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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, 9