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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. I I J -- ' = ". -? W^H ; 5 -/--" xOMlii.iJjMl/jf tOsW/^- r " JRfeWff WWfW - SI. “m Mm >8 ♦ T, 3EM jH JIW 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, Uli 9