COMMENCEMENT NUMBER

VOL. XXXVII JULY, 1933 No. 2

WALTERLMNGSTON WRIGHT, LL.D. HE SEVENTY-NINTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT AT LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, held on Tuesday, June 6, under the trees in T front of Livingstone Hall, was marked by the attendance of the largest number of friends and alumni that have been present in recent years, by a large graduating class and notable addresses, and by the conferring of the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws upon Professor Walter Livingston Wright, Vice- President of the University, who has just completed forty years of service as Professor of Mathematics. On Sunday morning, June 4, the baccalaureate sermon was preached by President William Hallock Johnson, and in the evening there was a vesper recital in front of the Library, given by the Lincoln University Glee Club. The Class Day exercises of the College were held on Monday, June S,, and were largely attended. On the morning of Tuesday occurred the annual 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD meeting of the Board of Trustees in school. Dr. Solomon Porter Hood, the Library, and of the Alumni Asso- former LMinister to Li- ciation in the Physics Room, and the beria, and now presiding elder of the Class Day exercises of the graduating Methodist Church in Northern New class of the Seminary in the Chapel, at Jersey, spoke for the class of 1873, of which a stirring address was given by which he was a member. Dr. Hood Rev. W. H. R. Powell, D.D., ’13, was so eloquent that President John- pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church son asked him to be the orator of the of Philadelphia. day at the one hundredth anniversary At the graduating exercises in the about twenty years hence, and his afternoon the invocation was given witty reply was, “I will come if they by Rev. G. Lake Imes, D.D., ’04, will let me off from where I am.” Secretary of Tuskegee Institute, Ala- bama, and the salutatory was deliv- The candidates for honorary de- ered by Robert W. Brashears of grees were introduced by Dr. George Annapolis, Md. Edward L. Cunning- Johnson, dean of the college, who ham, Philadelphia, spoke for the said : graduating class of the Theological Seminary on “Christianity : Its Social Rfr. President, I present to- you the Hon. Mission.” After the announcement William L. Reed, of Boston, Mass., in order that he may have conferred upon of prizes and the conferring of de- him the degree of Master of Arts hoitoris grees, Dr. Arthur D. Wright, who cama. Mr. Reed has served his city and has succeeded Dr. James Hardy state long and well. In 1911 Massachusetts Dillard as President of the John F. admitted him to the practice of law. He has been a member of the Massachusetts Slater Fund of Washington, D. C., House of Representatives, a United States discussed the question, “What does Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, and society expect of me as a college a Deputy Tax Collector in the City of graduate?’ Dr. Wright said that Boston. Erom 1902 to 1924 he was a clerk in the Executive Department of the Com- success means satisfaction rather than monwealth of Massachusetts. Since 1925 position. “Satisfaction comes to an he has been the Executive Secretary to individual from the manufacture with the Governor and Council. An able law- his owii hands of an article on which yer, a gifted public speaker, loyal to his he is not afraid to place his name.” race and to his country, appointed and re- appointed to responsible positions by gover- Dr. Wright’s address was filled with nors of both parties, a faithful, honest and sound advice and practical wisdom, respected public servant, a living proof that and in the course of it he spoke highly the gate still swings open to indusfry and of the standing that Lincoln graduates honesty, we welcome him to our circle of occupy in their communities through- alumni. out the country. Dr. Robert R. Mr. President, I present to you for the Moton, Principal of Tusltegee Insti- degree of Doctor of Divinity the Rev. Allen tute and Trustee of the University, W. Rice. Twenty-five years ago he re- urged the graduates to “keep their ceived on this platform the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and three years later that feet on the ground.” He said that of Bachelor of Sacred Theology. Since the educated Negro must not only in- 1914 he has labored in Anniston, Alabama, fluence, guide and direct the 12,000,000 and his work has been one of the most suc- or 13,000,000 of their own race in this cessful and fruitful enterprises promoted in the southland by our Board of National country and the teeming millions in Missions. He has carried on a splendid -4frica, but the white people of this school in that city among a large Negro country as well. Dr. Moton alluded population, who would otherwise be with- to the fact that in a recently published out high school privileges. He has also organized and built up a strong Presbyte- “Who’s Who in Colored America” rian Church. “He that winneth souls is there were more names of Lincoln wise,” and a wise son maketh a glad Alma graduates than those of any other Mater. Self-sacrificing and resourceful, -- LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD 3 respected and esteemed, an evidence that ahan, of the Board of Trustees, pre- quietness and humility may be the compan- sented for the degree of Doctor of ions of a great and useful work, he is eminently worthy of the honor we wish to Doctor of Laws honoris cazcsa, Pro- confer upon him. fessor Walter Livingston Wright, “who today completes forty years Ur. President, I present to you for the of invaluable service to Lincoln honorary degree of Doctor of Pedagogy the Hon. William W. Sanders, Bachelor of University as teacher, administrator, Arts of the Class of 1897, and Master of courageous executive and wise adviser Arts in course and Bachelor of Sacred in all the multiplex activities of uni- Theology of the Class of 1900. For versity life. Building upon an intense twenty-three years he has devoted himself to the educational work for his people in love of humanity, he has been able West Virginia. For the past fourteen to be at the same time the inspiring years he has been first chairman and then teacher, the constructive critic, the