The Julesburg grit-advocate. (Julesburg, Colo.) 1907-1972, 1909-05-14

A"ey s@e On their trunks and the floor
AFTER he had Gained their fears that the coII.-.
might not be open after all the pre.ident lat
tnem ana set out to get and get quickly. some
on the Things that were most needed The peonle
who lived near the college responded literally.
The president returned with jug of molasses
sno IL losVes OF bread, and went back to get lit
ue stove which was the first contribution that
was offered him in the first house he went to-
This stove, round, barrelshaped galvanized iron
ahair. 70 still preserved, and treasured though
1t 10 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 AID molasses and were undiscouraked,
That was the beginning-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 besgar. The
more money he can get for his college the bigger
man he IL in the educational world and the better
dttcd to head = university. By what he has &C.
complished 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 curriculum-the art of
begging.
When the college president and his pupils got
up the next morning they found that during the
~pight some vandas had amused themselves by
breaking bottles Of ink against the walls OF
the building and defacng them. Windows had
been broken and the whole place looked even
more desolate than 1t 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
. chair rs q ticket Of admission The college
got 81 chairs in this way. sheet and pillow
case entertainment" dish social laundry
equipment fair" and a lot of other entertainments
to ret the supplies they needed followed with the
shortest of intervals between Temporary rooms
for dining hall and kitchen were prepared Aged
colored vasherwomen came with bedding and
made beds ready for students with their own
hands.
Saturday after Saturday" says President Low
inEKood, these women came, each with tneir
small earnings tied in little piece OF ciotn' di
vided them with the school. knelt with me ana
prayed for the school and went their way week
after week an aged colored laborer, Ricnaro
Woods came and gave us of his meager earnings
He still comes, and his gifts have amounted III
ready to more than $3.50"
Such 10 the history Of the beginning OF the
Samuel Huston college at Austin. Tex-a school
for negro youths. To-day SIT students i've anu
study in a group of handsome buildings. Eleven
years ago there was neither school nor scnoiars-
only the land and the foundation walls. Loslns-
Goods ability and indomitable courage nase
wrought the change 1t Is history Oh harosnip'
/ He has done even more than to build up cohese'
Ills successfu solution of the race problem IN tne
center of q cotton section larger than ne" rug
Nand where the colored population Is more tnsn
million Il printed ON every letter ana every vi