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 Win A Statement and an Appeal to the Friends 
 
 of Education in America 
 
 BY 
 
 The Trustees of the Peabody 
 Education Fund 
 
 NEW YORK CITY, DECEMBER 25, 1911. 
 
A STATEMENT AND AN APPEAL 
 
 To the Friends of Education in America: 
 
 The Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund in pursuance 
 of the permission given them by the founder, George Peabody, 
 having voted to close the trust and distribute the moneys remain- 
 ing in their hands, make this statement and appeal: 
 
 In 1867 George Peabody made his first gift to education in 
 the South. Since that time the Peabody Education Fund has 
 co-operated with state and local authorities in building up state 
 systems of public schools. In the first years of its administration 
 it co-operated with towns and cities in establishing systems of 
 public schools in centers of population; later it co-operated with 
 states in establishing state systems of public schools; this done, 
 it aided in establishing state normal schools in all the Southern 
 States for the training of teachers; it is now giving aid to the de- 
 velopment of state systems of rural schools, and toward establish- 
 ing departments of education in the state universities. 
 
 Since 1875 the Peabody Fund has aided in maintaining the 
 Peabody Normal College at Nashville, Tenn., as the central and 
 leading normal school for the South. Now, in closing the trust, 
 the Trustees have undertaken to found, as successor to this central 
 normal school, the George Peabody College for Teachers — an in- 
 stitution designed to be the final memorial of Mr. Peabody's be- 
 neficent service to the South and to our common country, and to 
 
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 serve as the educational crown of the systems of schools which the 
 Southern States have established and are maintaining. It is to 
 be a college for the higher education of teachers for all the South. 
 Articulating at every point with the state systems of schools and 
 colleges, and supplementing them in a field all its own, its mission 
 will be to send out into all these states men of trained ability to 
 build up and administer state systems of education. 
 
 To this end the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund have 
 given to the George Peabody College for Teachers at Nashville 
 the sum of $1,000,000, concurrent with gifts of money by the State 
 of Tennessee, the County of Davidson, and the City of Nashville, 
 amounting to $550,000 and sixteen acres of land, with buildings 
 and appurtenances by the University of Nashville, which do not 
 exceed in value $250,000. These appropriations have been al- 
 ready paid over to the George Peabody College for Teachers. 
 
 Now, in the course of final dissolution, the Peabody Educa- 
 tion Fund has offered to endow the College for Teachers with the 
 additional sum of $500,000, provided that within two years from 
 November 1, 1911, the college raise the further sum of $1,000,000. 
 These are all the funds at the disposal of the Trustees of the Pea- 
 body Education Fund for such a purpose under Mr. Peabody's 
 deed of gift with due regard to the claims of other objects of his 
 bounty named by him. If the additional $1,000,000 contemplated 
 by the Trustees in this last gift can be raised it will establish the 
 college on an adequate financial basis, but with less than this it 
 cannot be done. 
 
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 All experts on the subject know that such a college for the 
 training of teachers is the greatest need of the South today. 
 The Southern States, with a courage and self-sacrifice rarely if 
 ever equaled, are devoting every year from 35 to 40 per cent, of the 
 total amounts raised by them by taxation to the education of both 
 races, wisely recognizing that this is their best hope for the future. 
 But these sums thus raised must go to the public schools and state 
 institutions. Much as this Central Teachers' College is needed 
 to do a work which no state institution can do, the states are barred 
 by constitutional limitations from contributing to its maintenance. 
 Under these circumstances the Trustees of the Peabody Edu- 
 cation Fund have instructed us as officers of the Board to appeal 
 in the name of the Trustees and on behalf of the George Peabody 
 College for Teachers to the friends of education throughout the 
 United States, to aid by every means in their power to raise the 
 additional $1,000,000 required. The alumni of the college have 
 already pledged themselves to raise $200,000 of the amount needed. 
 We firmly believe that no man of means can put money to a nobler 
 or more beneficent use than by helping the College for Teachers 
 to raise this much needed sum. 
 
 Communications should be addressed to James C. Bradford, 
 Chairman Executive Committee, George Peabody College for 
 Teachers, Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 Joseph H. Choate, Chairman, 
 Sabiuel A. Green, Secretary. 
 
 New York, December 25, 1911.