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AMONQ THE SCHOOLS
The Lawrenceville Public School has opened with
an enrollment of two hundred and ten. This is the
largest number of pupils ever enrolled in the school.
Professor Charles A. Dean, of Opelika, Ala., has
been chosen as an assistant in the technological de
partment of the Boys’ High School of Atlanta. He
is thoroughly equipped for his work.
Brother Thomas Shanahan, who died recently at
Covington University, had been connected with the
University sixty-one years. During that time he
left the grounds of the institution only once, and
that was for a short visit to Baltimore.
Hon. Peter W. Meldrim, of Chatham county, Ga.,
one of the trustees of the University of Georgia,
can claim a distinction which is unique. He has
attended forty-one consecutive commencements of
the State University, the first three or four of them
being during his attendance at the University.
Rev. Dr. John G. Harrison has accepted the chair
of philosophy and education in Mercer University,
and will assume his duties at the opening of the
fall term. Dr. Harrison is a graduate of the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary, of the University
of Chicago, and has done advanced work in Ger
many.
Douglasville College began its work on Septem
ber 3 with an attendance of one hundred and sev
enty-five . At a recent Teachers’ Institute held for
the teachers of Douglas county the discussion ranged
from the question of how best to teach Fry’s Geog
raphy to “What shall we do with the courting boys
and girls?”
Professor Robert E. Park, Jr., of the chair of
English; Professor Morris, of the chair of German;
Professor T. J. Wooster, assistant in English; Pro
fessor Charles J. Moore, assistant in Latin, and Mr.
J. H. DeLoach, assistant in German, all of the Un
iversity of Georgia corps of instructors, are among
the converts of the phonetic system of spelling, and
have sent in their names as advocates of this style
to the simplified spelling board, of which George W.
Wharton is assistant secretary
Through a gift from Mrs. M. D. Young of five
acres of land for a site, an Industrial school will
soon be opened at Tallulah Falls to be known as the
Tallulah Falls Industrial School. The site is on a
beautiful knoll half way between the Lodge and the
village of Tallulah Falls. A building will be erect
ed as quickly as possible modeled after an Alumnae
Hall in Athens, Ga. It will contain four small
rooms, a large study hall, and an entertainment hall.
One of the rooms will be used as a work shop and
one as a kitchen for teaching hygienic cooking. This
school is to be established for the benefit of chil
dren and young people who otherwise would be una
ble to secure any kind of education.
The Lyman Hall laboratory which has just been
completed at the Georgia School of Technology, has
been thoroughly equipped with the most modern
and expensive apparatus, and will open for use at
the beginning of the fall term. The department
of mining engineering which has just been estab
lished in the school will be in charge of Professor
J. H. McCallie. Four additional professors have
been added to the faculty in the department of
mathematics. These gentlemen are Professor Floyd
Field, late of Evanston, Ill.; Dr. E. C. Colpitts, who
took the degree of doctor of philosophy at Cornell
University last June; Professor W. V. Skiles, late
of the Chicago University, and Professor J. B.
Smith, who was recently graduated from the Univer
sity of Virginia,
The Golden Age for September 13, 1906.
The statement has been made by a distinguished
public man of Japan that four-fifths of the Japan
ese boys are now studying English, and that this
language will soon become the language of Japan.
Professor Arthur S. Woodford, a graduate of the
Al ale Scientific School in 1881, has been chosen rec
tor of Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven,
which is one of the oldest Yale preparatory schools
in the country.
Dr. Eliot, of Harvard, was asked by a young miss
why he never played golf and he replied: “I have
always understood and myself believed that golf
is a game best adapted to old men. When I begin
to grow old, I suppose, I shall begin to play golf.”
Dr. W. C. Farabee, of the anthropological depart
ment of Harvard University, together with three
students, will begin next year a research expedition
at the headquarters of the Amazon. The party will
be absent three years. For a time their base will
be at Arequipa, Peru.
Preparations are being made for an Emory dinner
to occur in Atlanta on September 17th. There will
be a large number of distinguished men constitut
ing the alumni of this institution present. The old
est living graduate of the college is Robert W. Lov
ett of the class of forty-three. lie will probably be
present at the dinner.
