The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-10-12

ANNIVERSARY
MORGAN COLLEGE CELEBRATION
THREE DAYS OF COMMEMOR-
ATION-PROMMENT MEN TO
SPEAK.
BY N. B. Dodson.


ways be noted in our history for the
founding of some of the best col
leges for colored people in the United
States. One of these is Morgan Col
ieee located in Baltimore, Maryland,
which received its charter on the 9th
of November, 1867
The fiftie h anniversary of the insti-
tuition will be celebrated by appropri
ate exercises on the 26th 9th and
Sth of November. This celebration
will not only look backward but also
forward for the college has recently
acquired beautiful new site on a
tract of nearly seventy acres in the
'uburbs of the city. On this site are
'everal substantial stone buildings
hich can be used for domitories and
)ther school purposes.
With the addition of an administra-
ion and classroom building it will
make a very excellent college plant.
Those who have inspected it, say that
it is one of the most beautiful school
sites in the United States. The hills
IRE picturesque and a great, beautiful
perpetual brook runs right thru the
N'Hce hard by the campus, which is
shaded by rows of spreading trees.
The college has two excellent
branch schools: the Princess Anne
Academy, Princes Anne, Maryland,
equipped for the teaching of agricnl-
lure and other industries, in addition
~ preparing students for COLLEGE; and
the Virginia Collegiate and Industrial
Tns'itu'e, Lvnchburg, Virginia a pre-
paratory school for boys and girls,
equipped for teaching girls industries
The enrolment at the three plants is
about $50 students. practically all of
secondary and college grade. The
rNlle~e department is in Baltimore;
The other two are preparatory and in.
dustrial schools. The PRINCESS Anre
'cademy is also the Eastern Branch
If the Maryland State College of
Agriculture.
The president Of the college is
John o. Spencer, Phi. D., formerly dean
Of the Anglo-Japanese College. Tok
yo Japan, and president of the Hud
son River Institute. The dean of the
colle7e is William Pickens, Lift. D.
formerly teacher in Talladeya Colle~t
and Wiley University. Each branch
school is under the immediate charge
Of principel: Principal Thomas H
Kiah. A. NJ. at Princess Anne, and
PRINCIPAL Lee M. Mccoy, A. NJ, al
Lynchburg
The following are few Of the best
known people who have graduated
from the institution:
DR.. Warfield, Surgeon-in-Ch'ef
Freedmen's Hospital, Washington
D. c.
Rev. DR.. William H. Brooks, Pas
tor, st. Marks Methodist Episcopa
Church, New York City.
Rev. DR.. M. w. Clair, Washington
d. G.
Rev. DR.. I. i. Thomas, District Su
perintendent, Washington Conference
Principal Thomas Fl Kiah and wife
Princess Anne Academy, Princes
Anne, Nd.
Rev. J. W. Jewett. District Superin
tendent, Salisbury District, Delawar
Conference.
Prof Frank Butler. Principal Co
ore1 School Cambridge, Nd.
Mr.. Isaac Nutter, Attorney, Altar
tic City, N. j.
Rev. W. A. Hughes, Field Secrt
! tarv Of Home Mission Society, Metf
odist Episcopal Church.
Rev. DR.. S. H. Brown. District 81
re"intendent. Cumberland Distric
, Washington Conference.
Principal Joseph Fl. Lockerma1
, Traininr School Baltimore, Nd
PRINCIPAL Mason A. Hawkins, Hig
, School Baltimore, Nd.
d, Rev ! II. Fletcher, Germantown
Philadelphia, Pa.
And among many others are tn
following teachers in the Baltimor
Colored Fi"h School:
Prof, Carrington L. Davis, an
} Misses Correlia Wilson, Meta Redde
and Daisy Baily.
The following are expecte1 to
: among the speakers at the celebration
4 Gov. Emerson G. Harrington,
: Maryland; DR.. p p. CLAYTON, Unite
e States Commissioner of Education
a Bishop W. F. Mcdowell, Washington
!. d. c.
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