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VOL. XXII LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., JANUARY, 1918 No. I .- Roll of Honor; Lincoln Men in the J. H. Scott, '17, First Lieut., Camp Dix. National Service ; J. C. Sherrill, '18, First Sergeant. W. M. Slowe, D.D.S., First, Lieut. - ,. Following is a list of the 'students and H. K. Spearman, '00. A. F. White, Iz5. . . former students of Lincoln University who are ., , now in the National Service. We- give in Following ar.e .the students or graduates ,who order name, class, rank or branch of service, are now engaged in the Army work of. the

and present location, so far as known. Colonel \ Y. M. C. A.: Franklin A. Dennison, '88, Colonel of the H. E. Caldwell, '12, under appointment for Eighth Illinois National Guard Regiment, is work in France. the colored officer of highest rank now in A. W. Doyle, '19. . active service. R. A. Pritchett, '15, with British native troops S. J. Baskerville, '20, Camp Lee. in South Africa. T. J. Batey, '17, First Lieut., Engineers, Camp W. P. Stanley, '16, en'route for South Africa. Sherman. C. H. Steward, 'IS, Camp Meade. Frank E. Boston, M.D., 'IZ~, First Lieut: Several other students are .awaiting their H. F. Bouyer, '18, Engineer Corps. call to the training camps. .L:,L. Lewis, who W. Bowser, M.D., '09, First Lieut. Ilas been baker for several years at the Re- W. A. Bragg, Jr., '17, Camp Meade. - , fectory, is First Sergeant at Camp Meade. T. J. Bullock, '17. -4 Roll of Honor, containing these names, G. J. Carr,. M.D., '02, Captain, wit11 British will be placed in the University Chapel. It is Marines in France. desired to make the list as complete and ac- H. C. Collins, 'IO, First Sergeant, Camp Dix. curate as possible, and corrections and addi- J. A. Creditt,.'r7, Camp Meade. tions will be welcomed by the committee- W. B. Croniwell, '20, Camp Dix. President J. B. Rendall or Prof. William H. H. P. Cubbage, '20, Corporal, Camp Meade. Johnson. M. 1%.Curtis, '17b, First Lieut., Camp Dix. A number of interesting letters from alumni F. A. Dennison, '&S, Colonel. have been received, by members of the faculty, .. A. M. Fisher, '06, First Lieut. and extracts from these will be given in our . W. E. Franklin, '06. next issue. R. M. Fowler, M.D., 'OS. G. A. Gerran, '20.

-- _Ij .. T. M. Galbreath, '13, Aviation. Campus 'Ha'ppenings _, J. B. Hankel, M.D., '20 Sem., First Lieut., - 'Camp Meade. Dr. E. C. Sage, ,Secretary of the General'- ', D. G. ,Hill, Jr., '17, Second Lieut., Camp Meade; Education Board,- New York, was a recent P. A. Howard, '20 Sem., Camp Meade. visitor. on the campus.

J. H. Howell, '20. Honorable Frank L. Young, of Ossining, I F. J. Hutchings, '17. N. Y., Judge of the Circuit Court of West- F. T. Jamison, D.D.S., '13, First Lieut. Chester County, and well known as a speaker Rev. Eugene A. Johnson, '83, First Lieut., and historical student, will be the orator of Chaplain, Camp Lewis. . the day at the Lincoln's Birthday exercises J. D. Jones, '17 Sem., Sergeant, Camp jackson. on Tuesday, February 12th. The Sophomore M. P. Kennedy, '19, Quartermaster's Corps, in contest for the Temperance Prize offered by France. ' the Presbyterian Board of Temperance will ' F. W. Millen, '13, Camp Meade. . also be held at that time. H. M. Marlowe, '15, Camp Dix. * Professor Samuel C. Hodge spent the week M. R. Eerry, Jr., '12. of January 21st at Camp Dix, organizing Bible T. 0. ,Randolph, '19, Camp Meade. classes and carrying on the religious work Rev. A. E. Rankin, '05, First Lieut., Chaplain, of the Y. M. C. A. among the colored troops. Camp Dix. Professor George Johnson recently ad- Rev. Hugh W. Rendall, '00, First Lieut., Chap- dressed the Colored Branch of the Atlantic lain, Camp Lee. City Y. M. C. A., of which C. M. Cain, '12, Rev. J:Hawley Rendall, '07, First Lieut., Chap- is Secretary. ' lain, Camp Hancock. Rev. Adolphus E. Henry, Seminary '17, was W. A. Richardson, '17, Camp Gordon. installed as pastor of the Second Presbyterian . C. 13. Roberts, D.D.S., '96, in Dental service Church, West Chester, Pa., on December 19th. of French Army. Professors George B. Carr, S. C. Hodge, and 2 LINCOLN IINWERSITY HERALD. .* L' 'I 4 Lincoln University Herald. Financial Secretary, Rev. W. I?. White, D. D., Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia ; or, if you PUBLISHED MONTHLY. prefer, to Rev. John B. Rendall, D. D., Presi- ''_ Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to dent, Lincoln University, Pa.; or to J. Everton I imparting information concerning it to the friends at Ramsey, Treasurer, Oxford, Pa. a distance. Sent. one ysar: to any address for 25 cents. -t Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. Deaths of Contributors Entered at Lincoln University as second-class matter. Lincoln University has in recent months Subscriptions and communications may be ad- dressed to REV. W. P. WEIITE,D. D., been called to mourn the loss by death of 825 WITHERSPOONBuxLnINc, PHILA.,PA. three warm friends who for many years had or PROP.WM. H. JOHNSON, D. D., felt much interest in its work and contributed LINCOLNUNIVERSITY. PA. generously thereto. They were: Mrs. C. C. Sinclair, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who for a William H. Johnson, and Rev. Charles B. time resided in Philadelphia; Mrs. M. H. Wil- Ward, '77, took part in the services. son, of Bellefonte, Pa.; and James McCormick Mr. Chrystal Brown, noted American tenor, of Harrisburg, Pa. The University will entertained the students and visitors with a greatly miss their help and the influence of delightful song recital, December 11th. their prayers, and trusts there will be those Mrs. korrimer, of the Freedmen's Board of among their relatives or others raised up who Missions, gave an earnest address to the stu- will esteem it a privilege to take their places dents at morning prayers recently. and perpetuate their good and generous work. Calendars for distribution among the stu- dents have been gratefully received from *- Messrs. Lehman & Bolton, of Philadelphia : A Young Men's Christian Association and, through the kindness of Rev. Samuel D. Building and Gymnasium Price, D. D., from the Presbyterian Board of Greatly Needed Publication. The University is fortunate in having re- ceived a supply of coal, which should last for Towards it generous friends have already subscribed a few thousand dollars. Appeal is some weeks with the economy now being practiced. made to others to increase.the amount to at 1eas.t $40,000 or $50,000. -- The Young Men's Christian Association of 6aLest We Forget" the University has no home, and no suitable place for its Bible study and mission study Readers of the LINCOLNUNIVERSITY HERALD classes, its committee meetings; and other reli- . are asked to remember in their gifts the work gious gatherings. There is no reading room which is being done by the University for the and no access to religious literature when the uplift and improvement of the colored race. University library is closed, as it is all day on It has demands upon your sympathy and gen- Sundays. Such a building would be a centre . erosity not surpassed by other causes of a like of the religious life and work of the Univer- nature. While under Presbyterian influence, sity, and with an earnest, consecrated man in it confines not its efforts to any religious de- cllarge, it would be of immense advantage to nomination, but cares for and aids the capable the religious interests of, the University. and worthy without regard to creed. It is It would furnish a cheery and comfortable the oldest established and most successful in- place where a student could drop in after meals stitution for the training of colored ministers or at odd moments between study hours. It and teachers. Its faculty will compare in would meet the need for a students' club, a character and ability .with the other educational clearing house for the social life of the campus. institutions of the land. It has superior equip- Lincoln University is about the only insti- ment for its work. Its graduates, numbering tution of its size and standing in the country- over I,jm, are found in well nigh every State that has no gymnasium and no provision for and city of the Union, and are exerting an systematic physical exercise. Colored students influence for good, as citizens and professional need the physical training which a gymnasium ' men, for which abundant testimony is given would provide, just as much as white students, us. if not more. The life of the colored man is While the race itself is making progress in said to be several years shorter on the average its efforts for education, it yet needs for its than that of the white man, and it is poor institutions, as do those for the white race, economy to spend time and money in training outside help. ' Lincoln University will abund- the mind and character, unless the student antly repay, in the good done, all that is given can go out to his work with a sound body and it. No other benevolent investment will give trained niuscles, so that he can meet the phy- ampler return. Send your remittances to the sical demands of his work.

