The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-07-26
HOW A NEGRO BOY
won A VICTORY
FOR HARVARD.
HOW ANOTHER TOOK CLASS HON.
oRs-How ANOTHER BECAME
A PRIEST.
And How Others Of the coIored Race
Have Achieved Distinguished Hon.
ors Recently.

William c. Matthews, Harvard
baseball champion.
Roscoe Conklin Bruce, Haryard's
star orator.
Henry o. Tanner, artist who has
won fame in Paris.
w. H. Lewis, famous center rush of
Harvard eleven.
j. Harry Dorsey, recently ordained
Catholic priest.
Harvard Universitys prize orator is
a full-blooded negro.
The hero of the Cambridge seat Of
learning at this moment is a negro,
right-felder of the Crimson's nine
whose superb work won the victory
from Yale the other day in the furi.
our battle on the diamond.
A negro has recently been ordained
a priest of the Roman Catholic
church by Cardinal Gibbons.
In the Paris Salon a picture by a
Philadelphia negro hangs with others
of the years best creations of the
brush, the second of his works so hon.
ored.
The daughter of a slave whose
ability, learning and high purpose
have made him famous and rendered
him great factor In the uplifting OF
his race-Booker T. Washington
holds, by her grace and talents, a
high position among her white sis.
ters at Wellesley college, one OF the
foremost educational institutions OF
the country.
A negro, w. H. Lewis, has become
leading authority on football, and as
coach has no superior. He was the
most celebrated centre rush of the
Harvard eleven. and the Boston bar
is proud of him as a brilliant mem.
ber.
Harvard's Star Orator.
These are a few of the recent no.
table indications of the remarkable
progress which is being made by the
negro race in various fields of intel
lectual, artistic and physical activity
in the United States. And on this roll
of honor must also be written, at or
near the top, the name of Roscoe
Conkling Bruce, who last month was
the star orator Of the graduating class
of Harvard.
His father was Senator Blanch X
Bruce, of Mississippi, one time regis
trar of the United States treasury and
leader until his death of American
negroes in education and politics.
When Senator Bruce went to the
senate Senator Roscoe Conkling, of al
the august body, was the only one to
do him the courtesy of escorting him
to the president and to his seat
In greatful memory of this act OF
kindness Mr.. Bruce gave to his first
son the name of the New Yorb
statesman.
ship against P. E. Fitzpatrick, OF Bos
Young Bruce won the class orator
ton, a brilliant speaker. His address
was an exposition OF what he pur
posed that his life work should be
namely, helping his race in the soutf
to higher and better things.
At the Lincoln day observance al
Harvard in February last Bruce
spoke on thes tatus of the black man
summing up his theories in these
words:
"The most effective way, IL see IT,
10 reach the negro agriculturist, 70
emancipate him from ignorance and
unthrift. is to distribute through the
rural districts men and women trained
in industrial schools.
sruce's Famous Victory.
"The moral enthusiasm which In
snired the north in 1865 now inspires
the north to join hands with the
south to emancipate the negro by the
economical progress of education and
education that makes men carpenters
and carpenters men.
Bruce won the coveted oratoriea
,onor nv a vote OF 269 10 100, and was
denounced one of the finest speakers
that the old university had ever mac
within it's walls. ~
In the Harvard-Yale debate of 1906
harvard carried OF the prize and j
w,s due to the brilliant oratory o.
p-uce that the victory went to Cam
r-sdgs After the debate a larg'
crowd gathered outside his room an'