The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-21
.RIIEGE FOR TH NEGRO.
The GLOaE's CORRESPONDENT
WRITES OF THE MODEL INsTI-
TUITION At WASHINGTON
IZZoE EENT TO o. 0. HOWARD
Is University in Fact as Wen as
ia Name, Giving the ColOred
STUDENT Choice of
9InnY Courses.

STUDENT Choice of
NInny Courses.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.
WASHINGTON, l. c., Oct. 11.-Of all
thu educational institutions at the ma
uinn's capital, Howard university, found
ed by Mai, Gen. o. O. Howard for the
education of the negro freedmen after the
close OF the war, is by far the most in
terestng and most unique. This year,
over l.000 negro students Will be enrolled
ard lSst> year they aggregated $40 from
forty different states and territories The
university has preparatory department.,
school of law, a school of medicine,
dental school, pharmaceutical school.
department of pedagogy, a department
of music and an industrial school,
Unlike most, in fact ALL the government
or sthte universities students are only
allowed to live outside the college
grounds by special permission of the
president of the college. These grounds
are just south of the Soldiers home and
are elevated above the wnole city of
Washington, being the highest point with
the exception of Georgetown. On the
east side ef them is the huge reservoir
lake. The campus is twenty acres in
size and one of the most beautiful Ia
every way that I have ever been on.
These October days that blue haze SO
common to this section of the country
settles over the hiltops, ana the trees
have thai transparent look that comes
just before they turn red or gold. A
group of young girls We're standing a one
end under the trees watching a football
team working toward a goal. They were
very nearly white and were dressed with
good taste ard looked like The best class
Of maids and nurse girls. Many of the
young mon were quite black and had the
large feet and hands of the negro.
On the south side of the campus and
facing the city, stands what is called the
university cai!ice 1t is q large four
story building in which are TIE lecture
rooms, library, laboratory, museum
and offices. On the east side is Miner
han, where the girls live. and on the
north side is Clark hall where the men
live Miner ANA Clark halls are long yei-
low brick buildings looking very much
like tho barracks at Fort Smelling The
library numbers over 10000 volumes, but
the museum contains bTt little outside
mineral cabinet
FOUNDED BY UNCLE SAM
It must be remembered by all who wish
to understand this institution that it was
really founded by the United States,
through Senator o. O. Howard who in
teTested himself in the great number of
freed negroes coming into Washington
by the thousands every day. A great
camp for these blacks once extended
over the whole of this section of the city,
where they were fed and loolAd after by
government agents and at government
expense just as the Indians are today
1t was recognized by all thinking men of
all parties that something had to be
done TO improve the condition of these
freed slaves. They We're childlike abso-
lutely destitute and unable in any Wav
themselves Go
established by the government with Gen.
Howard as its first president 1t was
fully organized in 1869, and started on its
huge work Of educating and lettering,
In fact c.viiiz ng, millions of the black
people. rs advancement has been slow.
It has had 10 fight the unreasoning preju-
dice and dislike not only of the South,
bet Of the whole country. But, in spite
of this, ttgha9 slowly, very slowly, but
equally az surely, improved and prosper
ed ard enlarged
Perhaps it max seem strange to those
'wHo Rave only seen the black man and
woman in the lowest places and under
The most unfavOrab,e conditions to see
them here i'll the role of univers 'ty stu
8ents, wcil dressed, well hammered and
acting toward each other as lady and
gentleman. Yet this is the case. as any
enc may see who viii go out to the mi
VsrSity any day; that is, if he goes out
IN his N nd made up to see things with
TAR eNeS They play football with about
tE@ saline enthusiasm as white teams play
IT, bGt with mere consideration for each
0tHer. 1t is true that many of them are
lWo-thirds white, but some of them are as
pack as ccal, and all have the honey
features of the negro Yet they are all
equally we'll behaved and polished MANY
d ne teachers AMI keads of depart-
ments are colored, and they are in al
cases as good in their line of work as
are the white men holding the same Do
si5iors. M Cook, A. NJ. the dean
on tie English department.. and A. M
Curtis. sui Seon-'H-ehief of the Feed
mems hospital, which is connected with
IaeWard- university. and Mr. H H Hart
instructor liz agriculture, are negroes, and
back negroes at that
PRESIDENT RANKIN
President Jeremiah Eames RANKIN lives
IN a very handsome kouse at enc end ~
tie college grounds and I was fortunate
ct1Gsa 10 find him III when caihed d.
IsdfiE-n save NE a very pleasant inter-
rev and tod ms all in regard to tho.
university that | cared to know. He
talked at length uBen fta new chair of
pedagogy. of which Prof. Lewis B. Moore
rs. the dean This VII be the really sreaf
N9rk Of tho university because it will
I'e the means OF educating millions Of
ieEIoes, through those who fSave its
ES1'o"i Il Is the science of education
= hfte sciences upon which peda.yop5 is
Lased; psychology, ethics and socio'orv
are the three great things that must be
learned about the negro and oy tie
i.esro who is to teach MIN to reach \
Dlsner level. For it has at least been
pfofeH that the negro must help himself
Viiu Heip others The white man can
not help him. So here teachers are
1fe taed who &C into the South and the
E&st to educate their race For tIis
reason l'eoogogy is far more important
to the negro than law or journalism
OF medicine or theology. After these
black men and women study the mental
Development and retrogression of the
back race and fully understand If. thez,
II It be possible to raise the race It VIII;
D. dehe. TIT norman training course lasts
two Years and besides general normal