secretary of the Advisory Council to the wise adviser and the loved friend of State Board of Education. For one year he was the State Librarian. For eighteen hundreds of Lincoln graduates and years he was State Supervisor of Negro former students. A graduate of Schools. In 1923 he organized the West Princeton University, a Fellow of Virginia State Conference of Parent- Physics in that honored institution, Teacher Associations connected with Negro Schools, and has been its President ever for forty years a loyal servant of this since. He is at present the Executive University, Walter Livingston Wright Secretary of the National Association of today becomes, and we pray God will Teachers in Colored Schools, and is the long remain, a devoted, honored son editor of their monthly bulletin. He is an of Lincoln University.” Then the example of what our Lincoln University trained men can accomplish in the way of degree was conferred upon Professor securing greater opportunities and wider Wright by President Johnson, who privileges for the race even in a social sys- spoke of him as “a comrade in friend- tem that has been largely inoculated against ship and colleague for many years in the full infection of such ideas. As such, it is a delightful office to do him honor. teaching and administrative work.” Dr. Wright received a great ovation Mr. President, I present to you for the from the audience and this was re- honorary degree of Doctor of Laws Mr. newed when, at the close of the eser- Xax Yergan, an international ambassador of peace on earth and good-will among cises, the President of the Alumni men. He is an alumnus of a sister insti- Association, Dr. W. G. Alexander, ’99, tution, , and of the Spring- introduced Dean John W. Haywood field School for Christian Workers, and of Morgan College, Baltimore, who in his life has been spent in the service of the Young Men’s Christian Association at home a beautiful and appropriate address and over scas. During the World War presented Dr. Wright with a gold he was in India and in East Africa, where watch in acknowledgment of the affec- the Zambesi enters the ocean. He aided tion and regard of the whole alumni in the repatriation of our troops from France, and since 1921 he has been the body and of the services which Dr. apostle of the new day in South Africa. Wright has rendered not only to the In 1926 he was given the First Harmon students of Lincoln University but to Award, and in 1933 the Spingarn Medal. the entire race. Dean Haywood’s ad- He was greatly needed in South Africa, dress is given elsewhere in this issue. but not in the least desired. Nevertheless, he has overcome all fears, disarmed all sus- The valedictory was given by picions and vanquished all antagonisms. George G. Dickerson of Pleasantville, We wish to honor him, and at the samc N. J., and the exercises were closed time to learn from him the secret of by the singing of the Alma Mater strength in upbuilding. For he is one who knows how. Semper nliqtcid itovi e.v Africa. song, led by the University Glee Club, and the benediction by Rev. Walter After these candidates for honorary H. Brooks, D.D., ’72, pastor of the degrees had been presented by Dean 19th Street Baptist Church of Wash- George Johnson, Dr. Howard McClen- ington, D. C. 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD

HON.WILLIAM L. REED,M.A. REV. ALLENW. RICE,D.D. across the campus in the Academic proces- Remarks by sion, as you have done many, many times, Dr. John W. Haywood, '03 I wondered if it occurred to you that today Dean of Morgan College, Baltimore, in marks for you the end of forty golden years sli presenting to Professor Walter L. of service here at Lincoln. A young man, to Wright a gold watch and purse from your twenties scarcely turned, you came co1 the Lincoln Alumni: bringing the best culture of head and heart tk to be secured at historic old Princeton, and sai President Johnson, Members of the Board cast your lot with Lincoln and tied your of of TrzGstees Lincoln University, of destiny to the destiny of the people whom YO Fellow Almnni, Ladies and Gerztlemen: Lincoln was raised up to serve. To US ca: Thirty years ago almost to the very day older men here, you gave the buoyant Tk and hour, a voice, now silent, which had strength of your young manhood, to our w been heard on this classic hill for nearly a sons who followed us here at Lincoln, you of half century, caIled me to the platform to have given the rich, ripe, garnered fruitage sy deliver the valedictory for the class of of your middle years. Upon all of us, s1g 1903. As I stepped forth under the benison fathers and sons alike, you have always !la. of the smile of that High Priest of the poured the full measure of the chalice of In€? hearts of Lincoln men, Isaac N. Rendall, a rare and holy devotion. You have de- gif my heart swelled and thrilled and quivered spised the taunts and jeers and ostracism 1s with an indescribable something which it of your own people as, through the long go: had never felt before, and which it has years, you have bent your back to the task arc never felt since until this afternoon. As of helping to write the strange, the thrilling the I come this afternoon, the spokesman of interracial epic which, for nearly a hun- On the far-flung Lincoln Alumni, to bring a dred years, has been unfolding itself at ab! littIe word and a little gift of love and Lincoln University. As you stand here mil gratitude to one who has blessed Lincoln, before us Lincoln men today, these forty the blessed LincoIn men and blessed the world years of self-denying service trailing in thi! through Lincoln men by long years of de- sun-lit, star-lit glory athwart your life, you tuc voted service here, as I come forth on that do not stand alone. Out of the silence and mission this afternoon, my heart recaptures the shadow, two stately forms step to your 3 something of that elusive, fugitive ecstacy side, one on the one side, one on the other of that memorable afternoon which has -the forms of our loved and lost Isaac N. 1 long since slipped away into the silence of and John B. Rendall. Rendall, Wright, Pei the yesteryears. Rendall, Lincoln's incomparable, Lincoln's of Prof. Wright, as I watched you walk blessed triumvirate. Two of them have to shi LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD 5

XASYERCAN, LL.D.