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Every student and every professor feels tary Baker. Our Northern white- papers no deeply the want of such a building, patterned longer speak of him in these terms.. I Emanci- after city Association buildings, and meeting pation from restricted residential sections : it the needs of .the student on his religious, his being decided by the Supreme Court that the social and his physical sides. Negro has the right to live wherever he has sufficient funds to procure ground. Emancipa- -- tion from lack of industrial occupations. Dr. W. A. Creditt on &&TheSecond Fields never dreamed of, not only in civil life, Emancipation of the Negro.” but also in the army and navy, and other phases, will come at the close of the present In a recent addr‘ess before the members and world war. When the fullness of the second friends of St. Daniel’s M. E. Church, Chester, emancipation is realized, there will be a dif- Pa., Rev. William A. Creditt, D. D., ’85, said ferent Negro to handle the situation. The in part, as reported in the West Chester Local first had the slave and a few partly educated _. hTews: men to handle affairs. Advanced strides were “The first emancipation of the American lacking. The second will have new managers, Negro was not the aim desired when the States with fifty years of freedom, of contact with went to war. The end sought was the pre- the world’s great civilization, of residence in servation of the Union. The events so devel- the greatest of republics, among thousands of oped that the aid of the slave became a neces- their: own educated men. sity if the nation would gain the victory. As “Never could we have dreamed that we a result, the country could not see whereby it could’ have 80,000 Negro soldiers, and new could send slaves for the preservation of the divisions ordered for 30,000 more, with 700 Union. Bearing arms for one’s country is a officers, and training camps open for more. privilege only for the ‘freeman.’ The privilege The soldiers who rallied to the first cause of bearing arms is even greater than the right were slaves, while those who rallied to the of franchise. The franchise cannot be denied second are educated, such as college men, phy- . to those who would fight for their country. sicians, lawyers and business men. And these The nation needing theislaves and being able are the ones who will handle the affairs of to use only the freemen, therefore issued the the colored race at the conclusion of the war.” Emancipation Proclam at’ ion. “The slaves rallied at once, and then fol- -- lowed the famous dispatch: ‘We are coming, Work of Dr. Walter H. Brooks in Father Abraham, three hundred thousand . Washington ,. strong.’ Fort Wagner, Fort Pillow and Milli- gan’s Bend all tell the story of the black sol- In the current number of the Record of dier’s war. Christian Work, the editor pays the following “This world war is one for world democracy tribute to the work of Rev. Walter H. Brooks, and humanity. America entered the war, and D. D., ’72, the well known Baptist pastor of in the second emancipation there will be no Washington, D. C.: issuance of a proclamation. There will be “On two warm Sundays last August, the simply the occurrence and concurrence of the writer attended Dr. Walter Brooks’ Colored events which themselves are already pledged, Baptist Church in Washington, and was de- and will yet largely provide the second. lighted with his experience. Of course, there “The first proclamation was by a Republican was tliere that innate friendliness and courtesy President, and received the support of a Re- which one meets among Negroes. The singing publican administration. The second is by a of the people was admirable. As to the Democratic President, and is receiving support preaching, one could wish nothing better for under a. Democratic administration. It is, the white homes in which these colored people perhaps, a fortunate thing that we have a work in the aristocratic northwest quarters of Democratic President and administration at Washington, than to have ,as admirable reli- the present time. Were it of Republican gious instruction and moral guidance. Dr. nature, the South wouId not have tolerated Brooks is wise, practical, Scriptural ; he knows and would not have endured many things the Word by long brooding on it, and he which are now transpiring for the good of the knows his people and can make shrewd, and ’ American Negro. apt ana practical applications. Pastor. and “xAxlreadyare seen various phases of the flock are to ‘be congratulated on each other. second. Some of the side issues are the get- It was interesting to observe automobiles ting away from labor serfdom. No longer is parked about the church, and to remember the Negro seen ,only in the common occupa- how few the decades since black people were tions of the present day. He has higher auctioned from the block at Alexandria, a ideals. In emancipation from objectionable dozen miles from this church door. odium we find that no longer is he labelled “The American people hardly realize what ‘coon’ or ‘nigger,’ following an order of Secre- an asset to the nation the blacks are, and what 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

an enormously important thing it is from the under tlie auspices of Garrison and his friends. point of view of both churchmanship and citi- Douglass went to this meeting without the .. zenship that they should be protected and co- slightest. prevision of what was to. happen to operated with. The colored pastor is the him there, never dreaming that the entire cur- natural leader of the colored people, and in rent of his life was to be turned by it into numberless cases , is a worthy one. Others other channels. But here is his simple and need help and training.” modest account of that, for .him, revolution- making moment : “I had taken no holiday since - establishing myself in New Bedford, and feel- Frederick Douglass ing the need of a little rest, I determined on attending the meeting, though.1 had no thought BY ARCHIBALD GRIMKE, D. D. of taking part in any of its proceedings. In- deed, I was not aware that any one connected (A most eloquent sketch of the great Negro with the convention so much as knew my orator is given in TJw Chaitzpioit Mugaziiie name. NIr. William C. Coffin, a prominent by one of Lincoln University’s most distin- abolitionist in those days of trial, had heard guished graduates. We wish our readers me speaking to my colored friends in the little could have, it entire. We can give but the school house on Secon? Street, where we beginning and close of it.-EDITOR.) worsliipped. He sought me out in the crowd Stranger than the strangest fiction is the and invited me to say a few words to the story of the life of Frederick Douglass. It convention. Thus sought out, and thus invited, was aptly said of him by a friend: “He was I was induced to express the feelings inspired a graduate from the pegiliar institution, with by the occasion, and the fresh recollection of his diploma written on his back.” Cut the the . scenes through which I had passed, as- a leaves of his story and open at almost any slave. It was with the utmost difficulty that page, and we shall find facts and situations I could stand erect, or that I could command hardly credible, so palpably do they appear and articulate two words without hesitation to violate all the known laws of human proba- and . stammering. I trembled in every limb. bility, did we not reflect that, in epitome, that I am not sure.my embarrassment was not the story is at once the black. record of American most effective part of my speech, if speech it slavery, and a brilliant chapter from the noble could be called. At any. rate, this is about volume of freedom-the agony, the pathos, the only part of my performance that I now the hope, the struggle, the despair, the triumph distinctly remember. The audience sympath- of that terrible middle state between the hell ized with me at once, and from having been of the one and the heaven of the other. The remarkably quiet, became much excited. Mr. plain, unvarnished tale of this man’s life out- Garrison fo1,Iowed me, taking me as his text, does in surprises the romances of Dumas or and now, whether I had made an eloquent Scott, and moves mind and heart like the un- plea in behalf of freedom, or not, his was folding plot of a tragedy, or the flashing one never to be forgotten.” * * * f movement of an epic poem. That night marked an epoch in the life of What picturesque and dramatic contrasts of Frederick Douglass, and a landmark as well . light and shade, personal degradation and in the abolition movement. His skeleton key elevation, social I?eights and depths, illustrate of knowledge had at length and unexpectedly his seventy-eight years among us. Chattel unlocked .for him the iron portals of destiny, and citizen, slave and orator, fugitive and through which his lofty mind, with its shining reformer, pariah and philosopher ! Yesterday genius for ,eloquence, passed like a prince to he was herded with cattle, to-day he is com- the mount where have gathered and mingled panion and equal of president and statesmen, in the white pantheon of all tlie ages those poets and scholars. Yesterday saw him scram- elect and glorified spirits who are humanity’s . bling and fighting with dogs for bones and holy heroes and martyrs, her priests, her crunibs from his master’s table, ,to-day acclaims prophets and her kings. * * * * him anointed leader and tribune of, a race, . My time is spent, yet I cannot conclude this hero, patriot, philanthropist. He rose from little sketch without appealing to the youth abject poverty to affluence, climbed from a of the colored race, who hold its future in . point in the social scale below,zero to a free- their keeping, and to all others of that race, man’s estate, and thence to greatness; from for that matter, to imitate this virtuous, and the legal status of a mere piece of human inspiri!ig example, and like him to do with property in the American Republic, to the rank might at all times and in all places in which of one of its most illustrious citizens. * * :t may fall their lot, whatsoever their hands That providential hour struck for Frederick ,shall find to do, and to learn with Frederick Douglass in the summer of 1841, and in the Douglass to be, under all the cruel circum-- small town of Nantucket, Mass., whither he stances and conditions of their hard life in had been drawn from New Bedford by the America, aspiring, self-respecting and bravely magnet of an anti-slavery convention, held true. 