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Educational Nebs and Progress
Austin K. Jones lias been bell-ringer at Harvard
for forty-nine years. He lias rung the clapper of
the bell in Harvard Hall 3,175,000 times, and has
walked to and from the bell rope nearly half a cen
tury, 59,045 miles. He is eighty-one years old, and
has rung in and tolled out five Harvard University
presidents.
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At the recent graduating exercises of the Med
ical Department of the University of Georgia,
twenty-one men were given diplomas. The class is
said to be the best and one of the most promising
ever turned out by the institution. The first honor
was awarded to Dr. Guy T. Bernard, a son of Dr.
H. R. Bernard, Treasurer of the Baptist Home Mis
sion Board, and who has been prominently connect
ed for a number of years with educational work in
the state. The second honor was awarded to Dr.
Ashbury Hull, the third to Dr. Hinton J. Baker.
Dr. Bernard has begun practicing in Athens, Geor
gia.
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The speakers for the coming commencement at
Hiawassee High School have been selected and are
as follows:
J. H. Barnes, Isabelle, Tenn.; Hoke Smith and
J. L. Smith, Burton. Ga.; W. P. and R. 11. Mosse,
Tusquietet, N. C.; E. B. Owenbey, Ivy Log, Ga.;
0. C. Wyly, Jr., A. Franks, L. M. Nicholson. Hia
wassee, Ga. Among the young ladies were selected
the following: Misses Carrie Galbreath, Beulah
Blalock, Carrie Blalock, Burton, Ga.; Normie Own
bey, Ivy Log, Ga.; Marie Greene, Macon, Ga.; Myr
tle Waldroup, Hayesville- N. C.; May Davis, May
Duvall, Julia Kelley, Pauline Johnson, Hiawassee,
Ga.
Dr. J. G. Harrison, of Macon, Ga.. will preach the
commencement sermon.
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Bessie Tift Commencement.
Saturday, 25th, 8:30 p. m. —Clionian vs. Kappa
Delta, Essays and Readings.
Sunday, 26th, 11 a. m. —Baccalaureate Sermon,
by Rev. A. B. Vaughn, LaGrange, Ga.
Sunday, 26th, 8 p. m. —Sermon on Missions, by
Rev. A. B. Vaughn, LaGrange, Ga.
Monday, 27th, 9:30 p. in. —Exhibit by Art De
partment in Art Room.
Monday, 27th, 9:30 a. m. —Exhibit by Industrial
Department in Industrial Hall.
Monday, 27th, 10:30 a. m. —Meeting of the Alum
nae.
Monday, 27th, 10:30 a. m. —Meeting of the Board
of Trustees.
Monday, 27th, 8:30 p. m.—Grand Concert.
Tuesday, 28th, 11:00 a. m. —Baccalaureate Ad
dress, by Rev. J no. E. White, D.D., Atlanta, Ga.
Delivery of Medals by Rev. B. J. W. Graham, At
lanta, Ga.
Conferring Degrees —C. H. S. Jackson, President.
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Dr. Harry Pratt Judson.
Dr. Harry Pratt Judson, the new President of
Chicago University, was for quite awhile before the
death of the late President Harper, in actual fact
the head of the university, owing to President Har
per’s ill health, and when it became necessary to
choose a new head, the choice naturally fell upon
Mr. Judson. Prof. iSluailer Mathews, in The Inde
pendent, says of him:
“Harry Pratt Judson is in the best sense of the
word a school man. He is not a creature of that
process of precocious specialization with which our
higher education is at present afflicted. From 1870
to ISSS he was a teacher and principal of the high
school in Troy, N. ¥., going there directly upon
his graduation at Williams College. For seven
velars after that he was professor of history in the
University of Minnesota, and in 1892 he came to
the University of Chicago as one of the first three
choices of President Harper. From that time until
this he has borne increasingly the burden of admin
istration of an institution whose administrative,
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like its academic policies, have had few precedents
and many changes. Throughout these years he
has been at the head of the Department of Polit
ical Science; has written a number of books espe
cially adapted for schools and the larger reading
public; has directed some of the most important re
search work- that has been done in the field of con
structive politics; was the first president of the
Quadrangle Club; has been dean of the Graduate
School and then of the faculties, and has always
been a loyal friend and colleague.
“In the field of university administration he
has been easily the most prominent man in the
faculty. If was he who, next to President Harper,
carried into actual working the scheme of the uni
versity’s management. Other men in the univer
sity have talked more ami have figured more in the
public eye, but Dr. Judson’s regulative motive has
been efficiency rather than display. He has never
sought to be prominent, but has devoted himself to
the university with a. self-effacement that was as
unstudied as it was sincere.
“No man in the university has been more con
cerned in public affairs. For a. number of years he
was deeply interested in local 'politics, seeking t.-*
advance reform movements by co-operation with
ithiait section of the party known as ‘the Machine.’
It must 'be admitted that some of his friends doubl
ed the wisdom of his alignment, and from the point
of view of theoretical reform it was certainly some
what paradoxical. But his influence was none the
less felt, and he was enabled to bring about the
nomination and election of certain candidates who
had some share in developing such moderate re
forms as Look County Republicanism could endure.
