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College Notes.
The agricultural college for the Eleventh District
of Georgia will be located in Douglas, Coffee county.
Coffee secured the college with a bid of fifty thou
sand dollars.
At the last meeting of the Board of Education
of Macon, it was decided that hereafter the schools
of the city should have as a holiday the Friday fol
lowing Thanksgiving Day.
The school enrollemnt in the Philippines has now
reached 500,000, and the report of the American
Bible Society gives great encouragement as to the
religious conditions of the Islands.
A building committee has been appointed by Pres
ident G. Gunby Jordan, of May Tewksbury Mission,
to supervise the construction of a model mission
school building for that organization in Columbus,
Georgia.
The oldest university in the world is the “School
for the Sons of the Empire,” at Pekin, China. It
has a granite register consisting of 320 stone col
umns on which are inscribed the names of 60,000
graduates.
Memorials to the Rev. Dr. J. N. Cushing are to
be erected soon in the form of a new dormitory at
Rangoon Baptist College at Rangoon, Burma, to be
called “Cushing Hall,” and of a memorial window
in Immanuel Church.
President 11. C. White, of the State College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, attended in Baton
Rouge, La., the recent session of the representa
tives of the different State colleges and experiment
stations in the United States.
It has been reliably stated that Senator Lodge re
ceives more income from his literary efforts than
his salary as a senator. He has written more on
historical subjects than any man now in American
public life. His last work is a volume of essays.
Dr. Lewis O. Bratow, Professor of Practical The
ology in Yale, has recently published a book which
is said to be exceedingly valuable to students of
the modern pulpit. Its title is “The Modern Pul
pit—a Study of Homiletic Sources and Character
istics.”
Thirty-five Yale professors who have heretofore
been receiving $3,000 to $3,500 salary, have had a
raise ancT will in future be paid $4,000. It is said
that the salaries of Yale professors are 25 per cent
lower than those in Harvard and fifty per cent
lower than those of Chicago University.
Beginning with November of this year, monthly
teachers’ institutes will be held in each of the coun
ties of Georgia. At the November institute one of
the questions for discussion will be methods for
securing a school library in each community. The
improvement and beautifying of school grounds and
property will also be given attention. Subjects for
discussion will be furnished by the State Superin
tendent, who will also provide speakers for any
rally intended to promote the interests of the com
mon schpol system of the state.
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The Golden Age for November 22, 1906.
President Charles Eliot, of Harvard, expresses
himself as being favorably impressed with the new
rules for football. They appear to him to render
the game “free from unnecessary roughness.”
The Georgia Students’ Missionary League will
hold a convention in the chapel of Wesleyan Col
lege on December 7, 8 and 9. There will be a num
ber of distinguished speakers and the leading male
and female colleges of the State will be represented
by delegates.
G. S. Dickerson, of New Haven, Conn., associate
secretary of the Southern Board of Education, is
touring the South for the purpose of observing
educational interests and conditions. The Board
was organized for the purpose of interesting North
ern philanthropists in Southern education.
In the national schools of Sweden, and in the
colleges for the education of national school teach
ers, scientific gardening is taught. Children re
ceive practical instruction in the cultivation of
plants, berries, flowers, herbs and fruits and in the
management of hotbeds, greenhouses, and so forth.
Professor J. S. Stewart, of the University of
Georgia, recently delivered a splendid address be
fore the Southern Association of Colleges and Pre
paratory Schools on the subject, “The High School
Population of the South and a Plan for the Correl
ation of the High Schools and the Higher Institu
tions.”
Robert Gailey, a former center rush and foot
ball hero of Princeton, has sailed for China, having
been sent there by the undergraduates and alumni
of Princeton to develop a Young Men’s Christian
Association in Pekin, with especial educational
purposes. Mr. Gailey has already been in China
seven years, engaged in this work; having remained
at his post in Tien Tsin during the Boxer troubles.
