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Mercer University will debate with Wake Forrest
November 10th. The question to be debated in
volves a discussion of the Monroe Doctrine.
The abolition of football at Columbia has greatly
improved the track team, as the football players
are now giving their attention to track work.
The new athletic field of the University of Mich
igan, one of the finest in the county, has been
formally opened. The entrance gate cost SII,OOO.
Charles Edward Magoon, Provisional Governor of
Cuba, was born in Minnesota and worked his way
through the University of Minnesota, graduating
with the class of 1881.
The British School at Yarmouth, England, has
a novel orchestra. Eighty boys recently gave a con
cert in which the only instruments used were con
mon combs covered with paper.
Professor Jesse de Gomar of Washington, who
speaks Spanish, French, Italian, English and Ara
bic with perfect fluency, has been sent to Cuba
with the army as aninterpreter.
Henry Phillips, a full-blooded Indian of the
Chilkat tribe, who learned the printer’s trade in
the Indian School at Carlisle, Pa., is a compositor
on the White Horse (Alaska) Star.
President Eliot of Harvard University has nam
ed Meyer Hiller, a Boston newsboy, as the first
holder of the scholarship founded in Harvard Uni
versity by the Boston Newsboys Union.
“Bummy” Booth, who was Princeton’s center in
the years 1897-99 and who later coached the eleven
of Nebraska University for several successful sea
sons, is now a member of the coaching force of
Princeton.
Professor Henry Howe of Columbia University
has received from the Czar of Russia the order of
the Knighthood of St. Stanislaus, this being con
ferred in acknowledgement of his work in metal
lurgical research.
Mrs. Betty Brookes who has lived for ninety
three and one half years in the same cottage near
Manchester, England, declares that the greatest re
gret of her life is that there was no compulsory
education in her younger days. She has never learn
ed to read.
Spain is to erect five thousand primary’’ schools.
The press has been commenting upon the fact
and voices the opinion that if more attention was
given to this class of improvement and less to
their navy the country would be in better condition
in every way.
Prof. Edward Zeller, ninety three years old, has
just celebrated the seventieth anniversary of his
promotion to his Doctor’s Degree; Professor Kuao
Fischer has just retired at eighty two from Heid
elburg University; and the completion of his seven
tieth year by Professor Ranke, seems to disprove
the theories that brain work causes early physical
decav.
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College Notes.
The Golden Age for October 25, 1906.
The score of the recent Mercer-Florida foot
ball game stands 12 to oin favor of Mercer. The
feature of the game was the run made around right
end for a touch down by Dickey, Mercer’s half.
The run was for a distance of seventy yards.
Mrs. Agnes Lewis of England is the only woman
who has received the degree of D. D. This was con
ferred upon her in recognition of her labors in
deciphering some ancient manuscripts of the Bi
ble which were discovered in a monastery on Mount
Sinai. She also possesses the degrees of Ph. D.
and L. L. D. She is a Presbyterian and the most
famous woman Bible scholar in the world.
The first issue of The Mercerian, the magazine of
Mercer University, will appear about November Ist.
The staff of editors is composed of strong men and
The magazine for the coming year is expected to
be even better than heretofore. Mr. C. R. Allen,
’O7, winner of English 'Composition modal last
year is editor, and with him are associated J. J.
Copeland, C. E. Sutton, M. A. Knox and J. E.
Fulton. C. W. Reid and C. C. Davidson are busi
ness manager and assistant business manager re
spectively.
'Some interesting facts are to be gleaned from
the newly issued directory of living graduates and
former students of Princeton University. The sta
tistics on the present employment of these men
show that nearly one third are in business. Exclu
sive of the class of 1906, there are 7,190 alumni
of Princeton living. Os the 6,522 classified accord
ing to their occupation, 2,285 are in business, 1,498
in the law, 924 in the ministry, 699 practicing med
icine, 433 teachers, 290 engineers, 104 journalists,
50 ranching and farming, 50 gentlemen of leisure,
41 students, 34 in the army, 31 civil service, 26 ar
chitects, 19 chemists, 10 artists, 9 authors, 7 in the
navy, 5 librarians, 4 musicians and 4 dentists.
