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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