The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-15

student to any college or university.
number of schools made application
for places on this list, but the COM
mission has not yet adopted n basis
for tho roster. Until this is done, it
is manifest no list can he made. There
was considerable dSagreement in the
meeting rs to details and standards.
The commission will meet again to-
day.
Virginia members present were
Charles G. Maphis, professor OF second
airy education, University OF Virginia;
DIR. II. f.. Blackwell, president of Ran
dolph Macon College, and w NJ. Black
principal of the Lynchburg High
School
The other body in session yesterday
was the Conference of State Super
visors of Rural Schools. in Education
Room G. at the Y. NJ. c. A 1t was the
annual business meeting of the con-
ference. Reports were received from
the various committees. and will be
presented Mt the opening meeting to
be held in the same place to-day. W.
Is. Tate. of Columbia S. c.. presided
College Women's Meeting.
The tenth annual session of the
Southern Association OF College Women
will begin at S o'clock tonight, in
Joseph Bryan Auditorium at the
Young Mems Christian Association. The
address Of welcome will be delivered
by Mayor George Ainslc in behalf of
the city, and by Mrs. l.. G. Bingham in
behalf of the Richmond branch of the
association. The response TO the ad-
dresses of welcome will be by Miss
May Lansfield Keller, president Of the
Southern Association of College
Women.
At $3.50 o'clock the platform will be-
given TO Prof. Edward *. Graham, dean
OF the College of Liberal Arts of the
TF,it rrtt 4,
speak on Some Factors in the Educa-
tion of Women" He is widely known
as one of h,e most attractive speakers
In the South.
The final address OF the evening will
be by Miss Eleanor Lord dean OF
Gouchcr College. on What the a. b.
Degree Should Represent"
Miss Ruth Floyd Anderson, of the
University of Virginia, and president OF
the Virginia Undergraduates Union
Will conduct a conference on tho value
OF kindergarten work in mill and mine
villages In rural communities The
meeting VIII be held ut 2:30 o'clock to-
day in the primary room of the Seventh
Street Christian Church annex. Miss
Anderson will preside. The meeting
will be an informal discussion, in
which Miss Lucy S. Coleman, principal
Of the Richmond Training School for
kindergartners will take part,
business Men TO-MOrrOw.
Hais evident that the attendance on
the Business Mems Conference to-mor-
row VIII be very large. General Julian
). Carr, of Ie'rham, y. c., will preside
The conference will first consider the
facts about the farm situation in the
South, brought out by DR.. John Lee
Coulters address on the Status of
southern Crop Production" Then men
of prominence from all parts of the
South Will discuss the reason for the
lack of adequate yields. This leads up
TO the vital point: What Can Be Done
TO Make Farm Life More Productive? ?"
This will produce discussions on the
part to he taken by business men, by
commercial bodies and by railroads
with addresses on farming for profit.
the need OF new blood in Southern agri-
culture, and reaching the farmer
through the press
The business mems program has been
the combined production of hundreds
of people to whom 1t has been sub
United. Men are coming from Canada,
from Mississippi. from Kentucky, in
Guiding bankers former Governors and
Senators, secretaries of commercial
bodies, railroad industrial agents and
editors. TO talk about these problems.
IL will begin at 10 o'clock in the
auditorium OF the Jefferson Hotel, and
continue throughout the day. With
the separate meetings of the, farmers
and the business meh tomorrow morn
ing, the conference proper will begin
Other Gatherings.
Other meetings for to-day, besides
those mentioned, will be the Confer
ence on the Education OF the Negro,
in the Y. NJ. c. A. Building, to- night,
led by j. II. billiard, of Now Orleans;
the League OF Southern Women Writ
ers, at the Woman's Club. and the fol-
lowing school workers, all in the
morning and afternoon. and all In the
Y. NJ G. -: District supervisors of
rural schools. county superintendent,