortal ever knew,
put by his work, poured his generous enthusiasm
into it and made the people think “something was
going to happen.” Those good people were as big
hearted as they were credulous. They came—they
came! The stalwart young President, John T.
Henderson—one of the most inspiring men who
ever touched any student’s life, came up and said:
“No such audience as this has ever been seen here
since this auditorium was built.”
That was the beginning. Professor Jones told
the papers about that audience. Somehow the
magic name of Gov. Bob Taylor got mixed up with
it. And that report, used on lecture announce
ments, has lured many an unsuspecting and expect
ant stranger since then to squander time and mon
ey in hearing the man from Georgia talk.
And ever since those golden days that visit to
Carson and Newman College has been a sunkissed
mountain peak along the shores of memory.—Edi
tor.)
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