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THE SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Four upper classmen have been expelled from
the A. and M. College at Raleigh, N. C., for hazing
Freshmen.
Mississippi College, at Clinton} Miss., opened
with three hundred and forty-two students, this be
ing the record for opening enrollment. The pros
pects for the college are flattering.
. Rev. W. D. Weatherford, Secretary of the Y. AV.
C. A., of the Southern colleges, has recently given
an address to the students of Wesleyan and Mercer
in Macon, on “Christian Influence Among College
Men.”
President T. D. Tinsley, of the Board of Educa
tion of Bibb county, has authorized October sth
as a holiday for all the schools of the county.
This is to enable the students to visit the Fair, it
having been decided that it will prove of educa
tional value.
The contract for the building of the new dor
mitory of Mercer University has been awarded,
the work io begin at once. The building will be
situated on the campus, back of the chapel build
ing and library, and will be one of the handsomest
in the South.
Judson Institute, at Marion, Ala., has opened
with an enrollment of more than three hundred
girls, this being the largest opening attendance
in its history. President R. G. Patrick has been at
the head of this old and famous school for a num
ber of years.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mis
sissippi opened at Starkville, Wednesday, Septem
bei- 19th, with 754 young men present to enter. This
number is 150 larger than the college has ever opened
with before. Fine addresses were made by Gover
nor Vardaman, Judge A. 11. Whitfield and Presi
dent J. C. Hardy.
President Charles Mclver, of the North Carolina
N. & I. College, at Greensboro, one of the greatest
educators of the South, dropped dead on the Bryan
train from Raleigh to Greensboro. Dr. Mclver was
a personal friend of Mr. Bryan, and was on board
the train for the purpose of visiting with him as
he traveled.
The large attendance in the Pelham High School
has necessitated the employment of an additional
teacher, and at the last meeting of the Board of
Trustees, Miss Morrill, of Atlanta, was chosen.
She has had experience in the public schools of
Georgia and elsewhere, and possesses an enviable
reputation as a teacher.
The football team of the University of Virginia
has been selected out of fifty applicants. The
team is said to contain unusually good material,
the men from whom the eleven were chosen rang
ing in weight from 125 to 190 pounds. The Uni
versity will, for the first time in five years, play
a game with Georgetown.
Newton county will be well represented at the
State Oratorical Contest during the fair in At
lanta. Five speakers will go from that county.
Last year two of the four prizes offered were taken
by Newton county contestants. The prizes offered
are: First prize for girls, $25; second prize, $10;
first prize for boys, $lO, and second prize $lO.
The schools of LaGrange, Ga., have opened, and
are crowded to the full limit of their capacity. At
the opening there were three hundred and twenty
five pupils in the High school, forty-seven in the
Unity school, and fifty-eight in the East LaGrange
school. Many more pupils have entered since the
opening day. There are more school children in
LaGrange than ever before, and the necessity of
enlarging accommodations for school children is
very pressing.
The Golden Age for October 4, 1906.
Miss Celeste L. Parrish, Director of the Peabody
Practice School and the State Normal School at
Athens, Ga., who is recognized as one of the lead
ing pedagogic psychologists of the country, has
published a book entitled “The Lesson.” Miss
Parrish states that the aim of her book is to help
teachers to a better understanding of the nature
and meaning of the lesson, and the principles un
derlying it.
The Junior class of the University of Georgia
has elected the following officers:
President—Dozier Lowndes, of Atlanta.
Vice-President—C. G. Mills, of Griffin.
Secretary and Treasurer—S. B. Hatcher, of Co
lumbus.
Captain Football Team—Kyle Smith.
Captain Baseball Team—Frank Martin.
Chaplain—W. C. Henson.
Poet—S. M. Gates.
It has been ascertained that about thirty-six per
cent of the fifty-five hundred students attending
school in Chicago from the slum district go to school
every morning without their breakfast. The
Progress Woman’s Club of that city is preparing
to open a school children’s restaurant in one of
the most congested parts of that district. The
restaurant will be open on November Ist, and unless
the children wish to pay for their breakfasts, they
will be given to them free. It is expected that
about two thousand will be fed daily.
Professor Zephaniah Hopper, teacher in the Cen
tral High School of Philadelphia, has taught 62
years in that school. He is now 82 years old, and
says that he feels as spry as he did years ago, and
expects to explain the rules of calculus to the pres
ent senior class with the same zest with which he
taught their fathers in the happy period before
the Civil War. Professor Hopper graduated in that
school as a member of its first class in 1842, and
two years later, assumed the chair of Mathematics.
More than 25,000 pupils have studied under him.
