Newspaper Page Text
College Notes.
Preparations are being made to light the athletic
field at Harvard for night practice.
The new law building of the University of Texas,
at Austin, is to be the largest of the University
buildings and will cost about $90,000.
At the last monthly meeting of the teachers of
the City of Atlanta a special feature was an address
by Dr. H. F. Hams, secretary of the State Board
of Health.
It is reported in news items that Hairy Sinclair
Lewis, a senior at Yale and whose home is at Sauk
Center, Minn., has turned socialist and gone to join
Upton Sinclair’s socialist colony.
At Leeds. England. there are 5.000 girls in the
public elementary schools under systematic instruc
tion in the art of swimming. Over five hundred of
the number hold certificates as expert swimmers.
Dr. J. M. Meßryde, president of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, has been placed on the retired
list as a pensioner of the Carnegie Foundation. He
is the third Virginian to receive this distinction.
Professor Talchiro Honjo, of Formosa, has been
sent to this country by his government to inspect
our school systems. Upon his return he is to estab
lish a school system modeled after the American
high school.
Among the 44,942 students registered at the Ger
man universities last summer, there were 3,888 for
eigners. The German students are asking that the
rates of tuition and the matriculation fees for for
eigners be increased.
The teachers in the schools of Brooklyn will here
after be required to study Italian. So many of the
children entering the schools are the children of
parents who can speak only that language, that this
is considered necessarv.
Dr. Dudley Sargent, director of the Hemenway
gvmnasium, at Harvard, has invented a new game
similar Io basket ball. Twelve or sixteen men play
on a side and four goals are used, each team defend
ing the two opposite goals.
Count John A. Creighton, one of the founders of
Creighton University, Nebraska, in commemoration
of his seventy-fifth birthday, has deeded the univ
ersity two buildings in the wholesale district of
Omaha, worth about a half million dollars.
The grand jury of Bulloch county. Georsia, has
recommended an appropriation of $25,000 toward
the erection of the necessary buildings, should the
Governor select Statesboro as a suitable site for the
Agricultural Scnool of that district.
Mr. James Hazen Hyde, formerly connected with
the Equitable, and who is at present residing in
Paris, has arranged for a debate between Harvard
and Yale, the debate to be in the French language,
He offers a cup to the winning side,
in IUD •: WIM
The Golden Age for November 8, 1906.
Tne late Edward W. James, of Norfolk, Va., left
as a bequest to the University of Virginia, the sum
of $200,000, with the condition that for fifteen
years to come one-half of the income shall be turned
over to the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at Rich
mond.
Instructions and suggestions for the celebration
of Arbor Day on the first Friday in December are
being mailed to the county superintendents of Geor
gia schools by State Commissioner Merritt. Trees
will be planted and elaborate programs are being
arranged.
The work on the Academy for the Blind in Macon
is progressing rapidly and the building will be ready
for occupancy by January Ist next. Professor G. F.
Oliphant, who will be superintendent, has recently
returned from the north, where he has been visiting
schools of this class.
President Hughes, of Ripon College, Wisconsin,
in a recent address before the teachers of the
Soul hern Wisconsin Association, stated that at some
time or other every boy and girl was a savage.
Among other remarks he seated: “Masterliness will
not kill this in a child, but getting in sympathy with
it will lead the child out of it. So we must respect
selfhood.”
Prof. Jas. H. Breasted, who has been in charge
of the explorations conducted by the University of
Chicago along the banks of the Nile, states that
he found in the vast temple of Abu Simbel in Nu
bia, an illustrated account of the wedding of Ram
eses 11. Using a specially constructed camera, he
took photographs of the reliefs and hieroglyphics
concerned with the account of the wedding.
The Association of Colleges and Preparatory
Schools in the South recently elected the following
officers: Prof. C. B. Wallace, University School,
Nashville, President; Prof. W. M. Thornton, Uni
versity of Virginia, and F. H. Gaines, President
Agnes Scott Institute, Vice Presidents; J. H. Kirk
land, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University, Secre
tary and Treasurer. Secret societies and athletics
in schools and colleges were endorsed.
A reproduction of “Bulloch Hall,” the home of
President Roosevelt’s mother at Roswell, Georgia,
will be erected at the Jamestown Exposition as a
part of the Georgia exhibit. Rooms in the building
will be furnished by leading cities of the State. It
is planned by the people of Athens to make their
room a treasure storeroom of the educational his
tory of the state. Among other exhibits will be
the original charters of the University of Georgia
and Lucy Cobb Institute.
The New York Evening Post, in a recent article,
says, among other things:
“From statistics taken at the opening of the aca
demic year, it is predicted that colleges in the West
will continue to grow larger, at the expense, ulti
mately, of those in the East. There has been a gain
in numbers at every important Western university,
with the exception of Leland Stanford, which suf
fered hy the earthquake. At lowa University there
was an increase of IS per cent, while at Princeton
there was a loss of 1 per cent. In the number of
additional students, Yale is ahead of Harvard; Wil-
liams and Bowdoin lead the New England colleges,
with an increase of 7 per cent, and the University
of Pennsylvania those of the Middle States with an
increase of 10 per cent.”
A request has been made in Glasgow, Scotland,
that an annual inspection of school children’s eyes
be made, and that closer attention be given to
them. A recent report following a complete exami
nation shows that of 52,493 children tested 18,565
were below the standard for vision.
The State Normal School of Georgia cannot sup
ply the requests which are made for its graduates as
teachers. During the past year President Branson
has been asked to furnish 180 teachers. This is
the exact number of graduates of the school during
its ten years of existence. Os this number 144 have
graduated in the last two years. These firures show
beyond question the great necessity for enlargement
of the facilities there.
Still no deaths reported under the new football
rules. Some of the scores in recent games have
been surprises; the following are some results of
games between Southen colleges:
Tech 11, Auburn, 0.
Michigan 10, Vanderbilt 4.
Georgia 55, Mercer 0.
Clemson 0. Davidson 0.
Sewanee 17, Tennessee 0.
Bucknell 12, Virginia 5.
Georgetown 4, North Carolina 0.
V. P. I. 18. Roanoke 0.
V. M. I. 33, Maryland 4.
Howard 63. Grant University 0.
Alabama 16, Miss A. and M. 4.
Mississippi 17, Tulane 0.
Monroe College Items.
It is the policy of the college this year, in its lect
ure courses, to have one lecturer for a week instead
of having one just for an evening. The first of
these series of lectures was given by Mr. W. J.
Barton, of Ocilla, some weeks ago. We are now
enjoying a deLghtfu! series, delivered by Dr. W. L.
Pickard of Lynchburg, Va. Dr. Pickard lectures
twice a day. His general morning theme is “Point
ed Facts on European Travel:” his evening sub
ject is “God’s Mornings in History.” Dr. Pick
ard is a native Georgian and graduate of Mercer
University.
The first issue of the Mon-oe Monthly wi’l appear
in a few days. Several new departments have been
established and. under the editorial direction of
Misses Hattie Collins and Nannie Dover, great
things are expected of the college magazine this
term.
Great interest has been shown this year in debat
ing by the junior and senior classes. A lively sub
ject has chosen to be debated between now and
the Christmas holidays.
The members of the several classes are engaged
each afternoon in preparation for the coming Field
Dav to be given on Thanksgiving afternoon. It
fills nne with enthusiasm tn note the interest taken
in this department of college work.
Portland. Oregon, is said to be the largest lumber
port in the world. There were loading there at
one time recentlv vessels aggregating in their car
goes 25,000,000 feet of lumber.
** Ar
9