HON.WILLIAM W. SANDERS,Pm.D. Campus Notes slipped away to the land where faith yields to sight and where high and holy dreams The Young People's Conference, spon- come true. You represent to us today all sored by the Presbyterian Board of Chris- that is left of that dynasty of seers and tian Education, but open to all denomina- saints of Lincoln. I hold here a little token tions, was held on the campus from July of love and gratitude from the Alumni to 10 to 16, with a registration of more than you. It is a solid gold watch. On the 100. A special program was planned for case you will find the letters, W. L. W. the large number of ministers who were in These letters ordinarily mean to you, attendance. Walter Livingston Wright. The President of our Alumni' Association, Alec, has aptly Students, faculty and friends have en- suggested that liereaf ter these letter:, must joyed the series of lectures and recitals signify to you, "We Love Walter. We arranged for the winter and spring months have chosen to give you gold, because dur- by Professor J. Newton Hill, '20. ing these years you have given us the best gifts of a heart of purest gold. This watch Lincoln University feels honored in the is green gold. We have given 'you green fact that one of its trustees, Mr. J. Fred- gold that it may symbolize to you that you erick Talcott, of New York, who is a are enshrined in an affection that through classmate of President Johnson and Pro- the years will abide in eternal greenness. fessor Samuel C. Hodge, has been elected On behalf of Lincoln Alumni, present and President of the American Bible Society. absent, living and dead, on behalf of twelve - million people to whom you have given all In the interests of the University Mr. Tal- the years of your public life, I present you cott entertained at lunch last winter a this token of love immeasurable and grati- notable company of fifty friends including tude unutterable. the members of the Board of Trustees at the Union League Club, New York. Legacy to Lincoln University - James E. Dorsey, '28, Musical Director, Under the will of the late Mrs. Lucy S. and Miss Leonia G. Lanier of Winston- Peirce of Wilmington, Delaware, a bequest Salem, N. C., were married in Philadelphia of $5,000 has been left to Lincoln University on June 21. Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey will to found "The John B. Spotswood Scholar- make their home on the campus after Sep- ship." tember 15. 6 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD

Another objection is that the lists used in soliciting applicants were liable to lean Ni PUBLISHED QUARTERLY heavily toward certain professional groups. Devoted to the interests of the Institution,. and The volume, as a result, is heavily weighted to imparting irifortnation concerning it to friends with numbers of physicians, educators and at a distance. lawyers, lists which are most easily ob- Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. tained from organizations and associations. it Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of ten Despite the truth of these criticisms, it Lir cents each. Ho Entered at Lincoln University, Chester Co., Pa., yet remains that “Who’s Who in Colored ;i as second-class matter. America” is the best index of Negro lead- 13s Subscriptions and communications may be ad- :i MC ership available. If the volume presents a I At1 dressed to Wm. Hallock Johnson, D.D., Lincoln great deal of vanity, it is absurd to say i, Uiiiversity, Pa. that the graduates of one school are more Va prone to this failing than others, and in J. Lincoln University-A Labora- this way this factor equalizes itself. That c the collection is over-weighted with certain tory of Leadership professional classes is more a commentary h on the activities most conducive to Negro Sh; leadership than a criticism of the volume Tal This title was given several weeks Bel ago by the pastor of the Wenonah, as an index. The mis-statements are few and far between. It is believed, accord- Kn N. J., Presbyterian Church, Rev. Dr. ingly, that the volume may be taken as a 0. W. Buschgen, in announcing a visit fair sample of Negro leaders in America; Wi All from the Lincoln University Quartet. and that it shows where these leaders were Bis It is justified by a study recently made trained. As a check upon the study, however, the Ma under the direction of Professor Negroes listed in the volume ‘‘Who’s Who Horace A&. Bond, ’23, now in the in America,” a volume recognized as in- Ru: Sin faculty of . The re- disputable authority, were also surveyed. Alc sults of his study were given in part That the data from these highly selected cases substantiates in the main the findings Cla in the May number of The Crisis, but from the Negro volume indicates that the Ga. are given more fully from the manu- “Who’s Who in Colored America” did b script kindly furnished by Professor represent a true sample. Vir Bond. The study disclosed that the persons listed as Negro leaders reported attendance b WHATSCHOOLS TRAIN NEGRO LEADERS? on 562 schools in this country and 31 During the spring quarter of 1931 a abroad. More than two hundred occupa- sen class in Educational Sociology at Fisk Uni- tional classes were reported, including such versity became interested in the educational unexpected items as Explorer, Diplomat, SCh