Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-05-15

After he had Gained their fears that H. oo1I"r IT,.
might not be open after all the president Lea
tnem and set out to get, and get ouicklv son,e
OF the things that were most needed Tba noor,1o
who lived near the college responded Iibera1I,
- piesiuehl returned with jug of molasses
anu II loaVes OF bread, and went back to get a lit
tie stove which the first contribn+ion +ha+
was oHered him in the first house he went to
ms stove round barre[shaped galvanized iron
AFFAIR, is still preserved and treasured tbonoh
II is no longer used. They built fire for the
evening was chill, and seated on the floor the
coheee president, his wife and the students ate
their Dreao ana molaSses and were undiscouraeed
That was the beginning-the first lesson that
PRESIDENT LoV1nggood, 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
Dlest mas to be an accomplished beggar. The
more money he 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
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
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 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 Social
aIler anOtner 10 get the furniture that
CURED. The second evening there a chair
social People desiring to attend had bring
chair ticket of admission The college
got 81 chairs in this A sheet and pillow
case entertainment" dish social" a 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 prepared Aged
colored washerwomen with bedding and
made beds ready for students with their own
hands.
Saturday after Saturday" says President Low
inggood, these women came each with their
small earnings tied in a little piece of CLOTH di-
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 $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 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 more than to build up college
| His successful solution of the problem in the
/ center of a cotton section larger than New Eng
| land. where the colored population is more than
million. is printed on every letter and every bit