The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-20
FROM HARVARD TO TUsKEGEE.
The Brilliant Young COIOred Man
Bruce VIII Teach His People.
WASHINGTON Post.

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We are in receipt of the address deliv-
cred at Harvard June 20. 1902, by Mr.. Ros-
coe Conkling Bruce, OF this city, class ora
tor for the year. Mr.. Bruce is a son of the
late Blanch X. Bruce, one time United
States senator from Mississippi. and for
several years register of the treasury. His
record at Harvard has been brilliant. Men
are not selected 70 be class orators at such
Institutes of learning save upon very high
grounds and because of very distinguished
merit. It Is safe TO assume that his rela-
tives and friends I'm Washington, the city
of his birth, are extremely proud OF him.
We learn that Mr.. Bruce intends to go
South and cast his lot with Booker I.
Washington, the famous head of the Tus-
kegee Institute in Alabama. Writing 70 a
friend in Washington, he says: Il am
eager TO do a mans part at Tuskegee."
upon TINS resolve we hasten 10 congratu-
late him.. He can render the highest pos
sible service. both TO his race and to the
state, by enlisting in the splendid propa-
gands of which Booker Washington is the
most conspicuous apostle. AS he well says
in his address: ITO uplift the PROSTATE
black South is to uplift the whole South,
and TO uplift the South is to uplift the Ma
ton" We are glad TO find, after a careful
examination Of Mr.. Bruce's grafton, that
he has not fallen into the error. so COM
mon to collegians in general, of imagining
that a university education is the universal
panacea-the one equipment for the stern
and too often cruel battle of real life. We
make a brief extract:
but in America, as everywhere else,
theory and practice are not one. The Ma
ton does not sufficiently provide technical
training. OF the 100000 American citi-
zens between the ages of fifteen and TWEEN
ty-four less than one-third OF ! per cent.
are receiving instruction in the arts and
sciences which bear directly upon their oc-
equations. By extensions of the industrial
education we may reasonably expect 10 aid
importantly the work of retaining the
submerged tenth in our great cities, lessen
ing the drain from our farms by transform
ing drudgery into intelligent labor, inspirit-
ing the mountain whites of the South, ad-
justing the negro TO a mercilessly COM
p~etitive civilization, increasing the eficien-
cy and happiness Of American workingmen
and workiEgwomen, giving rich and poor
a wholesome respect for work and workers,
furnishing the Republic citizens Of re-
source"
Mr.. Bruce has chosen well. He has
adopted a calling I'm which he can do more
good for society in general and his own
people in particular than all the negro poll
ticians and oficehOlders in the country put
together. He goes forth to teach the only
true -gospel-whether for the whites or for
the blacks-the gospel of intelligent and
productive industry. Neither races nor in
dividuals have ever risen by virtue Of
clamor or complaint. Men do not obtain
recognition by demanding il or crying
for IT. Respect. esteem, honor, Difference
come 70 them unasked as the inevitable
harvest OF achievement. The teacher who
points the way to this contamination is a
benefactor to his generation.