The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-30
NOTED EDUCATORS
IN ATTENDANCE At
CONFERENCE HERE
Annual Session of Association
of Colleges and Secondary
Schools of the South
Opens at TutWiIer

The twenty-sixth annual session
of the Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools of the Southern
States opened yesterday morning at
8 o'clock at the Tutwiler hotel with
over 200 educators in attendance.
Colleges and universities in Ala
bama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentcuky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, Missouri, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas Virginia and West Virginia
are members of the association, and
were all we'll represented at the
opening sessions OF the conference.
Chancellor ]. H. kirkland of Van
derbilt university and president of
the association, arrived in Birming-
ham Monday evening to preside over
the meetings. Other officers of the
association are Professor Joseph S.
Stewart, University of Georgia, and
Dean f. f. Hooper, University of
Chattanooga, vice president, and Dean
Edward A Bechtel of Tulane uni
versity, secretary and treasurer
Discuss Credentials
Following the opening session yes
terday several subcommittees were
appointed to consider applications fol
credentials of high schools of the
states belonging to the association.
These committees met yesterday aft
ernoon to discuss and make reports.
The final reports of the subcommit-
tees were taken up and adopted in a
general session of the commission on
Institutions of higher education, at
which time the reports were ap-
proved, corrected or rejected by the
session.
Further reports will be heard this
morning by the commission of acered-
tied schools and the commission on
institutions of higher education. Tht
executive committee met yesterday
afternoon and plans were outlined for
the general meetings to be held be-
ginning Thursday.
The meetings yesterday and today
will be devoted to preliminary work
and the receiving of reports from
the various committees and subcom-
mttees of the association. The pre-
liminary session of the association
will be completed this afternoon when
the work to be discussed tomorrow
and Friday will have been mapped
out.
Program.
The program for the sessions of to-
day. Thursday and Friday is an
nounced as follows:
Wednesday. . a M, meeting of
commission on accredited schools; 3
a. M. meeting of commission on in
stiutions on higher education; D. m,
meeting of executive committee OF
the association.
Thursday
Morning Session, $50.
Opening exercises.
Address of welcome by Dr. c. B.
Glenn, superintendent of Birmingham
schools.
Report of executive committee.
Vote on new constitution and by
laws.
Report on commission on institu-
lions Of higher education.
Address by DR.. John l.. White, pres
ident Anderson college, on Relation
of the Denominational Colleges to the
Southern Association"
Luncheon at Ensley High school.
Afternoon session
Address by Prof. Joseph S. Stewart
on The Work of the Southern Com
mission on Accredited Schools"
Report of the commission on ac-
credited schools.
Address by DR. clyde Furst secre-
tary of the Carnegie foundation. on
Entrance Requirements in the South
ern Association"
Six p. M dinner at the Southern
club.
Night Session
Address by DR.. Robert L. Kelly. ex-
ecutive secretary of the Association
of American Colleges. on "Studes of
the College Curriculum"
Presidents address.
Social hour.
Friday
Morning Session.
Report of executive committee.
Address by DR.. Henry D.. Phillips,
president of the s. |. A. A, on I'm
er-collegiate Athletics and the Col
lege Faculty"
Reports on above topics from sew
eral institutions.
Final reports.
Resolutions.
Election of officers.
Adjournment
VIII Visit schools
During their visit in Birmingham