preparation of Negro leaders. All Negro Trafiic Manager, Rabbi, Antiquarian, and wid institutions are prone to claim particular Psychiatrist. There was a lack of Negroes ing potency in the development of race leaders. engaged in business or in the skilled trades. the It is difficult to obtain any real index to While the scarcity of the first group re- prove or disprove these claims. The class flects a serious deficiency in the Negro is 1 finally decided to use the 1928-1929 edition social structure, the absence of the latter is as might be expected of a collection of of “Who’s Who in Colored America,” as Nu. the basis for the study. The volume se- “leaders,” persons whose prominence in the lected may be objected to on a variety of American scheme is due partly to their grounds as not giving a true index of membership in the “white-collar” classes, Negro leadership. The first objection to whom the greatest guerdons of social states that one of the principal criteria for estimation are usually awarded. U. inclusion in the book was the payment of Ha1 a sum of money, with the exception of a COLLEGEGRADUATES Ob6 small number of nationally known figures T,he data was first analyzed on the basis Yal who were included because their proni- of the schools reported by holders of bac- Dar nence gave prestige to the volume. Ac- calau’reate degrees. While a large number Ind: cordingly, many critics say that the book of institutions were listed in the volume, Cor is a mere collection of biographies of those the following list enumerates only thosc Illir willing to pay a required fee, rather than institutions where three or more persons sou of bow fide Negro leaders. They consider reported themselves as having received bac- Mic the volume an index to vanity rather than calaureate degrees from a particular school. Des to true leadership, holding that it contains The schools are separated into two classes: the biographies of many persons of no real those primarily for Negroes, and those Kar importance. where Negroes and whites attend. L LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD 7

TABLEI It must be remembered that these lists Number of Persons in wjto~swho ilt do not give a true picture, because they Colored America Holding Under- exclude students who have attended insti- graduate Degrees tutions which in the longest period of their E.S. history have not granted degrees, such as Ph.B. Hampton and Tuskcgee. In addition, the Institution Pd.B* lists in Tables I and I1 exclude professional Lincoln University, Pa...... -81 1 82 degrees, advanced academic degrees from Howard U., Washington,D.C..41 23 64 graduate schools, as well as attendance at Fisk Univ., Nashville, Tenn.. .31 4 35 schools without receiving degrees. A more Morehouse Col., Atlanta, Ga..22 0 22 comprehensive list is furnished bv record- Atlanta Univ., Atlanta, Ga.. . .21 0 21 ing reports of attendance, with or without Va. Union U., Richmond, Va.. 15 2 17 degree. Table I11 gives the number of J. C. Smith Univ. (Biddle), such persons listed in Who's Who in Col- Charlotte, N. C...... 15 1 16 ored America as having attended Negro JAvingstone College, Salk- institutions, where the number reporting the buiy, N. c...... -13 0 13 school exceeded ten persons. Shaw Univ., Raleigh, N. C.. . 6 4 10 Talladega Col., Talladega,Ala. 7 3 10 TABLEI11 Benedict C., Columbia, S. c.. 9 0 9 Persons Knoxville C., Knoxville,Tenn. 4 3 7 Reporting Walden Col., Nashville, Tenn. 6 0 6 Institution -Attendance Wilberforce u., Xenia, Ohio. 5 1 6 ...... 231 Allen univ., columbia, c.. -2 .z, ...... 142 Bishop cole, Marshall, Texas, 4 1 5 Lincoln University (Pa.)...... 91 Morgan cola,Baltimore, Md.. 5 0 j Atlanta University ...... 80 , A~~~~~~,G~...5 0 5 Fisk University ...... 49 Rust cOl., ~~~i~~~~,l~i~~.5 0 5 ...... 45 Simmonsu., ~~~i~~ill~,Ky... 4 0. 4 Tuskegee Institute ...... 40 A. & &I., &Iiss. 3 Shaw University ...... 38 Claflin u., orangeburg, s. c.. Virginia Union University ...... 34 G~.state c., s~~~~~~~,G~...3 0 3 Hampton Institute ...... 32 Roger Williams University, ...... 26 Nashville, T~~~...... 3 0 3 ...... 26 Virginia State N. S. I., Peters- .~...... 25 burg, va...... 3 0 3 Johnson C. Smith University ...... 22 Alabama State College ...... 18 The number of white institutions repre- ...... 16 sented by possessors of baccalaureate de- Leonard Medical School...... 16 grees is actually as large as that for Negro Virginia State College...... 16 schools. However, the schools are more ...... 15 widely scattered, with a large number hav- Prairie View College ...... 15 ing but one graduate each represented in Avery Institute ...... 14 the volume. The number of graduates re- ...... 12 ported for institutions with three or more ...... 12 is listed in Table 11. Lincoln University, Mo...... 12 Walmden College 12 TABLE11 ...... A. & M. College (Ala.)...... 11 Number of Persons in who's who Morgan College ...... 11 Colored America Holding Under- Alcorn College ...... 10 graduate Degrees B.S. Armstrong Tech. High School...... 10 Institution (White) B.A. Ph.13. Total ...... 10 U. of Cllicago, Cliicago, 111.. .IO 8 18 Wayland Academy ...... 