Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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ggsc JL : i ,il j t:, : t isggg ■ ji.io; II.MIi U l» IIatiibij) ! ►»•»!11 Cljr (College of 9ppliet cirncc Students of history know that in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, civilization was remarkably enriched by the revival of the fine arts. Architects, painters and sculptors were among the most indispensable servants of the glory of the age. A little later on. during the latter part of the eighteenth century, another great and significant age began its development. This age is well known as the age of the Industrial Revolution. Conceived in England, it spread the world over: turning the older and newer theories of pure science to industrial ami professional use. Cities grew rapidly. like the enchanted mushroom; and more involved, like an uncharted trail in a forest maze. The factory system. with its intricate and indispensable machinery, was born to spread the industrial products of man's brain far and wide. As far as the Industrial Revolution, as conceived in the eighteenth century in England, is concerned. America, right now. is adding to that great institution a new force and genius. It is a brand of genius that needs no special recommendation when we interpret it in terms of great feats of engineering skill. Those engineers of you who have learned your professional rudiments at Howard University may never build such a bridge, but your problems will be just as important to your own communities and to yourselves as is the great Delaware River Bridge to Philadelphia, to Camden and to its designers. Those artists and architects of you will find that your opportunities are innumerable—for this is an age of great building and decorating. And too. the responsibility of stimulating in the right direction the tastes of your particular public is a strikingly important one. Those of you who are teachers and practitioners of home economics have a precious, fundamental and enlightened responsibility upon you in serving as guardians and efficient providers for a higher standard of domestic life. imtHM U-LUU

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Cfjt College of Slrts anti Sciences The College of Arts and Sciences in the fulfillment of its purpose to provide a liberal education, touching in sonic of its phases all of the fields of human thought and knowledge provides a Mecca of student desire for diversity in education. While providing this diversity of contact in the various realms of thought, the concentration so vitally necessary in one particular field is provided for as well, in order that the particular hent of the student’s mind may be cultivated and thereby be made more ready for the pursuit of his chosen field of endeavor. The function of this college is one of the most important and fundamental ones of the entire University scheme. Helping students to find themselves, preparing them to be of greater service to mankind and to more efficiently provide for their mental, spiritual and economic lives is the purpose to which this college is dedicated.

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 Cljc College of (Eljcologu The Theological College, although one of the least in number ot students enrolled of all the colleges of the University, provides a training of the highest type for the all-important work of the ministry. Under the present curriculum a liberal education is combined with the theological training: thus affording to those students who otherwise might lx unable to finance themselves through the four years of liberal arts and theology, a most thorough training in the arts, which is of course vitally necessary to the minister of this era. The faculty of the college are all men of the greatest ability. Professor Stuart Nelson, one of the most accomplished ministers of the race and a philosopher of rare strength, as well as a speaker of grace, dignity and eloquence, bolsters this strong faculty, and Howard is singularly proud of him since he is one of her sons.