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VOL. XXIL LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., FEBRUARY, 1918 No. 2 -~ A Graduate’s Anniversary. Lincoln Day at Lincoln University. Rev. John T. Colbert, a graduate in Lincoln Judge Frank L. Young, of Ossining, N. Y., University of tlie Classes of 1g01 and 1904, well known as a jurist, orator and historical and Secretary of the Alumni Association, after student, .was the speaker at the Lincoln’s holding successful pastorates in Florence, S. C., Birthday celebration in .the Lincoln University and Clianibersburg, Pa., was called to Grace Chapel on the afternoon of February 12th. Church, Baltimore, Md. He observed his first Taking as his theme, .“Lessons from the anniversary there on January 20th. Froin the Liie of Lincoln,” Judge Young invited his Baltimore Afro-Anzn-icair we take the f6llow- audience to a study of what Lincoln was, is ing account of the services: and will be to our Republic. The address was “Last Sunday was a day listened to with close atten- of special interest at Grace tion and. evident delight, and Presbyterian Church. . All mingled in the happiest of the services of the day manner anecdotes from the were in observance of the biography of Lincoln, one first anniversary of the pas- or two of them new, moral torate of Rev. J. T. Col- lessons from his character, bert. and applications of his prin- “The morning service, at ciples to tlie great struggle which there was a large in which the nation is now attendance of the member- engaged. ship of the churcli, was most Speaking of the revulsion helpful and inspiring. The of feeling when the joy of anniversary sermon was victory in tlie North was preached by.the Rev. W. H. turned into grief for the Johnson, D. D., Professor martyred President, Judge of Greek at Lincoln Uni- Young pictured Lincoln as versity, of which institution the incarnation of the Rev. Mr.yGolbert isa gradu- American ideal. His life ate of both -the- Department illustrates three virtues of Arts and Science and the which have been prominent School of Divinity. Dr. in the American people: Johnson’s sermon was prac- self-reliance, fair play and tical, encouraging and help- hard work. Lincoln was ful-based on ‘the apostle ready to pit himself against Paul’s statement regarding the brightest lawyers of the his own public ministration REV. JOHN T. COLBERT. East, feeling that he was as a servant of Christ: ‘We their equal. His great soul preach Christ crucified.’ Tlie evening service saw that all men should be treated with equal was also interesting and attractive, the room justice, and it is this quality of fair play that IIeing filled by the members of the congrega: has arouscd the American people to figlit. tion and their friends. The sermon was Fair play will not die while the Stars and preached by Rev. William 13. Weaver, D. D., Stripes fly in tlie breeze. Tlie third lesson and was followed by remarks from Dr. John- from Lincoln’s life is tlie doctrine of hard son and Pastor Colbert. An interesting fea- work. The speaker had no patience with the ture of the service was the choice music, excel- idle rich, and said that there is no excuse for lently rendered by tlie choir, under the direc- any man to be idle. The man who does IIO~ tioii of Mrs. Eulalia Reed Fortune. produce more than lie receives is a liability to “The ‘report of the year’s work showed that any nation. about $2,200 had been raised and expended. Lincoln’s loyalty to his friends was illus- during the year of Mr. Colbert’s pastorate; trated by a touching anecdote. When a can- fifty-six persons have united with the church, didate for Congress, his political maiiagers and large additions made to the Sunday school. told him that it was most important, for the The prospect is bright for a long and success- stlccess of his campaign, that he should speak ful pastorate for this well qualified and come- in c?- certain tow11 on tlie following day. Li11- crated minister of this growing and influential CO~begged off, merely saying that lie coL1lcI church in our city.” not come for reasons of his own. Thc nest 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. Lincoln University Herald.. After Judge Young‘s address and the singing of “The Long, Long Trail,” “Keep the Home . PUBLISHED MONTHLY. Fires Burning,” and tlie “Battle Hymn’ of the Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to Republic,” an Honor Roll, containing forty-five imparting information concerning it to the friends at a distance. names of students and graduates now in the Sent one year to any address for zg cents. National service, was read with appropriate Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO comments by James L. Jamison, Jr., of cents each. ~Vriglitsville,Pa. Entered at Lincoln University as second-class matter. . In the evening, the annual Temperance Ora- Subscriptions and communications may be ad- torical Contest for prizes of fifteen and ten dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE,D. D., dollars, offered by the Presbyterian Board of 823 WITHERSPOON BUILDING,PHILA., PA. Temperance, was participated in by seven or PROF.WM. €I.JOHNSON, D. D., LINCOLNUNIVERSITY, PA. members of the Sophomore Class. Joseph N. Hill, of Baltimore, who spoke on “The Testi- mony of Literature,” received the first prize ; morning he set off on foot for a country court and the second was divided between F. L. house, twenty miles away, where a light-haired Atkins, ?J. C., who spoke of “The National young boy of fifteen‘ was to be tried for the Stigma,” and E. W. Rhodes, S. C., whose sub- murder of a farmer named Shaughnessy. ject was, “The Opportunity of the Present Lincoln entered the court house as the trial Generation.”’ was beginning, and offered his services to the boy, who was friendless and ignorant. The -- court appointed him as counsel for the defense. College and Seminary Commence- Lincoln called no witnesses, but,told the jury ments. how the boy had been persecuted by the cruel farmer for whom he worked. His employer Following the example of other institutions had thrust at him with a pitchfork, and the in the State, the College has shortened its term boy, in the heat of anger, had seized the fork of study, and will close its examinations on and thrown it at the farmer, pierciqg tlie brain, May 3rd. At the same time, the Seminary and with no intent of murder, causing his will prolong its term to the same date. The death. Lincoln then told the jury how, as a Commencement exercises €or both departments young man, friendless and in need of woi-k, will probably be held on Tuesday, May fth, he had sought shelter and employment from but the details cannot be announced till a later a light-haired man, who lived with liis wife issue. By omitting the usual Easter recess, and baby boy in a small cabin; how the man and by using Saturdays for class room and had given him a month‘s work and had enter- lecture work, the full number of credits for tained him, but would take nothing for liis the year will be completed by the students. board, and how he himself had played with the baby at the fireside. The man, now dead, -- said Lincoln, was the father of this boy now Notes of the Campus on trial for his life; the boy was the baby whom he used to take in his arms, and the Rev. John Royal Harris, D. D., of Pitts- mother was sitting there in the court. , “My burgh, gave a temperance address in the chapel, managers,” said Lincoln, as he closed his ad- January &th. dress to the jury, “told me that unless I macle Rev. Joseph W. Ilolley, D. D., ’00, of Al- a speech in another tou711 to-night I would bany, Ga., will conduct evangelistic services probably be defeated in my campaign for Con- during the week of February 17th to 25th. , gress, but I would rather save this boy than Professor George Johnson, Ph.D., is giving be elected to Congress or to the Presidency of a series of eight lectures on Christian Educa- the United States.” tion in Princeton Theological Seminary on Lincoln’s Second Inaugural shows his Chris- successive Mondays and Tuesdays. The tian charity, and like America’s other great themes of his lectures are: I, The Present men, he was not ashamed to bend his knee in Problem of Christian Education ; 11, Three prayer to God. I-le might have stood as the Prominent Theories of Christian Education ; model from whom Dr. Van Dyke has taken I11 