The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-26
GREAT INTEREST IN THE
 ARRIVAL OF OGDEN PARTY
BY ANNIE kENoRlck WALKER.

Owing to the schedules of the trains,
 Mir. ogden and his party. well as
 other visitors to the educational confer
 ence will arrive in Birmingham today
 after the luncheon hour and will have
 had luncheon on MT. Ogden's private car | and the dining cars. This statement is
 made to relieve hostesses of any disap-
 pointment, and will also enable them to
 have an earlier luncheon in order to meet
 their guests upon their arrival at the station.
 While many of the representative homes Of Birmingham will be opened during the conference, a number of visitors will be
 at the hotels ample accommodation hnv- | ing been provided. The members of the conference do not impose any obligations | of hospitality upon the city where the conferences are held, but every city has | always opened wide its doors until south ern hospitality could be translated Into
 every tongue in the world and It's mean | ing be retained
 Birmingham has made every prepara- ton to intertain it's many distinguished guests. and the seventh annual confer
 ence will be notable both because of in- creasng growth and widening influence | as well as from the fact that it is held | in city that from the very clements
 that compose it will give an impetus to the educational movement that the con- ference fosters. Just here it may be said
 that recent statement in one of the | papers is misleading.
 | The assertion was made that the con | ference for education in the south had met on one occasion in Montgomery. As a matter of fact the conference which
 was organized at Cafon Springs, W. Va, held its first three meetings at Cafon | Springs The fourth meeting of the con ference was held at Winston-Salem. N. C., and the fifth conference was held al
 Athens. Ga. The sixth annual meeting was held in Richmond, Va. and Birming- l ham, will have the honor of entertaining
 the seventh annual conference.
 Chancellor Walter B. Hill of the Uni
 versity of Georgia and Miss Hill will
 arrive today and will be the guests of
 MT. and Mrs. Frank H. Lathrop during | the educationl conference
 Chancellor Hill was one of the speak
 CTS at the last educational conference in
 Richmond his address on the subject of negro education in the south attracting l wide attention.
 That portion of it relating to the tute- | lage of slavery expressed the sentiment
 of the south.
 ''rhe beginning of the education of the | negro was the tutelage of slavery" said | Chancellor Hill on that occasion. "The | south does not deny the abuses of slavery | and she rejoces in the great conclusion | that property In man is forever over | thrown; but she contemplates with some | complacency the fact that the tuition of
 slavery developed the negro in a century
 and a half from the condition of the say age to a status where in the judgment
 of those hostile to slavery. the negro
 was fitted for the privileges of American l pi nCh In No fraa oitri
 made equal progress in emergence from l barbarism in short a time. The edu- | cation Of slavery was not In books. nor
 were books needed at the beginning It
 was an education and discipline In labor
 and in practical ethics; in the virtues of | order, fidelity, temperance and obedience.' The Rev. Dr. and Mrs Edward Cum
 mirgs of Boston will arrive today to be
 the guests of Mir and Mrs. W. S. Brown. Dr. Cummings is pastor of the Old
 South Congregational church of Boston,
 succeeding Dr. Edward Everett Hale | and is a prominent figure of New Eng | land He Is well known as student of | sociological problems. spending several years in Europe. He was a resident of | Toymbel Hall, White Chapel. London, | for year or more and studied at Ecale | Libre des Sciences Potiques, Paris, and
 at the University of Berlin On his re-
 turn to this coutnry he became inter
 ested in sociology at Harvard. Later he
 became associated in the pastorate of Dr.
 Edward Everett Hale.
 Dr, C. Alfonso Smith of the University l of North Carolina will be the guest of
 Mrs. w. A. Sellers during the educa- | tonal conference.
 MT. and Mrs. Irwin Craighead of Mo- | bile are the guests of Mir and Mrs A
 J. Riddle during the conference MT
 Craighead is the editor of the Mobile Reg
 ister and one of the south's aolest jour nalists. Mrs. Craghead will be among the 1 brilliant women at the conference. She
 is one of the most prom ,nr club women | in the state. former president of the Ala
 bama Federation, and is member of the | board of control of the Alabama In- l dustrla School for Wayward Boys. Mrs. Craighead is member of the publica- 1 tion committee appointed by the general l executive committee to arrange for the
 meeting of the educational conference. | Miss Emily Ferguson of Selma one of l Alabama's brightest and most attractive
 women. Is the guest of Mrs. William Ma | thaniel Malone during the conference. 1 Dr. Wickeiffe Rose of the University of l Tennessee. who will be the guest of Dr. 1 and Mrs. Thomas D. Parke. will be among
 the leading educators attending the con | ference Dr. Rose was among the speak
 CTS at the last conference, taking part in | a discussion on the subject of "rhe Place
 of the University in Modern Life AS Iconceiveit" declared Dr. Rose upon | that occasion, 'the south Is not wanting in | energy. in native force. The greatest edu- | cational need of the south today is the | organization or direction of that force. 1 These educational campaigns which we
 have been waging for the past few years 1 have aroused a beautiful enthusiasm: | this enthusiasm. however. represents but l a reservoir of energy which Is awaiting l direction into channels of constructive activity in order to accomplish the re-