The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-04-09

In the trend of events that have so
vividly marked the progress made by
the advance guard of Northern phi
lanthropists and missionaries who
sacrificed much, bore more, and suf-
fered untold persecution in order to
bring morality, education and culture
after the Emancipation into what was
commonly known as the ignorant
South, has been watched from far
and near, from home and abroad, by
individuals and nations to see just
what the outcome would be, and
whether the Negro, who was the OBJ
iect of this movement, begun years
ago, would really profit by the sacri-
fees made and the philanthropic ef-
forts put forth. Any one who wit
messed the commencement exercise
last night at the Ryman Auditorium
and saw that unusually large class
of men and women identified with
and members of the race of people
for whom these efforts were made,
could not refrain from saying that
much good had been done, a noble
task performed. a good fight made,
and a gallant victory achieved for the
cause of education. 1t would take
many pages of closely printed matter
to adequately describe the success
achieved and the blessings brought
about by such schools as Meharry
Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical
College, The very name Meharry has
crnO O1If
the length and breadth of this coun-
try. It has gone out into the islands
of the sea, down into Mexico, and
the countries of South America as the
enrolment this year indicates. Stu
dents from South America and differ
ent groups of the Antilles have become
so numerous that the school is equally
as we'll known in st. Kits, Barba-
does, or the other islands as it is in
the states of the Union. An enroll
ment during the past school year of
nearly five hundred students is an eX-
celent testimonial of the growing pop
uularity of an institution that stands
at the ton of all medical schools.
This is the enviable record that was
made and proclaimed during the
year 1908, a fact that cannot be de-
MED. record worthy of holding. 1t
has been said time and again that
in order to know a people you must
either live or become one of them. The
venerable Dean of Meharry, whose
life has been spent with the Negro
in the South attests this fact. He
attributes the increased attendance
each year to the fact that the faculty
of the school is principally made NJ
of men and women of the race, guided
by that class of whites that conse
Grated their lives to the service of our
people. The faculty, both white and
colored, by its harmonious work has
brought about remarkable results. II
was apnarenflv Onlv yesterday in
the minds of the older people when
the school was in it's infancy To-day
Il towers heavenward IN ;he estima
tion of thousands, and apparently II
will only be the morrow before il
will spread out almost into the un
known, so large and so universal vii
it have grown. This will be made
possible no doubt by the contemplated
improvements, the most notable oi
which will be the building of a hos
pital that will be commensurate botf
in building and equipment with the
standing and reputation of the college
While the city enjoys two distinctly
Negro HOSPITALS, the school feels the
need of one that can afford its in