and IV, Christian Education .in the Local his lines: Church ; V, In the Elementarv and Secondarv “Pour things a :iian must learn to do, Sc1iools; VI, In the College -and University; 11 he ~ouldkeep his record true: VII, On tlie h1ission Field; VIII, Christian To think without confusion, clearly ; Education and Psychology. To love his fellow-men siiic,erely ; To the Roll of Honor of those now serving To act from honest motives purely; in the United States Army should be added TO trust in God and Heaven, securely.” the names of Rev. Allen Newnian, ’07, First Lieut., Chaplain, Camp Dodge, Iowa ; George C. Robinson, ’12, First Lieut., Camp Dodge; reaclied Negro youth of the Soutli, this Society Rev. A. W. Thomas, ’00, First Lieut., Chap- has sent out Negro missionaries to work among lain, 24th U. S. Infantry, Columbus, New them.. These missionaries have their headquar- Mexico; E. J. Williamson, ’19, Camp Dix. ters at some industrial school, where they have an opportunity to come in close contact with -- thc student body as a whole, i~ndto impress Contributions to Lincoln University. upon their minds the necessity of service for Christ in tiying to serve the neglected and Churches : First, Germantown, $33.06 ; Bryn poor youth of the race. As a missionary of Mawr, $75.76; Sewickley, $25; Oxford, Pa., the American Sunday-School Union, with $15.53. lieadquarters at Snow Hill Institute, Snow Individuals : Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Hill, Ala., I can freely say that the Society $125, $IO, $5, $25, $IO, $20, $IO, $125. Jenkin- could not have selected a better place for its town, $20; Wilkes-Barre, $20; Pottsville, $25 ; missionary’s headquarters than at the center Allentown, $5 ; Altoona, $20; ScrantDn, $5 ; of the ‘Black Belt’ of Alabama.” He is work- Honesdale, $IO ; Erie, $2 j ; Germantown, $125 ; ing for an ideal community-“a community in . Pittsburgh, $3.- which there will be no such thing as profes- New Jersey-Montclair, $IO ; Bloomfield, sional crime ; a community from which poverty $JO ; M’orristown, $15. New York-Brooklyn, will have disappeared; a community in which $25 ; Poughkeepsie, $75. Connecticut-Leba- there mill be no preventable disease ; and, fin- ‘iion, $IO. Boston, $25. Chicago, $10. ally, a comintinity in which there will be a -- protected childliood.” _. Letters and News from Alumni. Clarence L. Aiken, ’14 and ’17, writes of -- his work at Guadalupe College, Seguin, Texas, Charles E. Pieters, ’IS, is.teaching in South- where he is Dean of the Department of The- ern University, Baton Rouge, La., succeeding ology: “We are located just three miles out J. C. Tull, ’06, ,as, Instructor in Mathematics. from Seguin, on the main pike to San Antonio, He writes to the Faculty: ‘‘Allow me to ex- ivhich is thirty miles from us. The schoo’1 was press my deepest sense of gratitude to you all located right in tlie town of Seguin until three who, as my teachers, did a great deal for me, years ago, when it was destroyed by fire; then not only in my education, but also in mould- it was moved out here on their farm. There ing and shaping me by your splendid teaching, are two large dormitories, and they are fairly good precepts and fine example.’ well equipped-brick and four stories high. Rev. M. J. Nelson, ’07 and ’IO, sends a pic- We are sorely in need of a trade building, ture of their new building at Rendall Academy, wherein we can install all the trades on the Iieeling, Tenn., of which he is Principal, and first floor, then have the refectory department says : “We own about forty acres of land, have on the second, and the assembly hall and gym- five teachers, and nearly three hundred pupils ; nasium on the third. A wealthy and interested and some day w-e hope to have a great school citizcii of San Antonio has recently offered to here to meet the needs of our people in this give ten thousand dollars on the desired build- section.” ing il we will raise five thousand, and I have Charles A. Johnson, ’11, after taking a never seen people organize and work like thew course in pharmacy iiY the University of Michi- people arc. working for that five thou sand. gan, has established a drug storc in his home We are going to raise it-we are actually going town, Columbia, S. C. to raise that fivc thousand. Every section of Rev. Henry C. Cousins, ’05, writes from the immediate surrounding vicinity has or- Lima, Oklahoma: “I am still in the Sabbath ganized into little groups, and have obligated school missionary work, and like it very well, themselves to raise a certain sum. Every stu- although it is very hard on one’s health, on dent in the collcge has pledged five dollars, and account of the sudden changes of the weather. every seminary man, ten. I have pledged I am thankful, however, that I have not lost twenty-five, and wc arc going to raisc it. It a day for sickness duri11g the four years I is a serious matter with us, and a more loyal have been in this work in pioneer America. body of students. you will never find. They This is tlie field for young inen who do not are working and praying-I never atteiicl a prayer meeting Wednesday or Sunday I mind working. We are in need of more Lin- on coln men out here both in school and church evening without shedding tears. They sing 1 work. Tell tlie energetic young men to come and pray as I have never heard pcople, young - .-.. West when they graduate.” or old, sing and pray belore. lf the mcn at 13. 14‘. Scott, ’IT Seminary, writes in the Lincoln as a body could only just sec these Blaclz IBclt,, Snow Hill, Ala., of the work of students conduct a i)rayer meeting. CVCI-viiian the Aniericaii Sunday-School Union, with 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD.

afterwards when Wednesday evening came. Lewis J. Umstead, ’04, is Principal of the They never have a chance to sing more than Phyllis Wheatley School, Hartshorne, Okla. two verses, often not more than one, before Dr. William H. Weaver, ’76 and ’79, is well some young man or woman is 011 his or her known for his work as Field Secretary of the feet ready to pray or speak, and as he pro- Freedmen’s Board and as pastor in Atlanta and ceeds to pray, they all hum the refrain softly Indianapolis. of the hymn just sung-you just feel the Holy Spirit in the midst. The students are SO -- eager to learn, so receptive, appreciative and Mark Twain and the Negro. loving, and it is an inspiration to work with them. We have no Greek, but we are using W. D. Howells, in “My Memories of Mark most all the other subjects which we used at Twain,” in Harper‘s Magazine, said: “He Lincoln. Little did I think this time last year held himself responsible for the wrong which that I would be privileged to have this sacred the white race had done the black race in responsibility of training young men for the slavery (he was a Southern man), and he Gospel ministry. Aside from the class room explained, in paying the way of a Negro stu- work, there is scarcely an evening that there dent through Yale, that he was doing it as are not three or four coming to my room for his part of the reparation due from every light on some text or some passage that is white to every black man. He said he had obscure to them, for many of them have little never seen this student nor wished to see churches in the vicinity. I am so happy to be him or know his name; it was enough that able to help them and give God and Lincoln he was a Negro. University the praise always.” “About that time a colored cadet was ex- R. W. Manning, ’13, is teaching and in charge pelled from West Point for some point of of religious work in Campbell College, Jack- conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentle- son, Miss. Ile writes of the difficulties and man, and there leas the usual shabby phil- encouragements of the work, and of the ear- osophy in a portion of the press to the effect nest efforts of the people to get the things of that a Negro could never feel the claim of . 1if.e that are really worth while. They are honor. The man was fifteen parts white, but, greatly in need of a library and current litera- ‘Ah, yes,’ Clernens said, with bitter irony, ture. ‘it was that one part black that undid him; J. C. Dov711s, ’OS, is teaching in the Dunbar it made ’him a ‘nigger’ and incapable of be- School, Baltimore, Md. ing a gentleman. It was to blame for the Rev. Allen Newman, ’07 and ’IO, writes to whole thing. The fifteen parts white were Dr. Rendall from Camp Dodge, Iowa, where guiltless.” he is the Chaplain of the 366th Infantry, com- posed of four thousand colored men, mainly *- with colored officers: “My regitnent is the Wrote Dr. C. R. Williamson, pastor of the largest here at camp, and there is no pastor Westminster Church, of West Chester : laboring with me. I find that there are nearly “The great need of the colored race, as of two hundred men belonging to the Presbyte- every race, is leadership. Everywhere, and rian Church, and I have been hoping I could always, the saving force is personality. The get a good, consecrated young man from Lin- colored race to-day stands in direct need of coln, who could be sent by the Presbyterian men and women fitted by divine grace and Board to represent the Church here at camp. human education to stand alone in the isola- Please do what you can along this line.” tion of these moral wastes, with power to lift In a Seattle, Wash., paper, Rev. Eugene A. their brothers and sisters to those higher levels , Johnson, ’83, tells of his work as Y. M. C. A. of life which they have won and kept.” One Secretary with the 13th Battalion, at Camp of the schools which the Church possesses for Lewis. He was organizer and for five years the training of such leadership is Lincoln pastor of the Grace Presbyterian Church of University. Seattle. 1c- Rev. J. F. Robinson, ’IO Seminary, is pastor of a church in Aroma, Trinidad. He writes: Negroes in the United States own approxi- “I do bless the day I canie in touch with Lin- iiiately ~~,~oo,~ooacres of land, or an area coln, and do thank you and all the professors equalling the combined territory of New €or all they did for us. I wish the whole Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and institution greater prosperity this new year.” Rhode Island, as well as other property valued Floyd Delos Francis, ’07,is Secretary of the at $I,OOO,~OO,~OO,according to Moorfeld Negro-American Alliance, a new organization, Storey, President of the National Association with headquarters in Atlantic City. for the Advancement of Colored People. I

