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College Notes.
Emperor William has bestowed upon Professor
Hugo Munsterburg, professor of Physiology at
Harvard University, the Crown Order of the Sec
ond Class.
Ten years hence, declares Professor Flinders Pet
rie, there will be little need for archaeological work.
In every direction the chances of recovering his
tory are disappearing, and they will have vanished
forever by 1916.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity has recently
held its annual convention and celebration of its
fiftieth anniversary in Atlanta. About three hun
dred members were in attendance, and every one
of the fraternity’s sixty-seven chapters were repre
sented.
The New York City Board of Education has de
cided to prohibit the use of all text-books prepared
by teachers in the city’s employ. This will bar
Comrade’s Grammar and Borachio’s Song Collec
tion. Only one member of the board voted against
this action.
The new agricultural building of the University
of Georgia will probably be located on Lucas Hill,
on which now stands the residence of the late
Judge F. W. Lucas. Dr. A. M. Soule, of Blacks
burg, Va., is spoken of as dean of the agricultural
department.
The Board of Trustees of the University of
Georgia will meet in Athens on January 9th. At
the same time there will be a meeting of the trus
tees of the agricultural department of the univer
sity. It is expected that at this time the site
for the new agricultural hall will be located. A
dean of the new department will be elected also.
Dr. W. C. Farabee, an instructor in anthropology
at Harvard, sailed recently at the head of an
expedition for South America to make an exhaus
tive study of the little known Andean Indian tribes
of the region of the Amazon and Panama rivers.
They expect to be away three years. Dr. Farrabee
has done similar work in other parts of the world.
At the annual meeting of the Intercollegiate
Athletic Association of the United States, which
met recently in New York City, the advisability of
forming a national athletic association of the uni
versities and colleges was discussed. There was
a change made in the - personnel of the football
rules committee, which was the placing of Profes
sor W. L. Dudley, of Vanderbilt University, in
the place occupied by Mr. Curtis. Professor Dud
ley will represent all the Southern colleges.
In England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy
and the United 'States there has been a steadily
growing impression that the schools are not being
as well utilized as they might be for the purpose
of moral training and of citizenship. The Ameri
can branch of the International Association for
the promotioin of moral training in the public schools
has completed its organization by the election of
an executive committee, of which Nicholas Murray
Butler, of Columbia; Edwin A. Aiderman, of the
University of Virginia, and other well known edu
cators are members,
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The Golden Age for January 3, 1907.
The plain truth about the matter of the Japan
ese in the public schools of San Francisco is that
some of them were men, and the morals of the
children were imperiled by their presence. There
is no international law or comity which will oblige
parents to endanger the characters of their children,
and the people of San Francisco were entirely right,
and it will not be safe for them to change their
decision until some way is discovered of telling
whether a Japanese is twelve or twenty years old.
The Southern Educational Association has closed
its annual session in Montgomery, Ala. Much im
portant business was transacted. It was decided
to found a department of libraries. The officers
elected for the Association are as follows. President,
R. G. Tighe, superintendent of city schools, Ashe
ville, N. C.. First Vice-President, D. E. B. Craig
head, President Tulane University, New Orleans;
Second Vice-President, State Superintendent J. Y.
Joyner, Raleigh, N. C.; Third Vice-president, Su
perintendent C. L. Floyd, Montgomery; Secretary,
Principal J. B. Cunningham, Birmingham, Ala.;
Treasurer, E. P. Burns, member Board of Educa
tion, Atlanta, Ga.
The English Education Bill is dead. The bill
as passed by the liberal majority in the House of
Commons was amended by the House of Lords
until its nature was entirely changed. The amend
ments were rejected in the Commons by a vote
of 416 to 107, even the Roman Catholics voting
against them. This and the decision of the House
of Lords in the West Riding Appeal, that county
councils must provide religious teaching, will bring
great disappointment and hardship to the non
conformists as it necessitates the continuance . of
the passive resistance movements until away is
found to compel the Lords to yield to the will of
the people.
English As Taught.
Professor Lounsbury, the noted grammarian of
Yale, has democratic and liberal views on the sub
ject of the English language. He strenuously op
poses the displacing of simple terms by others of
pedantic character. Recently he fold this story
while discussing the subject: “There was a little
boy who began to keep a diary. His first entry
was. ‘Got up at 7 o’clock this morning.’ He
showed the entry to his mother and she, horror
stricken, said: ‘Have you never been to school?
Got up, indeed! Such an expression! Does the
sun get up? No, it rises!’ And she scratched out
‘got up at 7,’ and wrote, ‘rose at 7’ in its place.
That night the boy, before retiring, ended the entry
for the day with the sentence, ‘Set at 9 o’clock.’ ”
In a recent editorial, laying before the city of
Atlanta its obligation to contribute to the need of
the Technological School for an enlarged campus,
The Atlanta Georgian says, among other things:
‘ ‘ We people in Atlanta scarcely realize the mean
ing of this superb institution to our municipal life
or the prestige which it confers upon our entire
educational system in the South. We do not know
that the Technological is now, by common consent,
one of the ranking technological schools of the en-
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tire country. Recently four presidents of the lead
ing universities of the country united in declar
ing Georgia’s great school of technology to be the
leading technological school of the South, and one
of the ranking schools of the entire country.
“Its repute and fame has literally spread through
the world. In its present correspondence there are
five applications for admission from the Philip
pine Islands, one from India, and a large number
from the Northern and Western states.
“If the techr|o'logical school were Rocalted in
any Northern city, it would have been crowned
and enriched by donations and endowments that
would have amply and superbly answered all its
needs. Only recently the city of New York gave
voluntarily three and a half million dollars to
Columbia University for building purposes alone.
The city of St. Louis has recently enriched Wash
ington University by splendid gifts of money and
land, and we all know how royally every year adds
to the princely revenues and endowments of the
University of Chicago from that great city and
from great individual citizens who hold it as Chi
cago’s greatest ornament and its most useful in
stitution. ’ ’•
The following editorial from a recent number of
the Macon Telegraph, is of interest, as giving in
formation touching the educational situation in
the Philippine Islands:
“There is one thing that seems to be prospering
in the Philippine Islands and that is schools. Im
ports and exports are falling off, but schools are
increasing in number.
“The imports, which had been above S3O 000,000
in value for each of the five years, from 1901 to
1905, inclusive, and rose to above $33,000,000 in
1904, fell last year to $25,799,266. The exports,
which had increased to $33,121,780 in 1903, falling
off about $3,000,000 the following year, were, last
year, $31,917,134. It is with good reason that Sec
retary Taft notes in his recent report that “the
depressed condition of business in the islands seems
to have continued.’’
“But the cause of education is not suffering.
There are now 3,166 primary schools established
under American direction in the islands, with an
average attendance of 375,544 pupils. In these
schools 700 American teachers and 6,224 Filipino
teachers are employed. The primary school build
ings, owned by the municipalities, number 2,454.
“This is as it should be. But it will probably
be found that the more Filipinos are educated in
the English tongue, the more complicated will the
Filipino problem become. The results will be sim
ilar to the results nearer home of the education of
the negroes, whose learning in books increases their
desire for privileges which the whites do not appear
to be willing to grant to them in-any section of
this Country.
“The better the Filipinos are educated in the
English language and the more they read of Ameri
can literature, the stronger will be their desire to
obtain independence and self-government—those
priceless possessions so much lauded by American
writers for a century. A republican administration
that is unwilling even to promise the Filipinos in
dependence at a remote and unfixed date can scarce
ly regard American literature as wholesome for
the Filipino masses. A policy of suppressing
American literature in the islands as dangerous
and incendiary would be more consistent,”
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