The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-19
CONFERENCE
 FOR EDUCATION
MEETS AT RICHMOND APRIL
 22D TO BATH.
Outlook for Especially Large Atten. dance-Addresses by Many Dis tinguished Speakers from South and North-Special Excursion
 to University of Virginia.

Richmond, Va. Aprii 17-Arrangefnent are being rapidly completed for the ap- preaching session of the Conference for Education in the South. The conference gathers here next week, the meetings opening on the afternoon of "Wednesday, Aprl z2. and closing on the evening of The conference will open for organiza- hcn in Richmond on the afternoon of April z. in the Academy. Of Music. on Eighth Streets. Ali the sessions sf inc fanksin ransarn ence will be held in the same hall. The formal opening will occur on the evening oI Mt the End, at which tiqs the Hon. A. J. liver the address of welcome, and Mr. hddresg of tho President
 On Wednesday evening. after the for nal opening, the authorities of Richmond college tender reception at the college g the members and guests of the con
 On the morning of Thursday. the esrd. at 10 o'clock, the gathering will again he called to order for a continuation t,f busi iss nsss wo1 M this ,Ss rSestng ;,.s brief reports Of Board viii De made by the Hon. Joseph cf the Southern Education Board in Ala oafnH: and by Dr. Charles ID. McIyer. President of the State Normal College, Sreensooro: IN. C,; pr. H. B. Frisseh, Princ,Pai @ of Hampton Institute Hampton. the University of Tennessee. i Knoxvillei . Tenn; and Dr. Edwin A. Alderman President of Tulane University, New or, seans5direetors in the Southern Bduca- These very brief addresses will be fol- lowed by an address from Dr. Daniel C. Gilman M of Baltimore, Md. President of dress on The North and the South" from Dr.. St. Clair McKelway, editor of The Brooklyn Eagle and member of the 5osrd or Regents of the State of New
 After the adjournment for lunch the conference will again assemble at 3:3O b. n,s,s,s m: TOT a session jessie to be given to general win De The Consolidation of Schools and the Transgortation of Pupils" Two gen xiesnen win open the discussion who have had marked practical success in dealing with the subject. These are Mir G. H. Hulvey of Bridgewater. Va, and Mir. c.
 Glenn, Superintendent of Schools, sftsrnson S Ss speis s i,tsa 96 a se ses minutes each. The closing address of snls sns meeti9sg s Till be made: 9n the sub; by Prof. P. P. claxton. professor in the departmept of education of the Univer- slty of Tennessee.
 day will be "A Decade of Educational Prosress in Mississippi" by Hon. H l.. Mhisnetd; state Superintendent of Ed ucation in Mississlppi; vrhe Forward IT.. lI. Bailey. editor of Country Life In Ameri- ca. and professor fin Cornell University: and Knowledge Service" by Francis G Peabody. professor in Harvard Unfver- On Friday morning at 10 o'clock the or ger on the addrssses will be as follows: Hail President Of the Georsia ' Tnstitnte affa, of Technology: Technical Education at the South by Dr. D. F. Houston, Presi- dent of the Agricultural and Mechanical Renlsen. President of Johns Hopkins Uni yersity. Baltimore. Md; Educational Progress at the south,' by ex-Cfov. T. J. Jarvis of North Carolina; and The Kirkiand. chan, Iilor Of vanderbiIt Uni versity, Nashville. Tenn.
 On the afternoon of Friday, the 24th. discussion. The first topic will be The W ork of the University in the Southern States and discussion will be opened by University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, N. C. The Part of the Citizen in Aiding the Cause of Public Education of Richmond College, Richmond. and The Public Schools and the Local Tax" will be discussed by Dr. w. R. Glenn, ton for Georgia, assistant agent for the Peabody Board, and by the Hon. Isaac ". Hit. State Superintendent of Educa- ton in Alabama, General discussion of all topics will be expected.
 The addresses on the evening of Fri day, the 24th, will be on "The Responsi- bility of Government for the Education of the People. by Mir R. Fulton Cutting of New York City; Negro Education at the South by Dr. W. B. Hill. Chancel- Tor of the University of Georgia; and Some Impressions of the Conference" by Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor Of The Out look, New York City.
 At the close of the session on Friday evening, the conference will adjourn at Richmond in order to hold continued session on Saturday at the University of Virginia. A special train will be at the disposal of the conference, under the di- rection of the local committee, for the excursion to Charlottesville. and the mem bers of the conference will there be en- fertained at luncheon by the authorities of the university. At this session of the conference there will he interesting ad- dresses by members of the faculty of the University of Virginia
 On the evening of Sunday. the a5th, in the Academy of Music, will occur the