Lincoln University Herald. :he VOL. XXll LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA., APRIL, 1918 NO. 3 ell :he 11 d Visit of Dr. Joseph W. Holley. pushency and stamina. This is what I got at Lincoln. Others have got it. It is there Rev. Joseph W. Holley, D. D., '00, founder yet." and principal of the -4lbany Bible and Manual Colonel Franklin 4. Denison, 'SS, and his Training Institute, Albany, Ga., was present staff, are now at Camp Logan, Texas. Colonel at the University as preacher and college pas- Denison has been in command of the Eighth .rk tor during the week of February 17th to 24th. Illinois Infantry, but his regimental number 3e Both his evangelistic sermons and his addresses has now been changed to the 370th National ch on conditions in the South, in which he empha- Guard Infantry. in sized the loyalty of the Negro to the National First Sergeant Henry C. Collins, of Camp he Government in the present crisis. and the Dix, was a recent visitor on the campus. He ;U- opportunities and attractions of the South as says that the geratest need of the colored regi- as a field for work, were ments is that of in- try heard by large audi- telligent non-commis- ad ences and made a sioned officers. iee profound impression. [at At a sort of "expe- -- rience meeting" at the Alumni News. X- close of his visit, of there were many tes- J. Henry Walden, Ie- timonies from faculty '17, is Professor in il- and students to the Walden C o 1 1 e g e, :ct good done by Dr. Nashville, Tenn. of Holley by his ad- Rev. Harvey G. It, dresses and, inter- Knight, Seminary, lY, views. '05,. is at present in n; The Georgia Legis- this country on fur- ie- lature has recently lough from his field he recognized the im- in Arthington, Li- re portance of the work beria. of the school at Al- Among those lately ' bany by choosing it called to the colors as the site of a new are David E. Haskell, ie State Normal School, '19, and Ralph A. thus assuring for the Edmondson, '20. 3f school a large devel- Francis C. Sumner, id opment in the near REV. JOSEPH W. I-mr-LEY, D. n. '15, has a scholarship le future. in psychology in If The Albany Institute was founded' by Dr. Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. d Holley in 193, and now has an attendance Joseph S. Price, '12, is married and is Prin- 1- of five hundred stuclents, and owns property cipal of a school at Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ft worth $70,000. Rev. Richard P. Johnson, '99, is leaving his -.c church at I(inibal1, West Virginia, for a year, Notes from the Camps. to engage in army work iinder the Y.M. C. A. J. Bryant Cooper, '15, is district organizer Sergeant A. W. Doyle, '19, writes from of the Kentticky Negro Educational Associn- Camp Hill, Newport Ne\jrs, Va.: "It wodd tion, and Principal of a school at Mayfield, be quite an advantage to me to know the loca- Icy., with an attendance of 320 students. He tion of those Lincoln inen who received com- writes : "You will be surprised to know that missions last fall. If there is anything .to in this town of eleven thousand inhabitants which I niay point as a source of what suc- the rate of illiteracy among Negroes runs up . cess I have had, I can say that it is surely by actual count to about eighty-one per cent. because of the training 1 received at Lincoln. We have a State labor law which is in theory I realize that this is repeated to you by almost applicable to both white and colored, but we everybody. But what I say is by comparison cannot compel the labor officers to enforce the in our every-day life. There are men here law upon the Negroes of the section, conse- representing at least a dozen. of our best quently a parent will allow his child to go to schools. But the quality that many lack is school the first two or three months of the 2 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD. (8 Lincoln University Herald. Statement of Ownership, etc., PUBLISHED MONTHLY. Required by Government. Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and to imparting information concerning it to the friends at a distance. The LINCOLNUNIVERSITY HERALD is edited Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. and published eight times a year by W. P., Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of 10 White, Witherspoon Building, Philadelphia, cents each. at Lincoln University as second-cl.&s Pa., and William H. Johnson, Lincoln Univer- matter. sity, Pa. It is a University publication, owned Subscriptions and communications may be ad- and controlled by the Trustees of Lincoln dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE, D. D., University, John B. Rendall, Lincoln Univer- 823 WITHERSPOON BUILDING,PHILA., PA. or PROP.WM. H. JOHNSON,D. D., sity, Pa., President, and J. Everton Ramsey, LINCOLNUNIVERSITY, PA. Swartlimore, Pa., Treasurer.

~ ~ .t- school year, and run wild in the streets the Double Commencement, May 7th rest of the time. The tobacco warehouses are thoroughly co-operative with the city in keep- ing the white boys’and girls out of the work- The Commencement exercises both of the places and in school, while they will canvas the College and of the Seminary will be held this homes of the colored for boys and girls who year on May 7th. The program for the Com- can hand tobacco to packers. These boys and mencement season so far as prepared is as girls are from seven years of age and up, follows : and are paid from $2.00 per week to $6.00.” Saturday, May 4th, at ;.30 P. .M., Sopho- Mr. A. M. Carr, son of Dr. George B. Carr, more-Freshman Debate, on the subject : “Re- and .soon to graduate from “Medico-Chi,” solved, That in the peace settlement at the Philadelphia, writes the following appreciation close of the present war the German colonies of the late Tames A. Gilbert, ’11: “James Gil- in Africa should he made into a protectorate bert, recentlp of the graduating class in medi- under the United States of America.” cine at the U+versitp of Pennsylvania, died Sunday, May 5th, Baccalaureate Sunday- this past week in Chester, Pa., after a long 11 A. M., Annual Sermon to the Theological illness. A graduate in Arts of Lincoln Uni- Seminary; the preacher to be announced. versity, and brilliant student in medicine and 3 P. M., Baccalaureate Sermon by President surgery and a hard worker, liked by all his John B. Rendall, D. D., to the graduating classmates and respected by his teachers. Like class of the College. all Lincoln alumni, he always loved his Alma Monday, May 6th, Class Day and Junior Mater, and was continually recalling his Orator Contest. teachers and praising the system of teaching. Tuesday, May 7th, IO A. M., Commence- So often we wait till our friends are gone ment exercises of the Theological Seminary ; before saying anything to cheer or help them addresses by members of the graduating class 011 their way. I am glad that the opportunity and by the President. 2 P. M., Commencement was given me to tell Gilbert in a recent letter exercises of the College. Addresses by inem- to him that I thought the class had lost one bers of the graduating class, and by Dean . of its brightest students, and that I had missed James H. Dunham, Ph.D., of Temple Univer- him in both companionship and study. Many sity, Philadelphia. times we used to study togetfier, and in mo- A cordial invitation is given to all friends . ments of relaxation from the hard grind we of the University to attend these exercises.

~ often used to discuss the things of life. He had a very definite purpose in life, never - parading his religion before men, but always Campus Notes. steadfast in his belief. Why would he have made a good physician? Because, with his lx-illiant mind and considerable manual skill, The Junior Orator Contest, postponed from he had, above all, the spirit of service. A last June, was held on, February 16th. The iuan first, courteous and gentle, a stzidertt who first prize was given to Thomas H. Miles, of worked so hard and honestly that he didn’t Maryland; and the second prize t,o Leroy S. need a ‘pony :’ a CIzristiait without ostentation, Hart, of Virginia. James Gilbert is a great loss to his friends, his classmates, his countrymen and his race. None Secretary William C. Craver, of the Student of his classmates knew him as I did. He was Work Department of the International Com- a real friend, hut I know ,we shall ‘sit at mittee of Y. M. C. A.’s, addressed the students endless least’ on some brighter day.” during a recent visit to the campus.

