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ADDRESSES OF WELCOME. 
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ADDRESS BY MRS. HENRY M. WILMARTH, CHAIRMAN OF THE WOMAN'S 
GENERAL COMMITTEE ON THE EDUCATIONAL CONGRESSES. 
Ladies and Gentlemen : The state has no more important function than 
so care for the education of its children. What the result of this educa- 
sion should be is matter of general agreement: that it should train the 
ndividual to reasonable thinking and adequate expression, to right esti- 
nate of values and to wise choices, to habits of right thinking and of 
«ight doing. The debatable ground, then, is only one of methods. For 
she ascertainment of these methods and what is best in them, the United 
States has had for more than thirty years a most able advisory counsel 
n the corporate body of this National Educational Association. This 
rody, while neither executive nor administrative, and perhaps, therefore, 
‘he broader in its deliberations, and the firmer, has yet maintained its 
relation with the government, with the States, and with the cities, by 
ncluding in its membership officially the representative heads of the 
sovernment. And this Association has carefully provided on all points 
gainst excess and defect. In every department of education the National 
Association has had its representatives. The International Congress of 
1893 could have no happier fortune than being able to secure the alliance 
of this body, and it has no greater gift to offer to the nations of the earth 
‘han the results of its deliberations. 
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ADDRESS BY DR. SELIM H. PEABODY, CHIEF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
TIBERAL ARTS. 
Myr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow-Teachers: 1 come 
rere charged with a special and personal message to each one of you. 
Please keep it as special and personal, and be careful that you do not give 
it away to your friends. While you are engaged here in this magnificent 
ongress, this coruscation of congresses, I want to say to you that there 
is an annex to this arrangement, further south upon the lake. It is 
sometimes spoken of as <“ The White City.” Its location is between Hyde 
Park and Windsor Park, and it is the wonder of the present age. When 
[ first saw this city, only two years ago last February, it was simply a suc- 
session of sand hills, separated by streams of water, and a marsh. The 
sngineer brought his instruments therein, the dredge followed and 
gathered up the sands from a portion and elevated the surface of the 
remainder. The architect followed, and covered the whole surface with 
structures whose magnificence has never been surpassed. The sculptor 
has adorned these edifices, and painting has glorified them. The Acropo- 
lis. the Duomo of Florence. the buildings of the Champs de Mars, the