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Reports show that there are now enrolled in
the public schools of Macon, Georgia, 2,539 pupils;
an increase over last year of 458.
The public school fund of Texas has to its credit
property in bonds, money and land, amounting
in value to $47,859,192.55. The University of that
State owns 2,289,682 acres of land.
Henry A. Buchtel, Chancellor of the University
of Denver, has been chosen to head the Republican
State ticket in Colorado. He interests himself
quite as much in politics as in educational work.
W. Glinn Ellis, fourth-year modern history man
at Toronto University and manager last year of
the third Rugby team, has recently died of inju
ries received in a foot-ball game on the University
campus.
Mr. Francis Perry Elliott, a graduate of Vander
bilt University, and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, has been chosen to edit the new maga
zine, the 11 Great Southwest,” which will be issued
in Denver.
Dr. A. R. Crook, who has been for the past twelve
years professor of mineralogy and economic ge
ology at Northwestern University, has been ap
pointed Curator of the Illinois State Museum of
National History.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton
University, has refused to allow himself to be
made a candidate for the United States Senate
from New Jersey. Dr. Wilson is one of the leading
historians and educators of America.
The story hour at the Carnegie Library, Atlanta,
has been resumed. It had been discontinued since
June, on account of the absence of many children
from the city, but it will now be continued regu
larly each week on Friday afternoon.
A recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post has
an article on the subject of “ Vassar, Delicious but
Dyspeptic,” which ridicules some of the methods
employed in the education of young women at that
institution, and makes sport particularly of female
athletics as practiced there.
The Daughters of the Confederacy throughout
the State of Georgia are beginning to send in the
scholarships to be given by them to the descendants
of Confederate veterans at the State Normal School.
Scholarships have been sent from the Macon, Sa
vannah and Fort Valley Chapters.
The discovery of a new element by J. R. Ryd
berg, a professor at Lund, Sweden, has been re
ported. It is called electron. It is a universal
gas, and forms an atmosphere which prevails
throughout our solar system. It is expected that
this discovery will lead to an explanation of many
phenomena which have heretofore puzzled scien
tists; such, for instance, as magnetic storms in
connection with the sun-spot periods, the northern
lights, terrestrial magnetism, etc.
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The Golden Age for October 18, 1906.
A college professor has written an article in
which he takes the position that men of his pro
fession should receive $15,000 per annum for their
work. Many of the papers have taken issue with
him on the ground that he expects as much for a
year of h!s work as the average prize-fighter for
staying twenty rounds.
Gustav Andreen, President of Angustana Col
lege, Illinois, favors the spelling reforms advocated
by President Roosevelt, and has approved the adop
tion in the work at Angustana of similar changes
in the spelling of Swedish recently promulgated in
the mother country, but not yet generally adopted
by the schools or press.
Dr. W. S. Elkin, Dean of the Faculty of the At
lanta College of Physicians and Surgeons, has re
ceived a letter from Andrew Carnegie, written from
Scotland, agreeing to give $15,000 to that institu
tion. Mr. Carnegie gave SIO,OOO last spring, mak
ing altogether $25,000 he has donated to ( this
worthy and growing school.
The University of Louisiana, at Baton Rouge,
La., has at last consented to open its doors to wo
men. Some ten years ago application was made
by several young women for admission into the col
lege, but it was peremptorily refused. Now, how
ever, the management seems to have reconsidered
the qustron and from th prsent time onward the
institutional in all save its military department.
Charles F. Chandler, Professor of Chemistry at
Columbia University, has an unusual distinction.
Fifty years ago the degree of Ph.D. was conferred
upon him by the University of Gottingen. Recent
ly the same degree was again conferred upon him
by that University. Dr. Knapp, of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, is the only other Colum
bia professor who has received a similar honor.
Dr. S. Y. Jameson, President of Mercer Univer
sity, has been notified by Dr. Wallace Butterick, of
the General Education Board of New York City,
that a decision had been reached by the Board to
contribute $75,000 to the endowment fund of $300,-
000 which that institution is endeavoring to raise.
Dr. Jameson and his co-laborers will proceed at
once to raise the $225,000 upon which contingency
depends the gift from the Board. The prospect
is hopeful in every particular.
It would appear from a statement made by the
President of Bryn Mawr College, Miss Corey
Thomas, to the freshwoman class of that institu
tion, that the hazing which has been going on there
is just about the same as that at West Point. She
said, among other things:
“Byrn Mawr College has been free of the rougher
forms of hazing. At some of our sister colleges
nearby the custom of tearing off clothes, putting
under the pump and stamping on heads prevails.
This seems to be necessary to the order classmen.
“I place a hazer on the same plane with a per
son who hurts birds or tortures kittens or injures
babies.”
Most persons will agree with Miss Thomas in
her statement that any one who would stamp upon
the heads of young ladies, might, in time become
so depraved as to injure birds, ete.
Governor J. M. Terrell has had a recent confer
ence with Prof. J. S. Stewart, Agent of the Univer
sity of Georgia, Prof. D. J. Crosby, of the Agri
cultural Department at Washington, Chancellor
Barrow, of the University of Georgia, and Repre
sentative H. H. Perry, of Hale County, at which
were discussed the studies which are to compose
the educational feature of the instruction given
in the various agricultural schools of the State.
The first number of “The Wesleyan,” the maga
zine to be published by the students of Wesleyan
College at Macon, Ga., will appear about November
Ist. Miss Willie W. Erminger, a member of the
Senior Class, will be editor-in-chief, with Miss Inez
Dough try associate editor.
The Young Ladies’ Missionary Society of Wes
leyan, has been organized, with Miss Fannie Lou
Armer President, and Miss Clair Monroe, Vice-
President.
Dr. Samuel A. Green, general agent of the trus
tees of the Peabody Educational Fund for the edu
cation of Southern whites and blacks, made his
report at the annual meeting of the trustees re
cently held in New York. The report showed a
distribution of the fund for the previous year
among the various Southern States as follows:
Alabama, $9,900: Arkansas, $3,000; Georgia, SB,-
000; Louisiana, $5,000; North Carolina, $6,600;
South Carolina, $7,000; Tennessee, $1,500; Texas,
$500; Virginia, $2,000; West Virginia, $2,000;
Peabody Normal College, $25,000.,T0ta1, $78,000.
The very latest development in technical educa
tion is a school for politicians in Germany. The
expense of this school will be borne by the Social
Democratic party and it designs to train men as
journalists, secretaries and agitators. The special
studies to be taught are political economy, sociol
ogy, the principles of constitutional law, the his
tory of the Social Democratic party and general
history. It will be interesting to note the result
of this departure and whether or not it will result
in training practical politicians.
The Georgia-Davidson Game.
The game between Georgia and Davidson on Sat
urday, October 13, 1906, began the career of the
University team. While the results were not as
bright as might have been expected, still the Geor
gia boys proved that they were of the right ma
terial, and that it is only a question of time until
they will be in the foremost ranks.
The game between the mentioned teams was by
no means an easy victory for Davidson. Every inch
they gained was through the hardest kind of work,
as the University team fought them to the finish
in a most desperate struggle.
The Georgia team is. this year, undoubtedly
stronger than any since the time of the old games
several years ago, and it is very promising indeed.
It is to be exnected that if the team improves
between each game as much as it has developed
since the season began under the leadership of
Poach Whitnev. Georgia will produce, this season,
the best that foot-ball has to offer.
Athens, Ga., October 13, 1906. Y. B. Smith,
Correspondent.
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