Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-11
THE PEABODY TRUSTEES MEET.
The Final Distribution Of the Fund Is In
~ Contemplation.


Washington, January 29.--The board
of trustees of the Peabody education
fund held special meeting in this city
plan by which the work of the board and
that of the general education board,
which is working along the same lines,
shall not be duplicated.
The following members were present:
James L. Porter, of Tennessee; j. Pier.
pont Morgan. of New York; Chief JUS
tice Fuller, of the Supreme Court; VIM.
A. Courtenay, of South Carolina; III. M.
Somerville, of Alabama; Chas. K. Fem
ner, of Louisiana; ex-President ID. G.
Gilman, of the Johns Hopkins Uni
yersity; Geo. Peabody Wetmore, of
Rhode Island; Senator Hoar, of Massa-
chusetts; ex-Attorney General Richard
Olney; ex-Secretary of the Interior Hoke
Smith, of Georgia.; Right Rev. William
@. Doane, of New York.
The general subject of education In
the South was discussed.
The most important action taken was
the adoption of the following resolution:
THAT in the opinion of the board of
trustees the fund in its hands, or por-
tion of the income thereof, should be
applied, 80 far as legal and practicable,
to the establishment and maintenance
of teachers college to be called the
Peabody College for Teachers, at such
point in the Southern States as may be
found advisable. That committee of
five, to be appointed by the chair, is
hereby directed to confer with any other
boards or persons, interested in the sub
ject matter, and to report at the next
meeting of the board plan for carrying
into effect the purposes and objects
above stated, and that the committee be
authorized to call to their aid such spe-
I,xytl tlnY, he Il
sary."
The following persons were appointed
as the committee: DR.. Gilman, ex-Secre-
tary Of State Olney, Senator Hoar, j.
Pierpont Morgan and ex-Secretary of the
Interior Hoke Smith.
The board also adopted a resolution
disseminating the payments for scholar
ships that have been given for some
years to certain number of students at
the Peabody Normal School at Nashville.
The continuance of the payment was de-
clared "inexpedient" The discontinu.
ance will not take effect until October,
1904. so as not to interfere with eAisting
scholarships.
The Peabody fund capital is now
50, 100000. To-day's proceedings show
that final distribution of the Peabody
fund is now in contemplation. although
such final winding up of affairs will re-
qulre some years for contamination. No
definite plan of action was formulated,
and it will be in the neighborhood of a
year before final and satisfactory basis
can be agreed upon.
The committee appointed under the
resolution regarding cooperation con-
ferred with committee from the gene
raj education board. At this conference
the subject of education in the South
was generally discussed and methods for
avoidance of duplication of work by the
two bodies were talked over, but no def
mite line of action was formulated
The next meeting of the board will be
the annual session to be held in New
York in October.
Rockefeller Makes Handsome Gift.
Washington, January 2a.-The general
education board recently chartered by
Congress for the promotion of educa-
tional work in the United States organ
lied here to-day. One of its main OBJ
jects is the promotion of rural FREQ
schools in the Southern States, although
the charter contemplates educational
work in all parts of the United States.
Pending the granting of the charter the
board has been at work for year under
articles of association.
AT the beginning of its work ga gener-
Gus friend" " as stated by the board, sub
scribed 100000 year for period of
ten years, which sum. the board says,
has enabled the demonstration of the
possibility of effective work and the
practicability of philantrophic co-opera-
tion with the public authorities. 1t de-
veloped to-day that this donor was Mr..
Rockefeller. Other sums OF money,
smaller in amount, have been received.
A recent report that vast sums Of money
were to be placed at the disposal of tho
board is announced officially to be with
out foundation.
The board to-day issued the following
announcement:
I'm developing it's constructive pro-
gramme to aid rural authorities, State
superintendeuts of public instruction in
Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama and Louisiana, have hold confer-
ences of all their county ysuperintendents,
at which the executive officer of the
general education board has been most
welcome guest.