The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-04-29
EDUCATION BOARD
OFFERS A RICH GIFT.
One Hundred Three Year
Scholarships.
BRIGHT DAY FOR GEORGIA
Storm of Emotion Sweeps the Educa-
tional Conference.
FOR THE WINNIE DAVIS MEMORIAL HALL
Gift Of So, 500 is Made. States Asked to Aid
Education More Generously. Hand
as Well as Mind Should b.
Trained
rained.
(By the Associated Press.)

Athens, Ga, April 26.-Four thousand
five hundred dollars, one half of the bal
ance necessary to complete the Winnie
fifty three year scholarships of $50 each
a year at the Georgia; State Normal
school, to duplicate the Is scholarships
provided by the women of Georgia; an
offer to duplicate for a period of three
years all new scholarships of $50 each
that the women of Georgia may provide
before January /, 1908. to 4 number not
exceeding fifty were the contributors
| today Of the General Education Board,
! to the women Of Georgia.
| Men cheered and Wept and women
| laughed and cried, ir the fullness of Joy
when they comprah ended all that the
announcement meant Ex-Governor w.
| j. NOrthen. who was on the platform
| when the announcement was made i'll
| the conference. sprang to his feet and
| asked the women Of Georgia in the great
| audience to stand UP and then. when
| they had done SO, asked the whole aud
| fence to stand up, not as people Of one
| State or many States, but as people of
one country. The announcements came in
| me II(u4c OIL Tie morning session DY
| William H Baldwin, Jr., of New York
Il the conditions specified IL This an
nounoement are complied to the full ex-
| tent of the otter-as no doubt they will
be-t1e total amount Of this contribu-
| tiOn of the General E,Gucatio Beard
will be $19,5OO. 1t was several minutes
before the conference was sufficiently
composed to resume business. Invita-
|
today by representatives of the State
of Tennessee. North ana South Caro-
Ina and Florida 10 have the next year s
meeting held in one OF those States.
DR.. W. Il. Harris, United States Com
missioner Of Education, was the princi-
pal speaker of the morning session.
No meeting was held in the afternoon,
the delegates and visitors Joining in the
Decoration Day exercises here
| The announcement of the donation
came in the middle of the morning ses-
sion. In a pause in the speaking Mr.
Ogden said that Mr.. William H. Bald
win had word to say Mr. Baldwin
said that as tae president OF the Gen
eral Education Board he wished tC
speak, more particularly to the womer
of Georgia, because this was Mcmoria
Day, which they had always done sc
much to observe. To them the bt arc
had a special message 10 be made
through its secretary, DR. Wallace But
terick DR.. Butterick's announcement
: was briefly this:
: The general education board vii
l subscribe to the GEORGIA State Norma
School at Athens for Il period OF three
l years, fifty scholarships of fifty dollar:
2 each to meet the fcrty-six scholarship:
now provided by the women of Georeic
g -$2,5oO a year for three years-$7 5O
| in ell
I'm addition to the above the Gen
D efal Education Board will duplicate TO
v a period of three years new scholar
! | ships of fifty dollars each that av D.
6 | provided by the women of Georgia he
c fore January /, 1903, up to a nunlbe
. nat exceeding fifty. Understanding
that the women CT Georgia have raise,
. $6,Ooe toward a fund of s13 600 for tn
! erection of the Winnie Davis Memoria
Hall the Geeral Education Board vii
= subscribe one-half the balance or $40
: provided the remaining balance is sub
:, scrlbed before anuary l. 1903.
8 (SieneO "William H Baldwin. Jr
Chairman; George Foster Peabody
Treasurer; Wallace Putterick. Secre
tary and Executive Officer, J. L. NJ
Curry Frederick T. Gales, Daniel c
Gilman, Morris X. .1essup, Robert c
Ogden, Walter r. Page Albert Shaw
The evening session of the conferenc
was held in the Senev-Stoval Chanel {
l. the Lucy Cobb Institute in the presenc
Ii or an audience which crowded the build
is lng to the doors. Mr.. Ogden presideC
OF Dr. Walter H. Page read the report
n the conference committee on resolutions
st which was in effect as follows:
~ The campaign that this conferenc
- met to further is a campaign not onl
- for the free education of all people bl
ie for free education Of such efficiency 8
shall make the coming generations
. the Southern States the best trane
) men and women that an enlightene
= democracy can produce. To this end
AZ urges the increase of taxes for scho,
e. use, the lengthening OF school terms al