The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-16
'NORTHROP LAUDS
IUSKEGEE SCHOOL
INSTITUTION DOES WONDERS FOR
CoLoRED RACE.
Booker T. Washington Is Looked Upon
by Educators North and South as
Moses of His People Press Reports
Give Minneapolis Man Credit at
I Wrong Time.

In the opinion Of President Cyrus
Northrop, who returned yesterday from
a months sojourn in the south, Booker
T. Washington, in his school at Tuske-
gee, is embodying ideas which will play
an important part in solving the race
the celebration of the twenty-ffth an
niversary of the founding of Tuskegee
school and he had an excellent oppor-
tunity to Judge Of the work which is
being done by Mr.. Washington.
In discussing his trip this morning
DIR. Northrop said: :" Tuskegee is a
model institution for a mixed ednca-
ton Of intellect and hand. There they
train the negro men and women to be
grade Of labor than plantation or do
nestle service; and the training is not
in professional. lines. The men are
trained to be timers, blacksmiths,. tail
ors, carpenters and ironworkers, while
the women are educated to be milliners
and dressmakers. The students are
| trained to do a kind Of skilled labor
at which they can live and live cred.
ltitably. Alternating with this system of
| hand teaching intellectual studies oc-
cupying half their time are introduced.
| Great Man Of Age, = y
Booker T. Washington, the head of
the institution, is a man of great prac-
| tical wisdom. As Mr.. Carnegie said at
Tuskegee, Judged by the distance men
have climbed, Booker r. Washington is
the greatest climber in the world to-
day From the ignorance and poverty
in which this man was born, to the posi-
ton he occupies today as superintend
emit of the education of the negro, is a
tremendous step Washington presided
| hn L~~,s% Jrr
ment, with a freedom from an attempt
Of display. and with confidence that
commended him to everybody. Allu
sions to him and his great success made
by speakers and alumni were received
with great enthusiasm by the students
'Tuskegee is a wonderfully effective
school for CARRYING out Washington
IDEA of what the negro needs-usefu
work. One Of the interesting and i'm
porta,not features connected with the in
stitution is not only the great work al
Tuskegee itself, but the fact that thu
institution is turning out men and WON
en- who are attaining various degrees o:
success in repeating the Tuskegee ex
perience. In a number of places il
Alabama and Mississippi, where the ne
groes live in large communities, schools
resembling Tuskegee have been started
and have attainedsa high degree of eff
fciency. III s.54 = 49,
1.-THE report sent out by the Asso
ciated Press that 1. referred to the en-
franchisement of the negro at the clos
of the civil war asa colossal blunde
was aemistake. President Abercrombi
Of the University of Alabama made tn
speech credited to 2me. AS matter O
fact I spoke. for only five minutes ex
: temporaneously, Il and after .-f;Williar
Lloyd, Garrison had delivered his a6
dress. II4had no yerha4o tilt with M
Garrison, and my whole; experience a
Iuskegee and in the south was most de
q During my. trip I. addressed, til
Is students and faculty Of the Universit
: Of Alabama and the citizens. Of Tusk;
} loosa and I also spoke at Atlanta I'm
4 versity. While at Atlanta I had tn
{ pleasure of meeting Joel Chandler Hal
4 ris, of "Uncle Remus' fame, and
: found him most delightful gentl'
1 man. MI "@..~-.|
e >"My trip to the south impressed M
4 as a trip to the south always does, wit
! the desirab ility of closer relations b.
i tween the people of the north and tt
d other the less bitterness will be felt.
e President Northrop has returne
e from the south entirely recovered fro
e his recent illness land is in perfe,
d health. -.-3. I'd.
r. Professor E. E. McDermott of I'll
n university faculty and Minnesota
It representative at the. Chicago meetir
" Of collegiate authorities interested =
a. the formation Of Greek letter socie1
n, composed Of students who have a
Z tanned prominence in debate and or
j. tory, returned from Chicago yesterd;
and reports that the formation of SUI
" an organization among the colleges
the west is assured Representativ
= western, Michigan, wisconsin and II
n nois attended the Chicago meeting, al
Al altho a constitution was not adopte
the representatives went on record
favoring the organization of a socie
!, which will occupy the place in debs
a ing circles now held in literary clrcl
II by Phi Beta Kappa.
e. In addition to determining upon t
1T organization Of Greek letter debati
IS fraternity, the representatives in C]
VS. cago favored the organization Of
re new debating league to include the c
W leges in the big nine represented
t. Chicago. The new league will probat
re 90 into operation at the first of ne
ne year and the debates of the Minneso
ic team will be conducted under sche
! ule to be drawn up by the new orga
IN zation. =