I The Senior Oratorical Contest was held in the Chapel on Saturday, March 16th. Leroy. Africa ...... 2s 27 S. Hart, of Virginia, won the first prize, and British Islands ...... IS 2 .Arthur D. Williams, of Virginia, the second. Canada ...... 6 3 The prizes in this contest-ten dollars in gold Great Britain ...... 0 2 for the first; and five dollars in gold for the -- - second-have been provided by the Rev. John 864 864 E. Parmly, of Newark, N. Y. Dr. J. M. Dickey-- and Parker . the -- Kidnapping Case Distribution of AJumni. The death not long ago, in Oxford, Pa., of A careful study has recently been inade of Rachel Parker Wesley, an aged colored wo- the geographical distribution of the graduates man, recalls the excitement that prevailed at and former students of the College Depart- the time when Rachel Parker, then a girl, was ment whose present address is known. The kidnapped, and the interest that Dr. John following table summarizes the movement of Miller Dickey, afterward founder of Lincoln. students since- graduation by States, the first University, took in the matter. We take the column showing the rank of each State in following from The Ozford Press. supplying us with students, the second column “Of all the men who desired that justice be the number of students who came from each done Rachel Parker, who was kidnapped by State, and the third column the number of Thomas McCrery and others on the last day graduates now living in each State. of 1851 from the home of Joseph C. Miller, West Nottingham Township, not one took No. from No. now deeper and more determined interest in the Rank. State. in State matter than the late Dr. John Miller Dickey, North Carolina. I ...... I59 95 of Oxford: He became a leader in the affair, Pennsylvania ...... 2 151 151 and repeatedly went to Baltimore, where Virginia 88 ....: ...... 3 51 Rachel was in jail, and got a number of the .. Maryland ...... 4 7 58 most influential citizens of Baltimore inter- South Carolina ...... 5 76 39 ested to have justice brought about. The late Georgia ...... 6 55 39 Levi K. Brown, of Lancaster County, was also New Jersey ...... 7 36 66 active in the matter, and rendered much valu- Tennessee ...... S 24 I7 able assistance. New York ...... 9 23 38 “The matter had now become so generally Arkansas ...... IO 20 22 known that effectual help was received ,from Delaware ...... I I I5 I7 the late Senator Henry S. Evans, of West Texas ...... 12 IO I9 Chester, who brought the circumstances to the Kentucky ...... 13 9 I9 attention of our Legislature, by which means District of Columliia...... 14 ‘7 40 the case became a State affair. Florida ...... -14 5 Alabama ...... 16 ;. I6 TRIALLASTED EIGHT DAYS. Oklahoma ...... 16 6 16 “Dr. Dickey and others attended the trial in Ohio ...... IS 5 I5 January, 1853. nie proceedings lasted eight Mississippi ...... IS 5 5 days, during which, as one of the claimant’s Missouri ...... IS 5 I1 attorneys expressed it, ‘an entire neighborhood! California ...... 21 4 5 appeared and ‘an avalanche of testimony’ was Connecticut ...... 21 4 5 borne to the girl’s free birth. Evidence was Massachusetts ...... 21 4 23 produced from Baltimore that she was not Rhode Island ...... 21 ,4 2 the girl who had been lost. Forty-nine wit- West Virginia ...... 25 3 16 nesses were heard and many more were ready, U. S. Islands ...... 25 3 5’ when a compromise was proposed and agreed Indiana ...... 27 2 2 to.. Notwithstanding this overwhelniing evi- Illinois ...... zS I 9 dence, there was still some fear that a Balti- Kansas ...... 2S I a more jury would decide against the girl, and Louisiana ...... -3s J I it was thought wise to give way. The chief Michigan ...... & I 3 end was gained: Rachel Parker was deblared Washington ...... 0 6 free born; the same jury gave a verdict also Iowa ...... 0 5 for her sister, Elizabeth, who had been found C o 1or ado ...... 0 2 in New Orleans and brought North, and the Oregon ...... l.. . 0 2 two were restored to their mother. . Minnesota ...... 0 2 “The costs of the trial were divided, these Nebraska ...... ;. .. 0 I amounting to $1,000, besides $3,000 expended 4 LINCOLN UNIVERSITY HERALD..

by the State of Pennsylvania and heavy outlays I‘ ‘That we regard with great satisfaction by friendly citizens of Baltimore and Chester the conduct of the Executive of our State, county. who, at the suggestion of the Senator and JUDGE BELL’S OBSERVATION. Representatives of our County, assumed the control and responsibilities of the trial ; and “Judge Bell, of West Chester, one of the that we tender our sincere thanks to the dis- Pennsylvania counsel, wrote thus after all was tinguished counsel, Aftorney-General Campbell over to the West Chester Repnddicaiz and and Judge Bell, who visited at different times Dcntocrat: this place to become familiar with and to give “ ‘Too much praise cannot be .accorded to encouragement to the witnesses about to the host of witnesses from Chester County and testify in another State, thus accomplishing the neighboring districts, who promptly, on the the object as well by their urbanity as wen call of justice and humanity, exchanged the as by their professional skill. comforts of home for the inconvenience and I‘ ‘That we express our sincere acknowledg- supposed dangers of sojourn in a strange city, ment of the courtesy shown us by the Court of under circumstances well calculated to deter Baltimore County, both by the bench and bar, a merely selfish person from obeying the sum- and especially to William H. Norris, Esq., for mons. This praise is peculiarly due to the his invaluable services, associated as counsel numerous ladies of our County whose sense with those from our own State.’ of right overcame every merely personal con- “‘That we deplore the death of Joseph C. sideration.’ Miller, a witness in the first trial before the “The ‘supposed dangers’ referred to, of magistrate’s court, and believing, as we most which the murder of Joseph C. Miller was a positively do, that he came to his death vio- sign, were realized by Dr. Dickey, who, his son, lently by other hands than his own, we implore the late J. M. C. Dickey, Esq., told us, ‘would the Executive to .offer a suitable reward, in go to the trial in Baltimore not knowing how addition to tliat offered by his friends, for the he would come back. Once he was- very.near discovery and apprehension of his murderers. death at their hands.’ “ ‘JOHN M- DICKEY,CJznirmaiz. THE CLOSINGACT. “ ‘HUGHROWL-~ND, Secretary.’ “The concluding local action of this case of “It may be added: that the ‘Grand Jury of wide agitation was as follows: Chester County brought in a true bill against “WESTNOTTINGHAM, Jan. ‘17, ‘1853. Thomas McCrery and Merritt, his associate, for kidnapping. But. Governor Lowe, of “At a meeting of the witnesses and others who attended the Court of Baltimore County, Maryland,, refused the requisition for appre- hension and delivery, going behind the record, in the case of the girls, Rachel and Elizabeth contrary to. the law, as Governor Bigler, of Parker, the following was passed : Pennsylvania, demonstrated clearly. in the “ ‘WHEREAS,‘By the blessings of Divine Providence, the two girls, Rachel and Elizabeth published correspondence.” Parker, have been restored to the State of Pennsylvania, where they were born, and thus -- rescued from slavery, with which they were Contributions. threatened, by a lawless and unjust removal; and It has been thought mise not to name indi- “ ‘WHEREAS,Similar cases are likely to occur, vidual contributors, as some object to the pub- and in the excited state of public opinion on licity. Names of churches are given and the the subject of slavery, both in the Northern localities from which individual contributions and Southern States, difficulties exist in the come. Many of these are annual contributors, way of the administration of law and justice and have been such for many years. Their where colored persons are petitioning for their generous aid has been greatly appreciated by freedom, we regard it as a duty we owe to the LTniversity. those who may be engaged in similar prosecu- Clzurclzes-Philadelphia : Frankford First, tions, as well as to those who have macnly $50; Germantown First, $30.53 ; Central-North aided in obtaining success in this case, to put Broad Street, $21.97; Class .No. 7, First upon record the following resolutions : Church, Germantown, $25 ; Pennsylvania : “ ‘That we regard with grateful remem- Plyniouth, $25 ; Catasauqua First, $46.17; New brance the liberal aid afforded by those friends Jersey : Prospect Street, Trenton, $50; Sum- of liunianity in Baltimore and Maryland who, mit, $25; Camdeii Second, $IO. by open appeal to law and by so much personal 1~2dividz~als-Pennsylvania : Philadelphia,’ $50, kindness, contributed to our happiness while $25, $IO, $j ; Pittsburgh, $25 ; Jenkintown, $25 ; with them, and to the success of our cause. Titusville, $25 ; Wilkes-Barre, $!o ; Allentown, May God bless them and show them favor in $25; New Jersey, $30, $2.50; New York, $100, times of trial, and in a better world ! $50 ; Boston, Mass., $IO ; Louisville, Icy., $5. -Lincoln University Herald.

