The Colorado statesman., 1909-05-15

80 year had been &
promised to him,
and when he and his wife came to
the college building they found -
pare unfinished structure There 49,
was roof over it and the four walls
but little else Birds nestled in the -
rafters, pigs and goats-the character 1 l -;
lstic fauna of suburban Austin-ouar- l lNEe5
relied and rooted and butted and slept l IH3EE
IN the shelter of the still open base M
ment IHiI,TT11TT
There was not stick of furniture l VE.lW
In the place. No heat no light no Nl
peds, no dishes. chairs even To
add to these material troubles So MI ~
pills appeared the first day-before Z
the professor and his wife had had a -
chance to unlock their trunks or
thls number Al from out in the -
country They had to be fed and
lodged as well taught All these l.
young negroes had been carried away
by the announcement that had RIM .xMksss
from lip to lip all through that region #sSssS
that the college was going to onon 6WYx@#
that day. P 49, 3g4Ns
Inc new college presidents fret UIEEfxNAEE
uay was a strenuous one Probably mo 8NAAz4
other head of just born UNIVERSITY l~-sSsAaN1
ever saw the like. Some of tbe s+r sazszzz
oehts brought small trunks on thor
shoulders. Others had their posses =
slons IN boxes and sacks The nrasi
dent assembled them in one of tho S,eO00
Dig bare rooms and gave them a brief -
taIk They sat on their trunks and -, a., a.,
After he had Gained their fears tbo+ =, nooi'
nisht not be open after all the president Loft
len ana set out to get, and get quickly soma
" wy uHhss that were most needed The people
VINO lived near the college responded 1ibaraiv
fhe president returned with a ing of moIassos
and IA loaves of bread, and went bacl IN oct = az
ue stove which was the first contribution that
WAS onered him in the first house he went 10
rms stove round barrelshaped galvanized iron
afalr, is still preserved and treasured though
IL is no longer used. They built a fire for tho
evening was chill, and seated on the floor the
college president, his wife and the students ate
'henr pread ana molasses and We're undiscouraged
mat was the beginning-the first lesson that
President Lovinggood who since has become tho
Booker Washington of the southwest-had in the
great art OF begging. Every college president
from the biggest universities down to the hmm
plesL mas TO be an accomplished beggar. The
more money he can get for his college the bigger
man ne Is IN the educational world and the better
Htted TO mead university. By what he has ac-
complished since Lovnggood has shown that he
possesses IN truly remarkable degree this great
est of all the necessary arts-one that stands
higher than any in the curricuum-the art of
begging
When the college president and his pupils got
up the next morning they found that during the
night some vandals had amused themselves by
breaking bottles of ink against the walls of
the building and defacing them. Windows had
been broken and the whole place looked even
more desolate than it had at first But Loving
good undaunted. He set about getting at
the things he needed most. He begged
pennies and nickels and dimes from the negro
population of Austin. He organized one social"
after another to get the furniture that was re-
CURED The second evening there a Chair
social" People desiring to attend had to bring
chair as a ticket of admission. The college
got 81 chairs in this way. sheet and pillow
entertainment" dish social" laundry
equipment fair" and lot of other entertainments
to get the supplies they needed followed with the
shortest of intervals between. Temporary rooms
for dining hall and kitchen were prepared. Aged
made beds ready for students with their own
hands.
Saturday after Saturday" says President Low
inggood, these came, each with their
small earnings tied in little piece of CLOTH di-
vided them with the school, knet with me and
prayed for the school and went their way. Week
after week aged colored laborer Richard
Woods, came and gave of his meager earnings.
He still comes, and his gifts have amounted al
ready to more than $3.50"
Such is the history of the beginning of the
for negro youths. To-day SIT students live and
study in group of handsome buildings. Eleven
years ago there was neither school scholars
only the land and the foundation walls. Loving.
goods ability and indomitable courage have
wrought the change. 1t is history of hardship.
He has done even more than to build up college.
His successful solution of the race problem in the
center of a cotton section larger than New Eng
land. where the coored population is more than