Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-22
COLORED NIgHT SCHOOL
Addresses by Messrs. James F. Bundy,
r. n. Terrell and BOY Riordan
Musical Features.

A large audience gathered at NJ street
High School last Friday evening to witness
the exercises attending the opening of the
colored night schoolsfbf the District. Mr..
James F. Bundy Of the board Of education
presided during the evening and an enter
tanning program was rendered.
One Of the features Of the event was
spelling match, in which five students from
each Of three schools participated. The
schools represented were Cook, Randall and
Stevens. The winner of the spelling match
was Mr.. Cook, from the Cook school. and
he was presented with beautiful banner
by DR.. Montgomery. The banner will re-
main at the Cook school until another spell
ing contest decides otherwise.
Addresses were made during the evening
by Mr.. Bundy, Mr.. r. H. Terrell and Prof.
Raymond Rtordan, and musical numbers
were rendered by Prof. John T. Layton,
Mrs. Maggie Wilson-Smoot, Miss Helen Bell
and Miss Hattie Boss.
Mr.. Bundy, in his address, spoke OF the
purpose of the night schools and of the OPP
portunities afforded young men and women
struction. Among other things he said:
1T Is indeed a compliment to the young
people who prefer to spend their evenings
after busy days work in improving their
minds and storing them with useful 1nfor-
nation, rather than wasting time in UNI
profitable and expensive pleasures. The
function of the public school is to make
better and more useful citizens, and the
night schools should find larger place in
our educational scheme for the future.
They should indeed become not merely
side issue, but an integral part of our sys-
tenn Of public instruction. There is no
class in the. community more worthy OF
public sympathy and support than those
who are willing to utilize the opportunities
thus afforded"
Mr.. Terrell's Remarks.
Mr.. Terrell. in speaking Of the night
schools, said: "The establishment of the
night school as part of the great public
school system is one of the wisest things
that has been done in connection with it..
1t gives an opportunity to those earnest
purpose upon whose shoulders is the re-
spons.bility Of caring for themselves, and
often for others, of obtaining the educa-
ton of which they would otherwise be de-
prlVed. And out of these schools of limited
opportunity have come many Of our strong
est and most useful citizens. / believe that
the very limitations of their chances for an
education have made many of them work
all the harder, and have taught them to
take advantage of every moment which can
be taken from their physical labors to cuf-
tivate the mind and ado to their store Of
knowledge. Thus they have learned one
of life's most important lessons-that a
simple, steady industry will win in the end
a result that marks the real man and the
real woman. e
Now, what do these night schools mean
for us in particular-for the negroes of our
country? They mean the education of the
hundreds now attending them and an in
spiration to thousands OF others who will
some day follow their example. More than
that. they mean the obliteration of the
moral evils contracted through long years
Of bondage and the establishment Of those
habits Of industry and virtue that will be
the inheritance of our descendants yet IN
born; and finally, they mean the ultimate
advancement of our race along all lines of
commendable endeavor'f ..... 81,