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with courage equal to their lofty ideals
for a race-have butided their thought
and life into the professional schools Of
| Howard University. Their graduates are
now constructive helpers and healers Of
| their fellowmen. These schools were
| never SO crowued. The call for trained
men was never so urgent. The demand
now is imperative for larger equipment If
| the urgent needs of q race are to be an
| Swered
The organization, equipment and direc-
| ton of the great colored denominations.
with membership of 2.5S2 S4s and prop
| erty valued at So. 157.1 IA, is an achieve
ment without parable. in a race only forty
years out of bondage. The minister is
| yet the center of power. To maintain
this leadership and to hold the rising gen.
| Grafton to the church. ministers of intel
| lectual breadth. clean life and spiritual
vision are required
Here Is a school of theology. with no
sectarian or UNCONVENTIONAL tests, inter-
UNCONVENTIONAL and evangelical In its
| work.
Again. here is a race of growing mil
| lions that is gaining wealth. founding
| villages. opening banks, establishing in
| dustrial enterprises. 1t is therefore self
| evident that this people must have their
| legal advisers: that broad-minded skilled
| lawyers. intent on protecting them in
| their ignorance. guiding them in their
| plans and helping them to their rights.
must be trained. This is provided for i'll
| our excellent school of law with its long
and honorable record of successful work,
| and which appeals to the confidence and
| support of those intent on the protection
and uplift of their fellowmen.
School of Medicine.
| The school of medicine opened in 1868
| has sent forth 1911 trained graduates.
| The high standard and efficiency of this
| school are acknowledged by the profess
sion. The united terms of service of
nine of the senior faculty WHO are still
teaching is over two hundred and sixty
years. Their work has affected the
physical well being of multitudes in the
nation. The courses of study and meth
DDS of instruction are abreast of the latest
scientific standards.
The completion of the Freedmen's Hos
pital, for which the university has coded
to the government a valuable park of
eleven acres, gives clinical facilities I'M
surpassed. This is the only large hos
pital with modern appliances that is open,
in broad way. to the colored physician
or student.
The thorough preparation of the negro
doctor involves the well being of both
races. The solidarity of the races in
America in relations and interests is
fixed. For veal or woe. the growing
millions are bound together. In thou
sands of communities epidemics and dis
eases in one race menace all. The fact
that consumption mortality in New Or
leans is three and one-third times great
er for colored than for white, and in St
Louis and Chicago over three times as
great, should sound the alarm. For the
study of diseases peculiar to the negro,
for the prevention of epidemics that in
volve all. for the lessening of the fright
full mortality of a race the negro ply
stefan must be trained.
The negro is fixture in our democracy. |
The four millions of yesterday will be
the twenty millions in the near tomorrow.
Trained Men Needed
The growing segregation of the races,
the awakening of a new race conscious
ness, and the forming of Independent
centers of civic and industrial life for
the negro emphasize the call for trained
men in the professions. Howard Uni
versity is organized for this work. and
calls for largest equipment TO carry out
its plans for professional training.
Howard University has body Of alum
nj numbering nearly three thousand.
The vast majority honor their alma
mater. Hundreds today are in positions
where they WELD large influence for good.
They have justified the founding and
work of the university. Were 1 to speak
for them, representing, as they do, the
higher life and aspirations Of a race. l
am sure | could best voice their atti-
tude and their appeal in the great ut-
terance of Secretary Root before the
Pan-American conference:
I'VE wish for no victories except those
of peace. We wish for no territory ex-
cept our own, and no sovereignty except
over ourselves.
I'VE wish to increase our prosperity and
to grow in wealth and wisdom of spirit. |
but our conception of the true way to
accomplish this is not to pull others down
and profit by their ruin, but to help all
friends to common prosperity and
growth that we may all become greater
and stronger together.
Let us pledge ourselves to aid each
other in the full performance of our duty
to humanity, which the acceptance of the
declaration implies. so that in time the
weakest and most unfortunate citizens
may come to march with equal step by
the side of the stronger and more fortu-
nate.
What may the nation that helped make
possible the laying of the firm fOunda-
ton of Howard University on this height
overlooking the Capitol, and that for forty
years has fostered it, rightfuily expect of
its alumni and students? Here alone the
nation touches the education of the negro
a people given by that nation the fearful
boon of freedom and lowered with the
obligations of citizenship.
What Nation Has Right to Expect
But what has the nation a right to ex-
pect of Howard men? 1 make answer
that they shall realize to the full the
meaning of education which is manhood,
and shall fulfill the mission of all true
education, namely, service.
Sons of Howard, shall you do less for
your race and for the nation, May you
in your task bravely follow him. Go forth
to sacrifice and service in peace, no less
glorious than in war with torch of truth
in thy right hand. the knowledge and