The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-01-04
CONGRESS OF EDUCATORS
Important Gathering Of Represen-
tatiye Southerners.
A Meeting Under the Auspices OF
the Southern Educational As
sociation-The Object of
the Convention.

Hot Springs, Ark, Dec. 31.-The most
important congress Of educators ever
held in the south will commence here
this evening, and the hotels are crowd
ed with representative men and women
from that and other sections OF the
country. Among those who registered
this morning were Superintendent N.
C. Dougherty, president National Edu-
c%ational association, and DR.. William r.
Harper. Illinois; DIR. William T. Harris,
commissioner of education, Washing
ton, ID. c.; State Superintendent j. NJ.
Carlisle. DR.. J.. Baldwin and Superin-
tendent O. H. Cooper, Texas; State Su-
p~erintendent John r. Kirk, Hon. j. B.
Merwin and President r. H. Jesse, Mis-
souri,; President George j. Ramsey and
DIR. Brown Ayres, Louisiana; Prof. w.
T. Poynter and DR.. w. H. Bartholo-
new, Kentucky; Hon. T. F. McBeath
and State superintendent w. N. Sheats,
Florida; DR.. Robert Frazer, Mississippi;
Chancellor j. H. Kirkland, DR.. w. r,
Garrett, Principal w. r. Webb and DR..
Payne, Tennessee; State Superinten-
dent v. A. Lewis, West Virginia; Prof.
w. S. Morrison, South Carolina; Presi-
dent Brown, Superintendent VERIFY and
Hon. S. Palmer, Alabama; Superinten-
dent w. r. Slaton. Georgia; State Su-
| perintendent T. B. Prettymen n Su-
| perintendent H. Wise, Maryland; Hon.
d. H. Hill, North Carolina; Prof. q. G.
Glass, Virginia.
The meeting is under the auspices OF
the Southern Educational association,
and for nearly a year the ofl-
GERS of that organization have been
busily engaged in the task OF making
the gathering a representative one. II
Is intended to mark the inauguration
of a movement for promoting a closer
fellowship among the teachers OF the
south, to increase their zeal and efn-
cheney and to enlarge and
the power of the individual citizen In MS
capacity as a worker and director.
The congress will be called to order al
s O'Clock this evening, with addresses
of welcome by Mayor Waters ano
| George b. Cook. superintendent OF the
city schools, and responses will be
by the president of the association,
State Superintendent of Public 1nstruc-
ton j. B. Preston, OF jackson, Miss. In
his address General Cook will say;
1.-THE south cannot afford to be indiffer-
ent to the future of her sons and daugh.
tiers. The majority of her teachers have
not the benefit of travel, or Of that men.
tai improvement which is developed by
contact and association with n assem-.
| blage of stronger intellectual powers
They need to hear and to know the
workings and the progress of the edu.
c%ational forces in other schools and col
leges of the nation, and IL there is any
better and more effective method in the
field of education they should have IT.
and carry their new spirit of power :ntc
the school rooms. The Southern Educa.
tional association desires to reach and
enliven the spirit of enthusiasm and
progress in a host of our own people
and the effect of this meeting of this
patriotic association will be felt ali
over the SOUTH"
After the address of welcome. DR.,
William r. Harper. president Of the Uni
versity of Chicago, will speak upor
"Thoroughness and Its Implications
and an address will be delivered by
Prof. Eugene A. Smith. state geologist
of Alabama. Tomorrow morning the
business of the congress will commence
In earnest.