The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-03-27
CONFERENCE FOR EDUCATION.
Sixth Session In the South Meets April ID
to d, 1908, at Richmond,
Virginia.

Richmond, Va, March 26.-The
Sixth Session of the Conference for
Education in the South will be open
cd in Richmond on the the afternoon
of Wednesday, April 22d, aud will
close on the evening of the Oath.
This body was formally known as
the Capon,Spring Conference. Its
annual meeting was held last year
at Athens. Ga, and in the preceding
year the Conference gathered at
Winston Salem, N G. The presid.
ing officer is Mr.. Robert @. Ogden,
of New York City, and among the
men most closely connected with it's
origin was the late DR.. j. l.. NJ.
Curry, agent of the Peabody and
Slater Boards, member of the Gener
al Education Board, and supervising
director Of the Southern Education
Board. Indeed, both the Southern
and General Boards may be said to
owe their existence and inspiration
to the Conference for Education in
the Sonth inst MS this Conference 80
largely owed it's own inception to the
work Of DIR. Curry.
The decision TO hold the Confer.
ence this year in Richmond was
reached only after the Executive
Committee had give careful and re-
spective cons deration to the invita-
tions from number of representa-.
tive Southern cities. The invitation
to Richmond was cordially and earn
estly presented Ey the Richmond
Edncational Association, the Rich
mond Chamber of Commerce, the
Governor Of Virginia, the Legsla-
ture, the State Department of Edn.
cation, the University of Virginia,
Washington and Lee University, and
many other representative institu-
tons Of the commonwealth.
The Conferences will open for
organization in Richmond on the
afternoon Of April 22d, in the Acad.
emy of Music, on Elgh tn street, be-
tween Grace aud Franklin streets.
The formal opening will occur On
| tina ,,f tho COI - ol
time the Hon. A. j. Montague, the
Governor of Virginia, will deliver
the address Of welcome, and Mr..
Robert c. Ogden will present the
annual address of the president.
The interest Of the program will
continue until it's close on the evening
Of the 24th. Representative educa-
tors, statesmen, men Of letters and
men Of affairs will Ee present from
every section Of the country. Much
Importance will be given to such
subjects as agriculture and technical
education, and there will be oppor.
tunity for informal discussion of such
topics as the consolidation of schools
and the improvement of public
schoolhouses and school surround
ings.
The local arrangements rs to the
meetiug are in the hands of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of tho Richmond
Education Association, p. 0. Box 68S,
Richmond, Va. The program, in
full, will be published at an early
date. The plans for the week will
include n public service in memory
of Dr. Curry.
Arrangements ns to reduced fares
over the railroads, and as to hotel
and boarding house accommodations,
will b" announced within few days.
While the Conference for Educa-
tion IN the South has had no sectional
or political hlgniticance, it has been
VI ueclueu |aluo 10 the earnest and
public spirited representatives of both
sections. 1t has revealed to the
Sonth the sympathetic and practical
interest Of that large lumber OF
Northern mon who wish TO help with
out hlndering, and who wish to co
operate without interference The
Conference has helped to reveal the
non poiticel, non partisan, non sec
tional North, in rIs broad, frank, gen
erons AmerIcanism tho North OF
common sense and fraternal kindli
ness.
The Conferences has also helped tC
reveal the South. A distinguished
, Journalist has r"c"ntly said that one
, Of the wscst and broadest uses oI