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>KLt- ?TXI Notes. A daughter of President Hadley, of Yale, chris tened a steam turbine vessel launched at Chester, Pa., recently. Dr. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, was recent ly elected president of the association of colleges and preparatory schools of the Middle States. The Phi Delta Literary Society of Mercer Uni versity has received a gift from Hon. Thos. E. Wat son, consisting of a set of his books to be added to the library of the society. Mr. Watson was for a while a student at Mercer and a member of Phi Delta. Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, of New York City, first Vice President of the American Museum of Natural History, has been elected secretary of the Smithsonian Institute to succeed the late Prof. Sam uel P. Langley. He is regarded as one of the fore most scientists of America and is widely known as an eminent paleontologist and educator. One of the topics most carefully considered at the Conference on Secondary Education in the South, which recently closed at Charlottesville, Ya., was the teaching of agriculture in the secondary schools. Undoubtedly the subject never received at any one time and place such a masterful and ex haustive treatment as that devoted to it by three of the most noted agricultural experts this country has ever seen; Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, of aLke Charles, La., demonstrator of agricultural work in the Southern States; Dick J. Crosby, an expert in the Department of Agriculture in Washington, and Prof. William Lockhead, one of the two chief rep resentatives on the subject in the Dominion of Can ada. These gentlemen brought the whole confer ence to the belief that some knowledge of agricul ture belongs to the equipment essential to a reason ably broad education, even a common educa tion. Not to know something about the history and management of soil, plants and do mestic things, is dense and unpardonable ignor ance. Agriculture ranks with algebra and geom etry, with geography and history and the sciences as among the common tilings that ought to be known and agricultui’e is tire most important of all these branches. The speakers demonstrated the practical method of introducing and carrying on this impor tant subject in the public schools. The following clipping from one of our exchanges demonstrates the fact that Georgia, in establishing her Agricultural Colleges, is but falling in line with a movement which is becoming general through out. our country. The effect to give boys practical agricultural training and enable them to make the utmost of the resources of their native soil can not be too much encouraged. Following is the clip ping referred to: ' “ James J. Hill, the railway president, said re cently that public-spirited men. if they wished to encourage the growth of the nation, must give ‘the boy reasons for staying on the farm.’ ‘‘Following Mr. Hill’s suggestion, J. Ogden Ar mour, the packer, has made an annual donnation of $5,000 to the Live Stock Exposition which is hel4 Barn’ll —MSB iwwii yi“lf II I ■A waafflßjr Wk The Golden Age for December 13, 1906. in Chicago in December of each year. This money is to be given for scholarships for boys in the va rious agricultural colleges of the country who at tend the judging contests at this show. The money is to encourage boys in agricultural work. “In his letter to President John A. Spoor, of the Exposition, announcing the gift, Mr. Armour says: “ ‘We all recognize and appreciate the work done by our agricultural colleges in advancing the cause of agricultural education in this country through the character and extent of their exhibits of live stock and field products at the international show. “ ‘With a view of stimulating their efforts to give an increased evidence to our farmers of the great value of their work. I hereby offer to you the sum of $5,000 to be distributed annually at the in ternational exposition in twenty agricultural schol arships to be competed for by the state agricultural colleges at your exposition. “ ‘lt is my desire that the recipients of the scholarships should be limited to boys whose parents are unable to give them the advantage of an agri cultural education.’ ” At the Boys High School. Dr. Wm. G. Hubbard, Vice President of the Am erican Peace Society, was in Atlanta Thursday, De cember 6, and delivered a delightful address to the students of the Boys’ High School in the morning. His subject was “Arbitration Rather than War as a Means of Settling the Disputes of Nations.” His speech was forceful and eloquent; his argument in structive and convincing. Although he had to con tend with the deafening rain outside he held his boyish, audience enraptured. They listened with the closest attention and deepest interest. He told them all the particulars of the world’s work now going on among the nations and explained to them fully the great Hague Tribunal. It is a subject of great importance to all American youth and one of intense interest to everybody. Dr. Hubbard is a man well worthy of the most excellent cause he is advocating. He is a minister of extraordinary ability and a speaker of national reputation. He was a college classmate of Vice President' Chas. Fairbanks. Besides being connected with the American Peace Society, he is Literary Superintendent of the American Railway Literary Union for the suppression of pernicious literature. The boys rewarded him for his excellent address by electing him an honorary member of the Alci phronian Literary and Debating Society of the Boys’ High School of Atlanta. J. W. LeCraw. Correspondent B. H. S. A Pension For Professors. There has been quite a discussion among teachers and among the thinking public of the question of suitable provision for college professors and edu cators of various kinds after their period of active work is past. A very sensible and perhaps a repre sentative expression of the general opinion on the subject is given in the following editorial in The Saturday Evening Post, of December. 1: “The Carnegie foundation for providing pensions for college professors who have passed the age for useful work has been much praised as a piece of necessary and enlightened philanthropy. It is gen- erally believed that college professors are poorly paid, not only as compared with what men of simi lar abilities are able to earn in other professions and business, but also as compared with what pro fessors received a generation ago. The average college salary may have increased somewhat lately, but not anything like in proportion to the increase in the cost of living. Although this latter state ment is open to dispute the former is beyond doubt; the difference between the earnings of an able law yer and those of an able professor are vast. “The simplest way to meet this discrepancy—if it should be met—would be to raise college salaries to a point where professors could reasonably be ex pected to save something for their old age. But colleges seem unable to secure funds for this pur pose. Whenever thev get money they are likely to put it info additional plant and equipment in order to keep abreast of their competitors, rather than to pay larger salaries. Moreover, professors are not supposed to be good business men; even if they earned more than they needed, they might not save wisely. The pension is the safest way for making secure provision for their old age. But should it he a pension from a private and philan thropical source such as the Carnegie foundation? As long as Mr. Carnegie lives, and for a good while after, the Carnegie pension will savor of charitv, m matter how impersonally it may be administered. If the pension camo 'directly from the inslituticln that the professor had served all his life there world he loss charitv to it. It might be consid ered a. leritimrie mrt of the pay for work fa;th fully performed. There are those, of coms* win regard Mr. Carnegie’s millions as public funds un justly diverted, and his philanthropies as a mere confession of wrong doing. But thev are not in the majority. and as long as the law of the land stands as it does it would he hotter to find some other means than private generosity to provide for an honorable and useful class of mon. The some thing is true of public school teachers; they should get pensions, and not from a private purse.” Mr. Andrew Carnegie has recently donated $5,000 to the Colored Industrial School near Co lumbia, S. C. Tie has also bought and is wearing a piair of shoes made by the students of Tuskegee In stitute, Alabama. Prof. Henry Oldvs assistant biologist in the De partment of Agriculture at Washington, who has recently contributed some articles to Harper’s Mag azine on bird notes, is said to have written one thousand samples of bird music, written in popu* lar form, making it possible for the human voice to exactly imitate the feathered songsters. R. Wells Dibble, a young Harvard graduate, and Dr. Fred G. Beck, of Yale, captained two nines which last month played the first game of baseball ever seen in Berlin. Germany. Fight hotly contest ed innings were played before an admiring audience from the American colony, and the Yale team final ly Avon by a score of 15 to 9. A large brick building in East St. Louis which had been leased to be used as a negro school was recently destroyed by fire. There was some evi dence that the fire was of incendiary origin, and it is thought that prejudice against the establish ment of a school for blacks caused the building to be set on fire, •ft 9