The age-herald., 1900-07-12

Charleston, s. C., July 1.-The members of the National Educational Association put in busy day, two sessions of the gen eral organization and many meetings of the departments taking up their time. Booker T. Washington, the negro educator drew the largest crowd of the convention at the auditorium tonight, speaking on the advancement of the colored man along ed ucational lines. The nominat ting commit tee will meet at noon tomorrow and de- eide upon a candidate for president, Cali fornia is expected to present the name of Prof. Foshay of Los Angeles, but the sen- timent of many of the delegates is that the honor should go east. Prof. J. M. Green of Trenton, N. J., has many friends, and although he is not pressing his candidacy, the chair is likely to go to the New Jersey man. Prof. Parker of Chicago will prob ably be made vice president. <
 Cincinnati and Detroit are claiming
 next convention. The matter will be coIi- sidered tomorrow by the board of directors. St. Louis has put in a bid for the conven- tion in 1903, the year of their exposition.
 The delegates are improving their odd hours by visiting the numerous island re- sorts and the many places around Charles ton.
 The attendance at the morning session was not large, the topic up for discussion being "The Contribution of Religious Or ganzations to the Cause of Education
 President Corson announced that it was impossible to have all denominations take part. He had asked the Catholic, Baptist and Methodist churches to participate
 Baptists and Freedom
 Rev. H. M. DuBose, general secretary of the Epworth League, South, was unable to be present, and President Oscar Cooper of Baylor University, of Waco, Tex, spoke for the Baptists. MT. Cooper gave an elaborate history of the Baptist church which was followed by recital of their part in American education. The Baptist church, MT. Cooper said, stood at all times for freedom of religious worship, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. pr. Condo B. Fallen of St. Louis spoSe for the Catholic church. pr. Fallen in the course of a scholorly address, said he would find 1t impossible to crowd the educa tionai his- tory Of two thouand years into the short time allotted him. He sketched "educa- tion'' at the dawn of history, and coming rapidly to the present day told of the es- tablishment of home schools in the new country which were later superseded by the church school, which was in vogue to- day.
 At the night session Prof. Booker T. Washington. president of the Industr..s Institute of Tuskegee, Ala, made an ad- dress.
 President Joseph Swane, University of Indiana, spoke on the state university. The committee on nominations, which was announced by President Corson at the morning session, will meet tomorrow at noon to make nominations for officers for the ensuing year. This report will be sub- mitted to the convention Friday .s.
 Work of Departments Meetings
 Nearly all of the departments held meetings during the afternoon. The kim dergarten educators held their first sessior, in Hibernian Hall. After the welcome ad- dress papers were read by Mrs. Clarence F. Meleney, of New York; Philander D. Plaxton, of the State Normal School at Greensboro, N. C., and Miss Harriet Mel. director of the Hearst Kindergarten, Washington.
 The department of secondary education heard a paper on the extent the pupil in the high school should be allowed to choose his studies by William J. s. Bryan, President of the High School, St. Louis.
 Oliver 8. Westcott, principal of the North Division High School, Chicago. read a paper on teaching the pupils the correct use of the English language. The papers