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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. WfMig w the WMMr m ■ 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 Read Page 15 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. 9