The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-12-21

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potent influence upon every student
gathered within its walls, but he re-
ioices because we have a new ana
snlendid monument in our community
setting forth to the world that our
citizens are alive to the Importance
of educating the young Negro for SER
vice in his generation. Some artists
paint on canvas; some chisel IN mar
BILE: some mold in metal and some
carve in wood but it will be the work
of those who teach in this building to
cultivate human minds, to deal with
human souls, to improve humanity and
to build a noble race.
Can there be found anywhere a high
err work or a greater service? This
is distinctively the aim and work OF
the true teacher.
When you pass through this build
ing and look over the appliances for
the comfort, convenience and health
of teachers and pupils, you will note
how great is the advance over the old
one story country school house, which
some of our parents and grandparents
attended, where neither the cold OF
winter nor the heat of summer could
be kept out, an dwhere the children
sat on rough, log wood benches, sleepy
and tired from bad ventilation. Here
in the new Pearl High School, how
ever, has been expended the best
thought upon the science Of heating
and ventilation and the patrons have
the assurance that the health of their
children will be protected in every
way, 81. In = MA
W Those who have taken the time to
visit the new building and TO examine
the various departments, the Domes-
tic Science, Domestic Art, Mechanical
Drawing, Laundry and Lunch Rooms,
the Carpenter, Forge and Concrete
Shops, and this beautiful Auditorium,
the entire building lighted by cleo.
tricity and heated by steam, Will
need no assurance from me to confirm
their own observation, that the acade-
mic industrial and aesthetic develop
ment of the children who attend this
school will be properly taken care OF.
OF has been said that the school of a
community serve as an index of the
attitude of the citizensc toward the
youth of that community. If that be
true, from the number Of new school
buildings that have been erected in
Nashville in the last few years at such
costly prices, the attitude of the citi-
zens of Nashville toward the educa-
ton of the children of Nashville must
be ideal. l know the thought that is
now passing through, your minds. 1t
is this: that while fine new buildings
as Mr.. Hume has told you, have been
erected recently by Nashville for the
education of its children, only one
was built for colored children. l do
not regret a single school that has
been built for white children. or
course, l wish that more had been
built for us. But I say, let the white
children have all the buildings that
they may need. The more education
they get, the more they learn, the more
they see, read, study and travel the
clearer will be their vision, their
sympathies will be broader, their love
for humanity greater, and fairer will
be their treatment of u.s. l am CRATE
full to God that he has given me such
a heart that / can look upon the pro-
.eress an advancement of the children
of my white fellow citizens without
one pang of envy, pealousy or regret.
Have you ever considered, my dear
friends, what education means? Some
one has said: Education Is the key
that admits us to the whole world of
thought, fancy and imagination; tol
the company of saint and sage; that
it enables us to see with the keenest
eyes, to hear with the finest ears and
listen to the sweetest voices OF all
time"
The freeman cannot long be an ig-
norant man.
The aspiration for knowledge is the
cornerstone of learning and liberty.
With liberal education, real culture
and true religion, comes in Chris
ton desire of helping the poor ana
weak and Of treating others as you
would wish to be treated. Education
helps to make better citizenship and
constitutes an impregnable bulwark
for law and order. This edifice, de-
dicated to the cause of high school
education has been erected at great
er cost than any building ever con-
structed by the Board of Education
| for the use of Negroes. 1t shows that
our white friends have adopted new
and higher ideal for school houses
for the children of their colored fell
low citizens. In future all new
buildings will be an improvement on
the old ones and of finer and higher
type. l know there has been great
deal of criticism, both on the location,
the size and plainness Of the exterior
of the building. There is not per-
son in this audience that has not COM
mented on the lack of any stone trim
ming about the building. And yet
this building is SO much better than
anything we ever had before. We who
have been placed in charge shall do
the best we can here, knowing that
faithfulness to duty is always re.
warded by larger opportunity and he
that is faithful in little shall be made
ruler over much. 1t is our intention
to start out by doing every duty faith
fully, to demonstrate our loyalty to
our employers, to prove our fidelity
to the profession in which we are en-.
gagged and to place the Pearl High
School on such high plane of intrin-
sic power and worth, and to raise its
usefulness to such great Importance,
that no one will question the value
of its work or refuse to give it his
endorsement 1t is true that the new
high school is not centrally located,
unt cinna tho pnard Of Ed,ination har