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THE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Mr. H. B. Van Valkenburg, secretary of the Uni
versity of Georgia Y. M. C. A., has returned to Ath
ens to begin his work.
The South Georgia College, at Mcßae, had an en
rollment of four hundred and four before the end of
the second week of the fall term.
Mrs. Walter B. Hill, wife of the late Chancel
lor Hill, made an address recently at Mt. Vernon,
Ga., in the interest of the Georgia School Improve
ment Club.
The first volume of the Cambridge Medieval His
tory will soon be issued. The work will comprise
eight volumes. It will come from the press of the
Cambridge University.
The members of the Harvard rowing crew, recent
ly defeated by Cambridge, with the exception of
stroke 0. D. Filey and 0. A. Newall, have sailed
for New York on the St. Louis.
The State Normal School at Athens now has an
enrollment of more than four hundred students, and
it is expected that by the close of the present ses
sion the attendance will have reached six hundred,
exclusive of the Model school.
It is the custom of the University of Virginia
to open the new term with a sermon to the students
by some distinguished minister. The sermon was
preached this year by Dr. Theron H. Rice, pastor
of the Central Presbyterian Church of Atlanta.
Nelson Morris purchased the John Harvard home
at Stratford-on-Avon with the full intention of pre
senting it to Harvard University, but has hesitated,
it is said, to tender the gift on account of the preju
dice that has lately been aroused against the Amer
ican meat packers.
A supplementary royal charter is being sought
by the University of New Zealand to enable it to
confer degrees of a novel character. Among them
was bachelor, master and doctor of commerce, pub
lic health, agriculture, engineering, dental surgery
and veterinary science.
The students of the public schools of Randolph
County will make an exhibit of specimens of their
work at the Randolph County Fair, which is held
during the early part of October. The exhibit will
include specimens of the students’ work, both in
agriculture and shop work.
The library to be erected at the University of Chi
cago to the memory of the University’s late presi
dent, William Rainey Harper, will cost one and a
fourth million dollars. Next to the Congressional
Library it will be the largest in the world. The
money to be devoted to its erection was raised by
subscription.
The University School for boys at Stone Moun
tain, Ga., is beginning the school year with a splen
did number of students.
Professor Horning, who has had charge of the Y.
M. C. A. gymnasium at Macon, Ga., has been se
cured as instructor in the physical department. The
school will train a foot ball team and already has a
number of games scheduled.
Lucy Cobb College has had a splendid opening,
and the prospect for this year’s work is very bright.
The faculty is the same as it was last year with
two changes. Miss Edith Hodgson, who has recent
ly completed some studies in Germany, has charge
of the vocal department. Miss Eleanor Hunnicutt,
of Emerson, will have charge of the physical culture
classes and will assist in the oratory department,
The Golden Age for September 20, 1906.
The city Board of Education of Waycross, Ga.,
is preparing to erect a new school building to cost
about twelve thousand dollars. The lot upon which
the building is to be erected was donated to the
Board of Education by Mr. T. H. Morton, and is
located on Howe St. and Morton Ave.
At the opening of the public school in New York
City about six hundred thousand children applied
for admission. Some of these could not be accom
modated. Although New York makes an enormous
expenditure of money in the way of schools, she
is unable to keep pace with the annual increase in
the number of school children.
A recent writer in the Pall Mall Gazette tells an
incident which occurred during his boyhood at the
annual examination in his school. The arithmetic
branch was in charge of a farm manager who was
noted for his great skill in figures. He chalked
a bewildering array of figures on the blackboard
and asked the writer to “add them up and give’s
grand total.” The writer added them and put down
the amount. The great man smiled knowingly, went
up to the board, summed up the figures, and wrote
in a bold, aggressive hand under the sum the terri
ble word “rong. ”
A number of experiments to be conducted in dif
ferent sections of the State will be inaugurated by
the agricultural department of the University of
Georgia. Fanners (in different counties will be
asked to furnish land and pay for the labor and
fertilizers and then the college will secure experts
from the United States Agricultural Department to
direct the experiments. All the experimental work
will be under the direct supervision of a special ex
pert, and the crop when harvested will go to the
farmer who has supplied the land.
The new gymnasium building at Emory College is
the finest gymnasium building in the State and is
among the finest in the South. The cost of the
building alone was twenty-five thousand dollars.
