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EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.
To he Held in Athens April 24-26.
Advance ARRANGEMENTS.

To he Held in Athens April 24-&8.
Advance Arrangements.
Athens, Ga. April 2.-Great prepar-
atoms are being made for the APP
preaching session of the Southern Ed
vocational Conference. which meets
here on April "a, and will remain in
session three days.
The local committee on arrange
ments consists of Chancellor w. b.
Hill Of the University of Georgia;
President e. g. Branson of the State
Normal School, Mr.. e. r. Hodgson.
Haight. Mr.. A. II. Hooper and Mr.. r..
w. Reed.
On account of the fact that there
will be noon, afternoon and evening
sessions each day there will be no elab-
crate social functions, that being the
desire of the conference in order that
their sessions may be interrupted as
little as possible. There will be given
a MONDAY luncheon at the university
dining hall on Friday, April 25 and
one at the state Normal School on
Saturday, April 26.
1t is expected that fully four hum
dred visiting educators and friends of
education will be present at this ses-
sion of the conference. Only a very
partial list of the visitors can yet be
obtained, but those who come will rep
resent the very best thought of the
North and South. AT least one hum
bred distinguished Northern visitors
will be present on that occasion.
Among those who will be present are
the following: Mr.. Robert c. Ogden of
New York, president of the Southern
Educational Conference; Mr.. George
Foster Peabody of New York; Bishops
Elliott, Potter and Doane, of New
York, Bishop McVicker of Rhode ISL
and, DR.. Mcconnell of New York, cele-
brated as the author of THE Educa-
ton of Immortality; DR.. Grant of
| New York city. rector Of
the Church of the Ascension;
DIR. rockingham of Boston, the lead
ing Episcopal rector of that city; Or.
Buttrick, the leading Baptist minister
of Albany, n. Y; President G. w. Ell
lot of Harvard, President Nicholas
Murray Butler of Columbia, Presi-
dent Daniel c. Gilman of the National
University, Washington. ID. c.: DR.. w.
T. Harris. United States Commissioner
of Education: DR.. Bailey of Cornell,
Drs. Peabody and Frarnham of Har-
ward, President G. W. Dabney of the
University of Tennessee, President G.
D. McIver of the Girls Normal and In
dustrial College of Greensboro, N. C.;
President Edwin A. Alderman OF Tu-
lane, Hon. j. ID. Eggleston of Knox
vile. DR.. Albert Shaw, editor of the
Review of Reviews; DR.. Walter II.
Page. editor of The Worlds Work; DR..
Fl. w. Mabie, associate editor of The
Outlook; st. Clair McElway, editor
Brooklyn Eagle: Gov. Montague of
Virginia, and others.
The Southern Educational Confer
ence is not a dispenser OF money. 1t
has no money to distribute, and such
Is not the object of the organization.
Its object is to go into an organized
work of investigation throughout the
entire South and to find schools and
situations where money might be ad-
vantageously used. The reports Of the
officers of the conference go to the
National Education Board. an organ
ization- that has money to spend for
educational purposes. Already that
body has one million dollars to spend
on situations approved by the South
ern Educational Conference,
This investment has taken shape for
many reasons. one of which is the de-
sire of those philanthropically disposed
| to get rid of the army of beggars that
beset them on all sides. 1t is the in
tention of the National Board to spend
their money according to the notions
of education held by the white people
of the South.
The railroads have given the Ia
fare throughout the entire Southern
territory on the certificate plan.