Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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Di'L am pu5 The McCauley Reiectory . . . Professor Hill's Resi- dence . . . The Vail Memorial Library . . . The African Exhibit . . . Cresson Hall. 16

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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY THE LINCOLN UNIVERSITY AND THE FREED NEGROES The work of The Ashmun Institute came to a close when Lee on April 9 1865, surrendered to Grant at Appomatox. A new and larger phase of edu- cational effort for the Negro was now necessary. Dr. Dickey met the situation by calling to the Presidency the Rev. Isaac Norton Rendall (1825-1912) and by having the Pennsylvania legislature on April 4, 1866, change the name of The Ashmun Institute to The Lincoln University. Under the planning of Dr. Rendall and his three Princeton Seminary classmates, Edwin R. Bower (1826-1883), Lorenzo Westcott (1828-1879), and Gilbert T. Woodhull (1827- 1898), all graduates of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) as well as of Princeton Theological Seminary, the liberal and Christian char- acter of the institution was maintained as it has to the present essentially continued. The freed ex-slaves were received on the level at which they were, but they were not permitted to remain there, for the untiring effort of the faculty was to fit them by training for the best and highest leadership. The trustees earnestly sought to justify the new title of University by adding to the preparatory, collegiate, and theological departments that had existed from the beginning. In 1869 a business section was attempted, but after a trial discontinued when it was found to seriously threaten the character and aim of the departments already existing. In June, 1870, it was resolved to establish departments of medicine and law, the former in Philadelphia, and the latter in West Chester, Pennsylvania, but the financial strain was beyond the resources of the University at that time, and the departments while not abolished were discontinued THE LINCOLN UNIVERSITY AND THE NORTHERN MIGRATION With the ending of the World War in 1918 it was evident that a new era in the status of the American Negro had come. The Northern Migration of the Negro introduced profound changes, and the University was compelled to adapt itself to them. The transition began in the presidency of Dr. John B. Rendall, 1906-1924, continued under his successor, Dr. William Hallock Johnson, 1927-1936, and is now the acutest task of the present administration headed by Dr. Walter L. Wright. It has in part been met by organizing the University as a cooperative enterprise of white and colored both in the trustees and the faculty: the corporation and the operation. The hope is that the essential ideals of the University will not be changed in spite of the fact that the persisting tendency of the time is to regard the present existence as a broad place for body building rather than a narrow valley of soul making. DEAN GEORGE JOHNSON. 15

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Memorial Hall . . . Houston Hall . . . Rendall Hall . . . The Mary Dod Brown Memorial Chapel . . . 17 University Hall.