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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 UN Uffi jKjT JW 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. £ : A 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, •a 9