New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-27
TO AID EDUCATION IN SOUTH.
GIFTS To GEORGIA STATE NORMAL
SCHOOL BY GENERAL EDUCATION
BOARD-TO HELP BUILD WIN
ME DAVIS HALL
ME DAVIS HALL.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.1

Athens Ca April 26.-The morning session
OF the Conference for Education in the South.
which came to end here to-day, was marked
by the announcement of conditional contripu-
lions by the General Education Board to South
ern educational work of sums of a maximum
aggregate of $4,000 In introducing DR.. Butt
rick who made the announcement, William ii.
Baldwin, jr.. chairman of the board. expressed
the boards confidence IN the work that the
South, and especially the women in the South.
was doing for the South. DR. Buttrick
then announced that the board had voted to
subscribe for period of three years fifty schol-
arshfps Of $50 each for students at the Georgia
State Normal School at Athens. 70 meet the
forty six such scholarships now provided by the
women OF Georgia. The board further offered
10 duplicate during the same period any further
scholarships that might be provided by the
women of Georgia.
The announcement that aroused most en-
thusiasm. however. was the declaration that
since $1,000 of the $4,000 needfu to build the
Winnie Davis Memorial Hall at the Georgia
State Normal School had already been raised
the board would contribute one-half the re-
mander. 81. 800. DR.. Buttrick reminded the
audience that 1t was the Confederate Memorial
Day. and called attention 10 the significance OF
the fact that the board took special pleasure In
making this last offer. because IL was con-
trbution to ain object dear to the hearts OF the
Daughters of the Confederacy. Invitations con-
tinue TO pour in to hold the next conference at
various places in the South. To-day they came
from Deland Fla, and Nashville. Tenn. each
being presented by representatives sent for that
purpose.
The morning session addressed by DIR.
w. T. Harris. United States Commissioner OF
Education on Educational Supervision" Pro-
OF rI =
on The Denomlnational College and Popular
Education; DIR. Albert Shaw. Editor OF The
Review of Reviews" on school Equipment and
Reinforcement: Judge Emery Speer and Con-
gresham Small of North Carolina.
Dr. Shaw said that of the $liO.OOO,OOO paid
annually in pensions to Union soldiers the South
contributed $J00o0000 and In the light OF this
fact such contributions as came to the South
from the North to help meet the educational
situation could scarcely be considered anything
but justice. The feature Of Judge Speer's adj
dress was ibis euogistic reference to Abraham
Lincoln, whose name was applauded to the
echo.
In the afternoon the conference adjourned. to
allow the delegates to attend the Confederate
Memorial Day exercises. The final session
held at the Lucy Cobb Institute, and consisted
largely of a symposium in which Dr. Felix Ad-
Ter. Congressman Small ]. w. Abercrombie, f.
T Sanford, of Tennessee; j. b. Aswell, of Louisi
ana; DR.. John Graham Brooks. of Cambridge,
Mass, and others participated.
The party which Robert G. Ogden brought
from New-York to attend the conference and
to visit various educational institutions of the
South will leave Athens on its special train
late tomorrow night.
Despite the fact that the gift was anonymous,
1t is generally understood here that the giver
of the $4,000 library to the University of
Georgia the conditional donation of which was
announced yesterday is George Foster Pea body,
of New-York who is Georgian by birth.