The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-05-12

.n Ane1 o"I oh tnelr trunks and the floor
AFTER ne mad Gained their fears that the college
might not be open after all the nresidon+ 1ef+
them and set out to get, and get quickly some
Oh the thlhgs that were most needed The people
VINO lived near the college responded literally
Inc president returned with jig of molasses
and IA loaves of bread, and went back to get lit
tie stove which was the first contribution that
offered him in the first house he wont to
This stove, round, barrel-shaped galvanized iron
alfalr, is still preserved, and treasured though
1t is no longer used They built fire for the
evening was chill and seated on the floor, the
college president, his wife and the students ate
their bread and molasses and were undiscouraged
mat was the beginnng-the first lesson that
President Lovinggood, who since has become the
Booker Washington of the southwest-had in the
great art of begging. Every college president
from the biggest universities down to the hum
blest, has to be an accomplished beggar The
more money he can get for his college the bigger
man he is in the educational world and the better
fitted to head university BY what he has ac-
compshed since Lovinggood 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 curriculunl-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 desoate than it had at first But Loving
good was undaunted. He set about getting at
once 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-
quired. The second evening there was "chair
| social" People desiring to attend had to bring
a chair ticket of admission. The college
got 81 chairs in this way. A "sheet and pillow
case entertainment dish social" laundry
equipment fair" and a lot of other entertainments
| to get the supplies they needed followed with the
| shortest of intervals between. Temporary rooms
| for dining hall and kitchen prepared Aged
| colored washerwomen with bedding and
| made beds ready for students with their own
| handG.
Saturday after Saturday" says President Low
| nggood, these women came each with their
small earnings tied in little piece of CLOTH d.
vided them with the school, knelt with me and
! prayed for the school and went their way. Week
after week aged coored laborer, Richard
| Woods and gave of his meager earnings.
| He still! comes and his gifts have amounted al
ready to more than $780,
Such is the history of the beginning of the
Samuel Huston college at Austin. Tex.-a school
for negro youths. To-day SIT students live and
study in group Of handsome buildings. Eleven
years ago there was neither school nor 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 problem in the
center of cotton section larger than New Eng
! land, where the colored population is more than
million, is printed on every letter and every bit