Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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hereby authorized to aid in the construction, development, improvement, and maintenance of the university, no part of which shall be used for religious instruction. The university shall at all times be open to inspection by the Bureau of Education and shall be inspected by said Bureau at least once each year. An annual report making a full exhibit of the affairs of the university shall be presented to Congress each year in the report of the Bureau of Education. Numbered among recent gifts are $250,000 from the General Education Board toward a half million dollar Medical Endowment, a like amount being contributed by alumni and friends of the University: $150,-000 from the General Education Board for the equipment of the new Medical Building; $200,000 from the Hubert estate for the development of the University program of Medical Education; $20,000 from Mr. Julius Rusrnwald for research in Zoology. During the sixty-five years of existence Howard University has steadily grown, and has rendered increasing service to its constituency and society in general. The quality of its instruction and character of training have led to full recogition of its educational work by leading educational authorities. This recognition is due in part to the vision of the founders and in part to the excellent leadership that has been maintained throughout its existence. It has fulfilled the wish of its founders, and under the guidance of the present administration it bode well to reach greater and untold heights. —and there we read. On many a none, the signature of fame, The Builder's Mark, our Alma Mater's Same. Van Dvitf.

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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY j N THU face of discouraging pessimism of his friends, it is a tribute to the memory and unceasing efforts of General Oliver Otis Howard, distinguished military leader of the Civil War and philanthropist, that in 1867 he should he instrumental in founding a university which on March 2, 1932, celebrated its sixty-fifth anniversary. This university, unique in its purpose and relation to the Federal Government, his through this long space of years sent forth more than 10,000 graduates to every State in the Union, as well as to other countries of the world. Much of the early support of the university came through the Bureau of Refugees. Freedmen. and Abandoned l.ands. In 1873, the Bureau was discontinued and the university became entirely dependent upon private aid. In 1879, Congress granted to Howard University an annual subsidy of £10,000. This sum was gradually increased until 1930-31, when the appropriation reached £ 1,249,000. On June 30, 1926, Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson was elected to the presidency of the University. Since the beginning of his administration the Medical School Building has been completed and a Medical School Endowment Fund has materialized. Other physical features of the University have been added: Three women’s dormitories have been erected; plans for a chemistry building and a library building have been completed. and appropriations have been authorized towards the construction of other plans as well as the grading and beautification of the campus. Although a privately-controlled non-sectarian institution, Howard University for many years has enjoyed the benefits of financial assistance from Congress. This aid has been granted because of the needs of the university in meeting a responsibility not fully met elsewhere, and because of a lack of private resources. But it has been difficult for the university authorities to plan a consistent and permanent program of development worthy of full recognition, because Federal aid was not regularly authorized by basic legislation. After careful investigation. Congress passed a law approved December 13, 1928, which reads as follows: I3e it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that Section 8 of an Act entitled, An Act to Incorporate Howard University in the District of Columbia, Approved March 2, 1867, be amended to read as follows: Section 8. Annual appropriations are

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THE LONG WALK And who of us have never trod The Long Walk, down to Mom, And lingered on its beaten path In sunshine and in rainy When winter lay upon the hill. And cheerless was the day, When weird and chilly blew the wind As we went down the way: When spring the leafing trees did bud, When blossoms first broke through On bush and bough and tulip beds That they might live anew; When autumn brought her tinted leaves To strew the rugged walk, While some did loiter there to amuse. And some to quietly talk'y And who of us have ever thought 'The Long Walk piayed a part— And knew one-half possessed a laugh, The other a broken heart? Edna Burke.