The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-11
M'SWEENY'S ADDRESS
Speech Before the N. {. A..
National University Plan
Discussed.
(By the Associated Press.)

Charleston, S. c., July 10.-The Old
Palmetto State and Charleston, hospita
BILE and historic, today gave official well
come to the National Educational Asso-
citation at the opening session OF It's an
nual convention. About 1000 delegates
were present in the Thomson Auditorium
when Chairman Welch of the local ex-
ecutive committee called the convention
to order shortly before four O'Clock The
first session, outside of the appointment
of a committee on resolutions, was purely
one of welcome. Governor M. b. NC
Sweenv. greeted the delegates for the
State. After extending formal welcome
to the school teachers whom he said
"were abroad in the State, the Gov
ernor said:
s.The soldier is abroad even in this day
of civilization, and enlightenment. There
are those who claim it is our duty to
carry civilization and Christianity to the
heather even though we have to open
the way with leaden bullets. 1t seems
that we are about on the verge OF an
other war. 1t may be the hand of Prov
idence to carry our civilization to the ut
termost parts of the earth. We have with
us. however another parsonage more inn
portant in maintaining our civilization
than the soldier-the school master"
The national council today elected the
following officers:
President G. M. Jordan, Minneapolis;
vice. President, Miss Bette A. Dutton,
Cleveland, Ohio; Secretary, ]. H. Philips
Birmingham, Ala.
Chairman Keyes reported the following
nominations for members of the execu-
tive committee and they were elected;
President Joseph Swain of the Univer-
sity of Indiana, and Professor Nicholas
Murray Butler, of New York.
The establishment of a national uni
versity at Washington was the chief
topic discussed at the meeting of the
council. The discussion was opened with
the report of President w. R. Harper,
of the University of Chicago, the chair
man of the committee on the subject.
The idea seemed to prevail that Presi-
dent Harper's report was really the re-
port of the committee, but he was par
ticularly emphatic in his statement that
his remarks were strictly his personal
observations and conclusions He said
that the committee was not yet ready to
report.
President Harper put himself on record
as believing that the proposed university
was inexpedient and unnecessary. The
majority of the committee, he said, fla
vored a school of research which should
be conferred about and ultimately asso-
ciated with the Smithsonian Institute.
A school for the study of international
questions, diplomacy and similar matters
analogous to West Point was also ia
vored.
The report Of President Harper was re-
ceived by the council but the committee
was continued. The committee deferred
for the present any expression of opin-
ion on the matter.
The Department of Indian Education
held three sessions today. The feature
of the programme was an address by
Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of Hampton
Industrial School, Virginia. An address
was also made by Professor o. H. Balk-
less, of Carlisle, Pa, on The Rapid I'M
provement of Indian Children Along Lite
rary Lines"
Levi Livering, full blood Omaha In
dian, read a paper on THE Practical
Teaching of Indians prepared by Supt.
Seger, of Colony, Oklahoma.
A meeting of the directors of the Ma
tional Association was held at which
Treasurer c. G. Pearce and Chairman
of the Board of Trustees Albert G. Lane
made their reports. The association.
was shown to be in a fourishng finan
cial condition The National Educational
Association is worth just SIS, 900, which
is invested in State, county and munich
pal bonds and mortgages. The board en-
dorses a proposed change in the consti-
tuition so as to put the voting power in
the hands of those actively engaged in
and identified with educational work
resolution was received from the
Teachers Association of Missouri asking
the appointment of committee to con-
fer with a national committee for sim
plifying the English language.