Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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I - u- ii L g U- of the greatest needs of the University at present is more space and additional equipment for the Conservatory of Music. With the opening of this administration there was but one department of the University approved by the rating association of America. The School of Medicine was in class A. In the autumn of 1021 the Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools of the Middle States and Maryland, after most rigid personal investigation, placed the College of Liberal Arts on the approved list. This means that graduates from Howard School of Liberal Arts have the same scholastic standing as graduates from any other tirst-class school in America. In the spring of 1022 the Dental College was registered by the New York State Board of Regents, thus giving it the highest rating. The College of Pharmacy has been given the highest rating with the Pharmacy Board of the State of Ohio. The Law School is now applying for admission to the Association of American Law Schools, with great confidence in the success of its application. Evening classes were mentioned early in the history of Howard. Provisions were at that time made for instruction in elementary and secondary school subjects, and the project was discontinued long ago. During the school year of 1021-22, evening college classes were established, and these have given tremendous impetus to higher education for Negro teachers in the city of Washington. The registration for the first year was 46. It is now about 200. The old two semester system was abolished in 1919 and the quarter system adopted. But the quarter system remained incomplete until 1923. during which year the fourth quarter was added by instituting a summer session which extended from June 25. to August 31. The last big stroke of the present administration was the campaign to raise §250,000 for the medical school. The General Education Board required as a basis for its help that all finances of the School of Medicine be taken over by the general administration of the University and be handled in one office. When this was done, the board pledged the University an endowment of §250,000 for the Medical School on condition that the University would also raise $250,000 by July 1. 1923. The president of the University began a strenuous campaign, and the drive went over the top so far as pledges were concerned. Many of the pledges have been paid already. The question may at some time arise as to whether or not Howard University has justified its existence and the aid that has been given to it. Although fifty-seven years old, it is far too young yet to permit any one to attempt an answer to the question. However, let it suffice to say that Negro education in America would never have reached its present stage without the existence of a Howard University. So, let Howard write a few more pages of her history before we make a very critical reckoning with regard to what she has accomplished, for indeed she has just begun to live. f£

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