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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 ■»— £ twf fl WW jBI wgjwuw JtJJk The Golden Age for September 27, 1906. 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. • 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. bl" 1Aj 1 :.. 1 r 9-A ? 9