Admission to the Louisiana State University has
been refused to several Filipino students. The ap
plication for their admission was made by the rep
resentative of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, the
Filipinos wishing to study agriculture. No reason
for their non-admission was given but it was under
stood thjit it was upon the grounds of possible race
prejudice which might exist against the Filipinos.
The city schools of Athens, Ga., opened on the
sth inst. with the largest opening attendance in
their history. It is expected that the total enroll
ment during the coming session will exceed eighteen
hundred. It is probable that the people of Athens
will vote fifty thousand dollars of bonds next year
to be used in the erection of two new school build
ings. A department of elocution has been added
this year to the high school grades of the white
school. The colored people of the city have ar
ranged for an addition of fourteen acres of land
for the manual and industrial department. This
will be used for farm purposes.
The Journal of Education of Boston states the
following editorially:
“Maine is handicapped in many ways education
ally because of her area and the limited portion that
is well settled, but she leads the states in the Un
ion in one important particular, in that she has 259
teachers to every 10,000 of the population. She has
more teachers in proportion to school population
than any other state. Maine also leads the proces
sion of the states in the number of teachers above
forty-five years of age.”
This splendid educational showing is attributed
to the influence of the prohibition laws enforced in
Maine.
Chattahoochee High School. *
The opening of the Chattahoochee High School,
located at Clermont, Ga., Hall county, was the best
this year in the history of the school. Although it
opened in a very busy season, the enrollment was
good at the very first. The first day was devoted
to public exercises and the organization of the dif
ferent departments.
Prof. A. W. Vanlloose of Brenau College Con
servatory, Gainesville, Ga., delivered a splendid ad
dress in the forenoon. He is one of the foremost ed
ucators in the state, at the head of one of the fore-
most institutions in the South. His address was well
received.
In the afternoon, Rev. F. C. McConnell, formerly
of Georgia but now one of the leading pastors of
Missouri, delivered an address on the subject of
education. He said many things which were inspir
ing to both pupils and teachers, but the main part
of his discourse was addressed to the patrons and
trustees present.
Rev. C. T. Brown, Col. W. I. Hobbs, Judge G.
IT. Prior, and Hon. T. H. Robertson made short
addresses which were well received.
With Prof. J. D. Underwood at the head of this
thriving institution, it does not require a prophet
to foresee for it a splendid future.
D. J. Blackwell.
Boys’ High School Opens.
The Boys’ High School opened Tuesday, Sept.
4, with 294 students, the largest enrollment ever
known in the history of the Institution on the first
day. The beginner has his choice of three courses
—Classical, Technological, and Business. The Clas
sical Course is the regular College Preparatory
Course. The Technological Course prepares the stu
dent to enter the Sophomore Class of Georgia School
of Technology, and the Business Course prepares the
boy to go into business at once on graduation, giv
ing him stenography, bookkeeping, etc. The grad
uating class this year is very large, having 56 mem
bers, including all three courses.
Because of the larger number of students this
year there are two additions to the faculty, Prof.
J. V. Hodges, assistant instructor in Science and
English, and Prof. C. A. Dean, assistant in the
technological work.
Wednesday the school assembled in . the hall for
an address by Prof. Slaton. He explained to the
new boys the ways and workings of the school and
made them feel quite at home. He then gave )a
little heart to heart talk in which, among other
things, he impressed upon the boys the fact that
making a character is a matter of far greater im
portance Ilian getting an education, and that it was
this fact that the school would strive for in all its
work.
The Alciphronian Literary and Debating Society
held its first meeting Friday, Sept. 7. James Jack
son Slaton, President; Carlisle Smith, Vice-Pres
ident, and Grady Wells, Secretary, are the first offi
cers.
The first debate was held and although it was
short, it served to show the new boys what they will
have to do. Several appointments have been made
among them Michael Gershon, Head Librarian and
Chas. Adams, School Treasurer.
The boys are now getting down to work and there
are certainly hopes for the best year the school has
ever had.
J. W. LeCraw, Cor.
A Song of Degrees.
We show in simple manner,
And with a hope to please,
The work which is expected
Os those who hold degrees.
Through four long years of study
Athletics prove the key,
With drafts on father’s check book
To get a glad A. B.
Next stage, the honorary,
Is made both wide and free;
Few men who gain distinction
Escape the LL. 1).
Put morning, noon and evening
The hardest work W' 1 see
Is keeping daily hustling
To hold a J. 6. B.—New York Sun,
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