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An Interview With the Great
Commoner.
William J. Bryan Will Write to Students
Through The Golden Age.
William J. Bryan, who has been called the “Glad
stone of America,” has come and gone, and with
out any political reference whatever, it is only tell
ing the truth to say that there seems to be a sort
of moral ozone in the atmosphere since the visit
of the statesman who keeps himself unspotted by
any sort of dissipation and who, in matters per
sonal and political, “would rather be right than
be President.”
It is a source of genuine gratification to an
nounce to our readers that the editor of The Golden
Age secured from Mr. Bryan what we believe no
other periodical secured from him during his South
ern tour—and that was a promise to write a spe
cial article for The Golden Age, intended for the
student life of America, to whose special interests
this publication is so deeply devoted.
Notwithstanding the thousands that thronged
him, and the hundreds that wished to talk with him
personally, the Editor of this paper was granted
a private interview in his room at the Piedmont
and the substance of this conversation took place:
“Mr. Bryan, I know you are in the current of
countless demands. Are you too greatly driven—■
too much overwhelmed with the things of state—to
write an article for The Golden Age? There is
no political complexion to this, of course. Your
own heart and life are in thorough consonance with
the motto and purposes of this paper. You be
lieve in ( piety in the home, power in the life, purity
in the state. 7 We are trying to build up for the
making of home and citizenship, a paper which the
South has never had before. Can you strain a point
and find time to write one or more articles that will
fit the purposes and spirit of this new paper, espe
cially for the inspiration of student life?”
And then the great-hearted, busy statesman
beamed a benevolent look on his questioner and
said:
“Upshaw, I have just been compelled to refuse
to write an article for which I would have received
one thousand dollars, and which I could have writ
ten in one day. But I did not have the day. I have
just been compelled to decline a week in a certain
section for which I was offered five thousand dol
lars. But I did not have the week. I have not
even yet had an opportunity to answer the telegrams
that greeted me in New York at my home-coming’.
I will be whirling day and night until after the fall
elections. But I will tell you what you do—write
to me after that time, or rather write to my wife,
and have her call my special attention to it, and
I will find time to send a message to students whom
you are seeking especially to uplift and inspire.
I have had in my heart for some timme a message
for students on the real meaning and dignity of
labor with one’s own hands. My conviction has
deepened on this subject since my tour abroad. I
want to help young men and young women to see
the mistake of feeling that as soon as they get a
college education, they must put somebody to work
for them. They ought to work with their own hands.
I feel like I must go out and put up hay. I must
take hold with my own hands and plow, just for
the example if nothing else. I believe this is a
subject that needs emphasizing. It will help to
build up solid manhood and womanhood.”
Thus the great Christian statesman spoke. His
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manner was genial, his heart was in his hand-clasp,
and his soul looked out of his kindling and mag
netic eye.
We congratulate all of our readers and especially
our large and growing student constituency on the
wealth of inspiration that awaits them from the
pen of this great American.
School Opens.
Across the village schoolroom floor
The checkered shadows flit,
While on the benches, stained and hacked.
These dignitaries sit.
A President is in the rear
With freckles on his nose,
Beside him sits a pirate chief
Who wiggles all his toes.
The Generals are scattered thick,
An Admiral is near,
A cowboy and a learned Judge
Each flank an engineer.
Then comes a curly-headed chap—
God bless the little tad!
His high ambition is but this:
He’s go’n’ to be like Dad.
0 Dad, the job thus rests on you
And failure would be sad;
Don’t let the great men beat the chap
Who’s “goin’ to be like Dad.”
—New York Sun.
The Georgian, the University of Georgia maga
zine, will be a splendid students’ magazine during
the coming year. In size it will contain between
forty and seventy-five pages.
Two hundred and fifty students matriculated on
the opening day of the hundred and sixtieth term
of the University of Georgia. Indications are that
this will be a notable year at the University.
The Bibb County Public Schools have opened
and the registration of pupils up to the present date
is larger in number than that of any previous year
at this time. The Gresham High Schoo] annex has
been completed.
Professor Goldwin Smith some time ago formally
willed his brain to Cornell University. It is diffi
cult to conjecture just what use the brain will be
put to by the University after Professor Smith is
through with it.
The young ladies of Lucy Cobb will issue the
Lucy Cobb magazine again this year. It will be
made even more attractive in size and quality than
heretofore. It is one of the brightest publications
of its class in the South.
A contract has been awarded for the erection of
a new brick building in Adrian, Ga., for use as a
public school building. The corps of teachers has
recently been enlarged by the addition of Miss
Ethel Chavons, of Dublin, Ga.
The attendance in the public schools of Randolph,
County, Ga., is said to be better than ever before,
and indications now point the necessity of a large
increase of the teaching force. Free tuition is given
in all the public schools of the county.
Andrew Female College, at Cuthbert, Ga., has
opened its doors with a large enrollment of pupils.
The college under Professor J. W. Malone, its new
president, promises to have a very prosperous year.
The accommodations for the room of girls at
Georgetown College, Kentucky, have proved inade
quate, and extra rooms have been engaged to be
used by the large number of girls who have entered
in increase of the number in former years.
Mr. E. E. Tarr, the Yale athlete who has been
engaged as coach of Mercer University foot ball
team, has arrived in Macon to begin his work. Mr.
Tarr’s home is in Baltimore, and he has a brilliant
athletic record at Yale. Mercer’s outlook for a
foot ball team the coming season is said to be
very good.
It is probable that the Agricultural College to be
located in the Tenth district in Georgia, will be
either in Hancock or Washington county. Great
interest is shown by the people in the movement
to secure the college, and offers of land for the site
of the school have already been made and a fund
of money subscribed.
The student of Gordon Institute, at Barnesville,
Ga., will publish a sprightly four page paper, full
of school news and information, to be issued twice
a month and called the Crimson and White. The
staff for the present year is composed of Henry
Williams, editor in chief; G. W. Wright, athletic
editor; and 0. W. Franklin, business manager.
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President Guerry, of Wesleyan Female College,
of Macon, has been forced to turn away applicants
for entrance as boarding pupils, all the accommo
dations of the college being exhausted. Day pupils,
however, are being added to the number already
matriculated, and the work of Hie institution is be
ginning to move along smoothly.
According to an opinion rendered by Attorney
General Hart, of Georgia, the provisions of the re
vised McMichael school act are not operative until
next year in so far as the school districts are con
cerned. The opinion holds that under the old
school act, the county school taxes are collectable
this year. Where the whole county has passed upon
the question of levies of special school tax in dis
tricts, the tax can be collected.
Professor P. B. Winn has resigned the position
of Superintendent of Public Schools of Elberton.
He is succeeded by J. M. Stephenson, of Athens,
Ga. Professor Stephenson is a graduate of the
University of Georgia, and has taken a post grad
uate course at the University of Chicago. He was
for some time instructor of English at the Uni
versity of Georgia, and has recently been superin
tendent of the school at Commerce.
The opening of Mercer University has been char
acterized by unusual enthusiasm. More new stu
dents heve matriculated than ever before at the be
ginning of the term, and the literary, law and phar
macy departments will all be full of life. The com
ing of Dr. S. Y. Jameson to the presidency of the
institution seems to have awakened Mercer’s con
stituency from one end of the State to the other,
and will doubtless create a new era in the history
of this old and honored institution.
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