The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-08-25
The 81. LOnis Educational Conveus
ton.

ST, Louis, August "a.
Inc sessions Of the Educational Con.
ventlOn resumed last evening. Hon.
Newton Bateman OF Illinois received the
elaborate paper on the subject. How
may the State provide for the education
OF her children at public cost He took
strong grounds in favor OF the larCest
provision by the State for public instTuc
ton. A portion of the addresses was de
voted To the consideration of high schools
which he considered as but step in the
scheme Of education, which should be
provided by the State and which should
Culminate in a national university. He
summed up as follows
I" believe that the question ior Amen.
can statesmen is not how little but how
much can the State properly do for the
education Of its children. | believe that
the one thing most precious in the sight
OF God and Of all good men Is the welfare
and growth 0i immortal mind, and that
to secure this on the largest scale the
Legislature should go to the verge Of their
constitutional powers, Courts TO their lib
erality Of construction, and executives TO
the extreme Of their proper official pre-
negatives, believe that an American
State may and should supplement the
district school with the high school and
the high school, il need bc, with the uni.
versity, all at the public cost, exhibiting
TO the world the nOblest lruitage of the
Country--a model free school system,
And when there is added to all this, as !
believe II is written in the future that
there will be, an educated national uni
ycrsity standing at tho head Ofall, crown
ing all, then will We indeed have u per-
feet system of American public education
-one that will be tol,@ trTCS di que rOtun-
dWS."
Mr.. VIM, r. Harris, Of Missouri. follow.
cd with paper on the subject OF Ma
tiQpal University, in which hc reviewed
tho whole question, claiming that such Hn
institution was among the designs OF tho
founders Of the Government, and that II
was clearly constitutional,
DIR, Noyt, Of Wisconsin, presented al
elaborate report uI the common National
University, which recommended the up.
poinlmcnt Of permanent committee Of
thirteen IL concentrate the best thought
OF the country upon the various impOr
lani questions involved in the perfection
of plan for the institution, and to mar.
shall tho strength Of the country In sym
pathetic aud potential support Of the inis.
sion when at last formally brought to
the attention Of Congress. Tho follow.
ing committee was appointed for this
purpose DR.. j. W. W. lIoyt, Of Madison,
Wisconsin, Dr. Thomas IIiIl OF Waltham,
Mass, Il. l.. Gadkin, N. Y. City, Hon
j. =. WiCkersham, Harrisburg, Pa, DR..
Barnes Sears, Va, Col. d. +. Boyd, Ba.
ton Rouge, La, DR.. Daniel Reid, Colum.
bia, Mo, W. +. Phelps, Winona, MINI,
Hon. II. g. Gibbs, Portland, Oregon, Hon.
Newton Bateman, Springfield, Illinois,
ex.oiliCio members.
Hon. II. Il. White, President of tho Ma
tional Educational Associations; John Eas.
ton, United States Commissioner Of Edu.
cation, DR., Jos. Henry, President OF the
National Academy of Science; Dr. }. Law.
renee Smith, President of the American
Association for advancement of Science:
DIR. Saml. Elliott, President Of the Ameri.
can Social Science Association. Mr..
Wickersham proposed the following resO.
luton, which was unanimously adopted
ReSoired, That this Association will
look with favor upon any plan Of giving
pccuniary aid TO the struggling oduCa.
tlonal system of the South that the gener.
al government may deem juhiCiOus.
Jno. Eaton, ir., u. s. Commissioner Of
offered u resolution which was
accepted, that q committee Of ono from
each State and territory, and one from the
District Of Columbia, be appointed by the
Association TO take such action as shall
seem to them expedient to secure full
presentation Of the improvement In Amer.
ican education, at the International EXhi.
Dltion In Philadelphia, In 1876 The Con.
vention will tomorrow visit tho Iron
Mountain and Pilot Knob. Thos. Allen,
President Of the Iron Mountain Railroad,
having rendered special train for that
purpose. The inner man will be provided
or on the occasion by the Board Of Pub.
lc Schools andcitizens.