The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-09

your lack of experience and limited range
OF view viii allow you to have only a
modest view at this period of life But
be the difficulties as they may, one thing
is true: the race problem is a moral ques
ton, not an industrial question, not a
political question, not a social question
but the old question that belongs to
every race of the earth. the question OF a
human spirit working out its destiny along
i the lines OF human evolution, 1t rs 1.-THE
question OF the right of a human beng to
rise from the lower points OF life to the
higher levels of it. This IS the same
/ problem at which all people have worked,
and at which the Anglo Saxon race must
continue to work So the negro mas
/ himself at a low point in the scale OF NE,
land true to the voice OF the human soul
/ he wants to get up higher, not that ne
/ may go in the society of other races Dut
/ that he may be fit to associate Wlth nm
self. In the supreme struggle the political
will reach no hand out to him, the social
spirit will give no nelp. the Industrial
spirit will lend no assistance, but the
God-spirit should speak to him helping
word and reach out to him a httlng hand.
This race issue will test the moral quality
Of this nation. and if it finds no settlement
the failure will be a moral failure and
show the point at which our civilization
broke down for the lack of moral
strength.
ct is well to emphasize to young col
lege graduates the truth that the worlds
issues are moral issues; that the power
that viii lift the earth toward its right
Z L,
to the truth to fail to remind you that
the source of this power is God. 1t has
been sent into the world embodied in the
person of His Son. and is az work among
men, redeeming them and working out
the ideals of God 1t is when the moral
side of one soul is baptized with the spirit
of God that there comes out of the soul
of man the mighty power of God 1t is
not in miracle, nor i'm creed nor in fast
forms that this spirit comes to men. but
by breathings that warm the spirit of
man. that inspire him to act, that lift him
out of the mists of prejudices, and make
him willing to work at the hardest tasks.
1t is this endowment that educated men
need and should have: it is this spirit
breathed into learning that makes it a saw
ing force: it is the lack of this spirit
that makes education an evil; it is this
spirit you must seek and cultivate if you
would fill the highest place in bringing
to pass the things that should be-"
MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES.
The annual meeting of the trustees was
held in the office of the president at Trini-
ty College this afternoon at O'Clock The
meeting was largely attended. 1t was
presided over by Mr. James II. Southgate,
president Of the board. The leading fea
ture of the meeting was the annual re-
port of the President. This report COW
cred what the college has done during the
year, what it is now doing and the needs
OF the college for future work 1t is an
document, and especially so to
the hosts throughout the State, who al
ways have the progress of the college at
heart. The material portion is as follows:
Gentlemen: The President of the coll
lege has the honor to submit to you his
official report for the academic year.
1902 0s.
ATTENDANCE.
During the year there have been en-
rolled in the college and Trinity Park
High School 364 students, 203 in the col
lege and 161 in the high school This is
an increase Of more than is per cent over
the preceding academic year. Among the
students in attendance during the current
year are representatives from North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida
Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, New
York, California and Japan. The increase
in the attendance upon a college may, or
may not, indicate healthy growth Of
education. If methods are employed that
appeal to other than the purest education
al motives, or if the standards of en-
trance are lowered. and special courses
greatly multiplied. which make possible
the admission of a class of students who
are unfit for college work, then the in
crease cannot be regarded as Indicative Of
educational progress If, however. the in
crease comes through proper standards and
methods of work, it does indicate a.
healthy growth of desire for college
training.
There has been at Trinity a constant
strengthening rather than relaxation in
the requirements for entrance to college
and IN the quality of work done in the
college Therefore the increase in attend
ance IS cause for congratulation. 1t not
only indicates that there are more young
men IN college but that there is an in
crease IN the number of young men who
are willing to take the time to prepare
themselves properly for successful college
work. The faculty has added geometry
to the entrance requirements in mathe-
matics. However, this requirement will
not go into effect till the beginning of
the academic year 19O4I05.
PREPARATORY SCHOOLS
There is no doubt that progress has
been made in primary and secondary edu-
cation; but it frequently happens that
progress and improvement fail to conserve
all the good that belonged to former sys-
tens and methods. 1t cannot be denied
that the methods and aims of 1.-THE old log
school house" and the textbooks used in
them, in spite of glaring DEFICIENCIES, pro-
duced results of the highest worth in
the education of youth The student en-
tering college today lacks the power of
close and persistent application to task
which was ono Of tbp chief rac,,ltc aiu,a1