The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-07-04

Ing reveal some interesting fact!
They represent $4,997 500 worth O
)property and land, but they have onl
3$1,664,000 in invested endowment. I.
these colleges there were last year 90
Istudcnts Of full college rank, and O
these 163 graduated in June with tn,
bachelors degree.
Six of the colleges have FINISHED
new buildings during the year; tn,
new engineering building at Howard
which cost $4,000; the new Hub
bard Hospital at Walden costing s45
600; at Atlanta Baptist College 8
chapel and office building, costins
| $4,000; dormitory at $4,000 and g
dining hall at $4,000 at the State
College of South Carolina, and a small
administration building at Hartshorn
Lincoln has newly endowed pro-
tessorship of physics, and has been
recognized as an accredited college by
the State of Pennsylvania. Taradega
has new professor of social extension
work; Benedict, a new president.
while Mr.. B. G.. Brawlcy leaves the
chair of English at Howard TO become
dean Of Atlanta Baptist College.
After all, our interest in these in
situations is personal and centers
most in the student body. We have
asked all these colleges to send us the
photographs Of the ranking scholars
OF their graduating college class. The
result is the group of faces looking
out on the reader from these pages;
strong, bright young folks who have
demanded the light and received it in
spite Of the opinion of President Taft.
Here are the spoiled pillow hands"
OF Southern tradition and the top
heavy Taducated-olt- of-their-place"
youth of newspaperdom! AS a mat
ter of fact here are group of
healthy. bright-eyed. clear-braimed
young folk of Negro descent, who are
going to make the cheating, lynching
and oppression Of black folk more diff
hcult in the future than in the past.
Hlnc lllGc ldt'rimHc!
These are the leaders who in schol-
arship head the colored college hos:
David, of Wherefore; Latson, Of At
lanta Baptist College; Douglass, of
Lane; Rice and Miss Boutwell,, of At
lanta University: Jessell and Miss
Hamilton, of Talladega; Sampson, of
Virginia Union; Berry, of Lincoln;
Bond and Miss Jones, of Knoxville.
Lovcttc and Miss R. Jones, of Fisk.
We add Edith Louise Wright, who is
valcdictorian in the West High School
for 100 classmates, all white, and Is
abella Vandervall, who gained the $50
freshman prize at the New York Med
lcal College. If the photographs had
arrived in time, we should have added
70 these Miss Brown, of Morgan; Miss
Floyd, of Spelman; Pinson and Miss
Thomas, of Benedict; Miss Gray, of
Paine, and several others.
Besides the twenty colleges men
toned above. there are twelve other
institutions that give college training
TO colorcd students, making thirty-two
IN all, enrolling 1900 students.
In former days the argument
against such students and such train
ing was that colored people could not
assimilate such training. That argu-
ment has passed, but in its place is a
Widespread belief that tncre is no
"d"mand' for such persons, and that
they arc unable to earn a living,
| There have bcan, in the years 1923
1912, over 5000 Negroes graduated
from college. Returns for thousand
living graduates indicate the follow
ing occupations:
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