Morehouse College - Torch Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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llfllmll x rIJIIIIIlIJll I ll Illllll IIIIIIIIII lllllllllllll'lllllllllll 5' EH5 MOREHow-E TIGER 19251 ' Officers of Instruction and Adnlinistratiml JOHN HOPE, Ali, AJ'I., Brown University; LL.D.. Howard and Buckneil President. and Professor cf Phifosophy SAMUEL H. ARCHER, Ali, Colgate University; A.M.. :Vlm'ehouse Dean, mu? Professor of Education Mus. M. ROGERS HOWARD. Spelman College Insi'rucfor in English CHARLES H. WAanw. A.B., Mnrvhouse Cullvgv Professor 0f Geolrigy am! Bumny ALFRED D. JONES, .V'Iurelmuse Cullc-ge; 3-11.11, Howard M as? ice? A r! wiser KEMPER HARRELD, AM Professor of Music CLINTON E. WARNER. Hampton hmrrucmr in Manual Training BLJRWELL T. HARVEY, JH., 13.5.. Colgate l-niw'rsii-v Projessor of Physics and Chemistry Mus. J. W. ln'oxs. Atlanta University .Mrttrml LURIMEH D. MILTON. AM Brown liniversily Profasor of Money and Banking, and Economics THOMAS J. Crnm: A.B.. Morehousr Collegv; AM... 1.7. of Penn. Professor of History and Covcrnmcnr LLOYD! 0. LEWJs, A.B., B.D., Virginia Union Professor oj Systematic Theology and Biblical Literature MRS. LULA EICJ-IELBERCEH. Matron Mm meg ANDREWS, RAH, Spelman College Coilcge Nurse EDWARD BIRKSTINER, A.B.. Morehouse College. Lniv. of Chicago Professor of Latin.

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THE MOREHow-E TIGER 1925J Dr. John Hope John Hope was born in Augusta. Ca., June 2, 1368. the sun 01' James and Mary Frances Hope. After some years of elementary education, sevun-tl largely by his own efforts, he entered Worcester Academy IMassachusettsl in the Fa1l of 1886. He wag prominent in the activities of the school, heumning edttnr-in-chief of the Academy, the student monthly: and at graduation he was class historian aml 21 mm- mencemmt speaker. Entering Brown L-niveraily in 1890. he received the AB. degree in 1119-1. with the distinctitm of being class nrzllur. 111 1911?, his Alma Mater conferred on him the AM. degree. In October, 189-1, Mr. Hope entered the service 01' the American Baptist Home Mission Society 21:. a lfat'hel' in Roger Williams lfnit'ersity. Nashvi11r, Tenn. In 1898: he was transferred to Atlanta Baptist College. 011 the resignation of President Sale, he was promoted to the presidency. serving for the hrsl year as acting president. In 1397, he was married to Miss Lugenia D. Burns. of Chicago, Illinois. He is the father of two boys, Edward Swain and John, Jr. President Hope is one of the leading hgures in the education of the Negro in the South, and his time is largely drawn upon by many activities for social or educatiunal service. In 1915-16, he was president of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools; he is a member 01 the Board of Managers of the Y. M.C.A. of Atlanta, of the Advisory Board 01 the National Association for the Advancement of C01ored People. of the Executive Committee of the Urban League of New York. 01 the Committee on the Spingarn Medal, of the Antiifuberculosis Association of Atlanta, and of various hoards of the Slate Baptist Convention. President Hope15 chief interest. however, remains the education of men and boys; and the fact that he has. given himself to his work in such whole-hearled fashion largely accounts for the rapid advance that Morehouse College has made within the hast ten years. DEAN BRAWLEfs HISTORY OF MOHEHOUSE COLLEGE. l'II'IIIIIIIllII'llIIHIlllllltlllllllllllllllv

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