The semi-weekly messenger., 1905-05-02
STATE sUPER|NTENDEhTs
Different Phases Of Progress Of Educa-
ton in the South.

tpc SfteFHph tkeCcDtiOn was
Hcld-Big Audience Attends the
Night Meeting i'm the Columbia
Thcatr-State Superintendent JOY
ner Addresses tie Superintendent.
Columbia. S. c., April 27.-The
morning session of the eighth annua,
conference for education in the south
vas given up to the conference Of
southern state suDerintendents OF ed
ucation. this being one of the features
of the big conference. The most in
tecastng feature of the morning was
thc rather impromptu symposium N
The chapel of the South Carolina col
lece at 3:45 this morning the speak
ers being Robert c. Ogden. Hon. Seth
Low. DIR. st. Clair McKelway and rr.
F.. 4. Alderman. The students of the
college were gathered in the chapei
for the regular morning exercises
ADDRESS BY MP OGDEN
MIR. Ogden said that although he
| vas the president of an educational
| movement. yet he was remarkably
! ignorant. for his life had been lived
! in a Drosaic occupation and he was
only a plain American business man.
| That there was growing demand for
| educated men in the business world
! Re had no doubt. as no work is SO
! we'll done that it cannot be done bet
| ter. And in. the callings of life in
which young people were brought
| into contact with other people it was
! even more valuable. for the world
| demands intelligent and we'll inform
| ed men in every line of business. Mr..
! Ogden called special attention to the
| common fallacy that modern college
| education did not fl a man 10 go into
the business world. In his oIinion the
| fact that education generally tended
| towards idealiSm was cCmmendatOry
| ill itself. Idaalism and commonsense
| carried into any business in the world
| would accomplish much.
! HON. SETH LOWS REMARKS.
| Mr. Ogden was followed by the
| Hon. Seth Low who spoke upon the
| attitude which a young man should
! have towards the various public uues-
| tions of the day. 1t is too often the
/ case. he said. that men form their
| ideas Of things. and ther. go to work
| to find the facts which sustain those
| theories. ignoring those that are not
| IN accord with them. He advised the
| young men to get first their facts and
base their ideas upon these. Mr.. Low
| referred to the time when he was
| president Of Columbia University and
| said that the name of Francis Lieber
| cnnnuctcd that university with tn.
! South Carolina college. The name of
/ n, ole ioh 1@o fn, q
| wears a professor in the South Caro-
| lima college. is written deeply in the
| traditions of the college. and Mr.. Low
| said that it is the same with Column
| bia University where he afterwards
! became one Of it's most DISTINGUISHED
| professors.
That Lieber was a great man said
| he. was attested by the fact that at
| The Hague peace conference TO
| which MIR. Low went a representa-
| tive of the United States the doctrines
| laid out bv DR.. Lieber were adopted
| with few notifications. Mr.. Low laid
| special stress on the college education.
| as it generally produced omen mind
| edpeSs and breadth of thought These
| qualities. he said. were cOnnmendable
| in all walks of life and were respOn-
sible for much Of the advancement of
the world of TODAY. Ife told Of a dis
tinguished German scientist who.
while visiting this country. was
| guest of Columbia University and
! one new lew of nature he had done
| a service to the world of lasting BEN
| Gift
| DIR ST. CLAIR McKELWAY MAKES
| FINE IMPRESSION.
Dr st. Clair McKelway. editor Of
| The BROOKLYN Eagle. then addressed
| the students. and in his usual delib-
| crate manner of speaking made a
| profound impression on his audience.
| He said that he was beside Journal
| ist a member of the state board Of
| regents Of New York and that he was
| deeply interested in the correlation of
| the schools of the state with the state
! university. He won applause when
| he said that .ne state university in
| South Carolina should be like Alexan-
| der Hamilton. planned that Columbia
| University should be in New York.
| the center around which clustered all
| the other schools.
DIR. ALDERMAN GREETED WITH
| GREAT APPLAUSE.
| DIR. Alderman. president Of the Uni
verSity of Virginia. was the next
| speaker. and the last. He made a
| speech which was received with unu-
| suallv prolonged applause. Among
| other things he said that he had re-
l Gently Icdu al eAcelien1 aTuc!e III iIfs.
/ Atlantic Monthly on the difficulties
| and Dangers Of College President.
Some time he said he wanted to write
| or get some one else to write an ar
| ticl on the pleasures of a college pres
| i5ent. IIe spoke OF the type Of the
| student in the south and said that he
| was more serious minded than the
| student of other sections of the coun-
try. spending less time riding I'm auto
m o5iles Yachts and the like.
/ y reception was given the atten-
| dan.s m the conference this afternoon
| en- the campus Of the South Carolina
college at which four or five hundred
were present The visitors were re-