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CollegelNotes. 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. WS2ls|r I® 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. ■a M 9