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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. 9