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ADDRESSES OF WELCOME. 
25 
our endeavor to make yourselves familiar with what is there shown, but 
[ am sure that you wish to give more special attention to what belongs 
nore peculiarly to your own work. A general invitation is of very little 
consequence and of slight significance ; I therefore, with the consent of 
;he officers of this Association, who I understand have made a vacancy on 
Thursday afternoon for this special purpose, wish to invite all within the 
sound of my voice to come to Jackson Park on Thursday afternoon. Will 
jou make the Administration Building the center at which you will 
yather at as near to the hour of three o’clock as possible ? The Director 
General will be present to welcome you, and other officers of the Associa- 
sion will unite in assuring you of the great honor they will feel in your 
recognition ; and then we may wander through the portion of the great 
Liberal Arts building which is given to the educational exhibit. Let 
avery one kindly accept this invitation. 
Hox. WiLLiam T. HArris, Chairman of the Committee of the 
National Educational Association having special charge of the Interna- 
sional Educational Congress, was introduced by Charles G. Bonney in the 
‘ollowing words : 
Among the eminent ministers of education by whom the educational 
nterests of nations are disseminated there are few, if any, who are more 
videly known or more distinguished for their success in administration 
shan the Hon. Dr. William T. Harris, Commissioner of Education of the 
United States. His eminence in this field might seem to suffice for 
rhe ambition of any man, but fortunate it is for him and his associates 
that, when wearied with administrative duties, he seeks the retirement and 
the recreation which are to be found in the mountains of philosophy, and 
she brethren who dwell there, as they see him approach, hail and welcome 
nim not only as brother but as chief. 
The relations of Dr. Harris to the National Educational Association 
of this country, said to be the largest in numbers and the most potent in 
mfluence of any organization of the kind in any country, have been of 
the most intimate and cordial kind. When this Association learned of the 
proposal to hold this Educational Congress of 1893, they generously gave 
1p their meeting for this year, appointed their committees, and instructed 
hem to report programmes for 1894. In pursuance of that arrangement 
1 special committee of organization was appointed, of which Dr. Harris 
was the executive head, to take especial charge, in codperation with the 
officers of the World’s Congress Auxiliary, of the organization of this 
[nternational Educational Congress of 1893. 
I have now the honor and the pleasure of presenting to you Dr. Harris, 
who will make to you a report of the organization of this congress and 
kindred matters.