Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-06-29


interest and pleasure to the hundreds
to former students in Georgia, but
of especial import and value to all
who are concerned with the South's
educational advancement and prog
Iress.
What Peabody college, Nashville.
Tenn, has done for the promotion OF
the South's educational interests can
not be too strongly commended. What
the new Peabody is now undertaking
to do with it's new outlook gives prom
Use of an even greater future.
Thirty-six years ago the Peabody
board of trust established the Pea
body college in connection with the
University of Nashville, Tenn. At that
time the South educationally was in
chaos. The war swept away the old
order. Reconstruction had given
nothing in its place. Into the field
Peabody came with a broad concep-
ton of the needs, with high sense
of it's obligation and duty, with a
strong determination to lead the fight
against ignorance and to place the
South at the front of educational pro-
gress. How we'll she has succeeded
let the South today answer. Forty
years ago there was not normal
school in the South. Today every
state has one or more. Then educa-
ton was to our people of secondary
importance. Today it is our first
thought. Then public free education
had the active opposition of the PEG
pie, was the dream of only a few So
called fanatics. Today the state is
the acknowledged leader in the de-
mand that all the people shall be edu-
Gated and that every child shall have
instruction at the public's expense.
Tire leaders in this educational revo-
luton have been graduates of Pea
body college, working throughout the
So1 til. Thew nor their alma mater
could ask greater or more lasting
monument.
Georgia herself owes Peabody col
tIege a great debt of gratitude for the
able assistance the alumni have Civ
en- it's educational uplift. Peabody
graduates have been in the forefront
of every campaign for better and
greater schools Can any one est1-
mate the good that Woofter and Bran
son have been to our state? What
power of influence Miss Nettie Sar-
geant, principal of the Girls High
school, Atlanta, Fas been. What an
inspiration and example of enthus-
iasm and noble purpose Miss Pearl
Stephens has been to the Bibb coun-
tv schools. Space does not permit the
extolling of the praises of all the
alumni and their great value to the
state, but take from the educational
rolls the names of Mosley, Ernest, Al
friend, White Treadwell, Miss Alice
Napier, Miss Ida Young and hosts OF
others who have labored so earnestly,
SO successfully for Georgia's educa-
tional advancement and their places
would be difficult to fill.
The Peabody spirit has meant
growth. ii has always stood for
progress. For twenty years the edu-
cational leaders of the South have
seen that the South must have a
great teachers college With no less
& prophetic eye they saw that I
iought to be built upon the foundation
of the old Peabody Normal college.
The call came for a greater Peabody.
That call has been answered by the
Pebody board and the people of Ten
Inessee with an endowment OF owes
two million dollars Upon the NILS
overlooking Western Nashville the
Greater Peabody college for teachers
is being built 1t has adopted the
alumni of the old Peabody as its
own. The Peabody spirit is to be its
inspiration. 1t is to perpetuate the
memories of the past as a sacred
blessing by filing the place destined
for the Greater Peabody-the leader
shin of Southern educational advance
'-A
The new outlook for the Greater
Peabody demands that it shall De Il
college for the higher education OF
teachers for all the South. An ex-
pert has declared that this is the
greatest and crying need Of the South
today. Educational leaders must be
trained. big men must go into big
school houses" Peabody college fol-
lowing out this plan will lay a par
, ticular stress upon certain lines of
effort
First-To serve normal schools with
administrators, supervisors, and
= teachers.
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