The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-30
MEETING OF
PEABODY TRUSTEES.
General Subject of Education in the
south Discussed.

General Subject of Education in the
south Discussed.
Washington. Jan. 29.-The board of
trustees of the Peabody Education
Fund held a special meeting in this city
to-day for the purpose of formulating
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:
Samuel Z. Green of Massachusetts,
James T. Porter, Tennessee; j. P. Nor
gan, New York; Chief Justice Fuller of
the Supreme Court; William A. Courte-
nay of South Carolina, H. M. Somer-
vile of Alabama, Charles E. Fenner of
Louisiana, ex-President D. &C. Gilman
of Johns Hopkins University, George
Peabody Wetmore of Rhode Island.
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts. ex-
Secretary of State Richard Olney, ex-
Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith of
Georgia, Rt. Rev. William C. Doane of
New York.
The general subject of education in
the South was discussed. The most i'm
portant action taken was the adoption
of the following resolution:
That in the opinion of the board of
trustees, the fund in its hands, or a,
portion of the income thereof, shou/
be applied so far as legal and prac-
ticable, to the establishment and
maintenance of a teachers college to
be called the Peabody College for
Teachers at such point in the South
ern states as may be found advisable.
That a committee of five, to be APP
pointed by the chair, is hereby direct
ed to confer with any other boards or
persons interested in the subject mat
ter 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 au-
thorized to call to their aid such spe-
cialists as may by them be deemed
necessary
The following persons were appoint
ed as the committee: DR.. Gilman, ex-
Secretary of State Olney, Senator
Hoar, ]. Pierpont Morgan, and ex-
Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith.
The board also adopted a resolution
disseminating the payments for schol-
arships 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 declared inexpedient.
The discontinuance will not take eff
feet until October, 1904, so as not to
interfere with existing scholarships.
The Peabody fund capital is now ST.
100000. To-day's proceedings show
that a final distribution of the Pea
body fund is now in contemplation, al
though such final winding up of af-
fairs will require some years for con-
sur@lation. No definite plan of action
was formulated, and it will be in the
neighborhood of a year before a final
and satisfactory basis can be agreed
upon. The committee appointed under
the resolution regarding cooperation
late this afternoon conferred with a
committee from the General Education
Board, consisting of Robert c. Ogden
of New York, George Foster Peabody
of New York and w. H. Baldwin, Jr.,
of New York. At this conference the
subject of education in the South was
generally discussed. and the methods
for avoidance of duplication of work
by the two bodies We're talked over,
but no definite line of action was form
ulated.
The next meeting of the board will
be the annual session to be held in
New York in October. Chief Justice
Fuller presided at to-day's session and