Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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General ©liber ©tis $?otuarb erbice to a ftace A SOLDIER among soldiers, a statesman among statesmen. a man among men. with a principle that has elevated him in the hearts of his comrades and friends. He has left an indelible imprint upon the annals of the history of educational benefactors to our race. General Oliver Otis Howard was born in Leeds, Maine, on November 8, 1830. He was graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850, and from the United States Military Academy in 1857. In 1861 he became assistant professor of mathematics at West Point. During the Civil War he received many honors among which were Colonel of the Third Maine Volunteer Regiment and Brigadier General of Volunteers. He lost his right arm in the Battle of Seven Pines. For conspicuous bravery in this action, he received in 1803, a Congressional Medal of Honor. In March of 1865, he was brevetted Major General of the U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious service in the campaign against Atlanta. After the war he served as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees. Freedmen. and Abandoned Lands from 1865 to 1874. It was during this period that General Howard conceived the Herculean task of the intellectual redemption of the four million Negroes of America. He founded a Howard University, that was a combination of the home, the church and the school. Today Howard is a well equipped modern university in a city where there are nearly one hundred and fifty thousand colored people, for whose equipment and uplift it specially stands. It is not only a city university, but a national university for twelve million people. It is the greatest educational center for the colored race in the Western World. The ideal of General Howard is more than realized. Howard is the laboratory out of which Negroes who are of great worth are turned to fit into every aspect of life as American citizens. It is an international Service Center, for graduates have gone to every State of the Union, to the Islands of the Sea, to Africa, Asia. Europe, and South America. General Howard retired from active service in 1894 and died in Burlington, Maine, October 26, 1909. The service wrought by General Howard is inestimable. The prophecy. “The good men do lives after them,” is amply fulfilled.

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 “One science only will one genius fit. So vast is art, so narrow human wit '—Pope

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