New-York tribune., 1902-06-30
JACOB C. SCHURMAN.
UNIVERSITY CONvOCATION
SESSIONS OF THE FORTIETH MEETING
OPEN IN ALBANY TO-DAI-fEAI-
URES OF THE PROGRAMME.

Albany, June 20 CspeciaD.-The first session
Of the fortieth university convocation OF TINS
State will be held in the Senate Chamber at the
Capitol tomorrow night, and upon the succeed
ing day. Tuesday. there will be other sessions
Of the convocatiOn. Judging from the letters
which have been received here, there will be
large attendance of those interested in the PROB
lens of education. Many prominent educators
will be present.
a university ordinance quoted in the pro- |
gramme of the convocation declares that the |
regents the university, all officers of any |
University department, all trustees, instructors
and other officers of institutions in the uni |
versity the officers of the Department OF Pub
lie Instruction. of the normal schools or the
State associations Of teachers superintendents
school commissioners and school boards, and
others elected by the regents or by the convo-
cation council, shall be ex-officio members of the
convocat ton. In the programme the following
statement is also added: Those holding similar
positions in other States, and all others inter
ested in education, are also cordially invited TO
attend"
The programme continues
The expressed desire of the president, officers
| and members of the New-YOrk State Teachers
| Association to attend the university conVoca-
| tion this year resulted in the regents action by
| which the exercises are to close with the ao-
| dress on Tuesday evening All that think of
attending the meeting of the New-York State
| Teachers Association at Saratoga are specially
| invited to be present. Each institution IN the
university is earnestly requested to send at least
one delegate, and TO cooperate in making TINS
meeting equal in interest and proht to any yet
held.
There will be an informal gathering OF the
delegates at the headquarters of the convoca-
| tion's officers at the Hotel Ten Eyck tomorrow
| afternoon at 5 o'clock. Then at 80 o'clock
those intending attend the convocation VIII
| assemble in the Senate Chamber in the Capltol
| and register their names. The walls of the lop-
| bies about the Senate Chamber are already
| decorated with the pictures oi two firms dealing
| in photographs of noted works OF art sultaole
T, for display in schoolrooms.
| ST Clair McKelway, of the Borough or Brook-
lvn one of the regents of the university Will
! call the convocation to order In the senate
! Chamber at s o'clock. Prayer will be offered by
Dr. Walton W. Battershall, rector of ST Peters
| Protestant Episcopal Church, Albany. An ad-
| dress of welcome will follow from Governor
| Oden who is one of the ex-oficio members OF
the Board of Regent. Mr. Odell, as Governor
has studied the needs of the educational IN
stitutions of the State, and has sanctioned ND
eral appropriations for them. His acceptance Oh
an invitation to make the address Of welcome TO
the educators is another indication OF the re-
gard he has for the school system.
The address of the evening will be by Presl-
dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia Uni
versitv. His subject will be Fundamental
Principles of Education in the United States
The Tuesday session will begin at 9:3o O'CLOCK
| in the morning with Pliny T Sexton OF Pal-
,nvra one of the regents of the university pre-
| siding The opening address of thirty minutes
on The Elective System and its Limits; WI VIII
he by president J. c. Schurman of Cornell Uni
gersitv There will be a formal discussion of
this aper for fifteen minutes by the KEY. Er0-
fessor Timothy Brosnahan, or Wooustock col
Iege Maryland, and John hehheuS' 9uPei x, x
: tendent of the schools of Batavia Ihen VIII
Al ion
the subject will be made by PfolesSoI eosar ote
! Root of Hamilton College; the Rev professor
John OHara of ST. Johns College r. For1natn CGItn
and by Principal Percy L. Wright or ChhtOn
4 High School. The neurology report will then be
read by Charles W. Bardeen, Editor OF ne
NIpUot Hr rIeedav afternoon there will be ad
Y dress on Examinations" by Charles r. Fltcn
Rochester one Of the regeh[S n Oh Of nG the New
:, | ton n j. High School, will make some GO com II
ments on this paper and comments aso Crda VIZ w w
! made on the same paper by Principal cIordoI
4 | R NIinar of the Matteawan High School ant
n | the Rev. Professor William f. Clark OIL 'ne "o
e lege & oi AIbert T Van der Veer. of Albany, o
| the regents Of the university, will follow VIII
brief address on ReGulreien's tha aOr Combne5
RaccaIaureate and Medical Course Ihere VII
be formal discussion of this paper py rrg1
HaniIton: TnT bv Secretary Abram T. Kerr, Of IN
e medical faculty, Cornell University, Ithaca; D!
h President Rush Rhees of the UnlV9rslS u u
q | Pncbester and by President A. V. " kay
d - oT Union University There will follow
general discussion OF the paper mhgl 9swi @
e the state Board of Medical EHd aners' R sppSt.t % =
y ed TO represent the Medical So' Cy & Gi Ine ode
of NeW-York ana frolessoi '
II New-York University. ~ ci,ford Smith q
- pHna1o one of the regents of the university
/ !,, os;Ge at session of the couvocation an
Is an address will be made by Pr01essoI Hrot %
lie Vincent of the University ol Oiii'"e'' i
> cation and Enthusiasm.