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General Assemblv" Endorses $500,000 Gampaian.- INCOLN UNIVERSITY represents a splendid cause-a came which makes a powerful appeal LO patriotic and Christian senti- L ment-a cause which, in the words of the late Dr. Isaac N. Rendall, "appeals to the heart of Christ." Inheriting something of Dr. I. AT. Fendall's faith and vision, the Trustees and Faculty of Lincoln Universrty have planned, a campaign to raise $500,000 for the enlargement of its work, to be apportioned when ,raised as follows: . For New Building's . . $150,000 For Scholarships and Maintenance 150,000 For Full Endowment of Present Professors' Salaries . 100,000 For New Professorships . 100,000 Total . . $500,000 The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., at.its meeting in May, at Columbus, Ohio, endorsed this movement in the adoption unanimously, upon the r.ecommendation of the Committee on Theological Seminaries, of the following : "The Assembly learns with deep interest and warm approval of the several efforts to make financial advance the coming' year, as follows: Lincoln University . . . 8500,000 (Names of other institutions follow) and we most heartily commend these institutions to the generous support of individuals and congre- gations of the Presbyterian Church. Attest : WM. H. ROBERTS, Stated Clerk.'' To bring all this to pass will take not only a number of larger gifts, but a multitude of smaller gifts. Send your gifts and pledges now, while more than half a million of the Negro race from Africa and America are fighting the battle' for liberty on the Western Front. Friends of the University and alumni, and both individuals and churches, are urged to give to this fund; and all amounts, larger or smaller, will be gratefully

received and ' acknowledged. Correspondence should be addressed to President John 13. Rendall, D. D., Chairman ; or to Professor William Hallock Johnson, Secretary of Campaign Committee, Lincoln University, Pa. I I

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Lincoln University Herald. The Diploma of, the Seminary was given to PUBLISHED MONTHLY. John T. Jones ...... New Jersey Devoted to the interests of the Institution, and’to Jesse C. Sawyer...... Virginia imparting information concerning it to the friends at ’a distance. A Certificate for the English Course was Sent one year to any address for 25 cents. given to Sent in clubs of five or more at the rate of IO cents each. Henry M. Newby...... Vikginia Entered at Lincoln University as second-class matter. The following prizes .were awarded : Subscriptions and communications may be ad- dressed to REV. W. P. WHITE, D. D., The Robert Scott Senior Prize in English 823 WITHERSPOON BUILDING,PHILA., PA. Bible-Benjamin D. Thompson. or PROP.WM. H. JOHNSON,D. D., The Miss Lafie Reid Prizes in Sacred LINCOLNUNIVERSITY, PA. Geography-First, James L. Jamison, Jr. ; Second, Augustine E. Bennett. New Biographical Catalogue. The R. H. Nassau Prize-Jesse E. Barber. The Rodman Wanamaker Prize in’ Engligh A new Biographical Catalogue, containing Bible-Henry M. Newby. the names of all graduates and former stu- The program for the College exercises, held dents of the University, has just come from on the afternoon of the same day, was as the press and is ready for distribution. The follows : Catalogue, with the index, makes a pamphlet of 157 pages. It contains the essential bio- Latin Salutatory-Charles T. Kimbrough, graphical details, with present occupati‘on and North Carolina. address of students so far as known, and “The Evolution of Democracy”-Thomas H. should be of much interest and value to Miles, Maryland. alumni and others. The compilation has been “Education Triumphant”-Arthur D. Williams, made in the main by Professor George John- Virginia. son, Ph.D., Dean of the College, who will Valedictory, “America’s Aim and Part in the send the Catalogue to any address for twenty- Present World War”-James C. Mc- five cents, the cost of printing. Morries, Mississippi.. Announcement of Prizes. -- Conferring. of Degrees. Double Commencement of College and Address by the Rev. James Henry Dunham, Theological Seminary . Ph.D., Dean, Temple University. Dr. Dunham’s spirited patriotic address was On account of war conditions, it was thought much enjoyed and appreciated by the audience. wise to combine on May 7th the closing exer- Announcement was made of the campaign cises of both the Collegiate and Theological for $500,000 inaugurated by the Trustees and Departments, thus placing the Seminary Com- Faculty, and two checks just received from mencement a little later and the College Com- members of the decennial class of 19os-F. mencement a little earlier than usual. Rivers Barnwell, of Fort WOE-th, Texas, and May 5th was Baccalaureate Sunday, when Herbert W. Smith, of Columbus, Ohio-were the sermon to the Seminary graduates was exhibited as pledges of the active interest and preached in the morning by President George co-operation of the Alumni in this movement Leslie Omwake, D. D., of Ursinus College ; for “Old Lincoln.” and the sermon to the College graduates in the afternoon by President John B. Rendall, The degree of Bachelor of Arts was con- D. D. ferred on the following : On the morning of Tuesday, May 7th, the Charles G. Archer...... Virginia graduating exerc,ises of the Seminary were Theodore A. Armstrong...... Jamaica held, with addresses by Dr. Rendall and by Percy I. Eowser. .. .: ...... Maryland mcmlm-s of the graduating class. Jesse B. Victor W. DeShields...... Delaware Barber, of Pennsylvania, spoke on “Christian- Josiah N. Fraser...... British Guiana ity aiter the War;” Allen E. Sephas, of Ala- Oscar N. Frey...... Pennsylvania bama, on “A Vacation in Sabbath School Gordon V. Green:...... Maryland Work ;” and Benjamin D. Thompson, of Penn- Charles T. IGmbrough...... North Carolina sylvania, on “The Mcssage of the Church in Andrew L. Latture...... Tennessee the Present Conflict.” Richard T. Lockett...... Georgia The ,degree of Bachclor of Sacred Theology Robert L. Loclcett...... Georgia was con rerrcd upon James C. McMorries...... Mississippi Jesse B. Barber...... Pennsylvania Claudius W. McNeill ...... North Carolina Leslic E. Ginn...... Maryla~~d Frederick L. Merry...... Massachusctts Allen E. Scphas...... Alal~ama Thomas H. Milcs...... Maryland 13ciijaniin 13. Thompson...... Peniisylvnnia David G. Morris...... Florida Maceo T. Morris ...... New Jersey Lamar Perkins ...... Georgia .William G. Smith...... Georgia First Lieutenant Allan C. Newman, ’07, Charles H. Stewart...... Georgia Chaplain of the 366th Infantry, N. A., writes Eugene M. Sumner (work completed to Dr. Rendall from Camp Upton: January .Virginia . 21, 1918)...... “Since receiving the last communication Ulysses S. Wiggins...... Georgia from you, my regiment has moved from Camp Arthur D. Williams...... Virginia Dodge to Camp Upton, New York. We ex- Thomas A. Williams...... South Carolina pect to remain here only a very short time, Also on William K. Sanders, of the and then move on to that most serious side of .. Class of 1916...... North Carolina -the world generally called ‘over there.’ Since The degree of Bachelor of Science was coming into the army, I have been greatly conferred on . benefited by the constant contact of many hun- James E. Comegys...... Pennsylvania dreds of men, representing every walk of life. It has enabled me to learn humanity and its The degree of Master of.Arts was conferred ways as I could not have known it in any on the following : other capacity than that of a chaplain. I Jesse B. Barber (A.B., Lincoln, 1915)..Penna. have thanked God numerous times that I am Harry W.Green (A.B., Lincoln, 1917), N. C. so fortunate as to be living just now, when Allen E. Sephas (A.B., Biddle, 1915),Alabama there is so much being done and still more yet James .A. Shelton (A.B., Lincoln, 1g17), Iowa to be done. When I see the thousands of Wm. P. Young(A.B.,Lincoln,1g17), New Jersey Negro soldiers representing the gznd Division, I read in their determined faces the future of The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity a great race and victory for the principles of was conferred on the following: . righteousness; then, too, I am thrice glad be- Rev. J. W. E. Bowen, Vice-president of cause I can play some small part in helping Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. to prepare the world for the acceptance of Rev. Charles S. Freeman, Pastor of the First the teachings of Christ. I feel that we all ~ African Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia. will be closer in that true sense, and that the The following prizes were awarded : spirit of the Master will find a warmer wel- The Bradley Medal in Science to Charles come in the hearts of the peoples of all na- tions and races. Many times stand on the T. IGmbrough. I parade grounds and watch in the distance ‘the The Class of Prize in English to 1899 columns of soldiers of both races as they Charles Archer. G. practice the manmuvres of battle, The Junior Orator Medals to T. Milton and every few minutes catch the melody of many voices Seldon, First, and David M. Waters, Second. as the men unite in singing some patriotic air The Presbyterian Board of Temperance Prizes in Oratory to Joseph N. Hill, .First, or some glorious Gospel hymn. Truly it is good to be here. I am not sure just where and the Second equally to Francis L. Atkins we are to go after leaving here, but I shall and Eugene W. Rhodes. always try to remember my duties as a chap- The Moore Sophomore Prizes in English lain and hold to the principles of my fathers- equally to Eugene E. Alston, Francis L: At- I know no safer ones. Thanking you for the kins and George C. Wright. kindly notice and hearty support given me The Moore Freshman Prizes in English to since graduating from Lincoln, I am, very Timothy C. Meyers, First, .and Miller W. truly.” Boyd, Second. The Annie Louise Finney Prize to Arthur Arthur D. Williams, ’IS, winner of the D. Williams. Finney prize, writes that he is Social Work The Stanford Memorial Prize in Mathe- Secretary in the Y. M. C. A., Camp Lee, Vir- ginia. His duties are to visit the sick in the ,-, matics to Richard Cooper. The Class oi 1916 Prize to Richard T. hospitals and to take charge of the ‘hovies Lockett. and the music.” He speaks of the friendly The Huston Prizes in English to T. Milton spirit of co-operation in work and play be- Selden, First, and Charles G. Archer, Second. tween the white and colored soldiers. The Parmly Prizes in Oratory to Leroy S. RCV. Ellis A. Christian, ’12, is Educational Hart, First, and Arthur D. Williams, Second. Secretary in the Y. M. C. A. at Camp Travis, The Rodman Wanamaker Prizes in English Sari Antonio, Texas. He writes: “It is my Bible to the following: In the Senior Class- business to lecture 011 various subjects, teach Thomas H. Miles, Charles G. Archer; in the the illiterate how to read and write, make Junior Class-T. Milton Selden: religious addresses, distribute literature, and The Freshnian-Sophomore Debate Prize to promotc campaigns for educational work. On the tcam representing the Sophomore Class- Sundays I go from barrack to barrack and Josep!~N. Hill, Francis L. Rtkins, and Eugene preach short sermons, lead the singing, and , 14‘. llhodcs. pcrsiradc nicn to accept Christ. Last Sunday I stood on a soap box in the quarantine camp, preached, acted as chorister, distributed litera- tnre, and then extended the illvitation. Fif- teen men came forward declaring that they Campus friends and alumni were distressed. had accepted the Saviour. I can easily reacl: to hear of the recent death, within a day of two to lour thousand men in an hour. .Thp each other, of the two older sons of the late soldiers are for the most part crude and ig- Professor John M. Galbreath, D. D.-Scott norant, hard Texas country fellows, and the Salbreath, aged thirty-five, of Philadelphia, ’ work has to be both intensive and extensive. .id .John A. Galbreath, M. D., aged thirty- I am doing things that I never dreamed of three, of Pottstown, Pa. A double funeral doing. I like this work-it is a stupendous was held from the mother’s home at Lans- opportunity for reaching men...... Make the downe, Pa., on April 17. Lieutenant Thomas students speak. If a man cannot open his M. Galbreath, the youngest son, is in the Avia- mouth and talk, humanity will be the suf- ton service in France. ferer as well as he. Tell Dr. Carr I am so Rev. Samuel Colgate Hodge, who for four glad he taught me to preach without notes. years has been Professor of English Bible, and I am now giving to hundreds and even thous- for the past year has been Dean of the The- ands of men what dear old Lincoln University ological Seminary, has resigned to accept a gave me.” call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian . H. E. Caldwell, ’13, writes from 12 Rue Church of West Chester, Pa. He was in- D’Aguesseau, Paris, France, of his work as stalled over the church on the evening of Y. M. C. A. Secretary with the American Ex- May 10th. Professors George B. Carr, Wil- peditionary Force.’ He says: “I delivered an liam P. Finney and William H. Johnson took address on Mothers’ Day, May 12th; and on part in the installation service. Professor the same day we had seven men join the army Hodge has served the University with con- of Christ.” Letters. from friends, he says, spicuous fidelity and success, which has been mould he greatly appreciated. appreciated by his colleagues and students, Emery A. James, ’16,writes from the Medi- who regret his leaving, and follow him- and cal Officers’ Training Camp at Fort Ogle- his family with best wishes for. abundant suc- thorpe, Ga., and says: “As to army life, I cess in his new field of labor. like it quite well, and it seems to agree with Professor Robert M. Labaree, D. D.. has me.” been elected Dean of the Theological Seminary Joseph D. McGhee, ’19, writes as a volun- in place of Professor Hodge. teer from Camp Dix, N. J., that he is shown Rev. Edwin J. Reinke, of Phila-delphia, has every consideration, and expects to go over been chosen as associate of the Financial soon. Secretary, Dr. William P. White. Proicssors Harold F. Grim and Walter L. Wright have been very active and successful Of the men who graduated from the Semi- in promoting the Third Liberty Loan and War iiary.in May, Jesse B. Barber is now pastor Chest drives in the surrounding community. of the Grace Presbyterian Church, Seattle, On a recent Sabbath, Professor George B. Washington, succeeding Dr. Eugene. A. Jol. I- Carr, D. D., preached in the St. James’ Preshy- son, ’S3, who has gone into war work; Joh:. terian Church, New York, of which Rev. T. Jones is located in Maryland; J. Collin Frank M. Hyder, D. D., ’94, is pastor. Dr. Sawyer is pastor of the Laura Street Presby- Carr speaks of the prosperity of the St. James’ terian Church, Jacksonville, Florida ; Allen E. Church, also of the neighhoring Mother, A. M. Sephas is Sabbath ,School Missionary in North E. Zion Church, whose pastor is Rev. James Carolina ; and Benjamin D. Thompson, after Walter Brown, D. D., Seminary ’03. his marriage on June 18th to Miss Ella S. Among the Lincoln University gradual cs Fort, of Nashville, Tenn., will be located in who were ministerial delegates to the Presby- Philadelphia. terian General Assembly at Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Holley’s speech at the General Assembly in May, were E. C. Hames, Atlanta, Ga.; F. in which he presented the name of Dr. John If. Hyder, New York; J. W. Holley, Albany, B. Rendall for Moderator, won many plaudits. Gx; Mi. T. Frasier, Walterboro, S. C.; C. S. Of this The Coiztineiaf says: “Of the thirteen Mebane, Hot Springs, Ark. ; W. J. Rankin, speedrcs in connection with the nomination Aberdeen, N. C.; and A. W. Rice, Anniston, of candidates for Moderator, many commis- Ala. sioners would have chosen for first prize the Dr. William A. Creditt, ’Sg, of Philadelphia, one by Dr. J. W. Holley of Georgia, who is on thc list oi speakers selected by the \Var named Dr. Rendall. He declared that for 13cpartment and the Conmittec on Public In- fifty-three years the Negroes had been helping formation; to make patriotic addresses and to‘ elect Moderators the white race had nomi- explain thc war aims of the Government. nated, arid he ventured to break this silence Rev: J. 13. Garclner, ’97, has lieen holding of more than half a century only ‘be.cause jul)ilcc services at the Salem Baptist Church, he had the right man €or the place.’ Dr. . Philadelphia, of which he is the founder and Rendall on both ballots had the second largest past 0 1‘. ’ IllllllbCl~Of VOICS.”