The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-12-28
WHITE MAN AND NEGRO
Identical Methods Of Education For
Them Wrong
FOR GREAT SOUTHERN CENTRAL COLLEGE
Colleges Should Not Attempt the Work OF Pre-
parat ry Schools. Dabney Reads Paper
on Scientific and Technical Edu-
cation in the South.
(By the Associated Press }

cation in the South.
(By the Associated Press.)
Richmond, Va, Dec 27.-The tenth an
nual convention of the Southern Educa
tional Association met here this morning,
the attendance being very good. The body
was called to order by j. L. Hill, Chair
man of the local Committee of Arrange
ments, and an invocation was made by
Rev. Carey E. Morgan, of this city.
Addresses of welcome were delivered
by Governor ]. Hoge Tyler, Mayor Rich
ard NJ. Taylor, and City School Supern-
tendent Fox, and responses were made by
Superintendent Wooten, of Paris, Texas;
r. G. Glen, State Commissioner of Edu-
cation, Atlanta, Ca, and Superintendent
of Public Institutions ]. G. Calhoun, of
Louisiana. Mr. Hill then surrendered the
gavel to President r. b. Fulton, Chancel-
lor of the University of Mississippi, who
thereupon took charge of the convention
and delivered his annual address.
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT FULTON.
r. B. Fulton, Chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Mississippi, in his annual address
as president of the association, discussed
the facilities for education given by the
South. 10 the white and colored races,
and said in each State they had divided
with the colored race the funds raised
by taxes paid almost entirely by white
men and had given equal educational ia
cilities at the public expense. He asked
whether it had proven that the studies
which train to acuteness the anglo Saxon
mind were the best to sharpen the Mon
g0lian or the African intellect. Had
not blind sentiment been aiiring to give
AngloSaX minds to the negro race in
stead of offering that development and
ira Gning which would best meet the pos
sibilities of that race. Millions Of dol
lars had been spent annually for thirty
five years in the Southern States for
the education of the negro race. Had
there been an adequate return in advance
ment shown? 1t was, he added, the duty
of the intelligent educators OF the South
to study and discuss these problems in
all fullness and with impartial interest
and to determine in form and kind and
method the education and training that
should be afforded to the negro race
Continuing President Fulton said in
part:
There are two important particulars
in which coming changes Will certainly
modify the policies and the work of our
schools of higher rank. In the first
place, those institutions which as are to
be called colleges or universities must see
that vastly more is lost than is gained
when their rolls are swelled by the names
of immature students in preparatory
classes, and when the funds and energies
OF the institutions are spent in work that
properly belongs to elementary or second
ary schools. In the second place. insti-
tutions intended to give specially scien-
tific or technical training will learn that
their best work is not done when they
attempt to be all things to all men-to
work upon material that should be in the
grammar schools as we'll as that which is
more advanced-to give classical or lit
erary culture as we'll as technical studies
to prepare for ultimate entrance into the
profession of teaching as well as for the
management OF industrial enterprises
Iechnlcal education in the South. in
the institutions already established, and
IN those which may be established. will
not achieve for individuals, nor for the
community, the highest and fullest results
until such education shall be made to con-
form more fully with the law which the
experience of all the past shows to be
the governing principle in educational ad-
vancement
The greatest educational need of the
South today is at least one Institution
pre-eminently fitted by its material
equipment, it's means of support. and its
environment to command and hold with
out challenge the position of leader in
technical training among the institutions
about 1t. No one Of the State institutions
can claim this position for our section.
10 AFFORD the material appliances for such
an institution as we need 81 900 600 is a
minimum sum. To maintain it's work as
1t should be, an endowment of not less
than $3,0O0,000 would be required. One in
stltution with ample equipment, prOperIy
located and organized, could easily be
made to exert guiding and helpful inf1u-
ence upon all manual and technical train
ing in all schools in the South.
can there not be found somewhere
that union of wealth, material with
wealth of noble liberality which shall pro-
vide In the first years of the coming
century for this most pressing need of
education in the South"
President Charles w. Dabnev of the
University of Tennessee. read a paper
on Scientific and Technical Education
in the South"
Technical skill. the speaker said. is
needed TO utilize the raw material to the
best advantage. The time comes. however,