Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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unique position in the life of the University, liccause of constitutional limita-lioib. it can receive no aid or support from the National Government. 'I his School ha an unrivaled record in training Christian ministers for the millions of colored j eo| lr in this and other lands. Its students arc drawn from many countries; it is in contact with a large colored population; it i» interdenominational and enjoys all of the facilities incident to its proximity to a great University. These all tend to promote the primary purpose of the Dc|«artment which is to make effective preachers of the Word, successful pastors, and wise leaders toward a higher spiritual life. Like the School of Law, this Dcixirtment has Iktcm strengthening its entrance requirements. It has also established an extension Department, which by corresj otidence courses is carrying educational opportunities to many who cannot attend the School in person. These three Professional Schools may lie justly termed a triumvirate of professional advantages opened to the youth of the country. They have more titan justified the unfaltering faith of their founders by training thousands in the professions of Theology. Law, Medicine. Dentistry, and Pharmacy, and thereby answering the cry of the greater throng of colored people who are struggling toward the light, to live their own lives with equal opportunities of all other men and determine their own destiny under free government and protection of the law.

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Commencement Address, Howard University By Tiif. Honorable William H. I.f.wis. of Boston. Mass. Mr. President. Distinguished Guests. Memlicrs of the Faculty, Graduatfng ( lass, ami Friends of live University: A we mortals measure time and s|«ce, we arc now in the twenty-first year «if tlie century. The twentieth century is therefore of age. Whatever stirring events may hap| en lie fore the cycle is complete, we know tint the two decades | ast. arc as amazing as any in the annals of mankind. This small segment of time may not com|iare with the immortal age of Pericles; l»ut of those who died in the World War it may lie said of them, as the Athenian statesman and orator said of those who fell in the first Peloponnesion War, “We have received of them a tree state. “We have compelled every land and every sea to ojien a |«ath for our valor, and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship. Nor is this | criod to Ik comjiarcd with the Italian Kennaissancc. when Florence and Venice were the eyes of the world. But the age that gave to the world Columhus. and Copernicus, can never look askance at the achievcmncts of Peary. Ammnnd'cn. and F.instein. Peary and Antmundsen explored the entls of the earth; Einstein rc-madc the world—or our conception of it. The Eliza-Itethan age. which produced the great explorers like Drake. Raleigh, and Frobisher, and gave us the illustrious names in literature of Shakcsjienrc, Sidney, Spencer, Ben Johnson, defeated the Spanish Armaria. P ut the liattle of the British and German fleets off Jutland will exert a greater influence ujxm the world's histon titan did the r matin. The crowning |kuiU of the nineteenth century was the organizing of The Hague tribunal, to put an end to war; hut in less than two decades the most tU| etxVrtis war in histon had I teen fought, won, and lost. Sixteen nations were contending in anus on the one side or the other. More than a hundred billions uf dollars were sjient in this gigantic struggle. Seven millions of precious human lives were sacrificed to the grim visaged Moloch of war. and