The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-21

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ton, and each student is required to do
actual teaching for TWO periods per day
for one year. While at this work they
are under careful supervision. There are
also speciaf courses held evenings and on
Saturdays fer teachers who have schools
lp Washington Or. Rankin said that
very few of the men and women com.
pleting this course fail to secure schools.
Some of them gu as far south as the
Gulf of Mexico. but, many of them are
teaching in the Washington public
schools. Ii offers fine opening for The
educated negro girl who is row alncst
comnelled to take n place as home
! servant as nothing else is open TO her.
TRAINING OF NERVES
Another great opening for young negro
women is trained nursing. Just below
the hill upon which the college buildings
stand is a huge brick building surrounded
by beautiful old trees, and known as
Freednens hospital Here also Is the
training school fer nurses. The course
lasts eighteen months, and at the end
of this time girls are put through what
is known as the final examination, and
if sthey pass above a certain figure they
are given: a diploma. saw them at
( their daily duties in the hospital. and
trey look as neat and professional as
any hospital nurse in the world. They
HCSll lllS VI lIlS i1Osl'ttol, diiSIt ID
some sort of blue cloth, with white apron
and cap and stiff, collar and cuffs of white
linen. After their hospital training is
over they must choose their own field
i<of labor. Some of them go into the
negro wards of the Southern hospitals,
but many of them so out among the
poor of their own race. and by SO doing
render a blessing to their people. Mss
Ebersole, who is the superintendent of
the training school, Is young white
woman OF whom DR.. Rankin was very
generous in praise. She is also~the
matron of the college and has the care
I of all the girls.
The school of theology is under the d.
rect charge of Dir. Rankin, who holds
the chairs of moral philosophy, natural
theology and Christian evidences This
is zreally hardly part of the university,
as lit receives no money whatever from
the government Yet it is doing a good
work IN turning out negro ministers who
viii teach the people to lead upright lives
and not shout religion, as did the old
time negro preacher AS this is in
measure outside the university, which
is unseCtarian, it is not necessary to
comment upon it at length
The medical college is in the Freed
mems hospital, and has some very good
men connected with it. DR.. Daniel A.
Lamb who is the professor of anatomy,
of the country, and is said 10 be one Of
the best Informed men in the medical
profession. I did not meet Or. Lamb,
but was told by a professor of George
town Medical College. However, last
year twenty-five students, who left be-
cause they could not pay their expenses
SCHOOL OF LAW.
The school of law is in a building in
Washington, just opposite the court
groes who may wish to study law and
the expense is small. Mr.. B. +. Leigh
ton is dean OF the school. Over seventy
seven students attended the law school
| last year and this year the attendance
it is expected will be much greater. There
are more chances for negro lawyer in
Washington than elsewhere it is true.
| but law is one of the few things now
open to the black man in this country.
The day l visited Howard university
was the first cool day of many fearfuily
hot months. 1t is in rather an out of
the way place and in getting to 1t | had
to cross from First street over the great
dip between the hills that are fast be-
ing turned into new Reservoir Lake.
/ The wind came across the plain above
| in stiff cool gusts, and to- the left lay the
city of Washington. It is said by many
people, who have lived here all their
lives. that this is the best view that can
be obtained of the city. The capitol looks
from here, like a picture you have seen
of st. Peters in Rome. In fact If you
nave not ifeu iONS IN w dSn Ii
| will seem like a picture because 1t is
too grand and vast to seem real There.
is something in the air here that gives
1t the appearance of thin gray smoke and
the dome of the capitol sometimes looks
$ though it We're behind a curtain
While again the sun will touch it and
| II will show as white as milk This is.
probably cauSeds by the hills across tI4a
| river being higher than the dome itself
and so becomes a background as it were
A plain, Imprinted board fence surrounds
the college grounds, and the grounds
themselves are nicely laid out and are
green and we'll kept. 80
The first building infected was the
boys home, or Clark half It is a long
f1ve-story, yellow brick building ioof k.,,,
inside very much like a barracks. The
nails are dark and narrow, and were
once considered quite modern The plas-
ter has become stained and worn out.
Old rugs lie here and there
sPoTLEssLY CLEAN.
But everything is very clean. There is
back yard behind this hail. and | saw
several clothes lines apon which were
hanging out to a blankets and other
oedciothes. These were also very Old
many times; but, like the floors of fba
i hal!, We're very clean The Kitchen and
dinlHg room were dark but large rooms.
and the food is well cooked ard en- far
as could see of the very best quaiftg
FOR breakfast they have oatmeal baked
DeanS, white rolls, butter and coffee. for
1uhob' NASH, bread ard tea: for dinner
| roast beef, or scailoDed oysters, DGta.
Toes, maearoni, peas. bread and dessert
MOI haIf bad, as you see AS | did not
see the poyS at dinner cannot tel Won
ABOUT their table manners They GER
| talnly had the appearance of being we,I
| lows fe
| Coming from here over the can.n.,s T
entered the large college building. Wrhara
are the class rooms and the Office IF ~
president and secretary. Like CLARK hail
| TINS building is also old and out of iare
put 1t is SefV nS Il great purpose II
mas already doHe wonderful work All
/ over ire broad land are hundreds of bIect
men ana women who learned lessons in
TINS Old yellow building which yJooi.s for
! an the world like the old Webster scbaoI
mouse III st. Paul. Dr. Rankin had In
| Vlted me to attend one of his classes h,,t
as l had come late I did not wish 10 5fs
! tarb him then and decided to on n1nr
| 10 me girls house at Miner hall This
| bIilding is newer than the Other and 'ii -
-drge and we'll iighted and has Wide
Pofcnes over which many vines are
| c1mblng. Here the girls sit and read
/ OF sew, and pay no attention whatever
To peoplI Iassing. Many of these ,gfri4
IRE so white that I felt sure they must
pe WHIT Sirs who lad been given sne-
CIal petlffSst n to erter the college bIt
iI appears That / am wrong ana tSat
| they are ut least part negro.
| Robertson Howard Jr.