Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-25
NASHVILLE LETTER.
What Professor Hogg Says of the Ma
ti0IraI Educational Associations
Meeting.
Much Good Work misunderstanding the
Athens Of the sOuth-Ier Churches,
Schools and Colleges
NASHVILLE, TENN. July 20, 1889.

erings of the teachers OF the United
States, the twenty-ninth meeting of the
National educational association, closed
last night. The number in attendance
was not so large as in San Francisco last
year, but it is admitted by all to be the
meeting of greatest value, of the great
est positive good that has ever been ac-
complished. There were present, with
few exceptions, the working members Of
the association from its very inception.
This was a meeting where all the
states and nearly every territory was
| represented. Here thoroughly was q
mngliug of ''the blue and the, gray,
| for the North aud the South met tOgeth-
eT and held really a family reunion, no
shaking of hands across the bloody chasm
! (there is no chasm, at all), but a litera-
~ feast in which the heart as well as the
hand reigned supremacy. Nashville was
at her best. No time, no means were
spared to make this occasion one of fra
ternai feeling-of genuine Southern hos
pitality. The beginning Of the
series was the grand barbecue
at Cherokee park. Here Alabama well
coined Iowa. California warmly grasped
was the center and recipient of heartfelt
words of fraternal affection from all.
! The discussions were acknowledged by
all he of the highest order, of the most
| cordial character. Here Catholic and
| Protestant discussed freely denOmina-
| tiOnal schools, Rt. Rev. John j Kean,
! Washington, d. c., and his eminence
Cardinal Gibbons appearing for the
parochial schools, Mr.. Edwin d.
Mead of Boston and Mr.. John Jay
! Of New York city representing the
| public schools. This discussion was
| pronounced on all sides as battle of the
| giants, yet with the utmost good feeling.
| As President Marble said in his parting
| address, (and l quote several paragraphs
| because from it the reader can get at a
| glance the true inwardness and outward
ness of this grand meeting) Said he:
| "The session of 1889 now draws to a
| close, and it becomes my duty to pass to
| my successor the gaYel, the symbol of
authority 1t has been especially pleas
| ing that, with wide difference of
| opinion here and there, with positive
opinions and strong statements, the
whole proceedings have been character
lied by courtesy and good temper
| 1t is a glory of this platform of
this national body in this enterprisIug
city that anybody who has occupied it
could freely express his OpIuIOns upon any
topic, the manual training fetch, the
parochial school question, the colored
citizen, psychology, politics; and he
could express his presumption about any
opinions of any persons from the pope to
the president of the national educational
association without protest.
81 do not accept all the deductions
from the ST. Louis manual training
school, but l admire the enthusiasm of
its promoter, even when he makes mis-
take. l may not agree with the posi-
lions of the rector of the Catho-
lie university, but I admire his
spirit and l ;lQYe the man. 1t is quite
possible that there may be opinions, Gus
toms in one part or the country with
which people in another part do not
sympathize; but the alGmbic that will
transmute educational differences, social
variances and political hostility into one
harmonious whole is that spirit of love.
l believe that this spirit has prevailed
here and grown. 1t could not be
otherwise; the people of Nash
Vile have given us a welcome more
hearty,than we ever had before, ex-
cept perhaps at California; they have
made provision for us double our ca
pacity to accept. The only regret is for
those who have been kept at home by the
bugbear of heat-a mere chimera. The
arrangements of the local committees
defy criticism; the response of citizens,
of pulpit and press and of the weather
bureau have been all that we could de-
sire The meeting has been a grand
success. Nothing but pleasant mem
cries will be carried away, and we hope
no memory Of us will be unpleasant. -
zs1SsshviIle is pre- emiuently the Athens
of the South. - / stTolled out to the
Vanderbilt. Between the city and this
noble institution I saw the new public
school houses, neat, cOmmodious and
large enough for the wards capacity
Here is a fitness and an adaptation
Provision for the education of the pri-
mary grades, who in turn will fill the
halls of the noble university. Here,
too, is the Peabody normal college,
founded for the purpose of furnishing
teachers for the South for the whites.
Here, too, is Fisk, for the preparation of
colored teachers for their race. To
me there is a pleasant sentiment
about the Vanderbilt It is really the
joint beueficence of father and son.
Mr.. Cornelius Cthe commodore Van
derbilt gave this university 81 900 900.
Mr.. William II. Vanderbilt added to
this a quarter of q million more-gen-
erous benefactors to the South and to
general education.
In front of Wesley hall, founded by
Mr. William H. Vanderbilt, there is a
beautiful flower pot, and in the fra
grant flowers there perpetually blooms
''W. H Y -
It seems to me that an appreciative
o
their admiration of these men. Nash
vile should be proud of her educational
pre- minence. Her eighty churches her |
academies and high schools and colleges |
for young women, are sufficient of them |
selves to attract the seeker of a home |
among refined, cultivated and Christian |
people. My home here is in the Ward |
seminary, whose hospitable president, as |
did also the president of the Nashville |
college for young women, opened their |
doors-their splendid rooms to our ASSOC |