The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-20
FOR EDUCATION
IN The SOUTH
Fifth Annual Conference TO Be
Held in Athens, Ga.
GREAT MEETING EXPECTED.
Party of Distinguished Educators and
Phiianthropists from the North viii
Aftend-Fine Speakers to Be
Heard on Timely Topics.

Heard on Timely Topics.
Preparations. are rapidly maturing Tor
the meeting OF the fifth annual CONFER
cnce for Education in the South 10 DE
held at Athens, Ga. JnuTsoass FiiosIS
and Saturday of this week
All signs point TO a great meetihs' anu
8: is expected that there VIII DE an even
larger gathering OF educators anu ciu-
lens from the North and South than
there was last spring at Winston-Saiem,
N C. 1t will be remembered that the
Ayinston-Salcm Conference resulted IN
placing tile Southern Education Board
on a practical basis which has resulted
in the educational campaigns now being
undertaken in Virginia, North Carolina.
,rcnuesSee. Georgia and Louisiana, and
which has resulted also in the Bureau
OF Investigation, Information and Print
ing, which is located at Knoxville, Tenn.
under the dictatorship OF President
Charles w. Dabney.
Mr. Robert c. ogden, or New York,
president of the Southern Education
board, will bring on a special train from
Tho North and East number Of distin-
Euished educators and philanthropists,
and will be greeted at Athens by a large
number OF teachers, citizens and promf-
ncnt men from ali over the South.
Among the number who are to compose
Mr.. 0Sden's party will be Mr.. Ogden,
who is a partner of John Wananlaker;
Rev. DR.. David II. Greer, rector Of st
Iartholomew's Church: DR.. Hamilton w.
Mabie, Of The Outlook; DR.. Talcott VIII
iiams, Of the Philadelphia Press; Mrs.
Potter Wilson, of Philadelphia; John
Crosby Brown, prominent New York
banker; William il. Baldwin. Jr., presi-
dent OF the Long Island Railway and
nP fhn
Board: St Clair McKelway, editor Of the
brooklyn Eagle and a member of the
Virginia family of that name; Bishop
McEicar, of Rhode Island: Henry w.
Farman, formerly treasurer of Yale Uni
versity; George Foster Peabody of the
firm of Spencer Trask & Company, and
treasurer Of the Southern Education
Board and of the General Education
Board: A. S. FrisselI, president of Fifth
Avenue Bank; John d. Rockefeller. Jr.,
and DR.. Wallace Butterick. secretary of
the General Education Board.
This party will make an extended tour
through the South, visiting educational
institutions.
FINE PROGRAMME.
The programme, which follows, shows
the high character of the discussions and
includes many distinguished speakers from
the North and South
Tie conference will open on Thurs
day evening, April oath, at 5 o'clock
with. a business session. The formal
opening will take place on Thursday
night at o'clock. when an address of
welcome will be delivered by the Hon.
Clark Howell, Of Georgia Mr.. Ogden
will make the presidents annual address
and sn1 " poifse thereto will be made by
Professor c. C. Thach, of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute.
On Friday, April 18th, at 10 o'clock, the
conference will open with business
session. Hon. C.. d. Aycock, Governor
OF North Carolina. who has made him
self famous by his staunch and persist
ent advocacy Of public education for
nil the people OF his State, will deliver
an address on education and the vol
untary tax. Governor Aycock is noted
not only as a fine orator, but as a very
rorcible speaker and his address will
doubtless be rare treat to those In at
tendance at the conference.
"A general discussion will follow, In
troeuced by the Hon. II. St George
Tucker. of Lexington, Va, who is one
of the Virginia field agents Of the South
ern Education Board. and Ivy DR.. John
Massey. of Alabama, and Chancellor II:
r. Fulton, of University of Mississippi.
The afternoon session Will open with an
address on Popular Education as the
Primary Policy of the South, !" by the
Eon. Hoke Smith, Of Atlanta, Ca, who
has shown his practical interest IN the
education of all the people by his IN
auguration of travelling libraries. the
Hon. Edgar Wilson. of Mississippi, and
the Hon. ST. Clair McIlelway, editor OF
the Brooklyn Eagle, will speak on The
Press and It's Relation to Popular Ed
,cation." The work of the Bureau OF
Investigation and Information of the
southern Education Board will be eX-
planned by Professor p. p. ClaNton. Of
the bureau.
GENERAL DISCUSSION.
This will be followed by general dis
.cission, Introduced by William II. Bald
.yin. Jr, Of New York, and Hon. ii. II.
Hanna, of indianapolis. Ind. The evening
session will include an unusual array OF
talent Superintendent Carleton Is. Glib
son of Columbus, Ga, whose work in Cos
l,,mbus has made him famous as super
tntendent. will speak on Education
through IIandicraft.' Superintendent Law
TOT. 3. Evans, Of Augusta, Ga, who has
taken prominent part in Southern and
national educational questions, will speak
on the .Child of the Operative" President
Edwin A. Alderman, OF Tulane University,
of New Orleans, La. formerly president
of the University OF North Carolina, Will
make an address on The Child and the
state DR.. Alderman is in great demand
as speaker throughout the United
states. and IS regarded by many promi-
mont educators as the greatest educational
orator in America President Charles ID.