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Lincoln University Herald. VOL. xrv. LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., JANUARY, 19 IO. No. I. Larger Funds Needed. annual contributor for years, left it $5,000 ; and J. &new Futhey, of Parkesburg, Pa., Holland, the New York correspondent of who had been acquainted with the University the Philadelphia Ledgel; writing of the wealth and its work from the start, made it his residu- of Columbia University, and the large gift ary legatee, by which it is expected that ten recently left it by Mr. Kennedy, says: or fifteen thousand dollars may come to the “All the great leaders of American univer- institution. sity life recognize the necessity of obtaining It is hoped that others may follow the ex- larger and larger ample of these and funds. A univer- remember in mak- sity cannot stand ing their wills the still financially. If it needs and the de- grows as Columbia serts of Lincoln or as Harvard has, University in Ches- until each of them ter County, Pa. contains approxi- -t mately 6,000 stu- dents, there is a re- For a Negro lative need of addi- Jubilee. tional facilities, and this planning for Said President the future and the Taft in his annual providing of the message : financial ways and “The year 1913 means are among will mark the fifti- the most difficult of eth anniversary of the duties of the the issuance of the administrators of Emancipation pro- American universi- clamation granting ties.” freedom to the Ne- What is true of a groes. It seems white university is fitting that this equally true of a event should be colored. properly celebrated. Lincoln Univer Already a move- sity, as an institu- ment has been tion for the higher started by promi- and professional nent Negroes, en- education of the ten couraged by pronii- millions of Negroes nent white people jn this country, and the press. The $ought to be greatly South especially is enlarged and enabled to accommodate and in- manifesting its interest in the movement. It struct at least 500 students instead of ZOO. is suggested that a proper form of celebration Additional facilities ought to be provided for would be an exposition to show the progress it and greater plans made possible for the the Negroes have made, not only during their future. Wealthy nien and women can do no period of freedom, but also from the time of greater or more beneficent act for their coun- their coming to this country. I heartily en- try and for humanity than to give or bequeath dorse this proposal, and request that the Ex- to Lincoln University a million dollars. It ecutive be authorized to appoint a preliminary would accomplish untold good for the Negro commission of not more than seven persons to -race both jn America and Africa. consider carefully whether or not it is wise to hold such an exposition, and, if so, to outline a plan for the enterprise. I further recom- After the ahove had been written, there was mend that such preliminary commission serve announced in the papers bequests from two without salary, except as to their actual ex- .friends of Lincoln University. Miss Susan penses, and that an appropriation be made to E. Eenson, of Reading, Pa., who had been an meet such espenses.” 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. Lincoln University Herald. Negroes in the South. PUBLISHED MONTHLY. A writer from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to imparting information concerning it to the friends at the Charlotte Observer, says: a distance. “A Connecticut man, now living here, went Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. with the writer to the Xegro State Fair. To Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents him a Negro is yet something of a curiosity, each. though he employs many of them and has been Entered at Lincoln University ‘as second-class here several years. In New England he em- matter.. Subscriptions and communications may be ad- ployed people from Southern Europe, and he dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE,D. D., makes bold to say that his experience here 1328 CHESTNUTST., PHILA.,PA. with black ,me.n has proved to him conclusively or PROF.R. L. STEWART,D.D., that they are better laborers, will do more in LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. a given time, that they bear no malice and are not imbued with that terrihle spirit of vendetta which makes not a little of the labor of South- Words in Behalf of the Black Man by ern Europe something to he feaped. We President Ethelbert D. Warfield, walked about among the Xegroes; they were D.D., LL.D. very well dressed indeed, polite and proud of their fair and the fact that they were alive and - participating. There was a smile, in fact, all Dr. E. D. Warfield, President of Lafayette along the midway quite a genial ripple, for this College, in his most admirable inenlorial ad- writer has many good friends among the blacks dress on Abraham Lincoln, in Witherspoon and thanks God for their friendship. Off went . Hall, Philadelphia, . February Izth, 1909, re- many a hat and there were. bows quite worthy ferred, near the close, to President Lincoln’s of any race, coupled with kind words. Of immortal address. at Fettysburg and to his course, we must have-a bite of barbecue, for allusion to the “new birth of freedom that this there was a -‘pig ‘scorched to a tnrn, with red nation under God shall have,” and then said: pepper set about in charming fashion here and “We may well count it a specific charge to there on the brown carcass, with cornbread LIS to see that the black man, no longer slave which would cure pellagra, and a bowl of very or freedman, but free born and with free born hot ‘sop.’ to be put upon the meat; on a side aspirations, shall share the privileges of this dish being Irish potatoes and onions put. to- great people once more united in prosperity gether in exactly the right proportion. My under the good providence of God. It is for Connecticut friend vowed that Wake County us to see that his ignorance is replaced through barbecue was a prince among dishes.” systematic education, that his passions are sub- Not far from Raleigh is Durham, a city of dued by moral training, that his capacities of 30.000 inhabitants, with a large Negro popula- mind and heart are called into activity by a tion. A movement has heen started to estab- generous sympathy, and that his manhood is lish here the National Religious Training challenged by a helpfulness worthy of the man School and Chautauqua for the colored race.. who gavehis life that this Union might be all Mr. Duke, the tobacco millionaire, is interested free.” in the project, and it is thought will contribute Now this “specific charge,” to which Dr. largely towards it. Wal-lield refers, Lincoln University, the first The President, James E. Shepherd, wants to institution to, bear the honored name of,the give students ,for the ministry, Y. M. C. A. martyr President, has for many years been. workers, and other religious work students, endeavoring to fulfill. the first preference, but others may apply, es- It invites others to share with it the fulfilling pecially those who can pay their own car fare of the charge. With more help, its success and present the best credentials of character must necessarily be greater. It can no more and scholarship, and who propose to remain sustain its work on its fixed charges than can in school long enough to complete a course. colleges for white students. No objection will be made to young men al- Contributions will be most thanlcfully re- ready in, the ministry or other religious work ceived by the Finapcial Secretary, Rev. W. P. to pursue an advanced course. White, D. D., 1338 Chestnut Street, Philadel- Lincoln University draws many students phia, who will also be glad to furnish any in- from North Carolina, and its graduates are formation. desired concerning the University among the most influential .ministers and ,re- and its work. ligioiis workers in the State. .. Some Peculiar Conditions. - business integrity when we speak-of character. ’ The Rev. John .A. Savage, D. D., of Frank- “ITOWto succeed one must study the environ- Iinton, N. C., a graduate of Lincoln University, ment and adapt himself. Some men succeed writes of the above, in The Afro-American, despite conditions. They are the real men. with regard to the Negro’s growth in mate- But not all are blessed with an indomitable rial, religious and mental development. He will. Where can the average man succeed finds that this differs materially among them best ? If he is an average preacher and desires in respect to certain belts or zones. As, for to build LIP a Presbyterian church, he should instance, he says : . put himself where the Calvinistic air pressure “The growth of the Presbyterian Church is is great. rust follow the Isobars. If he de- marked along the lines dividing North and sires an education, he will hid the best schools South Carolina. Beginning at Wilmington and in a certain zone. If he wants to succeed as going along the Seaboard Air Line Railroad a business man, then let him watch the trend to Charlotte and farther west,’ it. is easy to of things in certain localities. There are meet large Negro Presbyterian congregations. places in this State where Negroes can secure The men working in fields north, east and property that in a generation will make its west of the line passing through Raleigh are owner independent.