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College Notes. The building of the State Agricultural School of Alabama at Athens, Ala., was almost wrecked re cently by a cyclone. Hon. George Foster Peabody has sent 450 copies of “The Words of the Christ” to Chancellor Bar row for free distribution among the students of the university. The registration of students at the University of Georgia has reached four hundred and twelve. The number will probably reach to four hundred and fifty before the year ends. Mercer University will name the holder of the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford next year. The ap pointee will attend Oxford under the provisions of the will of the late Cecil Rhodes. It is announced by John Hurley, of Winsted, Conn., a student for thirty years of Gaelic Ety mological history, that both Virgil and Shakespeare were of Irish descent. Erin Gobraugh! The prize offered by the Negro State Fair Asso ciation at Macon, Ga., for the best agricultural display, was won by the Bibb county negro schools. The display consisted mainly of basketry, clay mod eling, carpentry and shop work. The second District Agricultural College has been secured by Tift County and will be located at Tif ton, Ga. The donation of Tift county for the school was $60,000 cash, 300 acres of land, free lights, water, sewerage/ and fior ten years. A building to be called “Sharp Hall,” in honor of President J. A. Sharp, is being erected at Young Harris College. It will be very attractive in size and appearance and will be capable of seating about 800. The first floor will be used for the Primary Department and the second as halls for the Young Harris and Phi Chi debating societies. The Third District Agricultural College of Geor gia, will be located at Americus, Sumter county. The county secured the college by a bid of $40,000 in money, three hundred acres of land worth about $6,000, together with sanitary sewerage and water supply for all time. The main buildings of the college will be of brick and handsome in all ap pointments. Prof. C. B. Chapman, superintendent of schools of Bibb county, is preparing a book giving pictures, statistics and matters of interest relative to the schools of Bibb, which will be exhibited at the Jamestown Exposition. A full and complete ex hibit of the products of the manual training schools of the county, both white and colored, will also be made at the exposition. The Phi Deltas were victorious over the represen tatives of the Ciceronian Society in the debate be tween the two societies recently at Mercer Univer sity. This is known as the Fall Term Debate, and is an annual occasion at Mercer. The question discussed was the advisability of continuing the £ (W *rnK - The Golden Age for November 29, 1906. policy of the Monroe Doctrine in South America. The negative was championed by the Phi Delta representatives, who won the decision. An anecdote is related of Mr. Hugo Meyer, for merly an instructor at Harvard. He was noted as the most precise man as to figures who ever gave a lecture in economics. While at the head of a course on railways a few years ago he had occasion to give his class a few figures on car mile prices. When the class met again, he apologized in a voice bowed down by weight of woe for a little mistake he had made. “I said that the figures for such and such were 5.000695282,” he explained in his contrition. “That was not at all exact. I should have said 5.000695283.” Dr. James Kerr, medical doctor and Dr. F. Rose, an educational adviser, acting as a committee un der instruction of the London county council, re cently visited twelve cities in Germany and Hol land, visiting thirty-five schools in all, for the pur pose of studying methods for securing the cleanli ness of children in the public elementary schools. They have prepared a report on the subject in which the most attention is given to the question of separate baths as opposed to arrangements where by a number of children bathe in the same large apartment. The conclusion is: “So long as sufficient arrangements provide against children interfering with each others’ clothes, there is nothing to be gained by undue pri vacy, the children being free from feelings gener ally attributed to them.” Moreover, the separate system is described as both costly and difficult to keep clean, while it offers difficulties in the way of supervision. The great benefits of the system are fully recognized by both doctors and teachers. They may be summarized as follows: “Better air in the school. “Improvement in quality and cleanliness of un derclothing. “More self-respect. “Diminution of insect pests.” We find in an exchange the following views of Prof. David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford University, upon the effects of cigarette smoking: “Boys who smoke cigarettes are like wormy ap ples. They drop long before harvest time. They rarely ever make failures in after life because they do not have any after life. The boy who begins smoking before his fifteenth year never enters the life of the world. AVhen the other boys are taking hold of the world’s work, he is concerned with sex ton and undertaker. “When a boy begins to make a business of fill ing frequently the 725,000,000 air cells of his lungs with nicotine, carbon monoxide, and other poisons in cigarette smoke, it keeps him too busy to attend successfully to much of anything else. Making a chimney of his nose becomes his chief occupation. “Leeches applied to cigarette smokers fall dead from sucking the poisoned blood. Is it any won der that boys grow pale and sick? Even a boy’s bones often stop growing if he smokes many cig arettes when young. “Twelve hundred to fifteen hundred boys every day, are said to begin smoking cigarettes, so rapid ly is the habit spreading all over the country. This means that an army of boys are laying the founda- tion for much trouble and suffering for themselves and for their families and friends.” Bob Burdette contributes as his brief opinion that “a boy who smokes cigarettes is like a cipher with the rim knocked off.” Much interest is felt by college men and by the public in general on the subject of the holders of Rhodes scholarships at Oxford. There are now about one hundred and sixty holders of these schol arships, seventy-nine being from America. Every state in the Union is represented except Nevada. Mr. William E. Curtis recently visited Oxford, and the following part of an article prepared by him, contains some interesting information. “The Rhodes Trust has an office in Oxford (9 South Parks Road), and F. J. Wylie is the manager in charge. From him and from an American resident, Louis Dyer, Curtis learned a lot about our boys at the ancient English university. The English boys were very nice to them from the start; indeed, the newcomers were ‘(rather over-enter tained’ for the first term or two. But that’s at an end now; our boys have settled down to work and are giving a good account of themselves in study, atheletics and undergraduate society. They have an American club; R. L. Henry, of Chicago, (Worsecter College) is the president. Year before last they were Mr. Dyer’s guests at Thanksgiving, but last year they got up the dinner themselves (with turkey, cranberry sauce, and mince-pie in it), as they are going to this year. Dr. Osler presided last Thanksgiving, and a Maryland boy, P. Keiffer (Oriel College), made an extremely witty speech. “Mr. Wylie told Curtis that our boys were not as well grounded in Greek and Latin as the English boys, but had the pull of them in mathematics, the natural sciences, and ‘general knowledge.’ So they get along all right. A West Virginian, Tucker- Brooke (St. John’s College) has taken a ‘first’ in English Literature; a North Dakotan, 11. A. Hinds (Queen’s College) has taken a ‘first’ in geology; other lads have won lesser honors, and a New Hamp shire lad, J. A. Brown (New College) has taken a research degree. A New Yorker, W. E. Schutt (Brasenose College) was Oxford’s representative in the mile running-race with Cambride this year; a South Dakotan, Paul Young (Oriel College )won the high jump and broad jump; a Virginian, W. A. Fleet (Magdalen College) has thrice battled for the university in lawn tennis matches, and several Americans are rowing in the college boats. Only two of the Rhodes scholars from this country have died—W. IT. Verner, of South Carolina, and A. K. Reed, of Louisiana. “The English boys at Oxford call the Rhodes scholars ‘Roadsters,’ and Mr. Dyer wishes they wouldn’t. He thinks ‘Rhodians’ would sound bet ter and be more dignified.” The Board of Education of San Francisco has recently decided that separate schools be provid ed for children of Oriental parents and all Chinese and Japanese children are required to attend these schools. This fact has greatly incensed the Jap anese and the press of that country has commented most adversely on the affair, while the government has formally protested against this discrimination. As a matter of fact the treaty of 1894 distinctly granted “equal rights with American citizens to the people of Japan” and it is on this ground that the Japanese Ambassador makes his protest. 9