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Educational Nelvs and Progress
Dr. George E. Horr, of Newton Theological In
stitute, will preach at Harvard University on April
4th.
Senator A. O. Bacon, of Georgia, and Senator
Scott, of West Virginia, have been appointed by
Vice-president Fairbanks as members of the B-ard
of Visitors to the Military Academy at West Point.
Mr. Calder B. Williams, of Macon, Georgia, has
purchased a lot near the Willingham Cotton Mills
in that city and will erect upon it a modern school
house, fully equipped, to be occupied by the chil
dren of the mill operatives, provided the City Board
of Education will provide teachers. The Board will
probably accept the offer, and a large body of ch’l
- will then be enabled to secure the much need
ed educational facilities.
Hon. Dudley M. Hughes, together with other
trustees of the University of Georgia, has gone to
New York for the purpose of studying the methods
adopted in the agricultural department of Cornell
University. A thorough study will be made during
their stay of the methods of planting, training, and
of every department of the work in that institution.
The Trustees are seeking to fully inform themselves
of the best ways and means to be applied in the
agricultural department of the University.
Esperanto Club at Emory.
An Esperanto Club has been formed by a number
of the students of Emory College. As the name in
dicates, the purpose of the organization is the
study of Esperanto, the modern “world language.”
The officers of the club are Dr. Frederick U. Dun
can, president; Ralph M. McGhee, secretary and
treasurer. Dr. Duncan, professor of biology, in
speaking of the movement, said:
“Although I do not think a chair of Esperanto
will be instituted at Emory soon, it is not a bad idea
for students to familiarize themselves with the lan
guage. It is my opinion that all international cor
respondence will soon be carried on in this lan
guage, and that those who expect to engage in
travel or national politics would do well to study
it.”
Sensible Negro Education.
The better thought of the time with reference
to the education of the colored race seems to in
cline to the belief that they need, not so much an
academic training leading to a diploma and a degree,
as some practical teaching that will enable the men
and women to fill in a capab’e manner t b e no itions
which are open to them. The whole country, and
particularly the South, needs cooks, domestic ser
vants, faithful and capable faim hands and many
other kinds of service. This is the employment
for which the masses of colored people in the
South are best fitted. They will receive remunera
tive wages. They will be well treated and will share
substantially in the development of this section.
They will grasp the meaning of true citizenship
and the dissatisfaction and yearning after impossi
ble things will be done away with. In a reoeritt
speech in Columbia, S. C., Booker Washington out
lined the most practical, sensible and humanitarian
system of negro education which is possible under
existing conditions. The key-note of his speech
can be grasped from the following brief quotation:
“There is not a white family in South Carolina
that should not be vitally interested in the improve
ment of the negro woman—especially in the im
provement of the negro cook, the negro nurse.
“Right here in Columbia there should be a large
central training school for the training of domes
tic servants. Such a school should be in every large
city in the South. We could furnish the teachers
for these institutions.
“The food that goes into the bodies of the ma
jority of the white families in South Carolina is
The Golden Age for February 7, 1907.
prepared and served three times a day by the
hands of the negro -woman. It is mighty impor
tant that this woman who prepares and serves the
food which is to make blood and bones and flesh
and brain for the white people, as well as members
of her own race, be just as intelligent, skilled and
conscientious as possible.”
Meridian Male College Notes.
Our school opened last fall with an enrollment
greater than any previous year. It has now reached
about three hundred and twenty-five. Thus far we
have had one of the most profitable terms marked
by a steady march upward in every department.
Professor Lander, of Chicago, 111., a pianist of
some note, gave us our first two numbers on our
Lyceum course—the best representative music ot
different countries that we have ever had.
Dr. Eugene May, of Washington, D. C., was with
us again telling us of his travels. His lecture on
his trip up the Matterhorn was especially interesting.
Prof. William H. Sherwood, a pianist of national
fame, was with us tw T o nights.
Our joint Missionary rally (M. F. C. and M. M.
C.), was a happy venture. From Friday night
until Sunday night our program was filled with in
structive, inspiring and persuasive teaching on mis
sions. Dr. Caldwell and Dr. Meyers, both returned
missionaries from China and Japan respectively,
gave us some valuable lectures. A sense of our re
sponsibility to the unchristian world penetrated our
hearts and a score of young men and women con
secrated their lives for the purpose of taking Christ
to the heathen. The worth of a missionary rally
in a college is invaluable. The instruction given out
and the spirit awakened is truly remarkable. Since
then we have had an increase of missionary effort.
