>KLt- ?TXI Notes.
A daughter of President Hadley, of Yale, chris
tened a steam turbine vessel launched at Chester,
Pa., recently.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, was recent
ly elected president of the association of colleges
and preparatory schools of the Middle States.
The Phi Delta Literary Society of Mercer Uni
versity has received a gift from Hon. Thos. E. Wat
son, consisting of a set of his books to be added to
the library of the society. Mr. Watson was for a
while a student at Mercer and a member of Phi
Delta.
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, of New York City,
first Vice President of the American Museum of
Natural History, has been elected secretary of the
Smithsonian Institute to succeed the late Prof. Sam
uel P. Langley. He is regarded as one of the fore
most scientists of America and is widely known as
an eminent paleontologist and educator.
One of the topics most carefully considered at
the Conference on Secondary Education in the
South, which recently closed at Charlottesville, Ya.,
was the teaching of agriculture in the secondary
schools. Undoubtedly the subject never received at
any one time and place such a masterful and ex
haustive treatment as that devoted to it by three
of the most noted agricultural experts this country
has ever seen; Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, of aLke
Charles, La., demonstrator of agricultural work in
the Southern States; Dick J. Crosby, an expert in
the Department of Agriculture in Washington, and
Prof. William Lockhead, one of the two chief rep
resentatives on the subject in the Dominion of Can
ada. These gentlemen brought the whole confer
ence to the belief that some knowledge of agricul
ture belongs to the equipment essential to a reason
ably broad education, even a common educa
tion. Not to know something about the
history and management of soil, plants and do
mestic things, is dense and unpardonable ignor
ance. Agriculture ranks with algebra and geom
etry, with geography and history and the sciences
as among the common tilings that ought to be known
and agricultui’e is tire most important of all these
branches. The speakers demonstrated the practical
method of introducing and carrying on this impor
tant subject in the public schools.
The following clipping from one of our exchanges
demonstrates the fact that Georgia, in establishing
her Agricultural Colleges, is but falling in line
with a movement which is becoming general through
out. our country. The effect to give boys practical
agricultural training and enable them to make
the utmost of the resources of their native soil can
not be too much encouraged. Following is the clip
ping referred to: '
“ James J. Hill, the railway president, said re
cently that public-spirited men. if they wished to
encourage the growth of the nation, must give ‘the
boy reasons for staying on the farm.’
‘‘Following Mr. Hill’s suggestion, J. Ogden Ar
mour, the packer, has made an annual donnation of
$5,000 to the Live Stock Exposition which is hel4
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in Chicago in December of each year. This money
is to be given for scholarships for boys in the va
rious agricultural colleges of the country who at
tend the judging contests at this show. The money
is to encourage boys in agricultural work.
“In his letter to President John A. Spoor, of
the Exposition, announcing the gift, Mr. Armour
says:
“ ‘We all recognize and appreciate the work done
by our agricultural colleges in advancing the cause
of agricultural education in this country through
the character and extent of their exhibits of live
stock and field products at the international show.
“ ‘With a view of stimulating their efforts to
give an increased evidence to our farmers of the
great value of their work. I hereby offer to you the
sum of $5,000 to be distributed annually at the in
ternational exposition in twenty agricultural schol
arships to be competed for by the state agricultural
colleges at your exposition.
“ ‘lt is my desire that the recipients of the
scholarships should be limited to boys whose parents
are unable to give them the advantage of an agri
cultural education.’ ”
At the Boys High School.
Dr. Wm. G. Hubbard, Vice President of the Am
erican Peace Society, was in Atlanta Thursday, De
cember 6, and delivered a delightful address to the
students of the Boys’ High School in the morning.
His subject was “Arbitration Rather than War as
a Means of Settling the Disputes of Nations.” His
speech was forceful and eloquent; his argument in
structive and convincing. Although he had to con
tend with the deafening rain outside he held his
boyish, audience enraptured. They listened with
the closest attention and deepest interest. He told
them all the particulars of the world’s work now
going on among the nations and explained to them
fully the great Hague Tribunal. It is a subject of
great importance to all American youth and one
of intense interest to everybody.
