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College Notes.
The children of the public schools of Macon, Ga.,
will have two weeks’ holiday during Christmas, be
ginning on the 21st inst.
The Agricultural College for the Tenth District
of Georgia has been awarded to Hancock county.
It was secured on a bid of $57,350.
The MacMillan Company have donated forty-four
volumes to the Atlanta Woman’s Club to become
part of the traveling library for the use of schools
in the rural districts of Georgia.
The football game, University of Mississippi vs.
A. & M. College, of Mississippi, at Jackson, Miss..
Nov. 29, resulted in a victory for the University.
The score, University 29, A. & AL, 5.
The first season of the new 11 debrutalized” foot
ball has ended with a record of eleven deaths and
one hundred players injured—according to the
New York World, as against eighteen deaths and
one hundred and fifty-nine serious injuries last
year.
There is being a determined effort made to pre
vent the use of tobacco in the University of Nebras
ka. An order has been issued by Chancellor B.
Benjamin Andrews prohibiting smoking on the
campus. Chewing and spitting have also been for
bidden.
It is stated that the trustees of Andover Theo
logical Seminary propose to move that institution
to Cambridge and affiliate it with Harvard Univer
sity and the Harvard Divinity school. The Semi
nary has a fine library, three well equipped build
ings, a chapel and an endowment of over $1,000,-
000. The student body numbers at present only
eleven.
The Thanksgiving number of the “Georgia
Tech” is the most attractive number yet issued.
Coach Heisman contributes an interesting article
on the work of the football team of this year and
there is a most instructive technical article on
Turbo-Generators by E. E. G. Roberts. Jr.. ’OO. The
magazine announces a short story contest with
prizes in which all students of the Georgia School
of Technology will be eligible as contestants except
the staff of the college magazine.
At the State Normal.
“Come,” said a sweet-faced young woman soon
after my arrival at the State Normal School, “and
let’s go to the Saturday Night Round Table.”
“The Saturday Night what?” I asked, woader
ingly.
“Why, don’t you know? Os course you don’t.
Come, then, and I’ll tell you all about it.” And as
we made our way through the long corridors, she
said.
“One Saturday evening in 1904, Professor D. L.
Earnest, one of the Normal School’s most devoted
and conscientious teachers, organized the Satur
day Night Round Table, with the hope of increas
ing the students’ love and enjoyment of good lit
erature. Only six "were present that evening. Tn
liis own way. Mr. Earnest told the first story—The
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The Golden Age for December 6, 1906.
Great Stone Face. The students were so delight
ed with the story told that the number was greatly
increased at the next meeting. This time a stu
dent was appointed to tell a story for the following
week, and since that time the students have been
the entertainers and the teachers come to be en
tertained. Now you have it in a nutshell.”
“But why is it called ‘The Saturday Night Round
Table’?” I asked, with a desire to know more of
this interesting feature of school life.
“Wait a minute and you may see for yourself,”
she answered. “Here we are at the library door.”
She did not need to open the door. It was open
wide and the room packed to overflowing, A few
of the students were seated in chairs and some in
windows, but the majority of them were comfort
ably seated on the floor, barely leaving space for
the leaders and the table in the center of the room.
As in the time of Arthur’s round table, when the
knights listened to the instructions of their king,
so these studenTs listened to the literature of their
forefathers toLT by the leader previously appointed
by the President, Professor Earnest.
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PROF. D. L. EARNEST.
Soon after we reached the door a rustle was
heard and the words, “Make way for his majesty.”
Immediately the crowd parted and the President
entered. This was the signal for silence. After
the reading of the minutes by the Secretary, the
President appointed those to take part in the pro
gram for the following week.
“You will observe,” said my new friend, “r.o one
ever refuses to take part when requested, and
sometimes he even calls for volunteers.”
No one could doubt it. It would be difficult to
find such an informal, home-like gathering any
where as was gathered in that room.
The evening’s program was then begun. Short
stories and funny incidents were told by a number
of the students, after which we listened to some
sweet music rendered by the Round Table male
quartette. Lucy Madison Foster’s “Colonial Maid”
was then told in a most charming manner by Miss
Mary McGee, who bids fair to become one of Geor
gia ’s most entertaining and instructive readers.
The critic s report, which followed, created much
merriment.
“I am always sorry when the time comes for ad
journment,” my friend said.
“So say we all,” echoed a chorus of girls near
by, as we made our way through the crowd.
What a noble work! The tired student at the
close of the week, free from lessons and in need of
recreation, finds just the rest needed in these in
formal gatherings and more than that, derives ad
ditional benefits from the educative value of keep
ing in touch with the current events of the world,
and from the drill in story telling, a gift so nec
essary in the life of every teacher. But greater,
even, than the literary benefit derived from this
Saturday evening is the training the student gets
in self-control and the power to influence others in
the daily walk of life.
Just now Professor Earnest has in view for the
school a. Round Table scholarship. Is not all this
proof that perseverance wins?
Correspondent.
Wake Forest Victorious.
“Resolved, That the United States should en
force the Monroe Dotrine in South America.”
This was the subject for discussion in debate
November 29, 8 o’clock p. m., in the city auditorium
in Macon, Georgia, between representatives, two
each from Wake Forest College, N. C., and Mercer
University, G eorgi a.
Wake Forest was represented by Mr. Weather
spoon and Mr. Brown; Mercer by Mr. Jones and
Mr. Copeland.
The judges, three in number, were Judge A. J.
Cobb, of Atlanta; lion. W. IL Fleming, of Augus
ta, and Prof. Johnson, of Macon.
The auditorium is a spacious building suitable
for the exercises of the occasion. The audience
was large, I would say 3,000 people, and as inspir
ing as any man could desire.
Dr. S. Y Jameson, the President of Mercer, pre
sided, and gave most gracefully and appropriately
direction to all the exercises of the hour.
When everything was in readiness, the speakers
appeared on tire platform and spoke in the follow
ing order: Mr. Weatherspoon for the affirmative,
followed by Air. Jones. He, in turn, was followed
by Mr. Brown, and in turn by Mr. Copeland. Each
speaker filled his time and then each availed him
self of his opportunity to speak in rebuttal. The
addresses were all excellent. Everybody felt proud
of Georgia, ALicon and Mercer, and just as proud of
North Carolina, Wake Forest and her splendid
young men. It did seem to the writer while the
speaking was in progress that all tire young men
were destined for congress. It seemed, too. a pity
that present representatives in Washington City,
D. C., were not present that they might have ad
ditional light on a question of surpassing interest
at this time.
The majority of the judges gave verdict in favor
if Wake Forest. And over this everybody cheered.
The judges, Macon and Mercer, did the graceful
and courteous to the last limit.
It was a pity that anybody had to be defeated.
If there was any mistake made, it was by the
judges in not finding a verdict favorable to both
sides. However, Mercer could afford better than
Wake Forest to lose out. Tn these contests to date
it has won nine out of twelve. It is to be hoped
that this ratio will never be lowered,
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