Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-21
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
| Of NATIONAL VALUE
Local Institution Doing a
Great Work ir the Uplift OF
the COI0red Race.

Howard University is increasingly DEM
onstrating its national Importance by its
work The 1,253 students in attendance
during the past year came from thirty
five states and twelve foreign countries.
Towards is a well equipped and pro-
gressive school of medicine, which had in
training last year $40 young physicians,
dentist aand pharmacists, and with it's high
requirements for admission and its
thorough courses is doing a work of i'm
measurable physical and economic value
to the whole nation. The great need
of these physicians is shown by the fact
that while in the states of Indiana Illi-
nois, Missouri and Ohio there is one
physician to every 52i people, In North
Carolina there Is one to 1870 and In
South Carolina one to every 1,346 II
the average ability of those who attend
colored patients were considered the need
would appear much greater
Teachers College Produces Results.
But valuable as is the physical basis,
the intellectual element is much more
important to the nation. No people can
reach the highest economic efficiency and
ultimately stand the severe test of mod
ern national competition If II leaves over
one-ninth of its laborers I'm comparative
ignorance and lack of intellectual de-
IvelOpment. There can be no measurement
of the value to the whole nation of the
work that Towards teachers college and
college of arts and sciences are doing
There were 80 teachers and educational
leaders I'm attendance last year.
But of even greater Importance is the
moral condition of this element in this
nation. Their moral and spiritual life
hos i,rlyln rtea hnar
physical and intellectual efficiency. How
ard is training in advanced college and
university courses a greater number OF
the intellectual and moral leaders of the
eolored race than is found in the COM
bned attendance in all the colleges
specially for this people in the nation,
and probably in the world.
Graduates Doing Yeoman Work.
The results Of the work of Howard are
not theory but facts. Her nearly 5000
graduates are doing more than their full
share in the physical, Industrial and in
tellectual, moral and spiritual leader
ship of their race. Their work includes
the greatest variety, and is extended
over nearly the whole nation and even to
other countries. President W. Z. Ben
son, the founder and director of the
Kowaliga negro community in the black
belt of Alabama, is building UP the race
in developing a great industrial school
and community, owning 1000 acres OF
land. DIR. A. c. McClennan, as the found
er and surgeon-in-chief of the Colored
Hospital and Training School for
Nurses in Charleston, s. c., Is OPEN
ing fountain of physical regeneration
for his race. Such leaders in the minis
try as Drs. W. II. Brooks and George
Frazier Miller, in New York city, are
leading their people toward the source
of all regeneration. These are only ex-
amples. which can be multiplied by hun
dreds i'm great variety of helpful life
work through nearly the whole nation.
The last year was in many regards the
best I'm the history of Howard. The new
science hall, costing, with its equipment.
$4,000, was built. The new Carnegie
Library was opened. Howard was uni
formerly victorious in athletics and In
four intercollegiate debates. The uni
versity spirit rose to higher levels. The
standards of scholarship maintained are
those of the leading universities of the
nation The four years OF President
Thirkield's administration have been
uniformly successful I'm all lines OF UNI
versity work.