We have taken up the work in a systematic study
(using text-books) in some of our Sunday school
classes. We have a class each of “The Introduc
tion to Foreign Missions”; “A Biographical Study
of Missions”; “'The Comparative Religions of the
World,” and “The Call of the Home Land.” Of
ten we have missionaries fresh from the fields vis
iting us, who add much fuel to the fire. Rev. But
ler, whose labors have been in Guatemala. C. A.,
and who has just returned from an evangelistic
tour around the world, is staying with us in the col
lege all the time.
His lectures, sermons and talks on the ripened
fields, and our responsibility make stirring appeals
to our hearts and lives. This missionary rally
seemed a forerunner for Brother H. C. Morrison’s
protracted meeting of the two colleges. Tiie ser
mons were interesting and persuasive. Near four
hundred found Christ, either in regeneration or
sanctification.
We have just closed our fi r st term examinations.
Our questions were thorough and comprehensive,
and called for close study. We got through nicriy,
and now, after a good breath, we look forward to
the next term with great hopes.
W. W. Voight, Correspondent.
A Georgia School of Mines.
Reference was made last week to an article in
the Manufacturers’ Re r o r d by Prof. S. W. McCallie
of the Georgia School of Technology, discussing the
need of the establishment of a School of Mines in
Georgia. Much interest has been taken in the
article, and we, therefore, quote more at length
from it, giving preference to the argument ad
vanced as to the location of the school as a part of
the Technological school:
“The location of a mining school is of vital im
portance. Technical schools the world over have
grown out of the industrial demands of the locality
in which they were founded. This principle is
well illustrated in the phenomenal growth and suc
cess of the Michigan School of Mines, the Colorado
School of Mines, and, also, in the illustrious school
of mines Freidberg, Germany, No class of tech’
nical schools is so dependent upon favorable loca
tions as mining schools. This is due to the very
nature of the training. If a student’s training is
to be of a practical nature much of his time must
be put in at the mines and in the field studying
the methods of mining and the mode of occurrence
of ore bodies. The imitations of economic processes
which he follows out in the laboratory cannot give
him that broad and comprehensive knowledge of
his chosen profession which he gets at the mines
and in the field. A mining school, therefore, if
favorably located, must be within easy reach of
mines and quarries, which serve as a part of the
real equipment of the school. The most favorable
location of this kind to be found anywhere within
the limits of the six above-mentioned states (Geor
gia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Florida) appears to be the city of
Atlanta. It will be noticed by an examination of a
map of the United States that Atlanta is practically
the geographical center of these six Southern
states. Furthermore, a mineral map of these states
would show that Atlanta occupies equally as con
spicuous a place in regard to our mines and quar
ries. It is true there are no mines or quarries of
importance in the immediate vicinity of Atlanta,
but within a distance of less than 150 miles are to
be found the majority of the great mines and quar
ries of the 'South. Many of these mines and quar
ries are so very near Atlanta that the student, by
taking an early morning train, would be able to
spend the greater part of the day at the mine or
quarry and return to the city at night. This is a
decided advantage over many of the mining schools
of the North, whose students, in order to get prac
tical training in the mines, have to make long pil
grimages to the western states at great expense oif
both time and money. Nor should we overlook the
great variety of mines which these six Southern
states offer to the student for study. According
to the special report of the census office on mines
and quarries for 1902, Georgia alone is successfully
mining today nineteen different kinds of mineral.
In addition to coal, iron, copper, gold, phosphate
and clay, these six Southern states are, also, min
ing in commercial quantities, manganese, min*
paint, pyrites, talc, graphite, lead, zinc, barytes,
asbestos, mica, bauxite, fuller’s earth, monzozite
and precious stones. To this list must be added
our quarries of marble, granite, limestone and sand
stone. the value of whose products annually aug
ments the nation’s wealth by many million dollars.
Have we not here a rather remarkable array of
mines and quarries, and all within a comparatively
'short distnee of Atlanta? What a great oppor
tunity is here offered to the student to familiarize
himself with mines and quarries of various kinds!
“A mining school, if established in Atlanta,
should become a part of the Georgia School of
Technology, or rather a development and an ex
pansion of the department of mining engineering
recently established in that institution. By such a
relationship a modern, up-to-date school of mines
might he established at a comparatively small out
lay. The complex nature of the training of a
mining engineer requires numerous expensive lab
oratories. Much of his time must necessarily be
taken up in the physical, the chemical, the electrical,
the mechanical and the assay laboratory, all of
which, now properly equipped and under the direc
tion of a corns of able professors, are Lund at
the Georgia School of Technology. Moreover, we
also find here excellent departments of civil engi
neering and drawing, both of which constitute very
important factors of the mining school.”
Prof. Julius Gottlieb, who has held the (’hair
Philosophy for six years at the New York Univer
sity, has bought a seat on the Consolidated Stock
Exchange of that city.
W. T. WINN, General Insurance, representing
several of the best companies in all the lines.
Phones 496 f 219 Empire building,
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