THE ADDRESSES AND JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SESSION OF THE YEAR 1873, AT ELMIRA, NEW YORK. PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION. PEORIA, ILLINOIS: N. C. NASON, PRINTER, ADAMS STREET, CORNER HARRISON. 1873. CONTENTS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION. Welcoming Address, by Hon. LUTHER CALDWELL, Mayor of Elmira, SHIPPEN, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa., . How Much Culture shall be imparted in our Free Schools? RICHARD EDWARDS, LL.D., President State Normal University, Normal, Illinois, The Relation of the General Government to Education. Prof. G. W. ATH- Education in the Southern States. Hon. J. C. GIBBS, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Florida, Tallahassee, Florida, Classical Studies. Prof. EDWARD S. JOYNES, Washington-and-Lee Univer- Liberal Education of the Nineteenth Century. Prof. W. P. ATKINSON, |