Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-11-29

study in medical sciences. Expenses and
support up to $1,000 will be provided. The
appointments will be made in 1920 by a
committee Of which DR.. William H. Welch,
Johns Hopkins School Of Public Health, is
chairman. Applications may be made to
Secretary Abraham Flexner, 81 North
Broadway, New York City.
Piney Woods School, an institution for
Negroes at Braxton, Miss, has received a
legacy of 81 900 from Mr.. Olson of Mime
sofa. The school now owns free from debt
1,414 acres of land and six large buildings,
the entire value of which is upward of
$4,000. 1t has enrolled 300 students and
10 teachers; a private telephone system, a
brass band it's own railroad station, post
office, with colored postmstress, are
among it's equipment, with $4,000 invested
in city bonds, which is the beginning Of an
endowment fund.- Professor Lawrence G.
Jones in the principal.
The School Board Of Lake Charles La,
has voted to build two new schools for the
cOlOred people. The two buildings will cost
S125,OOO in one building industrial educa-
ton will be featured
The State of Georgia has appropriated
100000 for the years 1920 and 1921 to the
Georgia Normal and Agricultural College.
The installation of John w. Davis as
president of West Virginia Colleoiate Insti-
tute has taken place. Mr.. Davis is a grad
uate Of Morehouse College and the Univer-
sity Of Chicago, and for the past two years
has been executive secretary Of the Y. M.
G.. A. at Washington, ID. G. Two new teach
ers for the institution were announced
A. A. Taylor, graduate of the University
Of Michigan, at the head of the Department
of Mathematics, and Walker Bacon, grad
uate of Syracuse University, director of
physical training and athletic coach. The
enrolment is ESQ. the largest in the history
Of the school.
Tuskegee Institute has enrolled 1900 stu
dents, an increase Of 500 over the enroll
ment at this time last year. W. II. B. Will
liams, Field Agent for the .Jeanes and Slater
Boards has transferred his headquarters
from Hampton Institute to Tuskegee Insti-
tute, where he will also, act in an advisory
capacity to Principal Motion on educational
Matters The business manager is now
G.. w. A. johnson, succeeding 3. u. Atwell,
who signed to enter War Camp Commun-
ity Service; j. b. Whitfield has been
appointed acting Director of the Agricul.
tural Department, succeeding F.. M. Car
doza, who resigned on account of his health;
James L. Whiting is in charge Of vocational
work. The R. o. Y. c. is in charge of Major
are being trained under the direction of
Captain G. Kelly. Albion L. Holsey is Sec
rotary to Principal Motion.
The trustees of Morgan College, Balti-
more, Nd, have agreed to buy the forty
acres of the Morton estate, on TIillen Road.
They have in mind a school for training
teachers for rural school work, especially
in agriculture. Contractors are at work on
new dormtiory and Carnegie Hail. a three
story and basement structure, 52X75 feet.
The Maryland State Board Of Education
has given it's approval for the establish
ment of the Central Colored Industrial
School, at Belair, which will start this fall
with three teachers and a capacity for
seventy-fve pupils.
The Rev. DR.. Charles S. Morris, Of Nor.
folk the widely-known Negro preacher, has
accepted the presidency of the Boydton, Va,
Institute
The total number of colored pupils en-
rolled in the WASHINGTON public s, AOOls for