The times., 1898-10-23

land. Clergymen of ability should be ap-
pointed to these charges
The committee presented resolutions eX-
pressing the thanks of the house to the
Rev. DIR. Charles F. Hoffman for mis-
efforts in promoting the interests of the
society on church schools and colleges
and urging the encoura cement of the
wealthy in this noble work.
Bishop Gilbert, of Minnesota, opened
the discussion of the subject and gave
an interesting talk on the progress of
education under his care in Minnesota.
ST. Mary's Hall, for the daughters OF
clergymen, was an institution of which
he was extremely proud. Two thousand
young women have received their educa-
tion there, and they represented all that
was noble and good.
Hobart College.
Hobart College" was the subject of
Dr. Nelson's remarks. He told of the
beautiful site of the college at Geneva,
n. Y, and dilated at length on its made
quate capacity. One hundred students
are only enabled to be there, owing to this
lack of accommodations. The college had
graduated over 1900 men. and what it
needed was not men but endowments.
The Rev. DIR. Jones then followed with
] not a diocesan institution, he said, as
several bishops were on its board of
managers and trustees. He paid fitting
tribute to Dr. Philander Chase, the
| founder of Kenyon, who established 1t
| in the wilderness and labored long and
earnestly in its behalf. DR.. Jones re-
| ferred to the high standard of the col
| lege in contests for collegiate supremacy
! and quoted various statistics to that end.
l,a al
| powers for good or were not. He men
| toned illustrious names of the college
alumnus. including Rutherford B. Hayes,
| David Davis Edmond NJ. Stanton. Henry
! Winter Davis and Stanley Matthews.
Bishop Dudley's Eloauence.
The address of Bishop Dudley.
! of Kentucky. chancellor of the Uni
versity of the South at Sewanee.
Tenn, was of such stirring mafinificence
| as to almost carry the deputies off their
/ feet. 1t certainly moved many of them
| to tears and when the speaker ended mis-
| talk the impulse of every one was to
| break into cheers. Only the sacredness of
| the edifice prevented this outburst. The
bishop. impressive and earnest, held all
| spellbound with admiration and ap-
| the subject of the church school because
| it was a church school, but because 1t
was school. He would place the en-
| Dhasis on the school and not on the
church. At Sewanee the object was TO
make men Christian men. The concep-
| ton of the University of the South was
that of Leonidas Polk in 1889 The AMOUNT
| of Sl0OO,000 was finally raised and plans
were projected when the war came on.
and in the desofation that came upon the
South the university shared. When peace
was restored the great Quintard deter
mined that the university should not die.
and his labors were not in vain. The
university lives.
1t now had 427 students and 46 officers
and teachers. The work 1t was doing was
equal to that being done anywhere in the
| country.
He paid high encomiums to Du Bose,
White, Trent, Wells, Virgins, and the
other intellectual giants at Sewanee.
whose contributions to literature are so
generally regarded as standard, and quot
ed Richard Garnett Of the British NIL
scum, who said the only purely literary
review published in the United States was