The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-09-30
CONGRESS OF
ART and SCIENCE
SESSIONS HELD IN CONGRESS
HALL AND ELSEWHERE
ELIZABETH L. HoRNEY
Writes About the Important Gather
ing Man With a Past Notes
of the Fair.
Correspondence Palladium:

Correspondence Palladium:
st. Louis, September 29-Last week
all intelligent persons attending the
Fair who could do so divided their
time between visiting the buildings
and going to the International Con-
gress Of Arts and Sciences The OPP
ening and closing sessions were mass
meetings, held in Festival Hall, but
the intervening sessions We're held in
sections, most of which met in the
Hall Of Congresses.
President Francis in his opening
address said in part: "This Congress
lis the most comprehensive in its plan
and scope of any ever held and is the
first of its kind. May the atmosphere
of this universal eypositioly charged
as it is with the restless energies Of
every phase of human activity and
permeated by that ineffable sentiment
of universal brotherhood engendered
by the intelligent sons of God, in
spire you with even higher thoughts
to the end that by your future la
bors you may be still more helpful to
the human race and place your fell
low man under yet deeper obliga-
tions
It is refreshing to know that this,
the grea Test of the world s. educa-
floral sA4ee tiHgs, ia choosing a presid-
ing officer was not half so concerned
about securing an "up-to-date' man
as it was to get one who chad a
past'' and SO that venerable and ven
Grated astronomer, Simon Newcomb,
was selected and his mastery address
closed the first meeting. If the Globe
Democrat could honor him by print
ing his speech entire, I will quote
for your edification a portion of his
words. "Gentlemen and scholars,
all You do not visit our shores to
find great collections in which CEN
turies of humanity have given express
sion on canvas and in marble to their
hopes, fears and aspirations. Nor do
you expect institutions and buildings
hoary with age. But as you feel the
vieor latent in the fresh air Of these
expansive prairies; as you study the
institutions, which We have founded
for the benefit of humanity; as you
meet the men, who in the short space
of one century, have transformed this
valley from a savage wilderness into
what it is today, then youmay find
compensation for the want of a past
like yours, by seeing with prophetic
eye, future world power of which
this region shall be the seat. We
hope that when, after your all too
fieeting sojourn in our midst, you re-
turn to your own shores, you will long
feel the influence of the air you have
breathed in an infusion of increased
vigor in pursuing your varied la
| bors.'
In the meetings of the sections We're
heard the utterances of some of the
worlds intellectual giants and among
those who drew the largest crowd
were Presidents Hadley and Jordan
Professor Loeb, Felix Adler. DR.. VIM.
T. Harris and Bishop Spaulding.
The last named, the Rt. Rev. John
Spaulding. Bishop of Peoria, who
talked upon the Development of
Educational Ideas in the Nineteenth
Century, was immensely popular for
he is Il noted pulpit orator. He is an
advocate of public schools and a be-
lever in the independence of woman,
and in his remarks. especially upon
the after subject. he was cheered to
the echo. ''Faith in education gave
the same rights to men and women.
In nothing Is the present age more
superior to all others than in the edu-
cation of its women. The Germans
were leaders in developing education
al ideas. but the Americans We're the
first to perceive that there can not be
a free and fair minded people when
the women are not free and fair