Chancellor David C. Barrow of the University of
Georgia, is quoted as being in favor of football
as a game for college students. In a recent inter
view he said among other things: “The game
builds up college spirit. This is true. Casual ob
servers say: Lifter all, only a few boys take part.’
This is a mistake. Even I take part. I ‘get be
hind the team.’ We all do. I cannot but believe
that the student who ‘gets behind his team’ will
learn to get behind his community. He will uphold
government, he will become a better citizen. This
is why I desire, above all things to have a genuine
team. Let the student feel that it is his team and
he will take pride in it.
“So he will feel the community in which he lives
is his community, the country is his country. In
the game of government he may not ‘make the
team,’ he may not care to, but I do believe he will
learn to ‘get behind the team.’ ”
World’s Fifth Sunday School Convention
Rome, 1907.
The next great gathering of world wide import to
the Christian forces, will be the World’s Fifth Sun
day School Convention to be held in Rome, It
aly, May 20-23. 1907. Committees in various
parts of the world have already large plans in pro
cess of development for the success of this con
vention.
The White Star Line steamer “Romanic,” 11,-
400 tons, has been chartered to take the American
delegates from Boston to Naples and Genoa, and
will sail from Boston, Saturday, April 27, 1907,
and will be due in Rome, Thursday, May 16.
Saturday evening, May 18, probably the largest
Protestant gathering ever assembled in the city of
Rome will meet for International greeting and
Christian fellowship. Sunday morning, the 19th,
the Communion of the Lord’s Supper will be ob
served in the leading denominational Protestant
churches. In the afternoon, Dr. Campbell Morgan
will preach the Convention sermon.
University Correspondence.
Athens, Ga., October 20, 1906.
5 esterday marked the second game played by
Georgia’s footall squad. As was expected the op
ponents carried off the victory, but it must be
said that the University eleven proved their worth
for a. second time. The score of 6 to 0 clearly shows
that the University boys are pushing to the front
and that by the time they meet the Tech, the
blacksmiths may expect more than their equals.
It was very gratifying to the University students
to know that the “unconquered” Yellow-jackets
lost their first collegiate game by a score of 17 to
0. Georgia’s defeat by Clemson was largely due to
the loss of their star player Thurman. This hero
of the modern battle field has been playing remark
ably well. However it is now turning from a mere
hope into an almost certainty, that as all the Uni
versity men will be at the climax of their playing
by the middle of November, Tech may prepare to
gracefully retire from her position of football su
premacy. y. B. SMITH,
Correspondent.
Oratory in the High School.
A new honor has come to the Boys’ High School
of. Atlanta. In the Declamation contest held at
the State Fair Saturday, October 13, in which
boys from all the High Schools of the State con
tested, both prizes were carried off by the Atlanta
boys. James Jackson Slaton won the first prize of
sls, speaking “The Death-bed of Benedict Ar
nold.” Andrew Beck, who spoke “The Negro
Problem,” won the second prize of $lO.
The Atlanta High School probably givles Sts
boys better training in oratory than any other
school in the south. The boys take especial pride
in the Alciphronian Literary and Debating Society.
This is the school society and all of the hoys are
members; it meets every Friday and is an organiz
ed assembly. Prof. W. M. Slaton has a Parliament
ary Law class of nearly fifty, conducted out of
school hours, in which the boys learn the rudiments
of legislative self-government. The work in the
society consists of declamation and debate which
is divided evenly among the students, so that all
have to take some part. The learned members of
the faculty render able criticisms on the speeches,
thus giving the boys the benefit of their own knowl
edge and experience. This society is aecoerplisl -
ing wonders for the High School students and is
making scores of fine orators and thinkers.
Indeed it is no wonder that they should have won
both prizes at the State Fair contest as they are
easily the superiors in this line of any other boys
in the state. J. W. LeCRAW,
Correspondent B. H. S.
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