10 Harvard U., Cambridge,Mass. 14 0 14 A number of high schools appear on this Oberlin Col., Oberlin, Ohio. .10 0 10 list. In many instances persons with col- Yak u., New Haven, Come.. 9 0 9 lege training gave their high schools, but Dartmouth c., Hanover,N.H.. 2 4 6 in more instances did not. It will be seen Indiana u., Bloomington, Ind.. 4 2 6 that Howard University led by a wide mar- Cornel1 Univ., Ithaca, N. Y.. . 3 2 5 gm. Aside from the very definite contribu- Illinois u., Champaign, 111.. .. 2 3 5 tion that Howard has made to training Southe'rn Cal., Los Ang., Cal. 4 0 4 Negro leadership, this fact may be ex- Michigan U., Ann Arbor, Mich. 3 1 4 plained by the advantage Howard has over Des Moines, U.,Des Moines,Ia. 3 0 3 other schools, first in number of students Hunter Col., Brooklyn, N. Y.. 3 0 3 enrolled, and second in the several profes- Kansas State University, sional schools of the University which Lawrence, Kansas ...... 3 0 3 attract graduates of other colleges offering 8 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD I - only undergraduate work. That Meharry University of Chicago ...... 4 Medical College shows the second highest Harvard University ...... 3 to number of persons who have attended any Howard University ...... 3 tity institution reflects the fact before men- University...... 2 bas tioned that the entire volume is heavily Livingstone College ...... 2 all weighted by members of the medical pro- Morehouse College ...... 2 insf fession. However, it is of some signifi- Oberlin College ...... 2 0th’ cance that the schools with the largest Walden University ...... 2 enrolment are not in all instances those thai with the highest representation in the vol- The total of the eleven schools listed shil ume. The relatively large number given here is 38. (Twenty other persons in for Atlanta University is certainly an in- Who’s Who in America reported bachelor’s .I dex to the high tyve of work done in this degrees from as many different institu- thi! institution, which in its career as a college tions.) Of the 104 Negroes in Who’s Who rec was handicapped with meagre funds, pos- in America, then, in the years 192425 and sessed a small enrolment, and has finally 1930-31, 58 report graduation from college tioi become a graduate university. One would with an earned academic degree. It is tell also expect men’s colleges to have an ad- interesting to note that of the 58 Negroes me: vantage over those institutions with large in the volume with bachelor’s degrees, 18, or 31%, come from three Negro colleges- reo numbers of women graduates and students, wit many of whom have no distinct career aside Fisk, Lincoln and Atlanta. from home-making. Tabulating the schools represented in gra Table IV gives for white schools the Who’s Who in America for the Negroes same comparisons of persons attending who report attendance, with or without Linc exhibited in Table 111 for Negro schools: degrees, the following list gives the insti- Vir$ tutions showing three or more persons. Atla TABLEIV Hov Institution No. Attending TABLEVI Mor Harvard University ...... 82 No. of Persons Fisk University of Chicago ...... 81 Institution Reporting Attendance GO Columbia University ...... 79 University of Chicago ...... 11 Mor Boston University ...... 37 Fisk University ...... 10 J. C Northwestern University ...... 32 Harvard University ...... 10 Tall; Oberlin College ...... 27 Columbia University ...... 9 Yale University ...... 24 Atlanta University ...... 8 Cornell University ...... 22 Howard University ...... 8 University of California (So.)...... 20 Lincoln University ...... 7 New York University ...... 19 Wilberforce University ...... 5 City College of New York ...... 18 Allen University ...... 5 Ohio State University ...... 18 Berlin University (Germany) ...... 3 Temple University ...... 15 Boston University ...... 3 Re Pittsburgh University ...... 15 Clark University (Ga.) ...... 3 Lino Iowa State University (Ames) ...... 14 Gammon Theological Seminary...... 3 hono Michigan University ...... 14 Oberlin College ...... 3 follo Brown University ...... 13 University of Pennsylvania...... 3 Dr. Kansas State University...... 13 Union Theological Seminary...... 3 year: Walden University ...... 3 Ame Indiana University ...... 12 bion Iowa University (Iowa City) ...... 10 The volume Who’s Who in America lists velor As a check upon the data from the vol- all persons occupying certain . arbitrary Dr. ume, “Who’s Who in Colored America,” positions, such as that of Bishop. This ever) the names of Negroes listed in the 1924- explains why certain denominational and 1 1925 edition and the 1930-1931 edition of Negro colleges are largely represented in prom “Who’s Who in America” were also tabu- the attendance table, though showing fewer rian lated. In Table V the schools reported as graduates with bachelor degrees. Pleas * having given bachelor’s degrees to the 104 It should be remembered that institutions all,tl- persons listed in the two volumes are given, like Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, sary where as many as two persons represented Howard University, and Fisk University, who the same institution. have an advantage over other Negro buildi schools in degree comparisons because they Mary TABLEV have a longer history of instruction carried charg Persons Reporting on the collegiate level solely. The weight of Institution Bachelor’s Degrees professional schools attached to certain col- Fisk University ...... 7 leges give them an added advantage in a Lincoln University ...... 6 rating based upon mere attendance. Schools Thc Atlanta University ...... 5 with small enrolment may justly lay claim H. Jz and I

