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“Educational Netos and Progress
The Honor System at Tech.
The students of the Georgia Tech, being alive 'to
the interests of the school, have started a movement
which is of great importance, and is evidence of
the fact that they know a good thing when they
see it.
The 11 Honor System” is an organization compos
ed of students who pledge themselves to put down
all forms of cheating, and to suppress, as far as
lies in their power, all dishonest dealing. Each
class elects a president and a certain number of
students to act as judges. When any dishonorable
conduct, such as cheating or using any unfair
means in any department, is detected, such conduct
is reported to this committee and the case is tried
and suitable punishment is inflicted. This move
ment is being started by the Tech Y. M. 0. A., and
is greatly encouraged by the faculty, who, like the
students, do not want any man to secure a diploma
from the institution by any dishonorable means.
On Monday, January 29, Hon. Hoke Smith ad
dressed the student body. He spoke of the pros
perity of the South, of her resources, and of the
great men she has given to the world in the past,
and laid great stress upon the fact that her future
prosperity and fame depend upon the young men
of today. He exhorted the students to be men, to
fit themselves to fill the important positions in
the great world of industry in the South which are
being filled by young men from the North and other
parts of the United States, just because our own
young men are not prepared to take and fill these
places.
The new Carnegie Library is rapidly nearing
completion. This building, when completed, will
be an ornament to the campus. The students of
the Tech greatly appreciate Mr. Carnegie’s splen
did gift.
Boys’ High School Notes.
With the scholastic year, 19OG-’O7, now half
over, the Atlanta Boys’ High School is in better
condition than ever before. The present enrollment
is 305, the largest yet for this time of the year.
The yearly enrollment, however, is 450, as many
students drop out while others come in during the
term. The three courses, classical, business and
technical, are making enormous progress under the
most efficient faculty of fourteen learned professors.
The discipline is so nearly perfect that the work
proceeds as smoothly as, if not more so than, that of
any other school of its kind in the South.
One of the most prominent features of the school
is the number of special exercises held by the stu
dents. In December, the Christmas exercises are
held in Browning Hall at the Girls’ High School;
here the boys contest in declamation and debate
for medals. On January 18, special exercises are
held ‘at the Boys’ High School in honor of the
birthday of Robert E. Lee. Then Georgia Day is
celebrated with a beautiful program on February
12; and sometimes, though not this year, exercises
are held on George Washington’s birthday. In
May they have the annual commencement exercises,
with declamation and debate again.
And then follow the graduation exercises at the
Grand, the most beautiful and impressive of all
the year. Besides these, the Alciphronian Literary
and Debating Society, composed of the students,
holds its regular session every Friday. In this they
learn the fundamental principles of Parliamentary
Law and Order, besides learning declamation and
debate from the very rudiments.
The boys of the Flig'h School have a great many
medals offered them. Among them are the two, one
for the best declaimer and one for the best debater,
at the Christmas exercises; the perpetual medal of
fered by the Joseph Habersham Chapter D. A. R.,
for the best composition on the subject, “Georgia
Women in the Revolution”; the annual medal given
by the U. S. Daughters of 1812, for the best com
position on a subject yet to be chosen—last year
this subject was “Andrew Jackson”; the “Ready
Writers’ Medal,” given by Wm. D. Upshaw, and
The Golden Age for February 14, 1907,
the medal for the best examination in U. S. His
tory, offered bv the Thomas Jefferson Chapter, D.
A. R.
Besides these medals, scholarships are given to
members of the graduating class every year from
Emery, Mercer, Washington and Lee University,
Sewanee and the University of Pennsylvania.
The Boys’ High School always takes a high stand
in athletics. The football team of 1906 was one
of the best in the Prep League. The basket-ball
team is a fast one, indeed, and so far has a very
satisfactory record. The second annual entertain
ment of the Boys’ High School baseball team will
be held at Browning Hall in the Girls’ High School
Friday evening, Feb. 15. The boys will not beg for
the money to support their team as others do, but
set to work and make it themselves. And they
promise all who come out a merry evening.
The Georgia Day exercises were held in the A. L.
and I). Hall, Tuesday, February 12th. .Speeches
were rendered by twelve of the best orators in the
school. The center of interest, however, was in
the awarding of the perpetual medal, given by the
Daughters of the American Revolution. The prize
compositions were written a week previously in
the presence of the faculty, and without notes or
reference works whatsoever. The best fifteen were
sleeted by the professors in English and turned over
to a special committee for final judgment on Geor
gia Day. Last year this medal was won by James
Jackson Slaton. J. W. LeCraw,
Correspondent Boys’ High School.
Meridian Female College.
Later! The entertainment given by the Philo
mathean Literary Society furnished agreeable re
laxation after the strain of examinations. The ref
erences to local affairs were especially appreciated
by the audience.
Two of the best numbers on our Lyceum Course
have come recently—a piano recital by Edward
Baxter Perry, the world famed blind pianist, and
a song recital by the great vocalist, Reed Miller.
