Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-28
five COLLEGES RECEIVE EN-.
DoWMENTS AGGREGATiNG
UNCONDITIONAL.
COE GETS 100000
$250,oo0 Fund to George Peabody Col
Ieee is For Purpose Of Support
ting the Seaman A. Knapp
School Of Country Life.

l
900 was contributed to,the cause o
education by the general education
board, founded by John D. Rockefeller
at it's meeting here. OF this sun
| 100000 was appropriated for distri
button among five colleges, the larges
contribution of $25OO0O going to the
George Peabody College for Teachers
| of Nashville, Tenn, for the establish
ment of the Seaman A. Knapp Schoo
| Of country life. The other colleges
awarded appropriations are:
Beloit college, Beloit, Wis, 100000
Coe college, Cedar Rapids, Ia, $loo'
| 900.
Manchester college, St. Paul, MINI.
$4,000.
University of Rochester, Rochester
N. Y, 100000.
1t is explained that the gifts to the
colleges mentioned are conditioned or
an equal sum being raised ~ the re
spective institutions
$4,000 for Agriculture.
Aside from the college appropria
tons, the sum of $4,000 was sci
aside for demonstration work In agri
culture In the southern states, tol
| professors of secondary education II
state universities in the south and tc
aid the work of negro education IN
the south. The demonstration worn
appropriation is $4,000.
The miscellaneous appropriations
were:
For professors of secondary educa
ton in the several state universities OF
the southern states, S33,10O.
For supervision of negro rural
schools in Kentucky, North Carolina
and Virginia, $4,000.
The three negro schools-Hampton
institute Hampton, Va, Tuskegee In.
stitute, and the Sellman seminary OF
Atlanta, Ga, the sum of $4,000.
School Of Country Life.
What may be regarded as the
boards most important appropriation
was that for the establishment OF the
Seaman A. Knapp school Of country
life. The late DR.. Seaman A. Knapp
had been in charge for the past ten
years of the farmers cooperative de-
monstration work in the south. IN
connection with this gift the follow
ing statement was issued:
"The general education board recog.
nizes that the George Peabody college
for teachers at Nashville, Tenn, prom
ises to render conspicuous and perma-
nent service in the promotion OF popu'
lar education throughout the south
ern sthes. 1t also recognizes that
the Peabody education fund, during
| it's long years of service to the south
has been largely instrumental IN
bringing about the promising condl'
tions which call for just such an In
stitution as this enlarged college for
the training of teachers. 1t further
recognizes that the affiliation of this
institution with Vanderbilt university
will greatly enhance the value OF ootr
institutions The board has therefore
watched with sympathetic interest the
\ progress of the new movement.
School on New Lines.
| 1.-THE general education board ha'
been interested in the promotion O
practical farming in the southern
states and in the development or al
efficient system of rural schools. Inc
George Peabody college for teachers
proposes to train leaders for rura
schools: not for the traditional schoo
but a new school which shall NEE
the needs of an agricultural popula
ton.
From the beginning It has been thu
purpose of the general education
board to contribute to the endowment
fund of George Peabody college TO-
teachers.
GIFT Of $25o,ooo Made.
After consultation with the presl
dent and trustees Of the college l
now makes a contribution Of $25,OO'
toward the endowment of the Georg'
Peabody college for teachers and 10
the specific purposes Of supporting
the Seaman A. Knapp school Of coun
try life. For ten years the late Dr
Knapp was the recognized leader o
the new agricultural life Of the south
It is fitting that his name should b
associated with the George Peabod!
college for teachers, his great worl
perpetuated through this institution
and his name associated with that 0
George Peabody"