Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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Xincoln University • • BOUT fifty years ago the Rev. John Miller Dickey, D. D., of Oxford, Pa., felt called of God to be the agent of establishing an institution of higher education for young colored men in the United States. This was at a time when, to speak of negro education of any kind meant to invite opposition and ostracism, even in the State in which the Declaration of Independence was signed. But criticism had no effect upon Dr. Dickey, as he was conscious of doing his Master’s bidding. And thus in 1854 Ashman Institute was begun with one building, one professor, and one Hezekiah Brown, the only student. In i860 the charter of Lincoln University was granted and the institution at once took its place at the head of the higher institutions of learning for the negro race—not by reason of great endowments, for these have always been meagre ; not because it was near the center of population and had great cities to draw upon, for it is remote and isolated, being forty-four miles from Phila- delphia, sixty-six from Baltimore and farther still from the great South-land from which it receives the most of its students. In fact it has had no outside advantages to rely upon, but has had to depend for success upon the high tone of its scholarship, upon its able and devoted teachers, and upon the spirit of loyalty to Christ which it inculcates in all of its students. Class after class Lincoln has sent out into the world. Many lives have been brightened, homes elevated and hearts made to rejoice by the teaching of the men who have gone from this honored and useful University. Among her graduates are men distinguished in every walk of life—law- yers, doctors, Congressmen, journalists, a multitude of teachers of all grades, 3

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IDeMcaiion © © © To one who for many years has labored as an educator and a trainer of youthful minds, for whose zealous teachings and earnest efforts to impress upon us foundation truths and principles, we shall ever feel indebted : to IRev. Ssaac W Kendall, D. S ., we dedicate this, our humble effort, having nothing higher to give, and hoping that he will accept it as a token of the esteem in which he is held by the class of iyoo. Editors.

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THE 1900 CLASS BOOK college presidents and professors, and above all a large number of ministers and foreign missionaries. Space will permit me to mention but a few of Lincoln’s illustrious sons, prominent among whom are the Hon. Archibald H. Grimke, A. M., of Boston, Mass., ex-Consular to Haiti, author of the lives of Garrison and Sum- ner in “The Series of American Reformers ; Warren T. McGuinn, A. M., law- yer, Baltimore ; James L. Jameson, M. D., of Pennsylvania ; the Right Hon. Thomas E. Miller, A. M., LL. D., ex-Congressman from South Carolina, who at the present time is the able president of the State College of South Caro- lina ; the Rev. H. T. Johnson, D. D., Ph. D., editor of the Christian Recorder; the late Rev. J. C. Price, D. D., founder of Livingstone College, North Caro- lina ; the Rev. Wm. H. Thomas, D. D., pastor of Charles Street U. A. M. E. Church, Boston, Mass.; the Rev. F. J. Grimke, D. D., pastor of Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D. C.; the Rev. W. A. Cridit, M.A., D. D., pastor of Cherry Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia ; Bishop Dicker- son, Rev. G. C. Shaw, A. M., North Carolina ; Revs. R. H. Armstrong, D. D., and Edward F. Eggleston, A. M., both useful and popular pastors of Presby- terian churches in Baltimore, and scores of others that might be mentioned. While adopting new methods and maintaining a high grade of scholar- ship, Lincoln has stuck to its old principles. It still believes that men have souls as well as minds and bodies. It still believes that the education of the soul is quite as important as the development of the biceps or the gray matter of the brain. The Bible is taught throughout the whole course, in fact, it is the only two hours (a week) subject that is not elective to the seniors. The result is that the men are as familiar with Moses and his generation as they are with Alexander and Ccesar and their accomplishments, while the lives and charac- ters of the different kings of Israel are as well known as those of the many presidents of the United States. I understand that some of the seniors 4