What was most important, he was instriwiumlal in
bringing about legislation insuring direct pri
maries and a. constatutional amendment making it
possible for Chicago to seek a new charter
“Two years ago men speculated as to who ever
could take up President Harper’s work. As a
matter of fact, fate cast the decision into the lap
of circumstance, and events made the choice. Dur
ing the year preceding and the year following
President Harper’s death, the administration of the
university increasingly centered about Dr. Judson
as dean of Hie faculties ami as acting president.
Until within the last few weeks of his administra
tion in the lat(er capacity there was practically no
discussion as to Dr. Harper’s successor. His loss
was still too recent ami too much felt, but when
the question at last was faced the answer had al
ready been given. Dr. Judson was already de facto
president, it remained only to make him de jure.’’
The Carnegie Institution.
Very much interest is manifested now and then
in the work accomplished in behalf of education by
the Carnegie Institution, but a thorough statement
of the efforts being made in various lines has been
heretofore difficult to obtain. The following article
is from the Pittsburg Dispatch:
hive years of patient delving into Nature’s se
crets, $3,590.1)00 of money expended—such is the
record, to date, of the Carnegie Institution, of Wash
ington.
Earnestly applying themselves to the task of fath
oming the mysteries of ages, of unlocking the doors
that guard Dame Nature’s choicest secrets, are
four hundred expert men of science, to assist whom
one hundred institutions of learning are lending
their equipment and all possible aid.
To this remarkable work is devoted nearly $700,-
000 a year —this year's appropriation amounts to
$661,000. It is the income from an endowment
fund set apart for the purpose by Andrew Carnegie.
What good may come of it all? That question is
answered best by showing the lines of research
along which the scientists are plodding and reveal
ing the progress already made.
While one section of the army of scientists is
planning to make the desert bloom for the benefit
of man. another is busy exploring heavenly space
and endeavoring to learn more of the wonders of
astronomy.
Great results are expected from the work of the
solar observatory on Mount Wilson, Cal. Last year
John D. Hooker, of Los Angeles, gave $15,900 to
meet the cost of a mirror of one hundred inches’
aperture and fifty feet focal length, for a great non
reflecting telescope.
Such an instrument, which is now nearing com
pletion, will permit Hie work of the observatory
to be greatly extended, as it vill collect about 2.7
times as much light as the sixty-inch reflector now
in use.
Scientists at Mount Wilson are working along
three converging lines in their study of other
worlds than our own. They are studying the sun as
three converging lines in their studying the sun as
a typical star; they are studying the stars ami
nebulae, their relation to the sun and to each other,
and, finally, are endeavoring to interpret both solar
and stellar phenomena by means of carefully chosen
laboratory experiments.
It sometimes happens that a certain star may
resemble* the missing link of the naturalist ; it prom
ises to unite an interesting but broken chain of
■evidence, and yet is so faint that an adequate anal
ysis is impossible. Hence the value of the splendid
new telescope that will be erected on Mount Wil
son.
Even the waters of the sea, and the lands under
them are receiving careful attention from the Carne
gie scientists.
The institution’s ship, Galilee, has been sailing
the North Pacific from the American ('oast to Chi
na, and next year it is hoped to give to navigators
an accurate, complete, ami perfect ('hail of the Pa
cific Ocean.
Progressive Americans talk a great deal of ex
tending our commerce Io the Orient. Soon the
doors of'Manchuria w ill be open and competition
with other world factors in commerce will be sharp
and aggressive. The highways of lesser known seas
must be suiveyed ami marked.
'This chart will demonstrate the practical work
ings of the institution by pointing out the safest,
quickest, surest way of reaching.those ports which
will be the gateways for American commerce.
Are you a raiser of poultry? At any rate, you
consume eggs and enjoy having a plump fowl on
your table when you feel you (-an afford it.
At a. cost of $21,000 a year, the Carnegie Insti
tution’s Department of Experimental Evolutions, at
(’old Spring Harbor, Long Island, is endeavoring Io
coax her henship to greater ami nearer continuous
efforts in the egg-laying line, (diaries B. Daven
port is directing this work.
Not only is the attempt being made, with Ilatter
ing promise of success, t< increase the egg output,
Ind it is believed that a pound or half a pound,
at least, will be added to the weight of the capon,
the broiler.
For a Year’s Expenses.
All the research work of the institution is special,
ami specially selected investigate) s direct it along
the selected lines. For each department of investi
gation a special appropriation is made from the
$661,130 set aside for this year’s expenses.
Thus, Io the Department of Experimental Evolu
tion, Charles B. Davenport, director, has been al
lotted $21,000; to the Department of Manne Biol
ogy, A. G. Mayer, director, $15,000; to the Depart
ment of Botanical Research. I). T. McDonald, di
rector, $33,000.
Horticultural work is being conducted by Luther
Burbank at his California ranch with the assistance
of an appropriation of $10,000; the Department of
Economics and Sociology, Carroll I). Wright, di
rector, has $30,000; the Department of Tcirestial
Magnetism. L. A. Bader, director, $>4,000; the De
partment of Historical Research, J. I*. Jameson, di
rector, $14,000.
For solar observatory the sum of $150,000 has
been set aside; for the geophysical laboratory,
$85,000; for the Southern laboratory, $10,000; for
geophysical research, $20,000; for research in nutri
tion, $16,500.
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