The Worcester spy., 1899-11-10
BEREA COLLEGE.
Successful Meeting
to Promote It's
Interests.
NATIONALITY AND RACE.
George W. Cable and Pres
ident William W. Frost
Makes Addresses.

An audience that nearly filled Memo
rial hall assembled yesterday evening
In the interests of Berea college. The
meeting was held under the auspices
of DR.. and Mrs. McCullagh, DR.. and
Mrs ]. E. Tuttle and DR.. and Mrs.
Willard Scott, and the chief elements
of interest were the addresses by Geo.
W. Cable and DIR. Frost, president OF
Berea college.
Preceding the lecture, a reception was
held in the vestibule and parlor of the
Y. w. C. A., among those present be-
ing Mrs. A. George Bullock, Mr.. ana
Mrs Homer P. Lewis, Mrs N. f. Rog-
ers, Miss Marble, Mrs. ]. G. MacMurray,
r. NJ. MacMurray, Rev. and Mrs. 5.
r.. Harlow, Miss Ellen A. Kimball, Mr..
and Mrs. F. H. Hamblin, Il. A. Kel-
ley, Miss Turner, Mrs. S. A. Tateum,
Mrs. A. G. Webster, Mrs. A. b. II.
Sprague, Superintendent and Mrs. e.
f. Carroll, Mrs. E. G. Tucker Miss
Janet Martin, Mrs M. P. Higgins, MRS.
Frank Simpson, Mrs. @. F. Woodbury.,
Mrs F. ]. Barnard, the Misses Bar
nard.
The receiving party, which stood in
&s
McCullagh, DR.. Tuttle, DR.. and Mrs.
Scott and the two guests Of honor, Mr.
Gable and DR. Frost. The guests were
presented by ushers chosen from Fly
mouth, Union and Piedmont churcnes'
Messrs Paul B. Morgan, E. c. Whit
ney, Frank e. Simpson, II. K. SIN
clair, Aldus C. Higgins, W. A: How
land, Horace g. Brooks, John W. Hig-
gins, Dr. A. G.. Webster, 7. e. Stearn
and e. q. Tucker. The refreshment
tables were set in the parlor. Mrs. +.
w. Moen and Mrs. Charles Fl. Nor
gan poured coffee and chocolate at a
table that was decorated with yellow
chrysanthemums, while Mrs. +. B.
Knowles poured tea at table tnat
was graced by a tall vase of American
beauties and by silver candelabra with
pink candles and shades. The as
sistants were also chosen from the tnfee
churches. The list included Miss Ma
bel Lancaster, Miss Southwick, Mrs.
Alice G. Pierce, Mrs. H. Winfield wy
man. Miss Edith Goodell, Mrs. A. e.
Higgins, Miss Florence Merritt, Miss
Higgins, Miss Anna McCullagh, MISS
Whitcomb and Miss Anna Sawyer.
Mr.. Gable and DR.. Frost arrived IN
the aftarnoon, and with DR., and MIS-
McCulIagh. were entertained at the
Worcester club by Mrs. A. George Bull
lock, From the club they drove to the
Y. w c. A. building, where they were
accorded a very cordial welcome, ana
after a reception that lasted very nearly
an hour. were led to the platform, ana
the formal exercises began.
In opening the program, Dr. McCul-
lagh said: 1--WE are living in the closing
hours Of a century which has witnessed
greater social amelioration and record
ed grander triumphs than any other
century since the historic period began,
Wendell Phillips has said that educa-
ton is the only subject worthy or the
supreme solicitude of thoughtful men.
The conference this evening is in the
interests of education in particular
section of our country. In this priv
ileged land, where the great drama of
history is to be wrought out and at a
time when our nation is confronting
new problems, 1t is important to know
what our ideals are and how we may
best realize them. We have the priv
ilege of having with us one whom some
of us learned to know with pleasure
and profit, as we know literary men
and authors through. their books, when
we first visited New Orleans take
pleasure in introducing George Gable,
who will speak to us on Realizing our
national ideals"
MIR. CABLES ADDRESS.
The gentle creator of THE Erandissi-
mis-" Madame Delphine," and DR.. Ser
vier, who wore a pink carnatlon in his
button hole and looked precisely like
his pictures, was received with abund-
ant hand -clapping. He began by stat
ing that he had no address to make,
and then proceeded to make an earnest,
moving address upon Realizing our ma
tional ideals" in which he emphasized
the necessity and desirability of the
white race keeping itself from inter
marriage with other races, the obliga-
tions that rights confer, and the duty of
helping the man of colored race. "Of
couse," he said, 'in any discussion of
our national ideals we go back instto-
lively to the Declaration of Independ-
enoe, a document that recognized, as
all our best legislation since has recog-
lied, that the individual man is the end
to which the home the family, the So
cial circle, the army, the navy, and all
other social institutions converge, and
for which they perform their functions.
We have had q great deal Of loose talk
about the rights of race, but have we
ever discovered that a race has rights,