The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-26
ADDRESS BY DR.. vENABLE.
He Speaks at the Education Conference on the
University's Work.

The fine audiences attending the SEES
sions of the conference for education
have continued to the end. The academy
OF music was again thronged this evening
the members of the conference and the
ladies with them being reinforced by
many of the most prominent people of the
city, not only educationally speaking
but as respects the spheres of society
the professions and all lines of business
and industry. Many of the ladies and gen
tlemen were in evening dress, the effect
being brilliant and most graceful farewell
from Richmond to the conference.
The speakers of the evening were Mr.
r Fulton Cutting. of New York. whose
subject was 1.-The Responsibility of Gov
eminent for Public Education" DR.. Wal
ter II. Hin. Chancellor of the University
of Georgia who spoke on NEGRO Educa-
ton at the South" and Hamilton w.
Mabie Associate Editor, and DR.. Lyman
Abbott. editor of The outlook, New York
Cftv. DR.. Abbott's theme was impress
sions of the Conference and he spoke
eloouently of the revival of education
represented by the conference. the
highest education, he said, is that for ser
vice. Industrial training instead of being
looked down upon, should, and would
eventually, he believed, be regarded as
of the highest type in its direction. lie
paid a glowing tribute to the hospitality
of Richmond, and expressed joy in the
growing unity Of the country. The Civil
War. he said, taught the North and the
South to respect each other as they had
Da,-or, doOo hofOra
Referring to the suffrage, he quoted
Henry Ward Beecher to show that many
men in the North believed that the plac-
ing of the ballot in the hands of the ne
gro could never be a success until the
black man should fit himself to exercise
the privilege intelligently. The ballot is
a prerogative and a responsibility he
said, rather than a right. Manhood suf-
frage is the thing, he continued, but it
must be remembered that manhood comes
first and suffrage second.
DR.. Abbott closed with a beautiful
forecast of what the present educational
revival will result in, of what the TWEEN
tieth century will effect in the way OF
perfecting manhood. He attributed the
beginning of the present revival, by the
way, to a certain evangelistic trip made
some fourteen years ago through North
Carolina by two young men, DR.. Alder
man, President of Tulane University,
New Orleans, and DR.. McIver, President
of the Normal School at Greensboro, n. c.
Richard Watson Glider, of New York.
as chairman of the Committee on Reso-
luton preceded DR.. Abbott with an elo-
quent expression of the thanks of the
conference for the hospitality extended
at Richmond. and President Ogden closed
the evenings session and the session of
the conference at this point in similar
terms
The benediction was then pronounced
by Bishop McVicklar, of Rhode Island,
and the conference adjourned
This evening the conference was en-
tertained at a farewell reception in its
honor at the executive mansion by Gov
ernor and Mrs. Montague. Tomorrow ii
will visit the University of Virginia, on
Sunday will hold here memorial services
in honor of the late DIR. J. L. M. Curry
and on Monday will go down the James
River by boat to Fort Monroe.