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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, 9