The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-11

Association convention Oh IJV1, anu III al
respects it has proven record-breaker
The size of the crowds has been unpre'
cedented and the number and quality OF
the attractions offered have never in the
history of the association been eaualled
score or more of well-known speakers
have been heard at the general sessions.
and the department me stings. Twenty
thousand visitors from all parts of the
country have spent the week in the city.
The morning was given up to general
auditorium. while the afternoon was de-
voted to meetings OF the various depart
ments. Tue nominating convention gath
cred early in the dsy and settled on the
list of officers to be presented to the as
ISOLATION. 1t was duly ratified later on.
President Charles w. Eliot of Harvard
was unanimously selected for President.
w. NJ Davidson of Kansas was selected
for Treasurer and the outgoing President,
w. M. Beardshear Of Iowa, was named
for first Vice. President Among the 9TH
err Vice-Presidents are w. N. Sheats of
Florida and Miss Marian Brown of Louis
ana.
Hon. James Wilson Speaks.
There was large attendance at the
general session which was signalized by
three notable addresses. After Miss Edna
II. Hall had sung "ElSa's Dream" from
'.Lohengrin,' and Rev. J. IL. Montgom-
cry of Wesley M. e. Church had offered
prayer. Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of
Agriculture. was introduced and spoke in
part as follows:
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education from peoples who have not our
responsibilities, people. who educate men
of leisure, passion. class. privileges, CASTE
BIRTH and all that The people govern
here. They should be educated with
view to their development along the lines
of their life work whatever that may be-
What can be done for our producers
that they may live on higher levels or
comfort and happiness. that they may
help the weary hand with better tran
ed head, and have more time to devote
to intellectual, moral and spiritual life,
is the previous question which the educa-
tors of the great producing States of our
country are called upon to answer.
1.-THE four-year college course does not
begin soon enough to meet the require
ments of our day in this regard. Teach
ers are wanted in primary and secondary
schools and In postgraduate work in the
university. They are wanted to do work
that has not been done in all the ages.
the discovery of truths underlying pIo-
duction and their application to the farm.
THE most useful and valuable educa-
tional work in all the world appealing to
the educator is that of the farmers of the
country. Pioneer work along this line Is
waiting. The organization of faculties to
do the work; apparatus, laboratories, text
- v<rav1a
to postgraduate and beyond. where stud
les of specialties must be combined,
where research must be broadened and
where specialties must be grouped to
reach a desired end and meet the press
ing demands of producers-all these are
waiting. There is the great field Of APP
piled science, where the growers seeks
the help of the scholar, of the expert
menter and the observer. The millions
Of farmers look to you for help in these
directions"
DR.. Schurmann's Address.
DR.. Jacob Gould Schurmann, president
of Cornell University and former member
of the Philippines commission, then made
a most interesting address on Education
In the Philippines" in which he said in
part:
"on the side of intellect and scholar
ship the Filipinos may be expected to
rival the Japanese, as well as the ma
terial civilization and the application of
the sciences to Industrial life, where In
Japan already presents very American
appearance.
THE modern education will undoubtedly
lead to an intellectual emancipation of
the Filipinos. But 1t is not only the
scientific and material elements of Amer
lean civilization that are destined to re-
produce themselves in the Philippines
though these will greatly modify and per-
haps transform the existing methods of
transportation and exchange.
While economically and industrlally
the archipelago will be greatly improved
there is another phase of Philippine hfe'
deper and more vital, that is destined to
be still more profoundly influenced by our
work in the archipelago.
refer to our political philosophy which is
radically different from that of any
European people, past or present. we
glory in ou.- applied merchanlcs Whlcn
are destined to develop the physical re-
sources of the Philippine Islands, but lar |
more glorious is our political philosophy |
which is full of hopes and promise for
the Philippines nation and for every peo-
pie and race on the globe.
And | believe that an independent |
PhllDDlneS T6DuDllC VIII OV NiAN ihoA -
anti as it would be the most glorious |
of our great educational
work in the Philippines
Mrs. Gait Speaks.
The last speaker was Mrs. Carrie Chap |
nan Gait of New York. the noted prota- |
,onist of woman suffrage. She said in |
part:
within few days there have been |
IRA duated from our colleges and univer-
titles four or five thousand young wo- |
men. College women are now FAR too
numerous to he regarded as an innova-
ion and tEeIr achievements have been |
90 important to consider them longer as
N experiment: yet there is evidence in
,lenty that the college woman, her pre-
ent sphere and her future destiny fur
fish a problem which vexes the spirit
+ many a skeptic.
THE college woman has no more lost
he eternal womanly' than the college
nan has lost the eternal manly in the
truggle for education.
college women, like college men, have
ot lost their ability and desire to become
nor their Willingness to
hey the second law of nature the pres
rvation Of the species"
For fifty years the extension of edu-
stional privileges TO women has been
concession to the plea for individual
lights Of women. the new question has
5o%a1sa 4bA riShta Of I