Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-22

professorship there should go at least one
assistant professorship, one instructorship
and number of assistantships, VARYING
with the nature of the professors dutieA
To endow full profesSorShfp now requires
a fund of from 100000 to 5000; to endow'
an assistant professorship $4,000 would at
present be sufficient; to endow an fnstruc-
torship 81. 600, and to endow an assistant
ship 12,500. In addition to these endow-
ments, which might bear the name of a
family or an individual, there should also
be fund--the result of numerous smaller
gifts-which should be applicable to salaries
and retiring allowances in the faculty of
arts and sciences. To accomplish the rea-
sonable objects now plainly in view, the
total sum of s2,5o0,OO0 is a moderate esti-
mate"
Students Democratic.
Notwithstanding the prevailing impress
sion that Harvard is rich mans college,
the students very democratic, and the
social laws which generation after genera
ton has enacted recognize the character
rather than the purse of the student. The
boys told me at Cambridge that money was
often handicap to student socially.
There are several millionaires' sons with
large allowances who are by no means as
popular or influential as the sons of the
poor widows. or several young men who
are working their way through college. AT
the beginning of every college year a GER
tain number of rich freshmen make their
appearance, bringing with them evidences
of wealth and luxury. which they are glad
to discard before the end of the first term
AS an illustration l was told that about
twenty of the new men who were matricu-
lated in September brought Wallets from
home with them, but only six Wallets remain
1t requires a great deal of moral stamina
in student to retain valet. 1t may add
to his comfort. but it is not conducive to
his happiness or popularity.
The boys explain that anything which
distinguishes one student from another in
such way makes him unpopular. Only a
few years ago billionaire freshman made
his appearance with assecretary, valet, but
Ter and cook. He took the most expensive
suite of rooms in college, kept a carriage
and coachman and groom, and displayed
his wealth in other directions. But he was
not happy: There was not a more unpopu-
lar man in the institution. Although he
had many good qualities, which otherwise
would have commended him to his fellow
students, he was boycOtted. He made none
of the societies and was practically driven
out of Cambridge, while a colored man was
elected class orator-the highest testimonial
that can be paid by the students to one OF
their number.
Colored Men at Harvard
Two or three colored men have been elect
ed class orators in recent years, including
Roscoe Conkling Bruce, who is now teach
ing in Booker Washington's institute at
Tuskegee, and is regarded as one of the
most brilliant men graduated at Harvard
in many years.
There are about dozen colored students
at Cambridge at present coming from diff
ferent parts of the south They make no
claims to social recognition, and none is Of
fered them: but In the class room, in the
gym and the athletic field there is
perfect equality. No colored student will
visit the rooms of white student unless
ne is especially invited. Colored students
do not expect to be admitted to the social
clubs, or to live at the same boarding
houses as the white men, although the Har-
ward base ball team threatened to leave a
hotel in Washington last summer because
the proprietor wanted Matthews, one of
their number, to take his meals in his room.
In scholarship and in athletics no distinc-
ton is made on account of color either by
the faculty or the students-white or black,
the best man wins. But no colored man
ever appears at a ball or a dinner, or any
other social function.