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Show TASK llUiOl TO ' ' AID EDUCATIOI NEW YORK, Dec 25. An appeal to friends of education in America for $1,000,000 to make the George Pcabody college for teachers at Nashville, Nash-ville, Tenn., a great memorial to Mr. Peabuds beneficence to the south nnd the educational crown of tho sj stein of schools now established In that section, is made in a long statement state-ment from the trustees of the Pea-body Pea-body Education fund, Issued tonight. Tho trustees give notice of having voted to close the trust in pursuance of the permission given by the found-"i found-"i a'ter having distributed millions In building up state systems of public pub-lic schools, aiding the development oC jural scnuols ana establishing departments depart-ments of education in the state universities. uni-versities. "Since 1S75," the statement con tlnucs, "the Peabody fund li3s aided In maintaining the Peabody normal college at Nashville, Tenn.. as the central and leading normal school for the south. In closing the trust the trustees hae undertaken to found as a successor to this, the George Peabody Pea-body College for Teachers." The statement goes on to explain that this institution, to bo for the higher education of teachers throughout through-out the south. To this end trustees have given a sum of 51,000,000 concurrent con-current with gifts by the state or Tennessee, county of Davidson and the city of Nashville, amounting to $550,000 and 16 acres of land with buildings by the university of Nashville, Nash-ville, In the final dissolution of the Peabody Pea-body fund the trustees have offered to eudow the college with an additional addi-tional half million dollars provided that within two years from Nov. 1, 1911, the college raises $1,000,000 "All oxperts on the subject," the statement continues, "know that such a college Is the greatest cnlng need of the south todaj. The southern states with a courage and self-sacrifice rarely If ever equalled arc devoting de-voting every year from 35 to ID per cent of the amount raised by taxation taxa-tion to the education of both races, wisely recognizing that this Is their best hope for the future. But these sums must go to the public schools and state institutions. Much as this central teachers' college Is needed to do the work which no staio institution institu-tion can do. the stales aie barred by constitutional limitation from contribution contri-bution to Its maintenance " |