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College Notes.
The number of students in the universities of
Germany is almost 50,000. Last year it was 44,-
942.
The attendance last winter at the ten higher in
stitutions for technical education in Germany, was
15,800.
The exercises in the London schools are writ
ten on washable paper with lead pencils. Slates
are never seen there.
In the month of September, 1906, the public
schools of New York City contained 17,222 more pu
pils than in Setpember of last year.
Chicago teachers have organized a relief society.
The members pay in $2 per year, and in case of
illness are entitled to draw ten dollars per week
for four weeks.
Dr. H. R. Mclver a resident of Oxford and an ex
pert egyptologist, is studying American museums
and administrative methods. He is at present in
Washington, D. C.
Dr. Jerome Schneider, emeritus professor of
Greek at Tufts College, recently celebrated h‘s eigh
ty-second birthday. He is the last living member
of the original faculty of the institution.
The ceremonies attendant upon laying the corner
stone of the new library building of the Technologi
cal School will probably occur about November
20th. Governor Terrell will make an address.
Dr. Alexander Petrunkevitch, who is the head of
the Department of Zoology at the University of
Indiana, is a member of the Russian nobility. He
is recognized as one of the leading zoologists in this
country.
The student body of the Centenary College at
Jackson, La., went out on a strike recently because
the students disapproved of the retention of a
certain member of the faculty against whom they
had a grievance.
The Federation of Women’s Clubs has recently
had a meeting in the chapel of Wesleyan College,
at Macon, Georgia. There were a number of dis
tinguished members present and important business
of the Federation was transacted.
The laying of the corner-stone of the new gram
mar school building, Augusta, Ga., will occur on
Thanksgiving Day with Masonic ceremonies. The
building will be one of the largest in the South,
with a seating capacity of 1,200.
The Wake Forrest-Mercer debate will occur on
November 29th, in the city auditorium in Macon,
Georgia. The subject will be Resolved, “That the
United States should enforce the Monroe Doctrine
in South America.” The affirmative will be cham
pioned by Wake Forrest, represented by Messrs.
Brown, Weatherspoon and Sykes. The speakers for
Mercer on the negative will be Messrs. Jones, Cope
land and Reid. The chairman on that occasion will
be Governor J. M. Terrell.
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The Golden Age for November 15, 1906.
There is some complaint among the teachers of
Holyoke, Mass., because they receive only S6OO
per year, while the janitors get SI,OOO. Massachu
setts teachers have a high sense of the value of
their services.
Newspapers instead of the regular school books
have been adopted for use in teaching reading
classes in several of the schools in Rotherham,
England. • The pupils are said to gain more general
knowledge in this way than in the old.
It is stated that it has become a custom for the
girls in the public schools of New York City to
attend school without wearing hats. When the
weather is good the girls almost without exception
may be seen going and coming from school bare
headed.
A news item states that there is a bureau in Bud
apest which advertises to furnish essays and prose
and verse compositions and translations for school
boys, in any language, at eight cents per page. The
education authorities are applying to the govern
ment to have this stopped.
Lady Henry Somerset, the English philanthropist,
has made the suggestion that school children should
be trained in their work to use both hands with
equal facility. She claims that as the left lobe of
the brain directs the right side of the body, a con
stant use of the right hand more than the left,
overtaxes this sade of the brain and is the cause
of nervous and brain troubles.
The annual Fall Term Debate between the Cic
eronian and Phi Delta literary societies of Mercer
University will occur on November 23d. The ques
tion to be used is a discussion of the “Free Elect
ive System”—the affirmative being championed by
Walter Sumner and G. AV. Wood of the Ciceronian.
Dean Newman and Dorsey Black of Phi Delta will
defend the negative.
Mr. Harralson Bleckley, architect, has prepared
a general plan as a suggestion for the buildings to
be erected for use by the Agricultural Colleges to
be established in Georgia, and has it on exhibition
in the Governor’s office. The plan contemplates
the erection of the buildings on the three sides of
a square, the college building being at one end,
the girls’ dormitory on one side, and the boys’
on the other, facing it.
Members of the Georgia Synod of the Presby
terian Church recently visited Blackshear, Georgia,
for the purpose of inspecting the Prcsbyterial
Institute at that place. A mass meeting of citizens
was called and a number of addresses were made
by the visitors. Announcement was made of plans
whereby the school was to be greatly improved and
enlarged, the contemplated outlay being something
like $50,000.
Professor Burgess, the first incumbent of the
Roosevelt Chair in Berlin University, has deliver
ed a lecture to a German audience in which he is
said to have stated that the Monroe Doctrine is out
of date. In view of the way in which President
Roosevelt has nursed and sustained the doctrine and
its application, such a statement coming from his
protege is very surprising and has aroused much
criticism and comment both at home and abroad.
The Senior Class of Mercer University has elect
ed as officers W. A. Adamson, President; F. L.
Ware, Vice President; Robert Montgomery, Secre
tary, and Manley Haws, Treasurer. B. S. Deaver,
C. W. Reid, J. J. Copeland and G. C. Sparks were
elected respectively as prophet, historian, poet and
orator of the class.
L. M. Cohen, of Macon, Ga., a student at Har
vard, has been elected president of the Cotton
States Club. Henry Holland Buckman, Jr., of
Jacksonville, Fla., was elected vice president, and
C. A. Pangham, of Talladega, Ala., secretary and
treasurer.
Prof. William Lyon Phelps, of Yale, in a recent
lecture on “The Modern Novel,” gives his opinion
of Kipling’s work as follows:
“It was the mistake of Mr. Kipling’s literary
career, although of course better for his personal
happiness, that he did not die of pneumonia, when
he was ill in New York, some years ago. ‘Stalky
& Co.’ is, I think, the worst book I have ever read
and as for his stories of machinery, I pre r er to read
a treatise of the subject in an encyclopedia.”
Dr. Charles Duncan Mclver, who died suddenly
some weeks ago, was at the time of his death
President of the North Carolina State Normal
and Industrial College for young women. By the
Review of Reviews he is said to have been “one
of the most useful and important men of his gener
ation in America.” In a summary of his work the
Review of Reviews says among other things:
“Dr. Mclver was not quite forty-six years old;
but his influence was already great, and his achieve
ment was of the sort that saves imperiled civiliza
tions and transforms communities. He recognized
the fact that the South was backward in its educa
tional work, and from the very day that he was
graduated at tire University of North Carolina he
became an apostle of the movement to improve the
schools. He became an organizer of public school
systems in the cities of his State and a leader in
the work of creating rural schools under conditions
of lack and need such as can hardly be under
stood in the North. He organized and conducted
teachers’ institutes in all the counties and be
came the great propagandist of progress in school
affairs throughout North Carolina.
“He soon came to realize the fact that a good
school system could not be possible without a better
trained corps of teachers, and be determined to
provide an institution that would receive a great
number of promising girls from all parts of the
State, give them an education at small cost, and
train them to be teachers of exactly the type need
ed in the schools, particularly of the rural dis
tricts. He appealed to the legislature with ulti
mate success, secured his appropriation in 1891,
and opened his school some fourteen years aero.
The State has dealt with him generously, for Dr.
Mclver’s enthusiasm has never failed to carry the
legislature in the direction of his desires. Other
very important educational posts from time to
time were open to him, but he felt that his work
could best center in the direction and development
of the wonderful institution he created at Greens
boro. It is one of the finest schools for the culture
of women in the whole world, and it will stand as
a monument to Mclver’s energy and splendid tal
ent both as an organizer and as a trainer of teach
ers. ’ ’
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