New-York tribune., 1900-12-28
EDUCATIONAL, NEEDS IN SOUTH.
SET FORTH BY CHANCELLOR OF UNIVER-
sITY OF MISSISSIPPI.

Richmond. Va. Dec 27-The tenth annual con-
vention of the Southern Educational Association
began here this morning. Addresses of welcome
were delivered by Governor J. Hoge Tyler, Mayor
Richard NJ Taylor and City School Superintendent
Fox, and responses made by Superintendent
Wootten, of Paris, Tex: r. c. Glenn. State Com
missioner of Education, Atlanta, and Superin-
tendent OF Public Institutions J. G. Calhoun of
Louisiana. President R. B. Fulton, Chancellor of
the University of Mississippi, delivered the annual
address He discussed the facilities for education
given by the South to the white and colored races
and said in each State they had divided with the
colored the funds raised by taxes paid al
most entirely by white men, and had given equal
educational facilities at the public expense. He
asked whether it had been proved that the studies
which train TO acuteness the Anglo-Saxon mind
were the best TO sharpen the Mongolan or the
African intellect. Had not blind sentiment been
aiming 70 give Anglo-Saxon minds to the negro
race instead Of offering that development and
training which would best meet the possibilities
of that race? Millions of dollars had been spent
annually for thirty-fve years in the Southern
States for the education of the negro race. Had
there been adequate return In advancement
shown? 1t was, he added the duty of the intel
ligent educators of the South to study and discuss
these problems in all fulness and with impartial
interest, and to determine in form and kind and
method the education and training that should be
afforded TO the negro
Continuing President Fulton said in part:
the greatest educational need OF the South To-Day
is at least one institution preemineny fitted bysts
material equipment its means OF support ana It's
environment, to command and hold without chal-
lenge the position of leader in technical training
among the institutions about It. No one OF the
State institutions claim this position for our
section. To afford the material appliances for such
an institution need, $1,00O,O00 is minimum
sum. To maintain its work as it t. should be; an
endowment of not less than 100000 would be
needed. One institution with ample equipment,
made to exert guiding and helpful influence upon
all manual and technical training in all schools In
the South. Can there not be found somewhere that
union OF wealth of material with wealth of noble
liberality which shall provide in the first years OF
the coming century for this most pressing need OF
education in the South?
President Charles w. Dabney Of the University
of Tennessee. read paper Scientific and Tech
nlcal Education in the South" Technical Skill.
the speaker said, 'is needed to utilize the raw
material to the best advantage. The time comes,
however, in the history of every nation. when IL
must educate its people in science and train them
in manufactures and industries. 1t will go down.
This higher scientific education is the forerunner
of higher prosperity and the nation which fails TO
develop the intellectual faculty for production must
degenerate, for 1t cannot stand still. 1t Is gener-
ally known that General Lee a great believer
In scientific and technical education. The Southern
people have still to realize the ideals of Lee In
education"
Miss c. S. Parrish, professor of philosophy in the
Randolph Macon Womans College, of Lynchburg,
Va, presented interesting facts regarding the
educa ton of women in the South.