The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-03
SOUTHERN TEACHERS MEET.
ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED RALLY AT
CHATTANOOGA.

Georgia Is Well Represented and
Her Educators Are Taking "a Prom
inent Pnrt-President RransOn of
the state Normal and President
Hall of the archaeological Among
Those Who Made Addresses.
Chattanooga, Tenn. July 2,-The first
business session of the Southern Edu-
cational Convention was called to or
der in this city to-day by Prof. w.
n. Sheats of Florida, president of the
association. Five hundred teachers
were in attendance. The morning ses-
sion was devoted principally to the
appointments of committees and the
reading of addresses.
The following committees were APP
pointed:
Nominations-Alabam II. w
Hodges; Kentucky, A. C. Kuyendalls;
Mississippi, Joe Cook; Tennessee, S. G,
Gilreath; West Virginia, NJ. NJ. Ross;
Georgia, T. H. Garrett; Virginia, p. S.
Bruce; North Carolina, r. G. Tighe;
Florida, j. C. Compin; Texas, j. f.
Blair; Louisiana, +. E. Shieb; South
Carolina, T. A. Sharp
esolutions-Alabama, c. L. McCar-
tina; Kentucky, Alice E, Lander; Mis-
sissippi, j. c. Herbert; Tennessee,
Claude ]. Bell; Georgia, G. r. Glenn;
Virginia, julius d. Dunn: North Car
DINA, t. d. Bratton; Florida, w. z.
Slocum; Texas, E. w. Terrent; Lou
isiana, w. A. Rea; South Carolina, j.
H. Gaines.
Organlza ]. M. Dill;
Kentucky, Rurice N. Roark; MISSISSIPPI
pi. l.. w. Whitfield; Tennessee. S, G.
Gilbraith; West Virginia, M. Nj. Ross;
Georgia, Carl Steed; North Carolina,
D. NJ. Thompson: Florida, A. A. Muir
ply; Texas, f. w Terrent; Louisiana,
j. w. Nicholson; South Carolina, ]. H.
Gaines.
DIR. BransOn's Address.
DR.. e. c. Branson president of the
State Normal School of Georgia, de-
ject being, THE Coming Country
School"
He made a plea for educational adj
vancement in the South, stating that
eight-ninths of the school children of
the South live in the country.
II. G. Brownell, principal of the
manual training school, Louisville, adj
| dressed the association on 'Handi-
craft in the Rural Schools"
Mrs. Jennie T. Ford of the Georgia
Normal and Industrial College, Mil
ledgeville, Ga. read a paper for the
| practical and Educational Status of
Domestic Science"
'An Educational Safety Valve" was
| the subject of an address by Miss
| Florence Stevenson, principal of the
! Industrial School, Asheville, N. c.
There was no afternoon session, that
| time being given to departmental work.
Larger View of Education.
When the convention reassembled to-
night DIR. r. A. Roark. professor of
| pedagogy in the Kentucky State Col
| lege at Lexington, KY, read paper on
the Larger View of Education" He
| spoke for an enlarged public school and
for a more extended sentiment in be-
half of higher education and appealed
for more of the kingdom of God in
| fused in the school life of the child. He
spoke of the encouraging outlook for
higher education as shown by recent
| large endowments of schools of re-
search and learning and urged the
Southern educators to perseVere in the
| work which he believed before long
would be crowned with abundant sue.
| cess.
Following DR.. Roark, Rev. Lyman
Hall, president of the Georgia Schoo
of Technology, delivered a lectur,
upon Psychological Education in tn,
Georgia School of Technology"
DR.. e. A. Alderman, president o.
Tulane University of New Orleans
who was on the programme for al
address on Certain Practical Duties
of the Educated Citizen" was not
present, and after formal announce
ments for to-morrow's programme the
| convention adjourned until tomorrow