The Washington bee., 1907-11-23

with slight wave of the hand, Mr.. Car
negie said that his presence seemed to
him Proyidential, as he was totally IN
aware Of the exercises TO be held at
Howard when he came to Washington
Don't Worry" Says Carnegie.
This nation never failed to solve any
problem placed before it." he said, and
It will not fail in regard to the Negro
problem. In fact, most of the problems
about which anxious politicians" he
added, turning to President Roosevelt
and bowling gracefully, worry, solve
themselves. We try to settle problems
hundred years ahead Of US, and long
before that time the problems are gone.
This nation will be revered for solving
the problem of the slaves that were.
men that are to be- Don't worry about
the Negro"
Commissioner of Education Brown
spoke of the twofold nature of univer-
sity, as an institution of learning and
of professional training. He declared
that the best thing which science has
to teach is a moral attitude toward truth,
and that the best thing in professional
training is likewise a moral attitude and
choice.
Secretary Garfield, under whose de-
partment the supervision Of Howard
University comes, declared that it IS his
desire to make closer the relation be-
tween his branch of the Federal Gov
ernment and the institution Of learning.
He said that education has not received
from the Federal Government the aid
which it should have, and that the Gov
ernment has in this city, with its large
colored population, great opportunity
for noble work
Rev. Dr. John w. E. Bowen spoke OF
the necessity of the higher education
for the Negro so as to give him the
ability to learn to think accurately to
appreciate the value OF character, and
the true meaning of culture
Dr. ThirkieIds inaugural.
In his inaugural address Rev. DR..
Thirkield said that Howard University
opens to any man of any race the op-
portunity TO unfold the best and divinest
in him, so far as broad educational op-
portunity is a help TO this end.
Every man has in him values above
all market price" said DR.. Thirkield.
This is the Democratic ideal. Democ-
racy bears witness to the capacity of the
downmost man. There are in American
history numberless examples Of the fact
that the common man has stored up in
him uncommon powers for highest life
and service to man. Lincoln, Grantand
Douglass are conspicuous examples.
This is the meaning of equality-not
that every man in capacity IS the equal
Of every other man, Or that there IS
any such thing as equality of gifts and
powers, for it is a truism that Liberty
leads to inequality based on natural diff
ferences of capacity and application
among men 1t is rather that IN
Democracy every man has a right TO
equality of opportunity, may claim
equal right with every other man TO a
free embodiment of all the powers and
possibilities that are stored up in him;
that there are diyersities of gifts, but
one spirit of freedom; that no artificial
barrier shall be placed in the way OF
any man; that in civil life there shall
be not a spirit of repression, but OF
broad and generous recognition. How
ard University stands for just this.
The needs and claims of the Negro
for such an education as will draw
forth the entire man to his best IS
grounded in his humanity" he contln-
ued. The demands of modern soci-
ology are for social consciousness that
shall he characterized by threefOld con-
yiction of essential likeness of men, OF
the mutual influence of men, and OF
the value and sacredness of the per-
J SON. This means that all men should
be sons of God and brothers of their
fellow men; that no race is left with
out witness of the divine in mental and
moral capacity; that men are 50 bound
up together that education must be for
all, and that the personality of every
man is sacred.
For forty years strong, brave men
men with courage equal to their lofty
ideals for a race-have builded their
thought and life into the professional
schools of Howard University. Their
graduates are now constructive helpers
and healers of their fellow-men. These
schools were never so crowded. The
cali for trained men was never so urg-
enr The demand now is imperative for
larger equipment if the urgent needs Of
a race are to be answered"