An English critic has said, in speaking of the
productions of Mr. Henry James, that he “gropes
his way through the English language like a blind
man groping with a stick.” It was rejoined by
the London Globe that his methods are certainly
better than those of some novelists who “danced
through the language as if they were doing a
cakewalk.”
Dr. Henry Yau Dyke, of Princeton, tells this
anecdote apropos of methods to be employed by
churches for raising money: “There was a canny
old Scotch minister who said one day from the pul
pit, with a dry smile: ‘Weel, friends, the kirk
stands urgently in need of siller, and, as we have
failed to get it honestly, we must e’en see now
what a bazaar can do for us.’ ”
There is on exhibition in the office of the Board
of Education of Bibb county, Georgia, a desk made
by the pupils of the manual training department of
Pleasant Hill negro school. The desk is of Geor
gia pine, hard oil finish and is well made. The
desk is one of seventy made this term by the stu
dents. The work shop in which the desks were
made, was built by the students, and many articles
besides the desks have been made. Among the ex
hibits at the Fair in Macon from negro schools,
it is said that the Pleasant Hill exhibit was best,
Norman Duncan, the popular writer of sea stories,
will make his home at Lawrence, Kansas, and will
continue his literary work. He was at one time
Professor of English at Washington and Jefferson
Universify, Pennsy 1 vania.
The Social Education Congress, which will meet
in Tremont Temple, Boston, on November 30 and
December 1,2, will be an occasion of great impor
tance to the educational interests of the country.
The meeting will be addressed among others by Dr.
Benjamin Andrews, Dr. Washington Gladden, Pres
ident Eliot and President G. Stanley Hall.
A religious census of the students at Washington
and Lee University shows that the student body
contains: Presbyterians, 165; Methodists, 80; Epis
copalians, 60; Baptists, 40; Disciples, 15; Luther
ans, 14; Catholics, 13; Reformed, 14; United Breth
ren, 5; Hebrews, 5. At Virginia Military Institute,
there are S 4 Episcopalians, 75 Presbyterians, 56
Methodists, 21 Baptists, 17 Catholics, 9 Disciples,
4 Lutherans, 2 Jews, and 29 of no choice.
Mr. Ray Stannard Baker, the magazine writer,
has been spending some time in Georgia cities as
well as in the country distiicts, studying the con
ditions surrounding the negro; both with refer
ence to his educational advantages and as a labor
er, but especially the former. He visited the
negro schools of Macon, and asked many questions
of the students. The forthcoming articles which
will result from his trip are awaited with interest.
The State Normal School of Georgia has received
two gifts from Mrs. Addison Hayes, a daughter
of Jefferson Davis, which are of high value and
interest. One is a crayon portrait of Winnie
Davis, “The Daughter of the Confederacy,” and
the other is a silver cup presented to Winnie Davis
in New Orleans by the Daughters of the Confed
eracy. lhe picture has been hung in the recep
tion room of the Winnie Davis Memorial Hall, and
the cup will a'so be given a place in some room of
the Hall.
Professor Charles Waldstein, professor of fine
arts in King’s College, Cambridge, England, will
go soon to Rome to perfect an arrangement with
the Italian government concerning the carrying out
of his plans for excavating the ancient city of Her
culaneum. The work will go forward under the
supervision of the government and it is expected
that many valuable discoveries will be made. It
is attended with great difficulty, as the town of
Resina, with twenty thousand inhabitants, is built
directly over the ruins.
President Aiderman of the University of Virgin
ia, has called an important educational convention
to convene at the University in Charlottesville, No
vember 22 to 24. The participants will be the
presidents of seven State universities, the presi
dents of all Virginia Colleges, the State Superin
tendents of Education in the States of North Caro
lina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Geor
gia and Virginia, and the professors of secondary
educational institutions in the same states, and cer
tain experts in agricultural education. The con
ference will be the first attempt on the part of
those engaged in higher education to reach the sec
ondary schools and aid in relating them properly to
the schools below and the schools above,
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