General Executive Committee: Geo. W. Gordon, Chairman. Music: Miss Martha Trudeau, Chairman. Membership: E. S. Werts, Chairman. Special Arrangements: Miss Lida G. Thomas, Chairman. Press and Printing: Israel H. Peres, Chairman. H. N. Robertson, General Secretary. JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMPHIS, TENN., DECEMBER 27, 28, 29, 1899. FIRST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Court Street C. P. Church-Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2:30 P. M. The association was called to order by Gen. George W. Gordon, superintendent of the public schools of Memphis and chairman of the local Executive Committee. Rev. Hugh Spencer Williams, pastor of the Court Street Church, invoked the Divine blessing upon the association and its work. Mrs. Cary Anderson sang "Save Me, O God." Addresses of welcome were made by Hon. Morgan C. Fitzpatrick, superintendent of public instruction of Tennessee; Gen. George W. Gordon, superintendent of Memphis public schools, and Prof. Wharton S. Jones, principal of Memphis Institute. Mrs. C. P. J. Mooney sang "Birthday of a King." Responses to the addresses of welcome were made by Hon. G. R. Glenn, state school commissioner of Georgia, and President J. R. Preston, Stanton Female College, Natchez, Miss. Gen. Gordon presented the president of the association, Dr. Junius Jordan, of the University of Arkansas, who delivered the annual presidential address. Prof. Wharton Jones announced that a boat had been chartered to take members of the association down the river and would be at the disposal of the association at any time indicated. The association adjourned to meet again in the same place at 7:30 p.m. Court Street C. P. Church-Wednesday Evening, 7:30. Miss Martha Trudeau rendered Gounod's "Queen of Sheba." President Jordan announced that he had received a message from President W. W. Smith, of Randolph-Macon College, who was on the program for a paper on "A Moral Curriculum," stating that it would be impossible for him to be present and asking him to make his excuses to the association. Dr. William T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, addressed the association on "Child Study.” Prof. N. M. Williams, of Memphis, read a poem, "A Tennessee Story." Mr. Rowland Williams sang Harvey D. Vincent's "When the Band Plays Dixie" (words by Frank L. Stanton) and Pinsuti's "The Bugler." Dr. Jno. L. Buchanan, President of the University of Arkansas, read a paper on "Influences which Determine the Trend of Education.” Mrs. Charles Miller and Mr. Rowland Williams sang Verdi's "Io, t'Amo, Ma Shadieri." Hon. B. F. Johnson, Richmond, Va., read a paper on "A Tripartite Education." The following committees were announced: Program Committee-Geo. W. Gordon, H. N. Robertson, Wharton S. Jones, George J. Ramsey. Committee on Resolutions-R. B. Fulton, J. H. Raymond, Geo. J. Ramsey, J. J. Doyne, Geo. W. Ward, E. C. Branson. Committee on Necrology-J. R. Preston, Alexander Hogg, J. C. McCallie, W. K. Tate, Harris Hart. The secretary read the following communication from the Entertainment Committee: Dr. Jordan:- Please announce that the train tendered the S. E. A. by the courtesy of J. H. Sullivan, Supt. of Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham R. R., will leave from the foot of Court street at one o'clock Thursday afternoon, for a round trip to the Mississippi River bridge. All teachers of the convention wearing the badge are entitled to free transportation. The train will return about 2:30. Don't forget to announce the reception at the Peabody after the exercises J. W. S. RHEA, Entertainment Committee. to-night. Adjourned to meet at 9:30 a. m. December 28, in two sections; in the Court Street Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and in the Memphis High School building, Poplar street. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Court Street C. P. Church—Thursday, Dec. 29, 10 A. M. Invocation by Rev. James C. Morris. The Committee on Organization, appointed after the adjournment of the New Orleans meeting, submitted the following partial report, and asked for more time. The report was adopted, and the committee was continued with instructions to complete its work on the basis of this partial report, and report to the next annual meeting of the association. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION. WHEREAS, We believe that the great body of teachers represented by this association as yet fails to exert the influence or to receive a consideration proportionate to the responsibility resting on it for the social, moral and the material, as well as the intellectual, development of our people; and WHEREAS, We believe that the continued existence of this state is in large measure due to lack of concerted effort on the part of teachers themselves, therefore Be it Resolved, By the Southern Educational Association in Convention assembled |