8. We deplore the isolation of many Negro schools, established through motives of philanthropy, from the life and the sympathies of the communities in which they are located. We recommend the supervision of all such schools by the state, and urge that their work and their methods be adjusted to the civilisation in which they exist, in order that the maximum good of the race and of the community may be thereby attained. 9. On account of economic and psychological differences in the two races, we believe that there should be a difference in courses of study and methods of teaching, and that there should be such an adjustment of school curricula as shall meet the evident needs of Negro youth. 10. We insist upon such an equitable distribution of the school funds that all the youth of the Negro race shall have at least an opportunity to receive the elementary education provided by the state, and in the administration of state laws, and in the execution of this educational policy, we urge patience, toleration, and justice. (Signed) G. R. GLENN, P. P. CLAXTON, J. H. PHILLIPS, C. B. GIBSON, R. N. ROARK, J. H. VAN SICKLE, _Committee_. In this connection also let me call attention to the reports of J. Y. Joyner, Superintendent of Education, and Charles L. Coon of North Carolina, for a broad view of Negro education. I have already shown how the South and the North came together in educational relationships in the Southern Education Board. I have pointed it out as a tendency toward nationalisation in educational interests. But the Southern Education Board, while it contained both Northern and Southern white men, was primarily interested in white education and contained no Negro members. At the time the board was organised, an active interest in the Negro would have defeated, in part at least, its declared purpose. [Illustration: S. C. MITCHELL of Richmond College; President of the Coöperative Education Association of Virginia.] [Illustration: JUDGE EMORY SPEER of Georgia. After two terms in Congress he was appointed to the Federal bench. Photograph by Curtiss Studio] [Illustration: EDGAR GARDNER MURPHY of Alabama, member Southern Education Board; author "Problems of the Present South." Photograph by Sol. Young] [Illustration: DR. H. B. FRISSELL Principal Hampton Institute and member of Southern Education and Jeanes Fund Boards. Photograph by Rockwood] [Illustration: R. C. OGDEN of New York, President of the Southern Education Board. Copyright, 1907, by Pach Bros.] [Illustration: J. Y. JOYNER Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina. Photograph by Wharton & Tyree] _The South, the North, and the Negro at Last Work Together_