The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-03-29
Comprehensive Program for Devel'
opment of Negroes Foremost
Institution fer higher
Educat tiOn
Especial to The Blade)
W WASHINGTON, d. C.-Mar. 25.

WASHINGTON, u. C.-Mar. 25.
Plans of definite and reach
ing natuke have been formulated by
DR.. J. Stanley Durkee, the new and
progressive president of Howard
university, that will establish at the
nations capital truly effective in
strumentality for the higher educs.
tion Of the Negro.
A comprehensive program was
announced at a recent meeting Of
the Board of Trustees and unaui-
mously adopted by that body, which
is to be put into execution during
the coming year. Positive steps
have been taken to build on historic
Howard Hill a Greater Howard
university" expanding and vitaliz-
ing the lofty purpose, conceived more
than half a century ago by the i'm
mortal Gen. Oliver w. Howard, to
lift the colored millions of America
to the highest moral and intellec-
tual plan and to provide a permsn-
ent agency for the development of
race leaders.
A Program Evolutionary and Rev
olutiOnsry"
f'The system ] have proposed. and
with which the board is in thorough
and sympathetic accord, will he ev-
olutionary and revolutionary" said
DR.. Durkee to a press representative
in a recent interview. And, it will
be all that-for DR.. Durkee is a
great big man, with a big brain,
who has the courage and capacity
to do big things In big way.
Since the coming of DR.. Durkee
just a few months ago-at thee in
s.stent call of thoughtful friends of
Howard university, he has given the
needs of the school the closest study,
and it is the general feeling that
the broad -gauged recommendations
he has made will ultimately meet
the demand of this exacting age for
LEADERS-pathfnders in all the
complex phases of the life Of the
Negro people. He is an intense be
lever in the efficacy Of the higher
education as a solvent for many Of
the problems that perplex the col
ored American. ard II is his deter
mination to make Howard the ex-
ponent Of the Negroes loftiest as
pirations, just as Harvard and Yale
stand for the highest intellectual
standards Of the other race. How.
ard. as he sees IT, should become the
Great National Negro University, "
in the fullest sense of the term.
Some Details Of the Plan
According to the plan outlined
the university will be reorganize1
on the junior college plan, with sem
ior schools. After the completion
Of two years worh in the junior col
lege the stuient will enter one ~
the senior schools for special train
ing, along lines of individual prefer
ment and adaptability. The senior
schools, as shown on carefully
prepared blue print, will be com
posed Of Schools Of Medicine, Law,
Theology, Music, Applied Science,
Journalism. Commerce and Finance,
Liberal Arts. Education and Gener.
al Service-the last named to EN-
brace Library trainino. and Dopar.
ments Of Athletics, Physical Educa.
tion and Military Science. Each
school VIII have appropriate SUBJ
divisions Thus, it will be seen that
President Durkee has enlarged the
scope of the institution by adding
four schools TO the six which already
existed.
In order that the university NAV
take its proper place among the
higher institutions Of learning, and
TO concentrate its energies on real
university training. the secondary
work done by the Academy and
! Commercial school will be discon.