Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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C=J N O N BIS ON of I 9 CL 9 The spirit of Afrit1's greatest Inspired us mi the way; So we stand in heaven's gateway And gaze across the hay. c rn s thru the mist and the shadows Where a ray from their struggle? learns s an urge to the class to fight (inward ‘Til it conies to the port of it- 1 reams. Faye eiyht

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NSP1R.ATI ON B ISON ° 19 'I 9 Qenerdl Oliuer Otis RouMrd. Service to a Race 21 SOLDIER among soldiers, t. a statesman among statesmen, a man among men, with a principle that has elevated him in the hearts of his comrades and friends. I Ur has left an indelible imprint upon the annals of the history of educational benefactors to our race. General Oliver tis Howard was born in Leeds, Maine, on November 8, 1830. He was graduated from Bovvdoin College in 1850. and from the l.’nited States Military Academy in 1857. In 1861 he became assistant pro-fessor 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, lie lost hi right arm in the Battle of Seven Pines. Lor conspicuous bravery in this action, he received in 18')3, a Congressional Medal of Honor, in March of 1865, he was hrevetted Major ieneral of the I S for gallant and meritorious service in the cam paign against tlanta. Yftet the war he served as the Coniniissiotter of the Bureau of Refugees, Kreedmcn. and l andoiie l 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 merica. He founded a Howard I'niversity 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 .ire nearly one hundred and fifty thousand colored people, for whose equipment ami uplift it special!) stands It i not only a city university, but a national university for twelve million people. It i 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 nf w hich Negroes who are of great worth are turned, to fit into every aspect of life as American citizens. It i- an international Service Center. for graduates have gout to every State of the I'nion, to the Islands of the Sen. to frica, sia. Europe and South merica. General Howard retired from active service in 1894 and died in Burlington. Maine. October 2 . IW The service wrought by General Howard is inestimable. The prophecy, The good men do lives after them, is amply fulfilled. Vayt evrn

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