Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-05-22

The c0lored people OF Washington
have not trained teachers. oiession-
al training il needed Away with the
notion that acad emies are turning out
trained teachers. Sixty TO seventy
per cent of the students at Nayland
Seminary are from Virginia It's use
fulness for Washington could not bt
maintained unless it was made a col
lie &c.
THE COST OF COLLE0K.
A fourth rate college cannot he main
tanned for less than 5000 per year. /
means five professors Their prv IL
thu best institutions range from $500
20 $1,000 per annum
The Society wih n It agree to do an,
more than it is now doing. Wayland
has cost the Society 81 900 rer year
AT the meeting of the representatives,
from all of the churches at Washing
ION. out OF about $50, only opposed
It alter or 0 hours discussion.
OwHIrBs ADMITTED.
There is not a white boy who would
b al mit-ed 90 a school OF the Society
in the South. and the Society would
not like to see one admitted during
he present condition of affairs in the
South
ID iring her early life in New York
state. Fanny Barrier Williams WAS
seated In the school with white pa
tron of the school. He wished her to-
have II seat in another place We told
him that she could have another place
by going to another place.
"A CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK"
My daughter has been instrumental
in getting Mrs. Williams into the mem
bership OF the leading white ladies'
Organization in this country at Chica-
e.. ! am not a white man, said the
speaker, as he held u white sheet o.
paper alongside of his own face. 81
never saw a white man." he added. "a
black mans brain the same as a white
M ans brain and is capable OF the same
d svelopment
Cease trying to be an oddity Be .
man. not black man. We have not
decided anything about Wayland.
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
Wsylsnd Seminary at the lowest es-
innate can be sold at 81 per square
foot which wonld mean $4,000. Way
land has SIS 600 in the treasury The
committe has decided to report in IA
vor of removing tie Seminary to Rich
mond and the RoaFd will no doubt act
IN accordance with the report of the
G mmittee
The college at Richmond will com
menee with better foundation than
my college in this country ever had at
its beginning No college has ever
Oeen built upon the contributions Of
churches. These institutions have got
20 be endorsed. l am now 81 years in
he harness, working for the colored
people. / have stuck to them and will
stick to them until / die.
MUCH MONEY SPENT,
We have spent $2s1,723 in virgini-,
and in Georgia over half N million dor
airs for the colored people.
We have 10 schools which are man
aged entirely by colored. people. A L., e.
isville, KY, the school WAS under the
hammer, and we came TO the rescue
with $1,000
Virginia Summary is not living to-
lay because the colnred people have
Kept it alive. He referred To the fai =
IRE at Selma and at Little Rocs, ARK,
A WORD ABOUT VIRGINIA SEMINARY
When you tell me that the colo. ed
p 'op!e are able to take hold of Il q
work and pay the hills. you are tr ".
| =
i"ary to be deplorable. / said to DIR.
Morris, that you cannot continue rs
principal of that school and remain
pastor Of shat church.
81 900 have been given to the mi
1ary by ths Society. and most of that
has been paid to the head Of the school.
| $1,000 have been spent on salaries Of
the faculty, including the $lIOO.
All of the education nal Institutions of
the colored people are under encun.-
ORANGES.
Brethren, are you beside yourselves?
Are you crazy, when you fight the kind
# help which is as free as that which
comes in the
One-half of ali the teachers in our
schools in which wa are helping are
Negroes Most of them are men The
cause is because you have not given
Them the opportunities
NONE COMPETING.
Why not employ graduates of your
,wn schools IN your university 90
not know a graduate of our scho ,is
that is COMPETENT To stand side by side
With q graduate either from Brown or
aaEv srd, who has taken a two wears
post graduate course
No young man can get a place in a
irst-class CO lege unless he has taken
postgraduate course. But. enouir-
RS. Rev. DIR @. N. Grandson, is nnt a
man who has branches u specialist.
aud has been studious.-is he not as
competent to be elected a profS ssor in
one of these colleges as is a post-grs
uSte? That depends WAS the RESPONSE
! DIR. Mae Vicar He urged that most
Il them were lazy and therefore did
not measure uD to the standard
wtRNED IeAIEsr II SANITY.
] Don't 60 crazy up VI the subject that
this or that MAI shOa d have a place,
So a lie
P'Of G. w. Hayes spoke He show
ed that the amounts given by the ouc,-
! ty TO schools controlled exclusively
! bV he colored people vera much less
than that given those controlled hy
the whites.
He claimed that he had made every
! eff 'rt to pay the teachers of Virgi aia
! seminary
HIS ONLY DEPRSDK ScR.
He had only to depend upon tho
ahurches If circulars are sent q (
nd the financial agents of the Virgin
il Union Unive rsity, and Spiller Acad-
any made appeals. the people woul d
b come bewi:dersd and give to none
o them very largely He denied hav-
in s1oIght the Society or its work
tie was followed by Rev J w Kirbv
who was pointed in his remarks and
criticized Prof. Hayes severely
ANEW BOARDING HOUSE.
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