The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-19
CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATION.
The Fifth Annual Meeting to Take | Place April 24.27

| Preparations are rapidly maturing for
 the meeting of the Fifth Annual Confer | ence for Education in the South, to be I held at Athens. Ga. April "A to 27 inclu- sive.
 It is expected that there win be an even l larger gathering of educators and citi- ! gems from all over the South than there
 was last spring at Winston Salem. N. c. Mr. Robert C. Ogden of New York, President of the Southern Education Board, which is the outcome of these conferences and which recently started
 the General Education Board to finance this great movement in the South. will bring on a special train a number of dis tinguished educators and phiianthrophists from tho North and will be greeted at Athens by a large number of prominent the South
 All persons interested in educational advancement in the South will be cord tally welcomed. The railroads wili give a rate of one and one-third fare on the certificate plan south of the Potomac and Ohio and cast of the Mississippi.
 The program which follows shows the
 high character of tho discussions and in-
 The conference will open on Thursday
 afternoon, the 2ith. with business ses-
 sion; D. n. the address of welcome will
 be made by the Hon. Clark Howell of
 Georgia: the Presidents annual address
 by Mir. Robert c. Ogden of New York: c response, by Prof c. c. Thach of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Friday.
 April 25, 10 a. m.. business session of the conference: Education and the Vol untsry Tax. by the Hon. c. B. Aycock. Governor of North Carolina; general dis cussion. introduced by the Hon. II. St.
 George Tucker of Virginia. Dr. John Mas Fulton. Chancellor of the University of as the Primary Policy of the South. by the Hon. Hoke Smith of Georgia. the Press in it's Relation to Popular Educa- ton. by the Hon. Edgar Wilson of Mis- sissippi and the Hon. St. Clair Nickel way, editor of The Brooklyn Eagle; the Bureau of Investigation and Information of the Southern Educational. Board, by Prof. P. P. Claxton of Tennessee; gen eral discussion. introduced by MT. W. H. Baldwin ,Jr.. of New York. and the Hon. Hugh H. Hanna of Indiana. p. m.,. Ed ucation through Handcraft, by Carleton B. Gibson. Superintendent of Schools, Co Iumbus. Ga. The Child of the Operative. by Lawton B. Evans. Superintendent of Schools, of Augusta. Ga; the Child and the State. by Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, Orleans La. School Houses and School Environment. by Dr. Charles D. Me Iver, President of the State Normal School Greensboro. N. C. Saturday: April 26. 10 a. m. business session of the conference; Educational Supervision, by pr. w. T. Harris, U. s. Commission CT of Education: the Denominational Col. lege and Popular Education. by Prof. II. N. Snyder of Wofford College. s. C.; School Equipment and Re-enforfement, by Dr. Albert Shaw editor of Review of Reviews. New York; general discussion. introduced by the Hon. John M. Small. M. C.. from North Carolina and Dr. II. B Frissell. Principal of Hampton Insti- tute. Virginia. The afternoon of Satur. day. the 18th. will be given to attendance upon the exercises of Memorial Day. p. m.. Ed Icational Progress at the South. nf Mississippi; Cooperation in Educational Effort by Judge Thomas O. Jones. ex- Governor of Alabama: general discussion. addresses by Mir. Hamilton Mabie of New York. Prof. Farnam of New Haven. and Dr. Felix Adler of New York; benedictlon by the Rt Rev. W. N. Mcvicar. T: s: D., Bishop Coadjutor of Rhode Island; Sun day. April 2. Sunday services in churches morning and night; general assembly in afternoon to be addressed by a number of speakers