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with impartial interest, and to determine
in form and kind and method the educa-
ton and training that should be given
to the negro race.
There are important particulars in which
corning changes VIII certainly modify the
policies and tho work of our schools Of
higher rank. In the first place, tn 1Se in
stitutions which aspire to be called col
leses or universities must see that vastly
more is lost than is gained when their
rolls are SWe!led by the names Of imma-
tu:e and aimless students in preparatory
classes, and when the funds and energies
OF the institution are spent in work that
properly belongs to elementary or SecOn-
d:iry schools. In the second place. nstitu-
items intended to give specially scientific
or technical training will learn that their
beet work is not done when they attempt
to be all things 10 all men-to work upon
material that should he in The grammar
schools well as that witch is more ad-
ranced-to give classical or literary cul-
ture as well as technical, to prepare for
Ultimate entrance into the profession of
teaching as we'll as for the management
Of industrial enterprises.
''The greatest educational need of the
South to-day is at least one nstitut on
em!nently fitted by its material equipment,
its means of support, and its environment
to command and hold without challenge
among the institutions about 1t. No one
Of the State Institutions can claim this
position for our section. Each is restrain
ed by unavailable limitations in its mate
rial foundation, its resources, or its en-
vironment'
The address OF the president was follow
ed by admirable paper on Education
for Southern Women by Prof. Cele>tia
Parrish, Randolph-Macon Woman's Col
lege, Va.
NIGHT SESSION.
The general session of the convention
was held at the Jefferson last night. The
addresses OF the evening We're delivered
by DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler Of Co
lumbia University, New York. and Presi-
dent +. P. Venable, Of the University Of
Nortn Carolina.
DR.. Butler spoke on "Some Evidences
of an Education The greatest interest
Was manifested in the remarks made by
this we'll known educator. He dealt with
the problems that confront the instructor
and as TO the results obtained, treating
particularly with the various ways these
results manifested themselves in the pupil.
The Relation of the University to the
Preparatory Schools was the subject OF
Prof. Venable. The speaker declared that
while valuable work was done by institu-
tons under private and church control.
yet the field of popular education could
only he met by the state University.'
Said DR.. Venable: Mind I do not say
that ii is done. for such a statement would
be far from the truth. That they fall
short of their high duty is most often due
to sECrt-siShted parsimony, an ungener-
Gus treatment on the part of the States
themselves They would SOW sparingly
and reap bountifully; they expect their
tale OF brick and supply no straw: they
squeeze and cramp and starve and yet
demand big return for such grudsing
~ made investment. The plea of poverty
does not suffice as an excuse for such
treatment. They are shrivelling the hand
which could do most to lift them out OF
tier poverty. Poverty goes hand in hand
with ignorance 10 relieve the one you
must remove the other. Ignorance is the
most costly thing in the world and an
education is the cheapest # one considers
the return from the investment.
Il am something of an optimist and
believe that the Sculh is waking up TO
these great truths and that the day IS
dawn;ng for a wiser. more generous treat
ment OF the institutions. and the profit
will be immediate and beyond calculation.
THE NEED.
There must be some educated men in
a community to appreciate the need o.
the common schoolsa TO create a senti
,oent in their favor; there must be men OF
training and education to wisely admins
fer funds for the support OF such schools,
and there must be trained teachers to
teach in them. Without these three f.c
tors TO amount of money approximate
can ever make a successful common
school system.
.+The problem OF the relation between
the university and the school is one Of
mutual service The question for the uni
yersity to decide is. how can 1t be of the