New-York tribune., 1903-01-09
EDUCATION IN SOUTH.
Topic at Dinner GiUen by Robert
C. Ogden.
FEWER AND BETTER SCHOOLS URGED.

Fewer and better schools in the South was the
thought brought out at the dinner given by
Robert c. Ogden 10 the members of the General
Southern Education Boards in the Astor Gal
lery Of the waldorf-Astoria last evening The
speakers A J. Montague Governor or VIZ
ginia: DR.. Felix Adler. DR.. Edwin A Alderman
president Of Tulane University. New-orleans;
DR.. Wallace Buttrick, executive chairman OF the
general board; Dr. Charles w. Dabney. presi-
dent Of the University Of Tennessee; Edgar
Murphy. executive secretary Of the Southern
Rnard: William H Baldwin. jr.. president of The
General Education Board. and Dr. Charles d
McIver president of the North Carolina state
Normal and Industrial College
A ! Montague Governor of Virginia, sat on
Mr.. ogdens right and DR.. Arthur T. Hadley.
president Of Yale University, on his left WITH
Them at the chairman's table sat DR.. R. B. Ful-
ton, William T. Harris. James D. Porter Morris
X Jesup. DR.. St Clair McKelway and the Rev
Dr NJ woolsey Stryker Among the other guests
were 7 G. Phelps Stokes Anson Phelps-Stokes,
oscar s Straus. John D. Rockefeller jr., Jacob
D SchifT- Edward VI. Shepard and r. Fulton
Cutting.
The guests were seated IN groups OF eight
around small round tables. Before the chair
mans table was a rostrum for the speakers
who were scattered around the room. instead OF
being seated together in front This rosrum
idea proved little startling 10 some OF the
speakers who absolutely refused to ascend un-
III urged by the encouraging remarks Of their
hearers.
BEFORE the speakers began Mr.. Ogden proposed
1.7e health Of President Roosevelt and then gave
= brief outline of the work Of the two educa-
7ional boards. saying Of the Southern Board;
propaganda to carry into al districts t ,9 OF
the country better methods o. eapeauo4 & LUr MS
board We hops influences for good viii go forth
Governor Montague began the talk on edu-
cation first expressing his thanks on hehah
of the people of Virginia that the board had
selected Richmond the place for its next an
nual conference. He continued:
Education is not much an art as an rr aim GS 81
civilization. There 3 considerable revival ia
c7ucation my state Interest in il is stirred up
sb me free Schools innrnediatey after the civil
Ut that prejudice has been gTaduaIy cone away y
1l5iic school system up the State
Edgar @. Murphy OF Alabama, executive sec
-etary of the Southern Education Board, gave a
s.-5ef review Of conditions in the South He said
ga part.
J,lst as YOU have the problem Of the past in what
We may call overmunicipalizatlon OF life, so we
the South troubled with what we may can
rle snde1municipalizatio OF life The little state
% o,a 5f i+ il +te states Of the secession
number the whites three TO one; in the neighboring
county of Lowndes the colored people outnumber
5he whites six 20 one. Under such conditions we
have not only a rural population but double
population, involving a double education. But yet
over 50 per cent of the total of the State
of Alabama Is appropriated for religious purposes
pr. Wallace Buttrick. executive secretary of
The General Education Board, told of the in
1erest Of the South in educational work saying:
The hope of education in the South lies not in
The money given in the North. in the Gov
ernrnent and educators. but in the men and women
who give their lives fpr the work.
z. A. Alderman. president of the Tulane Uni
NeTSirV followed with a speech the spirit or
education in the South. Never in my time
have 1 seen a movement that expressed the
enthusiasm and the idealism of the South with
the patience and energy and persistence and
uatiring desire of helpfulness does this he
declared.
At the end Dr. Felix Adler spoke briefly.