...... - to training in quality rather than in quan- alumni. Dr. Jackson was born in slavery tity, and take right exception to a rating near Fredericksburg, Va., in 1854, and was based on numbers rather than ratios. Taken with the Union Army during the War. all in all, however, it appears that certain When he later presented himself at Lincoln institutions stand out pre-eminently from University he had no other credentials than other colleges as having enrolled, and the ridges on his back which had embit- graduated, more persons of prominence tered his soul until, according to his own than others in the field of Negro leader- words, the love of Christ constrained him ship, to preach the Gospel to his people. He graduated from the College in 1885 and Professor Bond has supplemented from the Seminary in 1888, and went to Chicago to found a mission church, the this study by an examination of the Grace Presbyterian Church, of which he recent volume, “Leaders in Educa- was pastor for more than forty years. He tion,” edited by Dr. J. McKean Cat- was known as the dean of the Protestant tell in 1932. The number of Negroes ministry in Chicago because of the pas- mentioned in this volume who had torate in one church. Special exercises were held by the Presbytery at his death received the baccalaureate degree are, in Dr. Jackson’s honor. He is survived. by with the schools from which they one son and three daughters. graduated, as follows : Lincoln University ...... 6 WILLIAMMILTON B~Y, ’94 Virginia Union University...... 6 Dean William Milton Berry, ’94, of the Atlanta University ...... 5 Cheyney State Teachers’ College, died sud- Howard University ...... 5 denly while attending the Automobile Show Morehouse College ...... 5 in Philadelphia on Ianuary 18. After Fisk University ...... 3 graduating from Lincoln in 1894, Dean Knoxville College ...... 2 Berry studied at Harvard University and Morgan College ...... 2 the University of Wisconsin. He taught J. C. Smith University ...... 2 for a time at Wilberforce University, and Talhdega College ...... 2 has been connected with the work at Chey- ney from 1911 to 1914, and again from 1923 until his death. He is survived by his Obituary widow, Mrs. Emily L. Berry, by his parents and two sisters. Rev. Cedric E. Mills, ’26, of West Chester, assisted in the funeral JOHN A. SAVAGE;‘79 service. Dean Berry was fiftv-five years of age and was born in Conowingo, Md. Rev. John A. Savage, D.D., ’79, one of Lincoln University’s best known and most honored graduates, died on January 1, 1933, following an illness of several months. Dr. Savage was born in Liberia seventy-five Ben Nnamdi Azikiwe, ‘30, of Nigeria, years ago, and was literally an Afro- who has been taking advanced work in American. In 1892 he took charge of Al- anthropology in the University of Penn- bion Academy, Franklintoni N. C., and de- sylvania and Columbia University in con- veloped it into a school of class A rating. nection with his work as instructor in Dr. Savage was intensely interested in political science at Lincoln University, has everything that pertained to the welfare been elected a fellow in the Royal Anthro- and progress of his Alma Mater, and was pological Institute of Great Britain and prominent in the councils of the Presbyte- Ireland. rian Church. At his funeral, held in Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church, Franklinton, all,the police force of the city was neces- Lincoln University Day sary to guide the seven hundred or more who were unable to gain entrance to the building. Dr. George C. Shaw, ‘86, of the Alumni and Trustees are making plans Mary Potter School at Oxford, N. C., had for an annual observance of Lincoln Uni- charge of the funeral service. versity Day in every community where a considerable number of Lincoln men can be MOSESH. JACKSON, ‘85 found, and invitations have come to mem- The death in January last of Rev. Moses bers OE the faculty to attend such meetings H. Jackson, D.D., ’85, removes an honored in Philadelphia, in Georgia, in West Vir- and notable name ffom the list of living ginia, and elsewhere. 10 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD

psychoanalytic angle, Pfister believes on the base of case-study that unbelief is nothing other than a repression of God-conscious- ness, determined in some cases by hate of the parents. “Viewed from the standpoint of religious education, unbelief is a revolt on the part of the sexually awaking adolescent against too great emphasizing on the part of certain religious instructors upon the ascetic, the puritanical; a revolt against a too donii- neering or authoritative attitude of the teacher, which makes for individualistic anarchistic or communistic reactions. Cases are cited in which revolt against re- ligion is plainly traced to a revolt against the failure of religious instruction to satisfy the desire for the beautiful. Moral defects in religious educators may influence the adolescent away from religion. Failure of religious educators to appreciate and to emphasize the essential function of religion as that of preserving the health of the soul may be conducive to unbelief.”

