The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-19

Athens, Ga, Sept. 1.-THE registra-
ton of the students of the University
of Georgia continues with a slight in
crease over the figures for last year,
indicating an attendance this year of
400.
There are several agricultural stu
dents who have registered and it is
expected that department will show
a decided increase in attendance this
year. One student has entered the
agricultural department from Louisi-
ana and another from South Caro-
lima.
This morning the members of the
sophomore class started out upon their
annual work of clipping the hair of the
members of the freshmen class, and
for a while there were lively times
on the campus. The sophs outnumber
the freshmen and had them prac-
tically at their mercy. The freshmen
were game however, and put up
strong resistance. The sophs succeed
ed in taking the scalps of at least fif-
teen freshmen, and the freshmen had
to go and have their heads shaved
after they had been deprived of
portion of their hair.
The sophomore class held a meeting
this morning on the campus and elect
ed their officers for the ensuing year,
as follows: President, John Maddox,
Atlanta; vice president, James j. Rea-
gan, Atlanta; poet, Garnett Green,
Washington; historian, George Hams,
Augusta; treasurer, Tom Gentry, At
lanta; secretary, Glenn Giles, Kenne-
saw; captain baseball team, Arthur
Sullivan, Rome; manager baseball
team, Arthur Mobley, Monroe; captain
football team, Hugh Fitzgerald; man
ager football team, J. V. McWhorter,
Woodville; captain track team II. E.
Dean, Rome; manager track team, l..
E. Jones, Valdosta chaplain, G. S.
Blair. The other classes will choose
their officers to-day.
The first football practice of the sea-
son took place this afternoon on the
university campus. 1t was decided to
get down to practice at once and at
least forty of the students assembled.
on the field for practice. Coach Rey-
nolds was on hand. and Capt. Frank
Ride of last years team was also
present to encourage the boys. Capt.
Ketron arrived to-day from his home
in Gainesville, and was given an ova-
ton by all the college boys The cap
tain of the football team is always the
center of attraction and college 10y
atty, and the Georgia team never had
more popular captain than Harold
Ketron.
The first practice told but little, but
the practices will be continued until
the coach and the captain will be able
to tell pretty well who will make the
team.
Manager Miller has closed the ar
rangements for one more game which
will be played with the Furman team
in this city on Nov IA This COM
pletes the schedule for the season,
which is one of the best ever arranged.
The editors and mana gers of the
Georgian, the university magazine, are
at work preparing for issuing the
first copy of the magazine Oct. 1. The
Georgian is to be greatly improved dur
ing the present year, and has a very
able set of young men in charge of its
affairs. The editorial staff is as fol-
lows: Editor-in-chief, L. p Goodrich,
Griffin: business manager, J. B. Gam
BILE, Columbus: assistant business
manager, J. S. Hopkins, Jr Athens:
associate editors, r. P. Brooks, Mil
ledgeville; Lee Worsham, Forsyth
salmagundi editor, T. w. Connally, At
lanta; exchange editor, A. G. Co
lucke, Crawfordville.
State Agent Joseph S. Stewart has