The faculty of Emory is unchanged with the excep
tion of the chair of biology. This will be filled by
Professor J. T. Shingler, who is a graduate of Mer
cer University, and who received his master’s degree
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Stuart R. Roberts, who formerly had the chair
of biology, resigned to accept a chair in the At
lanta Medical College.
The first week of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti
tute at Auburn, Ala., has just closed with the larg
est enrollment in the history of the institution.
Five hundred and forty-one students have entered
to date. There are seventy-four students from
without the State of Alabama, there being represen
tatives from fourteen States and foreign countries.
Georgia leads with forty-nine representatives. By
denominations the student body is classified as fol
lows: Methodists, two hundred and five. Baptists,
one hundred and seventy-six. Presbyterians, seven
ty-seven. Episcopalians, forty five. Christians,
thirteen. Hebrews, thirteen. Catholics, twelve.
Bartow County wishes to secure the Agricultural
School to be established in the Seventh Congression
al District under the recent Perry law. It has been
proposed to turn over to the State the splendid prop
erty of the Euharlee Institute, at Euharlee, Ga.
This property consists of five acres of land upon
which is located a school building capable of accom
modating three hundred students, and two dormito
ries, one for boys and one for girls. The property
is worth about fifteen thousand dollars. In addi
tion to this it will be necessary to have about two
hundred acres of farming land for the work of the
school. The Trustees of the Euharlee Institute have
already secured an option on two hundred acres of
excellent land adjoining the school property, at the
agreed price of four thousand dollars. This amount
will probably be raised by subscription within a
very short time.
Professor H. D. Wilson, teacher of a district
school in Abilene, Kansas, has to his own satis
faction solved the problem of interesting country
boys and girls in the school work. He has organ
ized a brass band in the school. The other day he
surprised the people of Abilene by marching up the
street with ten boys and girls ranging from ten to
sixteen, playing excellent music. This idea of a
band is an original one with Professor Wilson. The
band will play at the County Fair and will probably
make a tour.
The four hundred Cook County teachers who were
recently in attendance at the teachers’ institute at
the (hicago Normal School discussed the question
of reform spelling. Some of the teachers term it
“ sacrilegious. ” Others are just as vigorous
in favor of the reform. David Felmley, super
intendent of the State University School at Bloom
ington, favors the reform. To illustrate the need
for spelling reform Mr. Felmley quoted the follow
ing :
Though the rough cough and hiccough plough me
through;
O’er Life’s dark slough my thoughts I will pursue.
“Every word ending in ‘ough’ is pronounced dif
ferently in these two lines,” declared Mr. Felmley.
Notes From Humboldt.
School at this place opened Monday, September
3, with an enrollment of about four hundred.
Our magnificent new school building was com
pleted only a few weeks ago. We have two addi
tional teachers this season, making a faculty of
twelve efficient instructors. We have good pros
pects of an added grade of high school work, which
will bring our course on an equal with the prepara
tory schools of the South.
The number of students in the high school shows
a marked increase over the preceding year.
With earnest work and deep interest we feel
that we can make our school a pride to our town
and a power in our state.
The Golden Age is ever a welcome visitor, and
to its able editor we wish success and God speed.
Humboldt, Tenn. Sallie V. Clement,
Correspondent.
Locust Grove Institute.
Locust Grove Institute opened on September 4,
with enrollment of 140, a gain of 30 per cent over
any previous year. A strong corps of teachers
are at the head of this school. L. G. 1. is the largest
strictly preparatory school in the state, and has
extended its plant this year by the erection of one
new dormitory, costing $1,500, and enlarging another
by an addition of sixteen rooms. When these im
provements are completed, L. G. I. will have ac
commodations for 160 students.
The first issue of the school paper will be October
Ist. In athletics the school will hold its own.
A Student.
Ponce De Leon Dedicated.
The dedicatory services of the new Fence de
Leon Baptist Church, Atlanta, which occurred last
Sunday, were beautiful in the extreme, ihe sermon
by Dr. W. W. Landrum on the text. “le are God s
buildings,’ was a masterpiece of intellectual and
spiritual power. The series of services which were
announced in a recent issue of The Golden Age,
will continue through two weeks, and some ot the
addresses will be given to our readers.
New York City requires 2.744 bakers to make its
supply of daily bread,
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