Alumni News PROF.FR.\NCIS C. Suhrxm, PH.D., ’15 A grammar school in Washington, D. C., Dr. C. in Vienna. has been named the Archibald E. Grimke Francis Sumner School, in honor .of the late Dr. Archibald E. Grimke, ’70, one of the founders of the Dr. Francis C. Sumner, ’15, dio received National Association for the Advancement his doctor’s degree at Clark University in of Colored People, and for some years 1920, is nom Professor of Psychology at United States Xinister to Haiti. Howard University and has made important contributions to philosophical magazines. Professor M. B. Tolson, ’23, of Wiley In 1931 Dr. Sumner attended the First College, coached the debating team for an Internatipnal Congress of Religious Psy- interracial debate with the University of chology at the University of Vienna tlnder Kansas in Kansas City, Mo., in February the chairmanship of Dr. Karl Beth of that last. University. He writes that : ‘‘From a psychogenetic standpoint, two I. J. IC. Wells, ’23, of Charleston, W. Va., types of unbelief may be distinguished- has been appointed Superintendent oi an innocent, unsophisticated, unconscious Negro Schools under the State Department variety, and a sophisticated, intellectual or of Education. He succeeds Dr. W. W. conscious sort, of which latter doubt and Sanders, ‘97. disbelief constitute sub-types. Belief is defined as a reality-feeling which may be President Johnson made the dedicatory based on the prestige of the suggestion- address at the dedication of the large and source, wishfulfillment or logical consis- handsome new building of the Star of tency. Accordingly unbelief must e~sen- Bethlehem Baptist Church of Ossining, tiallg be understood as due to the absence N. Y.,on July 2. The pastor is Rev. J. J. ton. of these pre-requisites to faith. Banks, ’28. *‘From the psychoanalytic viewpoint, the tions psychiatrist, Stransky, showed that in this throu age the ascendancy of the authority-or Rev. W. D. Battle, ‘07, who for eighteen sermc self-assertive urge over that of subordina- years has been pastor of the Galbraitli been tion, or self-abasement, due in large meas- Church in Washington, is pastor of the ure to the fostering of individualism, is Columbus Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church In responsible for religious unbelief. Instead in Boston, Mass. versit of a feeling of dependence, there prevails Brool now a feeling of independence, of self- Cyrus T. Greene, ‘09, is executive secre- by th reliance, or of self-sufficiency. From the tary of the Tampa, Florida, Urban League. fount LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD 1!

F, Rivers Barnwell, '08, broadcasted the Negro Health Week Program of the Texas Tuberculosis Association from Fort Worth, Texas, on March 31.

In connection with the Georgia, Bicen- tennial, Rev. A. C. Griggs, D.D., 03, has been contributing to the Augusta Clzroizicle a series of articles on'leaders in Augusta life. His speech at the Bicentennial Cele- bration on April 17 was broadcasted over WRDW. Dr. Griggs is Treasurer of the Haines Institute, and he, with Professor John M. Tutt, 'OS, and other Lincoln men, has given loyal and efficient help to the founder and principal, Miss Lucy C. Laney. Robert J. Douglas, '06, of New York, a Haines graduate, is writing a biography of Miss Laney.

Horace G. Dwiggins, '30, writes from hleharry Medical School of the high stand that Lincoln men are taking in the medical course there. He mentions especially J. kf. Burnett, '28; K. E. Tann, '31; C. T. Hal- loway, '30.

