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College Notes.
China is planning for another royal university
with a capacity for twenty thousand students.
W. M. Reeves, of Fort Worth, Texas, has given
ten thousand dollars to Baylor Female College at
Belton, Texas.
The mcst expensive thermometer in the United
States is at Johns Hopkins University. It is val
ued at SIO,OOO.
There are seventy-five minsterial students in
Wake Forest College, North Carolina, and of that
number sixty-five came from the country.
At the North Carolina Baptist Convention it was
stated that twenty students in Wake Forest Col
lege are making ready to go to the foreign field.
The next examination in the United States for
the Rhodes scholarships at the University of Ox
ford, in England, will be held in each state and
territory on January 17th and 18th.
Mr. Jno. R. Mott is authority for the staterne” 1
that, in 1800, only ten per cent of the students in
the colleges of this country were members of evan
gelical churches. In 1900, over fifty per cent were
members.
The Hon. Charles Francis Adams, of Massachu
setts, has been chosen as the orator at the celebra
tion of the centennial anniversary of the birth of
Gen. Robert E. Lee at Washington and Lee Uni
versity, on January 19th.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton, contributes
the leading article in Scribner’s Magazine for
January. The subject is, “A Holiday in a Vaca
tion,” and is a delightful account of a canoe trip
over a chain of Maine rivers and lakes.
Geprge I. Long, fifty years of age, for twenty
six years editor of the Manson (Iowa) Journal,
and father of a grown son and daughter, will
enter college this spring. He goes to the State
Normal School at Cedar Falls for six months and
will thep. enter the University of lowa. He is
carrying ’out an unrealized ambition of his boy
hood.
Miss Braddon, the well known novelist, is quite
a linguist and reads French, German, Spanish and
Italian with equal facility. She has celebrated her
seventieth birthday by issuing her sixty-second
book. She received for her best known effort,
“Lady Audley’s Secret,” only twelve dollars and
a half. Since then royalties have been paid her on
over a million copies of her books.
A gift of SIOO,OOO each has been made to the
Western Reserve University by H. M. Hanna
and Colonel Oliver H. Payne. The money will be
used in establishing and endowing a laboratory of
experimental medicine. A professorship of ex
perimental medicine has been created, and Prof.
Charles N. Stewart, of the University of Chicago,
has been elected to the chair, the first of its kind,
it is said, to be created in this country.
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The Gulden Age for January 10, 1907.
An allowance of SI,OOO per year was recently
voted to Dr. C. H. Judson, of Furman University,
by the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Foun
dation for the Advancement of Teaching. It is
an honor worthily bestowed and is appreciated by
the people of South Carolina, who fully appreciate
the splendid work of this educator.
The University of Chicago has just received a
New Year’s greeting from Mr. John D. Rocke
feller in the form of a gift for endowment con
sisting of securities of the market value of $2,-
700,000. He also makes additional gifts for
making good the annual deficits of the university
proper; of the School of Education, and of the
Law School. He further makes provision for an
annual increase in the expenditures of the uni
versity amounting to $40,000. This will enable
the trustees to make much needed increases in
salaries of instructors. Mr. Rockefeller provides
for these purposes and for some additional needs
$217,000. Among the special provisions of this
great donation for special needs are the follow
ing: For greenhouses for the department of
botany, $2,500; for special equipment in various
departments, $5,000; for the Alice Freeman Pal
mer chimes, $5,000. These chimes are to be placed
in the tower of the commons group, in memory of
Alice Freeman Palmer, who was the first dean
of women in the university. Mrs. Palmer’s friends
have raised $5,000 for these, chimes, and this con
tribution will complete the sum necessary for in
stalling them. For the improvement of the
campus, Mr. Rockefeller gives $15,000. For ad
ditional cost of drinking water system, $21,610,
The founder had already put into the hands of
the university $1.0,000 for installing a system that
would furnish pure drinking water to the students.
