The Denver star., 1917-11-03

10 IASofoo WIN Noioo ana ron SoT
UpIift Of Institution Which Has Been
Power For Good In tho Land-Mem-
bsr Of Many PhianthropicaI Boards
and Recipient Of Many Honors.
By the death at his summer home,
Whitefeld, n. H., Of the Rev. DR.. Hol-
Lis Burke Frissell on Sunday evening,
Aug. 5, the colored race and the nation
at large have lost one Of their very
best friends and valuable citizens. DR..
Frisseu had been president of the
Hampton (Va.) Normal and Agricul-
tural institute for nearly quarter OF
q century. He was greatly beloved by
the faculty and students at Hampton
and long list Of educators and busi-
ness men and women throughout the
nation.
DR.. Frissell was born in Armenia,
N. Y, oR July IA, 1851, the son of A.
G. and L. B. Frisseu. He spent three
years at Phillips academy, Andover,
Mass, going from there to Yale, where
he was graduated with the class OF
K
two years in a young womans seminary
at RhinebeCk, n. Y, which place he left
to enter Union Theological seminary.
He was graduated from the latter In
stitution in 1879, and became assistant
pastor of the Madison Avenue Presby-
terian church, New York city, where
he remained until 1880, at which time
he became chaplain of Hampton inst-
| tute, Hampton, Va. 1t was in 1898 that
he became principal, and in this impor-
| tant Office he devoted all of his time
and energy to the upbuilding OF the
school and The problem of the educa-
ton and betterment of the Negro race.
] Any account of DR.. Frissells life Is
necessarily also an account of the
growth and development of Hampton
institute. for which he ceaselessly
worked to raise funds and for the or
ganization and welfare of which he
| constantly Strove. Under his guidance
| I became not only the leader and pio-
neer in the industrial education of the
American Negro and its center OF up
lift. but also forum where southern
and northern white men and Negroes
meet on common ground to discuss
problems of education, agriculture and
sanitation in the south. 1t has sent out
over 1900 Negro teachers. farmers,
tradesmen and home builders to south
ern states. and it has been instrumental
in decreasing the illiteracy Of the race
from almost 100 per cent to the pres
ent figure of 27.5 per cent.
In 1898 DR.. Frissen received the de-
gree of d. D. from Howard university.
in 1900 the degree Of S. T. D. from
Harvard. in 1901 the degree of LII. D.
from Yale and in 1909 that Of LII D.
from Richmond college. he was a
member Of the Century, City and Yale
clubs of New York. Of the Society OF
Scroll and Key Of Yale and Of the
Cosmos club OF Washington.
He is survived by his wife and one
son. Sydney Dodd Frissell, who until
he recently Joined the army had been
connected with Hampton institute and
who has done much toward the pracs
teal education Of the Negro alone
tine sf scientific farmb
BlscussIng the question OF teachers
Id another part of the report, DR.. Jones
saws that there are about $4,000 teach
ers in the south, or approximately one
to every sixty-five colored children OF
school age. In order to keep even
these comparatively few positions filled
about 5000 new teachers are needed
every year. Yet all the institutions
Offering any sort Of teacher training
courses graduate only $500 students
year. The result is that the remainder
are made up of teachers with very
low grade Of preparation.
DIR. Jones also traces the rapid transit
ton from white to colored teachers In
the schools for Negroes in the south.
Practically all OF the public schools OF
elementary and secondary grades now
have colored teachers. In the private
institutions maintained by colored de-
nominations all the teachers are Ne
groes And in the schools maintained
/ by northern philanthropy the elimina'
don of white teachers has been grad
ually proceeding until now "a per cent
Of all the teachers are colored. Com
menting on this he says:
Progress Adds to Responsibility.
'-This increasing responsibility of the
Negroes for their own education Is one
of the hopeful signs In the progress OF
the race 1t is not only sound democ-
racy, but good pedagogy, to work Win
a people rather than for them. SO far
| rs this principle Is realized in the tend
| ency to turn over the colored schools
| to colored teachers the movement Is