Perry-Rainey College at Auburn, Ga., has open
ed this year with flattering prospects. Professor
J. B. Brookshire, the new president, is a graduate
of Mercer University, and a man of unusual en
terprise. He has already completed arrangements
for a first-class lecture course—something that has
never been attempted in this little school town
before. Among the speakers at the opening was
Rev. H. N. Rainey, of Mulberry, Ga., who was
one of the founders, and is now a liberal benefactor
of the school.
Governor Terrell has appointed Boards of Trus
tees for the eleven Agricultural Colleges to be es
tablished in Georgia—one in each of the eleven
congressional districts of the state. The law pro
vides for the appointment of one trustee from a
county, the trustees appointed from the several
counties of the district to constitute the Board of
Trustees of the college located in the district. Un
der the provisions of the act, two hundred acres of
land, and the buildings upon it, must be furnished
by the people living in the district. The state pro
vides only the teachers who are to instruct the
students.
The second session of the Southern Library
School, of which Miss Anne Wallace is director,
has opened. Twelve young ladies who gained en
trance by competitive examination are in attend
ance. The members of the class of 1906-06, many
of whom are from without the state, are as follows:
Ethel Everhart, Lena R. Holderby, Hortense D.
Horne, Rosalie Howell, of Atlanta, Ga.; Susan
Lancaster, Columbia, S. C.; Mary Lambie, Alle
gheny, Pa.; Constance Kerschner, Maryland; Claire
Moran, Atlanta, Ga.; Susan R. Simonton, Carroll
ton, Ga.; Nan S. Strudwick, Hillsboro, N. C.; Eva
Wrigley, Macon, Ga,; Maud Mclver, Atlanta, Ga.
The Model School, heretofore operated at Dan
ielsville, Ga., by the Federation of Women’s Clubs,
has proven such a success, and has grown to such
proportions, that it has passed out of the control
of the clubs, and is now to be known as the Dan
ielsville High School. It opened with ninety-five
pupils, and now has one hundred and fifteen. An
agricultural department will be added. This
school has already done a great work, and is
passing forward into a greater usefulness.
A number of important decisions were reached
at the last meeting of the Board of Education,
governing the Boys’ High School of Atlanta. It
was decided to elect an assistant superintendent
for the school, and to adopt a uniform system of
demerits. Under this system, any student receiving
more than thirty-five demerits will be suspended
for two weeks, and when he desires to re-enter he
will be required to stand an examination in all
branches covering the parts gone over by his
classes during his suspension. Seven supernumer
ary teachers were elected. It was voted to resume
the sessions of the boys’ night school. The res
ignation of Miss Daisy Davies, assistant principal
of the I’air Street school, was accepted, and Miss
Julia Riordan was elected in his place. Mrs.
Ephie A. Williams was chosen to serve in the
settlement home school at night. It was also de
cided to pay the night school supernumeraries
twenty dollars per month, they not having hereto
fore received regular salaries.
The New York World of a recent date has a
striking article with reference to the inadequacy
of the results produced by the public schools of
New York City. It states that over five thousand
positions in various lines of business are now open
in New York to young girls and boys varying in
age from fifteen to eighteen years, and that there
are not a thousand ready to fill them. According
to the business men of New York the fault is on
the part of the metropolitan system of the public
schools. The boys and girls who seek work do not
know how to spell or figure. They say that young
people who have certificates to prove that they have
graduated from the Grammar schools, and even
some who have taken part or all of the High school,
are not sufficiently educated even in the three R’s
to fill capably the very simplest positions. The
World cites the fact that recently a retail firm ad
vertised for sales people, check girls and boys for
the delivery department. During the day there
were two hundred and fifty applicants, most of
them young people who claimed to have recently
left school. Less than fifty of the number could
fill out an application blank. Illustrations are given
of the answers made by various applicants to the
questions propounded by the firm offering the posi
tions. The following will suffice to show the mental
qualifications of the applicants:
“What salary do you expect?”
Answers to this were wild.
“On an average of $7 or $lO, : ’ wrote one girl,
evidently with firm belief in the lucidity and sim
plicity of her reply.
“It’s up to you!” was the unbusiness-like reply
of another.
“Ma says I’d ought to take five to start, but
I think that’s two cheep,” was the frank response
in cramped chirography of a third.
The superintendent laid these aside with a sigh.
“Those are the girls who never know what they
have in stock, never tell the head of stock when
they are out of any article, and can never direct
a customer to any department in the store. Ac
curacy was no part of their school training.”
“How many are dependent upon you for part or
all of their support?” is another question on the
application blank.
“Twenty,” was the astonishing reply of a sev
enteen-year-old high-school girl, who further up
the blank had announced her willingness to start
at $7 per week.
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