141 George Peabody College for Teachers. HE Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund, who founded Peabody Normal College, the first and leading normal school of the South, and recently reorganized it into a Teachers College, have declared that it is "to serve as an educational crown of the systems of schools which the Southern States have established and are maintaining." Its peculiar function, therefore, may be stated in terms of trained educational leadership, which, at _ this time, as in no other, is the South's greatest need. It is to be to the teachers of the South what the Johns Hopkins, the Harvard, and other medical schools are to the physicians; what the Cornell, the The Task of SE EET “Wisconsin, and other schools of agriculture are to the \ Ns agriculturists; and what Teachers College in New York City and the School of Education at the Uni- sections. The purpose of George Peabody College }- for Teachers is to provide advanced training in q 5 \ ry \ ra 4 ‘ 4 \ st 4 \ ard 1 5 " f*, *, f v r versity of Chicago are to the teachers of those( piccenvenencnnn education for the teachers of the South. ‘cr, lts mission, through cooperation with other teacher- training agencies, will be to extend and intensify the instrumentalities of service in the field of teaching. The College will best fulfill its function: (1) By aiding in supplying the demand for trained normal school teachers, supervisors, and administrators. (2) By providing that higher professional training needed by instructors in departments of education in colleges and universities. (3) By offering to the graduates of the normal schools opportunity for pursuing advanced courses in education. (4) By extending the work of the departments of edu- cation by supplying a graduate school for those of their graduates who desire more prolonged and intensive train- ing. (5) By studying the whole problem of rural life and the country school and by helping the school to make country life more economically profitable and more humanly interesting. (6) By preparing teachers in industrial education to direct the schools of the South in the preparation of men and women for serviceable citizenship in a great industrial and rural section of the Nation. (7) By establishing such an efficient department of school hygiene and physical ‘education that from it may go to all parts of the South specially trained leaders to carry on public health campaigns and impart such information as will look to the conservation of human life and energy. (8) By further emphasizing systematic training in moral and religious education, that the finest life and spirit of the South may not depart from the schools. (9) By constituting itself an educational clearing house, through which will pass well digested data and enlightened pedagogical opinion. (10) By attracting and retaining a high order of talent in the profession of teaching by virtue of larger opportuni- ties, which will come to the more highly trained. (11) By preparing experts to become state high school inspectors and professors of secondary education in uni- versities, in order that they may give wise guidance in the development of local and state high school systems. (12) By equipping expert superintendents and prin- cipals for elementary school systems. (13) By providing, within the environment where they are to labor, educational surveyors and original investiga- tors who can survey the needs of childhood and suggest better ways of meeting them in the schools of the South. (14) By training experts in school administration, in the scientific handling of school budgets, and in the wise direc- tion of school legislation along economic lines for the elim- ination of financial waste. BSB Trustees of George Peabody College for Teachers PRESIDENT JUDGE EDWARD T. SANFORD, Knoxville, Tenn. VICE PRESIDENT PROF. J. B. ASWELL, Natchitoches, La. SECRETARY-TREASURER E. A. LINDSEY, Esq., Nashville, Tenn. CHAIRMAN OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE JUDGE J. C. BRADFORD, Nashville, Tenn. DR. B. J. BALDWIN, Montgomery, Ala. PROF. HUGH S. BIRD, Fredericksburg, Va. W. A. BLAIR, Esq., Winston-Salem, N. C. STUART H. BOWMAN, Esg., Huntington, W. Va. JAMES E. CALDWELL, Esq., Nashville, Tenn. WHITEFOORD R. COLE, Esq., Nashville, Tenn. HON. J. M. DICKINSON, Nashville, Tenn. THOMAS B. FRANKLIN, Esq., Columbus, Miss. JOSEPH K. ORR, Esq., Atlanta, Ga. A. H. ROBINSON, Esq., Nashville, Tenn. BOLTON SMITH, Esq. Memphis, Tenn. , PROF. W. K. TATE, Columbia, S. C. JUDGE CLAUDE WALLER, Nashville, Tenn. GOV. BEN W. HOOPER, Ex-officio, Nashville, Tenn. “ Education, a debt due from present to future generations.” —GEORGE PEABODY