Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Jforrtoorb HE glorious ideals of our Alma Mater thrill our hearts and stir our souls. I he University has pointed out new avenues of service, new powers of accomplishment, setter means of enjoying the richness of life. To portray Howard as a laboratory, training citizens for service; to relate the various activities of this instituton to the growth and development of a progressive nation; to give a brief survey of this college year for future reminiscence; these are our thoughts as we present this 1928 Bison to the students, alumni, and friends of Howard University. Howard University is serving the world.

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George TOliarn Cook HEN GEORGE WILLIAM COOK, a lad of nineteen, first entered Howard University he had “hitched his wagon to a Star. At five years of age he had been given up to die by the family physician, but at nine he was the lively “page for the Garnett League in Harrisburg, Pa., an institution whose purpose was to find teachers for work among freedmen. Perhaps it was then that the boy awoke to the race consciousness and caught the vision which have been so dominant in the career of the man. time he was twelve, George had become one of the recognized bread-winners of the family. He learned the value of the pennies earned by the errand-boy, the boot-black, the paper boy, and turned them over to the beloved mother who was striving to keep her family together. Not for long could this lad of restless but determined nature be held in the Pennsylvania town, where he had made friends among persons of both races. Some of these were far above him in wealth and wisdom. He had read books. He had become a thinker. Dame Fortune was beckoning—he followed her to New York City. Earning, saving, sending money back home, he was all the time growing mentally and spiritually. Nothing low appealed to him. All things big and fine challenged him. Edwin Rooth on the stage. Beecher in the pulpit. Henry Highland Garnett in the Sunday School and Forum—such characters fired his imagination and quickened his high ideals. No wonder he reached the Howard Campus eager, ardent, thirsty! The handicap of poverty was laughed at. Do you know why it is so many poverty-stricken but honest students have been able to borrow the la3t dollar from Dean Cook’s pocket? He has picked up chips on Howard Campus, built her fires, dusted her halls, but. too, he has been the companion of many of her trustees and presidents and has filled ably and loyally every position the University could offer him from student-janitor to acting-president. His sympathy is the outgrowth of experience. The story of Dean Cook’s service to the University and to the country during the World War is yet to be told. “The boys” must be recognized. The school must serve the nation. Right quickly Howard must offer her all to the government. When it was done, he worked day and night, night and day. Before reveille and after taps, he kept on. The very name and fame of Alma Mater was being tested. She must not fail. She did not. If George William Cook had turned his attention to business he might have been a millionaire. It is his greatest joy that he chose “the better part.’’ There have been times when it required more courage to live for Howard than it would have taken to die for her. He had that courage. He still has it. A business man! a church man! a familv man! but never forget—Dean George William Cook, the Howard man.

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