The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-06-06
DR.. Booker T.. Washingtoas Election
as Trustee of Howard IS Generally
Approved -
His Addition the Trustee Board Conceds be the MOI. .
full Thing Which Has Happened to tho SHpol in Year,
Roscoe Conkling Bruce Elected AssistSnt Superin-
tendent of Washington schools.,lk.. M E.
Church Politics. <ss@$. -


at once the Friendship and support OF
the best people of both races and he
soon brought order out Of chaos, with
the result that the institution has had
year OF un6xampled prosperity. The
annual report shows that the number
OF students haaiihcreased to more than
l'ooo, and That the receipts for the
year have been ST. 900 in excess of the
average OF previous years.
Standing asst does In the national
capital" said DR. Thirkfeld, land re-
lated to the government, Howard Uni.
verslty should become great nation
al university Tor tcolored people of this
and neighboriRg lands. 1t should
stand al the Center and elimination
OF the entire system of colored schools
throughout the country. It's aim
should not be culture for it's own sake,
but for the sake of service; so to
equip men through teaching and the
power of personal example that they
may go forth ofTurther the progress
OF free people, 1t stands for higher
education, for the training of those
who shall become the leaders of their
race. 1t is onesthng to train men to
make iiying,bnt the work that shall
mold future. ssAefations is the train
ing OF men to make a life"
IN this conception of the duty and
junction OF the higher education, Drs.
Washington and Thirkfield ares a unit.
Inc president OF Howard in exploit
ing the purpose and necessity of the
higher education does not underesti.
mate the Importance of the industrial
underpinning upon which the profess
slonal and intellectual classes must
depend for thekFS,very existence, and
DR.. Westinghouse taking up this sup
Elementary phase OF the work to
which his life, is consecrated, gives
concrete evidence that he does not
overlook the tact that to round out a
races greatness there must be an in
creasing number of thinkers to proper
~ marshal the massive army of doors
one element must labor in sympa-
thet1c co-opeTatfpn, with the. other to
accomplish that; which Is nearest the
hearts of the .Wisest of each. DR..
Thlrk1eld expresses himself as being
delighted to have Dr. Washington's
aid and counsel In the work of How
ard University and is confident that
there is now being ushered in an un-
mlstakable EZRA Of good feeling" that
shall rebound to the well-being of ev-
cry branch Of national and racial de-
velopment.
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The selection of MIR. Roscoe Conk
ling Bruce as ASSISTANT superintendent
of the Washington public schools, car
rying the oversight of the entire col
ored school SYSTEM, will be hailed with
pleasure by the thousands
Mxt1-
and by the COUNTLESS admirers OF the
late Senator B. e, Bruce, the best
loved Atro-American statesman next
to Frederick Dougtass and of Mrs
Josephine B. Bruce, who is justly re-
garded as a representative Of the fin
est type of the Womanhood of our
race. Mr.. Bruce Is an honor gradu-
ate Of Harvard University, a young
man of exemplary character and pos
sesses a grasp of public affairs mar
velous for one of HIS tender years
being only tWenty-eight. His early
contact with men Of national promi-
hence gave him a->maturity vouch-
safed to few Of our. boys, and his five
years as the director of the academic
department of Tuskegee Institute af-
fords him an experience that is bound
the manifold problems that will con-
front him in his new situation. He
has had a year Of preliminary train
ing in Washington this year as super
Vising pricipal, although he needed
little Of this, as he Is a product of the
system of which he is now the official
head, and is consequently familiar
with 1t from the top to bottom, and
nf o1 hn 4
possibilities-and perhaps impossible
ities-of the teaching force which he
is to control. Those and deep con
seriousness which he brings to the dis
charge Of every obligation, do not
doubt that he will prove success as
superintendent Of the Washington col
ored schools and weld them together
In the cohesive fashion that they have
81 long D""ded The task is a large
one, but Mr.. Bruce will measure w
To lift anybody on earth can do so
A new face upon the official staff OF
the colored schools Of the capital is
DR. William " TunRell, late dean OF
King Hall, the Episcopal School Of
Theology in connection with Howard
University, who assumes the supervis
ing prircipalShiD made vacant by the
retirement OF Mr.. F. l.. Cardozo. DR.
Tunnel Is man Of scholarship ant
IS experienced as an educator. Mr.
Bruce's place is filed by Prof. w. S
Montgomery, who had been assistant
superintendent for several years, bu
who Is now assigned to lower posi-
ton at his own request, on account o.
falling health.
The Manassas Industrial School a.
Manassas, Va, has. closed another pros
porous year. The graduating class
numbered sixteen, and the coin mbnce
ment address vas delivered by Supt
Roscoe Conkling Bruce, OF the Wash
ington public schools. Mr.. Leslie 2
Hill, a graduate Of Harvard, and fol
five years a member of the faculty a.
1 TnSkoPea Instit11tn rRaS elected nrin