The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-27

Ht"iftW ahu CAtuF0ay. m ctteUudHCo upon the9e meetings will be some of the most notable. figures Tn educational work south of Mason and ulxoR's line. More than three hundred delegates are counted upon by local 9ed aKoFues Co attend the sessions. including repre- sentatives from nearly every institu- tion in Alabama, and from many of the larger schools of the Southern States.
 Education Isaac W. Hili and Judge 4 D. Sayre of the City Sehpol Board will extend official welcomes to the visitors while an organiza ton composed of teachers of the Montgomery public schools. prominent citizens and their wives, the Commercial CIrb and . number of high school pupils will look after the comfort and Direction of strangers
 The sessions. which will be held in the Court Street Methodist '"hurch and the Girls High School. will be thrawp open to the public.
 Many AIrcndy Here.
 Although the meetings are not to commence until this afternoon. large nnrnher of visitors to- the conventions arrived in the citv last ll.ht. Amunz them w-re pr. J. W. Abercronlble, Pregident Of the Southern Educational Association, and of the University of Alabama He was accompanied bS Mrs. AbercrombIe. Other visitors whu were registered at down town :.oteis last night were pr. J A. B. LovctL formerly president of the ninth Dis trict Agricultural School st Blounts- vile; President H. J. Willlngham, or the Fifth District Agricultural School of Wetumpka; o. M. Steagall. of iae Third District School at A9beyilie; w. Hn zN E- son of the State Normal School at Florence. Dr. C. J. Owen. president of the State Agricultural School at Ap. beville; pr. EdW4rd F. .sr shner of the University of Alabama; Secretary R. J. Tlghe, superintendent / the Guy Schools at Asheville N. C.. and Ed. gar Gardner Murphy. member of the Southern Educational Board.
 The first meeting of the conventions will be held by the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in the Girls High School at o'clock thlS afternoon. This meeting, which will be prcsidCd over by Prof. J. Ma. h Baldwin. of Johns Hopkins University. president of the organization. will have In attendance. among others Vice President Professor V. A. Pace of the Catholic University of America. of Washington, D. C.; and Prof. E. F..
 
 The society Is the youngest of the three organizations, having been founded only three years ago In Att sessicn ssssa; 1 at which % PPesiden3 @ lent Baldwin M win will make a report on the work for the year. and several speakers will read papers. Following Is the pro-
 Report I 9 of Years Years PrOgrsss-Prot. J. Mark Baldwin.
 Paper, "An interpretation of Some Sensory IllusiOns"-Dr. H. J. Pearce, President of the Alabama Brsnau, at Eufaula,
 Paper. "A Comparison of Mental States In the Horizontal and Vertical Positions of the Body"-Prof. E. E, Jones. stato Female Normal School 1 Farmville. Va.
 Paper, "The Desire for Continued Ex- pePience"T-Dr. J. F. Messengers. State Female Normal School, FaFmviile, Va Paper. Psychological Progress tn i906"--Prof. Edward Y, Buchner, Uni" versity of Alabama.
 The meeting will close with informal reports from different members. of in' yestigatlons In progress.
 Joint Meeting Tonight. 1 The formal opening Of the conven' tions will be held in the Court Street MeLho0iSt CnuFGu Ak t'9V StOSA AAis evening This meeting will include i the formal addresses of welcome by Alabamians to the visitors from other | States, and of responses 10 the ad' dresses. The program golIows: l Invocation, pr. Neal l. Anderson pastor of the Central PresbytsriaE Church. Montgomery,
 Addresses of We come--For the State Governor William D. Jelks; for ths State. Superintendent of Education 1 Isaac W. Hill; fo! the City Schoo Board, Secretary A. D. Sayre. Responses for associatlOns-For thS lSouthern Educational Association, Pres. ident G. T. Glenn. North GeoTg Agri' cultural College. DahlOnegO. Ga.i Hon | O. B. Martin. State Superintendent ul | Education. Columbia, $. C.; for thu | Southern Association of College WO' men. Miss celestia S Parrish, Professor Of Ps. ehology and Pedagogy, State | Normal School. Georgia.
 Annual Announcements of Presldents 1.-The SouthUrn Educational Associa' 1 ton, President John W. Abercromble | University of Alabama; Southern As soclation of College Women. Miss Grace W. Landrum Atlanta. Ca. l One meeting, which has attracted considerable attention Is that which