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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. 1 lfflC wHBI WrRT ullnliy ■ 111 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. * m 9