The Washington bee., 1907-11-30

than training in mental strength and
acuteness. 1t is the broadening of the
whole man, so that he takes in, appro-
PIRATES and finds power to use the best
that has been thought and done-all
knowledge for his own good and that
of others. Such an education makes for
breadth of view, sanity, the scientific
spirit, power of initiative, and dyil,
moral and economic efficiency.
Any other some of education is rot
ten at the core.
Any broad educational program will
6nd place for practical scientific and
industrial training; will recognize, With
President Elliott, the mental and moral
as we'll as the practical value of train
ing in handicraft; will teach men not
to get out of work, but to get more out
of their work; that is, equip them for
power and progress in labor. Besides
its direct contribution to the comfort
and uplift of the home and to efficiency
in farm and shop, industrial training
teaches accuracy, patience, forethought
skill And this is education.
While Efficient, industrial Training
Alone Is Not Sufficient
for the rounded and complete life of
any people. 1t is essential that all men
be trained to make a living. 1t is inn
perative that men also be trained TO
make life. In this age of overmaster-
ing material tendencies, there is call for
teaching that shall emphasize the prin-
ciple that a mans life consisteth not
in the abundance of things which he
possesseth.
If the Negro race is to come to real
freedom and true spiritual power and
progress; if it is ever to find its place
in the Kingdom-which is not mere meat
and drink, but righteousness, peace and
JOY, in holiness of spirit.
Education InvoIaes Obligation
that their election is not to privilege
alone or TO mere place and power above
men, but rather to service and sacrifice
for downmost man.
Higher Training for Professions
In this spirit should the mission Of
Howard University to the higher educa-
tion of a race be conceived and carried
out. To such institutions is committed
the preparations of the teachers, preach
ers, physicians, lawyers, and moral lead
ers of a people who, called not to be
ministered unto, but to minister, may
give their lives ransom for many. The
College of Arts and Sciences in the
Capital of the Nation, with the libraries,
museums, and the scientific and other
facilities ministering to culture and 10
scholarship, furnishes the finest center
or the broadest education as basis
for largest life and the highest pro-
fessional training of the leaders Of a
race who number over ten million ma
tive-born American citizens.
Within the next decades they are to
shape the methods and determine the
of young people in training for life.
Without trained teachers this segrega-
ton means inferior schools. The nor
NAL schools available for colored teach
ers are few and often inadequate There
fore the imperative call for thorough
ly equipped College for Teachers here
at the center of the nation that shall
at small cost give the most approved
and effective modern training to the
teachers of a people.
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
call for trained men was never so urg-
ent.
The School of Medicine opened in
1868, has sent forth 1917 trained grad
yates. The high standard and efhclen-
cv of this school are acknowledged by
the profession. The united terms CT
service of nine of the senior faculty who
are still teaching is over two hundred
and sixty years. Their work has affect
ed the physical well being Of multitudes
in the nation. The courses OF study and
methods of instruction are abreast OF
the latests cientifc standards.
The completion of the Freedmen S
Hospital, for which the University has
ceded to the government valuable park
of eleven acres, gives clinical facilities
unsurpassed. This is the only large
hospital with modern appliances that IS
open. in a broad way to the colored
physician or student. Northern colleges
do not now give him the welcome once
cordially extended. While there is one
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