Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson President It Rives me pleasure to write a word of farewell greeting and good wishes to the class of 1930. I feel a special nearness to the members of this class, because we were all freshmen together. During your stay at Howard the undergraduate life has steadily increased in self control and wholesomeness. 1 am certain that the members of this class have been creative contributors toward these ends. Wherever you go. my love will follow you. I have confidence that your lives will be fruitful and that you will bring new honor to Howard.

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A strong, sturdy oak is a beautiful handiwork of the Creator ana is delightful to look upon. Deep into the earth it sends roots and firmly fixes itself that it may better withstand the storms of the elements that seek to destroy it. To the beautiful sunlight it spreads its branches that birds of the air may find shelter, and under whose spreading boughs men may find rest and quiet from the noon-day heat and toil. Symbolic of the oak do we sometime find an individual. Placed at the strategic point of holding the purse strings of a four million dollar concern, yet always the welfare of the student predominates. It may truly be said that the Secretary-Treasurer of the University is a straightforward, sincere commoner—a man of, and for the people—for every student of Howard represents the people. 0or. When the Registrar’s office was established in 1919, little thought was given to the importance of the work of that office because it was a new phase of university life at Howard. The work of the Registrar’s Office from 1919 to 1927 was confined to the admission and keeping of records in the four undergraduate colleges. Beginning with the school year 1927-1928, by action of the Board of Trustees, the scope of this ollice was broadened so that it would handle the admission and the keeping of records of students in the five professional schools as well as the four undergraduate colleges. Information is available here concerning students in all divisions of the university; whereas, prior to 1927. it was necessary for one on the outside to know in what school a student was registered before obtaining information concerning a student. The centralization of record keeping of the university in one office has greatly facilitated the work of this institution. F. D. Wilkinson Registrar