It having been found that the system proposed
was not the best, this additional sum has been
given to assure absolutely pure drinking water.
The cost of this improvement will be $31,610.
This new gift of nearly, or quite, $3,000,000 is
the largest unconditional donation ever received
from the founder of the university. Mr. Rocke
feller’s gifts to the university, including this pres
ent one, amount at this date to more, than s2l -
000,000.
People are coming to feel that our college pro
fessors, in a sense our most valuable workers, are
underpaid. Under the heading, “The Poor Pro
fessor,” the 'Saturday Evening Post has the fol
lowing editorial in its last issue:
The college professor is in a state of unrest,
bordering on a general strike in the profession.
In almost every other occupation wages have risen
to meet the demands of Prosperity. But in most
cases the college professor is earning no more to
day than thirty years ago. Naturally, he is find
ing it harder and harder to keep the wolf from
the door, to dress his wife respectably, and give
his children the same advantages a good mechanic
can provide for his offspring. One reason—not
the only one—that the professors do not form a
union, appoint walking delegates, and go after
the trustees of colleges with lead pipe is probabh
because every’ pedagogue is aware that a dozen
younger men are hungrily waiting to snap up
his job.
Either the college professor must give up the
habit of marrying and rearing children, or he must
find away to get more money. And yet the col
leges are receiving new bequests all the time.
The last ten years have seen millions showered
upon them. Why is it, then, that the poor pro
fessor has not come in for some of this prosperity?
One reason is that it costs about twice as much to
educate a student at one of our universities ns
he pays in tuition. The balance has to be met
from the income of endowment, and every ad
ditional student is an additional burden on that
endowment. And our college presidents are rs
ambitious a set of officials as life insurance presi
dents. Many of them want more students, no
matter whgt it costs to get them, and they want
to expand their “facilities,” no matter what
salaries they are paying.
The college professor should get after his presi
dent and see that the money is not squandered
on new work; and he should force the trustees
to put up the price of tuition. There is no reason
why our young men should not pay more than half
the cost of their education, especially when their
teachers are being slowly pauperized. What the
college professor needs is courage to fight for his
rights and the rights of his wife and children.
Stanton Evening at State Normal.
Much interest has been manifested in the two
literary societies of the State Normal, and great
good is being derived therefrom. The last meeting
of the Altioria Literary Society for the year nine
teen hundred six was of especial interest to all
present.
Miss Alice Smith is president of this society,
and through her efforts and the efforts of the other
officers, the meetings have grown in interest and
increased in membership. This society is making
a study of Southern literature. “A Night with
Uncle Remus, or Joel Chandler Harris,” in
which Miss Zillah Harwell, with her own origi
nality, played the part of Uncle Remus, telling
stories to the little white child, was exceedingly
interesting. “ ’Way Down Yonder in de Co’n
Fiel’ ” was sung by a hidden chorus, the fiddle,
combs, harp, bones, etc., being used as musical
instruments.
The last meeting of the year was a “Frank
Stanton Evening,” in which a number of Mr.
■Stanton’s poems were recited and sung. The
“Stanton Calendar,” composed of four young wo
men dr'essed to represent the seasons, each of
whom recited one of his poems, made a beautiful
picture. The program was as follows:
Music Miss Ruby Hodge
Life of Frank Stanton Alma Green
Recitation—The Picnic at Selma
George Taliaferro
Song—The Master’s Coming Fannie Howard
Recitation—Taking Baby’s Picture
Sallie Low Redding
Reading—Night in the Southßoy Kincaid
Music Elise Edwards
A Day Off with Frank Stanton... .Hazel Howard
Reading—The Chattahoochee Mattie Finney
Song—Just a Wearyin’ for Y0u.... Hazel Howard
Frank Stanton’s Calendar:
Clara Henry—(Spring).
Eula Mae Glenn—(Summer).
Lillian Tutwyler—(Autumn).
Nettie Swinton—(Winter).
•Buev Morton Zachry, correspondent.
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