The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-10-11
Howard University Has
Great Opening

II is safe to say that never in thu
history of Howard University has tina
school opened with prospects tina
were brighter than they are this year
The personnel, from the president tt
the last freshman, is aflame with en-
thusiasm; each department is puttinl
forth its greatest effort to make the
work this year a greater success than
ever before in its history; trustees
president, faculty and student body
have begun cooperation even so
soon that augers for year such as
the university has never known.
Those who have been fixtures ir
Howard University since a time far
beyond the memory of most of the
students state that they have never
seen registration days as have been
experienced this year. TO register in
The college department alone a larger
number of students than last year
were enrolled in the college, com
mercial and preparatory departments
required tire edays, and young men,
just out of the army, where stand
ing in long lines of waiting is a daily
experience, stood longer in line to be
registered than ever in their army
careers, such was the large number
of students registering
In the college department alone
there have been registered GA stu
dents, as compared with GIL last
year in the college, commercial and
preparatory departments. There are
800 members of the freshman class.
In tn claw School Is have been reg
year, and the prospects are that
least IS more vii Register within the
next few days. In the Medical, Den
tai and Pharmaceutical schools CORE
spending increases are shown.
Every phaoes of the school work i.
taking on new life. Mr.. Robinson,
who has in charge the athletics of
he university, predicts a great sue
cess for all of his teams. Football
practice has already begun. and judg
ing from the material from which
Coach Robinson ha sto select, Howard
will produce a team that it has not
6nown in many years.
Prof. Logan, secretary Of the \. NJ
c. A. of the university, has so en-
larged the scope and activities of that
organization that ii bids fair to the
most important part ever in the lives
of the students on the Hill" Prof
Logan takes great pride in the fact
fact that it is the organization of
which he is head that has followed
the new students from their homes to
he very rooms in which they are now
living. The Y. NJ. c. A. sent leaflets
of welcome and instruction to the
prospective students. it met them at
he trains, conducted them to the uni
versity, directed them in getting stu
ated there for those who came with
limited means and sought work 1t
found positions about the school and
in the city. and for those who were
unable to find rooms in the dormi
tories it located them with many Of
the best families of the city. The
plans of the year contemplate the
taking care of the students from the
financial, recreational, moral and re-
ligious standpoints, and in view of
these plans Prof. Logan is laborine
with his student corps untiringly.
Mr.. Emmett ]. Scott has entered
upon the work as secretary
with great enthusiasm, and with other
university Officials, predicts that How
ard is this year going to exceed by
far any of its previous records in at
tendance and intellectual accomplish
ment. Rejecting upon the number
of students who have registered and
the paying Of their initGl fees. he
said, THE encouraging thing about
this whole matter is the great number
of accounts which are paid by checks
of parents of these young people, and
many of the checks are from the
young men and women themselves.
TO my mind, this is incontrovertible
evidence of tn economic development
of the Negro people. A bank account
is testimony that speaks for itself. y
Deans of all departments give as
their opinion that the university un-
der the presidency of DR.. Durkee Is
entering upon a new and greater
era.