Dr. Hubbard is a man well worthy of the most
excellent cause he is advocating. He is a minister
of extraordinary ability and a speaker of national
reputation. He was a college classmate of Vice
President' Chas. Fairbanks. Besides being connected
with the American Peace Society, he is Literary
Superintendent of the American Railway Literary
Union for the suppression of pernicious literature.
The boys rewarded him for his excellent address
by electing him an honorary member of the Alci
phronian Literary and Debating Society of the
Boys’ High School of Atlanta.
J. W. LeCraw.
Correspondent B. H. S.
A Pension For Professors.
There has been quite a discussion among teachers
and among the thinking public of the question of
suitable provision for college professors and edu
cators of various kinds after their period of active
work is past. A very sensible and perhaps a repre
sentative expression of the general opinion on the
subject is given in the following editorial in The
Saturday Evening Post, of December. 1:
“The Carnegie foundation for providing pensions
for college professors who have passed the age for
useful work has been much praised as a piece of
necessary and enlightened philanthropy. It is gen-
erally believed that college professors are poorly
paid, not only as compared with what men of simi
lar abilities are able to earn in other professions
and business, but also as compared with what pro
fessors received a generation ago. The average
college salary may have increased somewhat lately,
but not anything like in proportion to the increase
in the cost of living. Although this latter state
ment is open to dispute the former is beyond doubt;
the difference between the earnings of an able law
yer and those of an able professor are vast.
“The simplest way to meet this discrepancy—if
it should be met—would be to raise college salaries
to a point where professors could reasonably be ex
pected to save something for their old age. But
colleges seem unable to secure funds for this pur
pose. Whenever thev get money they are likely to
put it info additional plant and equipment in order
to keep abreast of their competitors, rather than
to pay larger salaries. Moreover, professors are
not supposed to be good business men; even if
they earned more than they needed, they might
not save wisely. The pension is the safest way for
making secure provision for their old age. But
should it he a pension from a private and philan
thropical source such as the Carnegie foundation?
As long as Mr. Carnegie lives, and for a good while
after, the Carnegie pension will savor of charitv, m
matter how impersonally it may be administered.
If the pension camo 'directly from the inslituticln
that the professor had served all his life there
world he loss charitv to it. It might be consid
ered a. leritimrie mrt of the pay for work fa;th
fully performed. There are those, of coms* win
regard Mr. Carnegie’s millions as public funds un
justly diverted, and his philanthropies as a mere
confession of wrong doing. But thev are not in the
majority. and as long as the law of the land stands
as it does it would he hotter to find some other
means than private generosity to provide for an
honorable and useful class of mon. The some
thing is true of public school teachers; they should
get pensions, and not from a private purse.”
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has recently donated
$5,000 to the Colored Industrial School near Co
lumbia, S. C. Tie has also bought and is wearing a
piair of shoes made by the students of Tuskegee In
stitute, Alabama.
Prof. Henry Oldvs assistant biologist in the De
partment of Agriculture at Washington, who has
recently contributed some articles to Harper’s Mag
azine on bird notes, is said to have written one
thousand samples of bird music, written in popu*
lar form, making it possible for the human voice to
exactly imitate the feathered songsters.
R. Wells Dibble, a young Harvard graduate, and
Dr. Fred G. Beck, of Yale, captained two nines
which last month played the first game of baseball
ever seen in Berlin. Germany. Fight hotly contest
ed innings were played before an admiring audience
from the American colony, and the Yale team final
ly Avon by a score of 15 to 9.
A large brick building in East St. Louis which
had been leased to be used as a negro school was
recently destroyed by fire. There was some evi
dence that the fire was of incendiary origin, and
it is thought that prejudice against the establish
ment of a school for blacks caused the building to
be set on fire,
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