Evening star., 1907-11-16
Mr.. CARNEGIE SCORES
Accompanies President to In
staIlation Ceremonies
AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY
Nations Chief Executive Delivers
Congratulatory Address.
REVIEW FORTY YEARS WORK
Large Audience at Rankin Chapel,
Where the Exercises Were
Held-The Guests.
REVIEW FORTY YEARS WORK

The problem fifty years ago was how
| to get rid of the negro. The problem of
! today is how to get more OF them
! The foregoing statement made by An
/ drew Carnegie. the millionaire iron mas
! ter following the address of President
! Roosevelt at the installation of Rev
/ DR.. Wilbur Patterson Thirkield as presi-
dent of Howard University yesterday aft
! ernoon. called forth a storm of applause.
| The ceremonies of installation were held
| in Rankin Chapel. as stated in The Star
! yesterday, and the presence of Mr. Car
negie, who came with President Roose-
welt. was unexpected.
1T seems" Mr.. Carnegie said, that
some higher power brings me here. /
| came a surprise and now l can say
that l have seen the glory of the Lord "
| President Roosevelt's address, as well
as those of the other speakers, reflected
| pronounced optimism as to the future of
| the negro rae in this country. Atten-
| tion was called to the fact that the Cele-
! hration was d joint one, marking both the
! installation of President Thirkied and
| the fortieth anniversary OF the founding
of Howard University Justice job Bar
nard the presiding officer. said that forty
years ago the first meeting of the pre-
/ paratOTN school OF the university was
| held in frame shanty at Pomeroy
! street and the 1th street road, formerly
| used as drinking and gambling resort.
! There were but five students present.
From that small beginning. Ae said, has
grown the present magnificent institution
Of learning.
President Roosevelt Introduced.
In Introducing President Roosevelt to
the large audience. Justice Barnard de-
scribed him as "a man known the world
oyer as favoring equal rights for all men.
Not alone the right to have an education
Of the head. the heart and the hand. but
an education productive of men who will
do things.
President Roosevelt admitted the hard
ships encountered by the negro in his
fforts toward advancement, but urged
that they be looked upon rather as
privilege and stimulating great effort
for which the reward would be equally
great.
President Roosevelt spoke as follows:
Judge Barnard, ladies and gentlemen,
and especially you, graduates and under
graduates of this institution of learning:
Il am glad to have the chance to come
before you and say word of greeting
and of Godspeed today. This day of your
installation, Mr.. President commentaries
the fortieth anniversary of the founding
of this institution. There has been much
Of sorrow and disappointment that have
but of all races during that forty years;
and sometimes in looking back we fail to
realiZe all the progress that has been
made.
In Forty Years.
Let me call attention to just two
facts. During these forty years, practi-
cally during the time that has elapsed
since the emancipation proclamation. the
colored citizens of the United States have
accumulated property until now they
have. all told. some three hundred and
fifty million dollars worth of taxable
property in this country. During the same
forty years they have been making for
themselves homes until now there are
five hundred thousand homes owned and
occupied by the colored citizens of our
country When man and woman grow
TO own and occupy their own home, 1t is
proof positive that they have made long
strides forward along the path of good
citizenship. The material basis is not
everything, but it is Indispensable
prerequisite to moving upward in the life
Of decent citizenship; and the colorcd
man, when he acquires property, ac-
quires home, has taken that indispensa-
ole first step, and long, long step. Upon
that material basis must be built the
structure of the higher life, and this
Institution has been devoted throughout
its career to turning out men and women
who should be teachers and helpers of
their own people, toward this higher life.
You have close upon three thousand
graduates; 1 think twenty-seven hun
dred is the exact number. Last year You
had in all one thousand students, repre-
senting thirty-two of our own states and
territories, and about ninety students
from other countries. OF these, in the
neighborhood of seventy, came from the
British West Indies, which would alone
give US a right to expect the presence
mere of one who would come in any
event because he is interested deeply and
genuinely in every movement for the ben
fit of mankind-Mr. Bryce, the British
amba ssador.