The Washington bee., 1907-06-08
ROSCOE CONKLING BRUCE.

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ROSCOE CONKLING BRUCE.
At the last meeting of the Board of
Education Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce
was appointed Assistant Superintendent
Of Schools of the District of Columbia.
Mr.. Bruce is a graduate of the High
School in this city and Harvard Callege,
Cambridge, Mass. He was born in this
city, hence he is a native Washingtonian
After his graduation from Harvard Col
lege he went to Tuskegee, Ala, and
taught in TuskeQee College, OF which
Prof Booker T Washington Is princi-
pal While at Harvard he won many
prizes in oratory, in which art he is the
master In eloquence he takes after his
illustrious father, who was not only an
orator but a sound reasoner. Young
Roscoe, in polite and refined manners,
takes after his mother. Indeed, both his
father and mother were the personihca-
ton of refinement. Mrs. Bruce deserves
credit for the education of her son at
Harvard University. He was attending
that school at the time of his fathers
death, and after his funeral he returned
to Harvard and Mrs. Bruce went to
Tuskegee and taught school there under
the principalship of Prof Washington,
at the same time conducting the cotton
plantation in Mississippi that had been
left by her husband No woman was
more persevering than Mrs. Bruce. She
demonstrated a womanly determination
by keeping her young and only son at
Harvard till he had graduated. Young
Roscoe then went to Tuskegee and taught
successfully in that institution. His
mother then resigned and returned to the
cotton plantation of her late husband
in Mississippi A few years ago Mr..
Bruce married a highly accomplished
young lady in this city, who has brought
to him two sweet and interesting chill
dren
The appointment of Mr.. Bruce to his
present position is due to Mrs Mary
Church Terrell, a member of the Board
of Education She first recommended
him for supervising principal which he
has held not quite year. 1t was
question while the superintendency was
being discussed whether it would go to
Prof. Du Bois of Atlanta, Prof. L. b.
Moore of Harvard University, or Prof.
H. NJ. Brown of Cheney, Pa. Any of
the above would have been acceptable
to the people especially Prof Brown,
who Is a man of executive ability and
broad experience. 1t has always been
| the policy of former school officers to
go on the outside and import talent in
the city in preference to home talent. 1t
is seldom that home talent is recognized,
but in this case Mrs Terrell and the
Board of Education are to be congratu-
lated.
CHANGES IN THE SCHOOL
The decision of the Supreme Court
in the case of Miss Mary Nalle is no
more than what The Bee has predicted
from time to time that the Board OF
Education had power to remove teachers
for incompetency without an investiga-
ton. Justice Anderson is one of the
fairest judges upon the bench of the
Supreme Court of the District of Co
lumbia, and is a man who has no pre-
iudice. Assistant District Attorney Nc
, Namara is a polished gentleman. and
very careful in rendering decisions de-
tinng the power of the Board of Educa-
ton. 1t is believed that the changes
in the schools will be beneficial to the
system, and in the future the colored
schools in the District of Columbia will
command the admiration of the world.
BOOKER WASHINGTON'S PLANS.
The house at Weymouth, which for
some years has been the summer home
of Booker T. Washington, has been
rented, and the negro educator will this
year be the neighbor of President Roose-
velt on Long Island MIR. Washing
ton was in Boston recently and before
leaving denied that the desire to be
near the President had anything what
ever to do with determining the loca-
tion of his summer home.
INVESTIGATE ARMSTRONG.
The committee on investigation will
take up the charges against DR., w.
Bruce Evans, A. w. Craig and David
L. Monroe. At the board meeting on
Wednesday Mr.. Atwood asked whether
the charges in the Armstrong Manual
Training School case were to be inves-
tigated.