The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-05-18
THE SOUTHERN BAPTISTO.
The Great Convention Opens at Nash
vile, Tennessee.
EDUCATIONAL SOCIETIES In SESSION
With Prominent Educators from all
Parts of the Country Present-Dr.
Curry Defends the South-Presi-
dent Harper Talks About Special
lists as Factors in College Work.
cf the Sentinel. ]


Cor, espondence Of the Sentinel
NASHVILLE, Tenn, May IA
thousand delegates are here ready for
the Southern Batist Convention,
which convenes tomorrow at the tab
ernacle. The session bids fair to be
the greatest as well as the largest in
the history of the body.
Today the American Baptist Edu-
cational Conference met in joint ses
sion at the First Baptist church and
were called to order by DIR. w. B.
Rotwell, of William Jewels College.
Missouri, president Of the Southern
Baptist Educational Conference. At
ter prayer by DR.. George Cooper, Rev.
G. 5. Gar5er, Of the Edgefield Baptist
church, of this city, Welcomed the
visitors. DIR. RothweIl responded to
this address, felicitating himself and
his brethren that they had met in
Nashville. The delegates were then
enrolled.
DR.. A. J. Emerson, president of
Howard Payne College, Texas, read an
able paper on Higher Education in
Texas" and officers We're elected for
the ensuing year. The Southern Bap-
tist Society reelected DR.. RothwelI
president unanimously. DR.. Thomas
Hume, of the University of North
Carolina, was elected secretary.
DR.. II. FL. Harris, of Richmond Col
iege, Richmond, Va, read paper on
college examinations and degrees,
which were heard with great inter
est.
In the afternoon the American Bap-
tist Educational Society met, DR.. Ed
ward Johnson presiding. After a
hymn and a prayer by DR.. NJ. NJ Riley,
and Treasurer Joshua Levering made
his report.
The report of the Corresponding
Secretary, Rev. T. L. Gates, of Brook
lyn, proved paper of special interest.
The objects and policy of the Society
were outlined. Only eleven colleges
out of siXty-seven white colleges in
the South were endowed and only
seven had endOWments of over $780,
600. The society raised last year
1891, 600, below the average of the first
three years. He spoke of the univer-
sity of Chicago, which had an endoW-
ment of S7,000,0 900 and was constantly
adding to this vast sum.
At the night session President Will
liam Il. Harper, of the University of
Chicago, read a paper on 1.-The Re-
quirements of Collegiate Educa zion
and College Professors" He referred
to the necessity of specialists which
had grown up in the past fifty years
and said it's only danger was in the
0ut-growth of narrCw-minded men.
DR.. J. L. NJ. Curry, ex-minister to
Spain and agent of the Peabody edu-
cational fund. made a speech that
might be taken to be political, but
said it was not done,in a political way.
He only wanted to defend the South.
The finger of scorn was pointed at the
South for its poorly endowed schools.
He would point to the fact that more
money went back to the Northern
States than they paid for taxes.
Illinois, for example, paid s., $50, 900
and received SO, AS, GOO; Michigan paid
S2,G00,000 and got back ST, 400, 600.
Colleges, he said, would never reach
then: highest developments until there
is cO-e0ucatiOn.