Professor Benjamin Brawley, of Shaw HON.SOLOMON PORTER HOOD, D.D., '73 University, writes in TJw Soictlzenz Work- man of October, 1932, of four "great spirits W. Edward Farrison, '26, is Professor of now on earth sojourning." Two of the English at for Women at four are Lincoln graduates-Francis J. Greensboro, N. C. Grimke, '70, and Walter H. Brooks, '72, both of Washington, D. C. Professor James H. Baker, Jr., '26, is executive Brawley says : secretary of the Interracial Council asso- "Francis James Grimke.. who studied at ciated with the Urban League at Albany, Lincoln and the Princeton Theological N. Y. Seminary, after fifty years at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, Rev. Jesse B. Barber, '15, recently cele- has now retired from the active ministry and brated his fifteenth year in the ministry is approaching his eighty-second birthday. and his seventh as pastor of the Leonard Dr. Grimke has ever represented in the Street Presbyterian Church at Chattanooga, highest .degree the dignity of the pulpit, and Tenn. as pastor he became known throughout the country for his interest in education and Rev. John T. Colbert, D.D., '01, pastor his insistence upon social justice. Today he of the Grace Presbyterian Church of Ealti- is as alert as ever to all the great currents more, Md., and secretary of the National of thought. L. U. Alumni Association, was elected a "Walter Henderson Brooks, also from member of the Board of Trustees of the Lincoln, has just celebrated his eighty-first Baltimore Presbytery at their April birthday, and in November completes fifty meeting. years of service as pastor of the Nine- teenth Street Baptist Church in Washing- Dean George Johnson mas the speaker at ton. Dr. Brooks is a man of deep convic- the second celebration of Lincoln Univer- tions and keen intellect, and is known sity Day at Chester, Pa., sponsored by throughout the land for his deeply spiritual Rev. Thomas M. Thomas, D.D., '95, of the sermons. Tall, stalwart, strong, he has ever Fifth Presbyterian Church. been a good minister of Jesus Christ." c__ President David D. Jones, of the Bennett In honor of his tenth year at Clark Uni- College for Women, Greensboro, N. C., versity, Atlanta, Ga., Professor E. Luther writes to congratulate Lincoln university Brookes, '23, was given a testimonial dinner on the excellent program and gentlemanly by the Science Club, of which he was the conduct of the University Glee Club on founder. their recent southern trip. My Debt to Lincoln University The Endowment Fund BY FURMANL. TEMPLETON,'33 Through the courtesy of the General As a senior at Lincoln University and as Education Board of New York, the time one who is intimately connected with the for the completion of the Endowment Fund majority of student enterprises found on of $500,000 has been extended to December this campus, I should like to dwell on one 31, 1933. Before this date Lincoln Univer- aspect of collegiate life which has hereto- sity must secure from private subscriptions fore been but little discussed, except by $31,980.53, in order to qualify for the re- that small minority of serious-minded ceipt of a balance of $8,658.19 from the graduates and students. I refer to the Julius Rosenwald F.und and a balance of opportunity for spiritual development which $43,586.93 from the General Education is a particularly prominent feature of Lin- Board. In round numbers, every $3.00 paid coln University. to the University will call for the payment Like the great majority of Negro stu- of $5.00 from these foundations on their dents, I was born into and reared in a conditional pledges. With the prospect of Christian environment, but I fear religion better times, subscribers who are in arrears played a rather passive role in my activi- and other generous friends are urged to ties until the influences which predominite help the University. to take advantage of here at Lincoln began to make themselves this great opportunlty. Money for annui- felt. The Christian principles which gave ties will be given a liberal cash value. birth and direction to this institution, the Correspondence with the President, Lincoln precepts and example furnished by the lives University, Pa., is earnestly requested. and works of our beloved and devoted faculty membFrs, who are unstintingly sharing their lives, resources and experi- ences with us; inclusion in the curriculum Fiscal Year Closes Without of Bible courses, and carefully planned chapel services, have all combined to form Deficit an unconquerable challenge to the sopho- HELPFROM GENERALEDUCATION BOARD moric cast of thought which attacks the ideals and attitudes of college men. I am indebted to Lincoln for a spiritual Through the generous interest and sacri- direction, for a new and clear perspective ficial gifts of a number of friends, Lincoln of life, and my relationship to other humans University has been able in these trying of all races and creeds. From her I have times to keep a large number of students received that sweet and gracious feeling of in school and to complete its fiscal year on an ever-present immortality, and that im- June 30 without a deficit. It could not have plicit confidence in an omnipotent and done this without the help of the Presby- omnipresent Being who alone can insoire terian Board of Christian Education, Phila- peace and calmness in mortal souls, regard- delphia, and the General Education Board less of circumstances. of New York. T,he latter foundation, in After I pass through these portals for order to aid the University in avoiding a the last time, I will be able to offer heart- deficit, made an outright grant of $7,500, felt and sincere thanks, like numerous men and in addition to this, a conditional offer who have preceded me on this campus, for of 5,000 if, through economies and other the spiritual gifts which Lincoln has be- gifts, the year could be closed without a stowed upon me. deficit. Both of these appropriations by the ~-~ General Education Board, amounting in all Football Schedule, 1933 to $12,500, have now been paid. Oct. 7-Va. Union University.. . ..Away. Oct. !"West Point Cavalry...... Away. Oct. 21-Morgan College ...... Away. The Lincoln colony in British Guiana is Oct. 28-Hampton Institute ...... Away. flourishing. Dr. T. T. Nichols, '11, is a Nov. 4-A. 8.1 T. College ...... Home. prominent ph,ysician of Georgetown, a mem- (Home-Coming Game) ber of the Education Board and is the vice- Nov. 11-W. Va. State College.. ...Away. president of the Negry Progress Convention. Nov. 30-Howard University Rev. A. E. Dyett, 11, of Berbice, is a Night game at Atlantic City. member of the local Government Board ; J. I?. Martin, '27, is Director of Athletics ; Rev. D. G. Munroe, '14, West Coast Ber- W. R. Coston, '21, will be Line Coach; bice, is secretary of the Congregational and R. D. Bryant, '28, will be Freshman Union; Rev. A. T. Pieters, '16, is pastor Coach. of a Congregational Church in Georgetown.