Howard University - Bison Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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towards the whole person. The Howard University Cultural Scries opened its first season October 10, with the presentation of Grace Bumbry. The Series, designed primarily for students, is held in Howard's Crampton Auditorium. The 1962-1963 Scries presents: Grace Bumbry, soprano, whose appearance at Howard w'as her first performance in America since her White House recital of February. 1962, has appeared throughout Europe, including performances with the Haris Opera and at the Bayreuth Festival in West Germany. The National Symphony Orchestra (November 10) under the direction of Howard Mitchell — is a favorite in the Howard community, performing in concert each year with the Howard University Choir. Dr. Harold Taylor (December 3) is considered to be one of the most provocative thinkers in the field of American education. In his lecture. America as a Creative Art. he emphasized the importance of individual worth and potential, which he feels is in danger of being overlooked in our mass society The performance of Peirre I.uboshutz and Gina Nemcnoff (December 8) piano concert was enjoyed so much by the Howard audience that the performers were obliged to give an encore. Their repertoire included Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Strauss, as well as many scores written especially for them. Roberta Iglesias and his Ballet Espanol (January 3) have thrilled the audiences of three transcontinental tours with their fiery and torrid artistry. His flamenco duct with Rosario Galen will never be forgotten by the Howard audience The Turn of the Screw” (February 10) a new' opera, by Benjamin Britton, was an immediate success when it premiered in New York City. In the Howard performance, will appear the original cast which includes Patricia Neway, winner of the America Theatre Wings Tony Award, as well as Critics and Donaldson Awards. Based on Henry James' famous horror talc, this unconventional opera is melodrama set to exciting music. Dame Judith Anderson (March 23) will portray two of her greatest roles, Medea — '62, a condensa tion of Robinson Jeffers' drama and Lady Macbeth, the Shakespearean role for which she received television s 1961 Emmy Award for the best performance by an actress. Miss Anderson is a star of stage and screen, and is considered one of the world s great actresses. Basil Rathbone (April 4) has been one of Hollywood's and Broadway's best and busiest performers. His readings are rich in drama which is inherent in the works of Poe. Doyle, Shakespeare. Browning, and Housman Mr. Rathbone is a living example of his belief that poetry rather than being read, is something to be performed. When this season of the Cultural Series closes, it will close with the hope that the 1963 1964 season will be even more successful. A scene from Turn of the Screw 20-

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debt On March 3. 1K79. the Congress made an appropriation of $10,000 for the support of the University. Since that time, the Congress has made continuous and increasing appropriations to the University, being more and more confirmed in the conviction that it was thereby rendering a greatly needed service to the colored people in ways not otherwise provided for. Until the year 1928, these appropriations were made in the form of voted gratuities, without the support of j substantive law. In 1928, annual appropriations for the University were authorized by an act of Congress, amending the Act of Incorporation of March 2, 1867, for the purpose of aiding in the construction, development, im provement and maintenance of the University. Instruction in the Tlicological Department was begun on January 6. 1868. The Collegiate Department began its work on September 21, 1868. On April 12, 1868, the organization of the Medical Department was authorized. The Department was to consist of a medical school, a pharmaceutical school, and a general hospital. The Law Department was organized on October 12. 1868. and was formally opened on January 6. 1869. The University thus made its beginning in several schools of its proposed work. Within five years after the first students were admitted to the academic classes, Howard University was composed of the following schools which were in actual operation: Normal and Preparatory, Musical, Theological, Military, Industrial. Commercial. College, Law, and Medicine. The development of the University was furthered in the establishment of the Dental School in 1882. By 1910, the School of Manual Arts and Applied Sciences was established, in 1919 it was reorganized as the College of Applied Sciences. In 1934 it became the School of Engineering and Architecture Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson was the first Negro to be elected president. Howard LViiversity, under his admin istration, experiended growth and development both physical and scholastical. Every school and college was completely reorganized and placed in the command of eminent scholars During this period there was a substantial increase in scholarly publications, including books, monographs, such as poetry and paintings by the faculty. Three of the most influential journals in American education were founded and arc published regularly by Howard University They are The Journal of Negro Education, The Journal of Religious Thought and the Howard Law Review. From this early beginning of basic training for re cently-frccd persons, the University has expanded to the place where its faculty of approximately 700 teachers offers training to more than 7,000 students of many races, creeds, and nationalities. Each of its 10 schools anJ colleges is accredited by the highest rating association in America. During the 1961-1962 school year, Howard students came from 43 states, the District of Columbia, territories of the United States, and 37 foreign countries They arc enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts, College of Pharmacy, College of Medicine. School of Religion. School of Law. College of Dentistry. School of Engineering and Architecture. College of Fine Arts. The Graduate School, and the School of Social Work. Since its establishment in 1867, the Howard University has graduated 22.433 persons The large majority of these graduates have been Negroes. In every population center in the United States, they constitute the largest and most diversified group of trained Negroes related to a single institution in the world. The largest number of graduates have entered the field of teaching, primarily in tlxr southern states. The 1961-1962 Federal appropriation was $7,000. The physical facilities now consist of 43 buildings, most of which are among the most beautiful and most functional in the country. Scholastically, Howard University has been able to attract many top scholars to its facilities. In addition, through a program which stresses academic growth, many of its teachers have made outstanding contributions in their fields since joining the faculties. In the College of Liberal Arts, for example. 47.4 per cent of the entire faculty (full and part time) hold a doctorate. Through its nationwide program of counseling and recruitment Howard has been able to attract a higher caliber student body, and the quality of its student's work is known throughout the world. Evidence of this is seen in the fact that 23 national honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa Sigma XI have established chapters at Howard University. In April of 1961. Dr James Madison Nabrit, Jr. was inaugurated as the fourteenth president of the University’. In his first address to students and faculty, he called for a comprehensive program of self-examination. Our goal. according to Dr. Nabrit. is to make Howard University a really outstanding university on the basis of recognized value standards and educational criteria. One of the most cosmopolitan institutions of higher learning in the United States, the University includes among its trustees, administrators, faculties, and student body, persons of nearly every major race, religion, and nationality, it has always been open to all races, and both sexes. Started originally as a local institution designed to meet a critical need of the newly-freed Negro people, Howard University is today both national and international in the scope of its work, its student body, and its influence. Magazine writer Milton Viorst writing an article in Harpers, 1962 entitled Howard University — Cam pus and Cause. saw the leadership role of the school. He cited the number of Howard graduates who have gone on to be leading citizens of the world. Viorst and others have chronicled the importance of the University in the campaign for civil rights. Such programs as the Liberal Arts Student Council's Project Awareness series and the Cultural Senes arc indicative of the forward progress and leadership role that Howard exerts on its Community. now, Howardites strive •19 • • •

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