Mr. Perry adds greatly-to the interest in his music
by preceding each number with a descriptive anal
ysis of the same, thus enabling his hearers to ap
preciate the composition more fully. His playing
is wonderful.
Reed Miller is truly a great singer. As he him
self said, very simply, God has given him a beauti
ful voice. His specialty is oratorio and his pro
gram contained several arias from Elijah, Rebekah,
and the Creation, interspersed with songs of a less
weighty character. At the request of the students
he favored them with a brief account of how he
had attained his success as a singer.
The Junior Literary Society has recently been
organized. The membership is chiefly from the
eighth and ninth grades, although exceptionally
good students from lower grades are eligible. The
first two meetings have been quite interesting and
businesslike and it is hoped that the work of the
Society will prove of lasting benefit to the mem
bers.
The President’s talks have been unusually good
of late. For several mornings he has given an
extensive study of the Lord’s Prayer and is now
following this by the reading, with inspiring com
ment, of Elbert Hubbard’s famous pamphlet, “A
Message to Garcia.” This stirring appeal for—
to speak plainly—more “backbone” never fails to
make its impression and to arouse a determination
in the hearer to “carry the message to Garcia.”
Pearl Huntley Etheridge.
Meridian, Miss.
A “Carl Schurz Memorial Professorship” is to
be established at the University of Wisconsin as
a result of the movement recently started in Mil
waukee by a number of prominent German-Ameri
cans. The plan is to raise an endowment of
$50,000, the income of which will be used for the
establishment of an annual course of lectures to be
given by prominent professors of German univer.
sities.
Mr. Samuel W. Bowne, of New York City, has
given to Syracuse University a hall of chemistry,
which will cost SIOO,OOO.
A “student church” for the two thousand Amer
icans studying in Paris who are obliged to live in
a quarter of the city remote from other churches,
was organized several years ago by Rev. Charles
Wood, of Philadelphia. The church has flourished
and is now in charge of Rev. Ernest W. Shurtleff,
who was for several years pastor of the American
Church in Frankfort, Germany.
Dr. William Duane, professor of physics in the
University of Colorado since 1897, has resigned in
order to accept a position under Mme. Curie, the ra
dium expert, in Paris. Dr. Duane studied under
the two Curies previous to the death of M. Curie.
While in Paris Dr. Duane will have a position in the
Department of Original Research in the University
of Paris, the salary being paid by Andrew Carnegie,
under the scholarship founded by him.
The American International College at Spring
field, Mass., is the only one in the United States
expressly established and conducted to meet the
peculiar needs as to higher Christian education pre
sented by our multitudinous immigrant population.
That this population needs unique treatment and
special adaptations in order that they may be ade
quately educated for leadership in American life
is clear. Ordinary colleges, however excellent, are
adjusted to the American mind.
The Hon. A. W. Lane has been elected to suc
ceed the late Clem Powers Steed as a member of
the Law Faculty of Mercer University. Mr. Lane
is an alumnus of Mercer, a devout Baptist and a
leading lawyer of the Central City bar. He has been
Solicitor-General of his circuit, and has been prom
inent in many ways since his graduation with th©
class of 1890 of Mercer. The faculty of the school
of Jaw of Mercer is now as follows: Judge Emery
Speer, of the United States Court, dean, constitu
tional and international law and Federal practice;
Judge William H. Felton, Jr., of the Macon Su
perior Court, the principles of evidence; criminal
law, constitution of Georgia, Olin J. Wimberly;
equity jurisprudence, pleading, O. A. Park and A,
W. Lane. The late Mr. Steed taught common and
statute law, the civil code, law of torts, law of
contracts, practice under the code. The law school
was established in 1875, and re-organized in 1893.
Former chairmen of the faculty were Judge Carl
ton B. Cole and Judge Clifford Anderson, both de
ceased. Among others once prominent in the law
department, but who have gone to be judged in
the Eternal Councils, were John C. Rutherford,
Walter B. Hill and C. A. Turner.
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Mr. H. I). Jones, writing’ in the Technical World
Magazine for January, says that “the staff of the
well regulated school of the future will include a
trained nurse.” Such an appointment has already
been made in a Philadelphia school, in recognition
of the urgent advice of a recent congress of medi
cal men. It is manifestly absurd, if not worse,
contended the doctors, to try to force an ailing
child to understand the lesson before the class; and
too often a boy or girl is threatened with punish
ment by an overwrought teacher, when the fact is
that the youngster is sick, not stupid, but is too
shy or too dull to explain matters.
Also it is becoming alarmingly apparent to the
directors of schools that in the poorer districts chil
dren are frequently sent to school by ignorant
parents, actually suffering from a contagious dis
ease. In such cases it is not the fault of the
teacher if the emergency is not recognized at once.
A trained nurse is the proper person to be on the
spot, and to be made responsible.
In the Philadelphia school where such an expert,
attendant has been installed the usefulness of the
nurse has become so apparent that others are to bo
added to the various schools until all are supplied.
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