The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-04-02
THE STATE
UNIVERSITY
DR.. MURPHREE WILL BE PROM
NENT AT SESSIONS OF SOUTH
ERIN COMMERCIAL CONGRESS
IN WASHINGTON.
Special to The Journal

Gainesville, April AT the ap-
preaching annual Conference for Edu-
cation in the South, which will be
held this year In Nashville on April 5,
4 and 9th, DR.. Murphree will act as
director of the Round Table Confer
ence" of college and university presi-
dents and professors.
At this conference, which this year
holds It's fifteenth annual session, there
will come together representatives of
all classes, who have at heart the well
fare of the country, and who believe
the largest factor in the production of
this welfare is the right education of
all the people This session will be
marked by an unusually large number
of strong speakers. Among those from
the south are President Alderman of
the University of Virginia, Hon. Martin
w. Iittieton, now Of New York. Presi-
dent s. c. Mitchell of the University of
South Carolina, and DR.. Chas. w. Dab
ney, now of the University of Gin
cinnati.
The Southern Commercial Congress
will hold it's annual session q few days
later, on April s, 9 and 10th. Notice of
this has been widely published. One
OF the fullest accounts appeared in the
Washington Herald of March 25th.
This pager also showed portraits Of all
the speakers on the program. Among
them appeared President Murphree,
who will speak as a representative
from Florida, on Educational Progress
In the South from 1860 to 1890, and
from 1890 to 1910.'
The prospectus Of the summer ses-
sion of the University of Virginia viii
contain the name OF DR.. John r. Ben
ton, dean of the College of Engineering
OF the University of Florida DR.. Ben
ton VIII be in charge Of instruction in
physics,
The city of Gainesville has recently
appointed a sanitary inspector. This
work will be done by Mr.. A. q. Davis,
one of the present senior class. Mr..
Davis has done more than the usual
amount of work accomplished by stu
dents in chemistry and bacterioIogy.
DR.. G. III. Gordon, state geolosist and
professor of geology at the University
of Tennessee. will visit Gainesville on
April IS. While here DR.. Gordon will
install a chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, a
leading honor fraternity
The next meeting of the AthenaeuIn
Club will be marked by the paper of
Director Rolls on University Exten-
sion" The recent meetings of the
club have been of more than usual in
terest. This paper should provoke a
lively discussion.
The series of lectures given by the
professors at Epworth Hall is attract
ture on astronomy was one OF the most
| interesting. His slides, most of which
had been loaned for the purpose by Mr..
Fisher Of the government bureau at
| Washington. are as fine as any in the
country; his talk was clear and al :
| though about very difficult subject.
could be understood by all. The next
| lecture in the series viii be by DIR.
! Farr, on English Translation of the
| Bible"
The university win be represented in
/ the Jacksonville contest in oratory ar
ranged for by the intercollegiate Pro
hibiTion League The representative
will be selected at q preliminary con-
| test held in Gainesville. The winner
of this viii also receive prize OF SIC.
The law students are soon to hold a
public debate on the question, Re
solved, That the Initiative, Referendum
and Recall, If found to be constitution
al, should be made a part of our state
and national constitutions" AT pre-
liminary debate Messrs. @. P. Garrett,
G. nj. Phipps, C. p. Diamond and j. NJ
McCaskill were declared the best
| speakers and won the honor of ap-
| pearing IN the public debate.