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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 J -■W w Its 4jF-ii ■ JL L CHAS. C. DAVISON, Jr, 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.) 9