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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. --1111 ill I ijf •* ~ tmaH IKBg CT IMK J|W 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. ’ ’ »*\JK®k 9