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College Notes.
Tlhe opening of school after the holiday recess
will occur at Mercer University on January 3, and
at Wesleyan on the second instant.
The public school library of Jackson, Ga., has
recently received a gift of 612 handsomely bound
volumes from 0. H. B. Bloodworth of that city.
Charles D. Tenney, of Tien Tsin, China, and for
merly president of the university there, recently
brought to this country to enter various educational
institutions, forty young Chinamen. He has re
turned to China for the purpose of bringing others.
Hon. T. W. Hardwick, a former pupil of Gordon
Institute, has offered a medal to the best speaker
in an original speaking contest, to take place at
that school next commencement. A similar prize
of twenty dollars in gold has been offered by Pro
fessor Pickett.
Prof. Taichiro Henje, sent to this country by his
home government of Formosa, to inspect the Amer
ican schools, is now concluding his visit and work
by inspecting the schools of New York City. He
proposes, when he returns, to establish a gigantic
educational institution in his country modeled after
the American high school.
The Dean of Canterbury, in speaking of hazing
in British schools, said that he had once been com
pelled to drink a glass of water so thick with salt
that a ruler would stand upright in it, and that
it did not do him any harm. He expressed a hope
that the movement now inaugurated to suppress
hazing would result beneficially to the schools.
Prof. John W. Burgess, who occupies the Roose
velt Chair of International Law in the University
of Berlin, is shortly to visit the universities of
Bonn, Jena and Leipsic to lecture on the history
of the American constitution. Emperor William
has issued strict orders to his son, Prince August
Wilhelm, who is an undergraduate at Bonn, to at
tend the lectures.
Prof. C. W. Herrington, director of athletics in
Missouri University, has taken the initiative in a
movement to form an association of Western Uni
versities for the government of college athletics.
He has issued a call for a meeting of representa
tives of Kansas, Nebraska, Washington, St. Louis,
Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas universities to dis
cuss the proposal.
The following is an extract from President Roose
velt’s brief message accompanying Secretary Met
calf’s report on the Japanese school question:
“I will call your especial attention to the very
small number of Japanese children who attend
school, to the testimony as to the brightness, clean
liness and good behavior of these Japanese children
in the schools, and to the fact that, owing to their
being scattered throughout the city, the requirement
for them all to go to one special school is impossi
ble of fulfillment, and means that they cannot have
school facilities. Let me point out further that
there would be no objection whatever to excluding
from the schools any Japanese on the score of age.
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The Golden Age for December 27, 1906.
It is obviously not desirable that young men should
go to school with children. The only point is the
exclusion of the children themselves. The number
of Japanese children attending the public schools
in San Francisco was very small. The government
has already directed that suit be brought to test
the constitutionality of the act in question; but my
very earnest hope is that .such suit will not be nec
essary, and that as a matter of comity the citizens
of San Francisco will refuse to deprive these young
Japanese children of education and will permit them
to go to the schools.”
A rather remarkable phase of the immediate
present is the arrival of 500 English school teach
ers to study the educational system of America.
Sir Alfred Moseley, the head of the party, has re
ported on our system to his government, and while
he found much to admire and commend he also dis
covered many defects. He is reported to have said
that our educational attitude differs from the Eng
lish in two ways: First, in the enthusiasm of our
teachers, and secondly, in the fact that our rich
men devote their money to education while the rich
Englishmen devote theirs to sport.
The following information regarding certain
methods of instruction in the French public schools,
appeared recently in the Macon Telegraph, and is
of interest:
“We have it on the authority of John D. Rocke
feller that the French people are a wonderfully
thrifty race. French thrift and French savings
permeate the nation to such an extent, it is said,
that home government bonds are held by the French
people, principally the industrial classes, to the ex
tent of over five billion dollars. How the repub
lic begins early to inculcate the savings habit in
the people is explained in the following article by
J. Martin Miller, consul at Rheims, and is worth
consideration by our public educators:
“ ‘The public schools of France teach the pupils,
both boys and girls, how to save money by depos
iting regularly in the government savings banks, no
matter how small the amount. The government will
furnish money to all public school pupils, under
certain conditions, with which to help start an
account to provide an income in old age. Pupils
attaining certain degrees of proficiency in their
classes receive, as prizes, bank books with 10 francs
(franc, 19.3 cents) credited in each. It is demon
strated to them what this will amount to- at com
pound interest at 3 per cent when 21 years of age,
also the amount they will have saved at that age if
they deposit regularly one franc a week, one franc
a month, etc.’
“ ‘The teachers of the public schools go out
among the leading citizens annually just before the
school year ends and ask for contributions in cash
with which to make the savings bank book prizes.
In most communities there is no trouble in raising
what is needed. After the account is opened the
teacher’s accept deposits from the pupils, and when
one franc or more has been paid to the teacher
by any pupil the amount is taken to the bank and
credited in the book.’
“ ‘Another plan opens to all pupils a means
which prorides an annuity in old age. Each pupil
can deposit as much as he or she can, daily or
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weekly, up to 10 centimes (2 cents) per day, one
half of which applies to the fund for an old-age
pension, and one-half is deposited with the school
for a fund to be available in case of the sickness of
the pupil or the parents. For instance, the pupil
who deposits, upon this plan, 10 centimes a day
(less may be deposited if desired) will have 5
centimes placed to his credit in the Cash National
of Pensions for Old Age, and 5 centimes, the re
maining one-half, will be held by the school for a
sick fund, to be paid out to the pupil in case of
his own sickness, or that of either of his parents
upon whom he depends for support, but not to ex
ceed 75 centimes (15 cents) a day as long as the
money the pupil has credited to 'him in the sick
fund lasts.’
“ ‘For every account of this kind the govern
ment will, annually, give each pupil one-half the
amount he has paid the school in this way, being
a sum equal to the amount the pupil has credited
to him for a fund to provide a pension in old age.
So it turns out in the end that the pupil has all the
money he paid in credited to him on the old-age
pension account, and has, in addition, a sick fund
to draw upon if needed. In case the sick fund is
not used it is finally deposited to the credit of the
old-age pension fund.’
•‘ ‘All teachers of each school make regular
reports to the superintendent regarding the depos
its of pupils, and the superintendent reports to the
minister of education of Paris, and the accounts,
as well as all school matters, are inspected fre
quently by the traveling inspectors.’ ”
It is planned to establish a station on the island
of Disco in Danish Greenland for the scientific
study of the life of the arctic regions. There will
be a biological laboratory and scientists from other
countries will be invited to share the facilities of
fered. The expenses will be borne partly by the
Danish government and partly by Mr. A. Holick of
Copenhagen.
Notes From Humboldt.
On the afternoon of the 21st of December, lhe
primary grades of the Humboldt High School, un
der the able management of Mrs. Howard and Miss
Hudson, gave an interesting Christmas program.
The little people were well trained and afforded an
exceedingly enjoyable afternoon to the friends and
patrons of the school.
On the afternoon of the 21st of December, the
music class of Miss F. A. Marcilliot gave an enter
taining recital. Miss Marcilliot is an efficient in
structor and her pupils show great improvement.
Half-Back.
Simpkins—When is your son coming home from
college ?
Tompkins—ln about six months, I guess; he has
been gone six months and he writes that he is half
back now.—Judge.
Professor, (getting the roll of his new section of
Preps.)—“First young man, what is your name?”
Ist Sub.—“ Jule.”
Professor.—“ Julius, you mean. Second young
man, what is your name?”
2d Sub.—“Bilious.”—The Georgia Tech.
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