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MAECH15,1%, CHARLOTTE, N. C NO. IX . BY THJ Looking Back at < BY UNCL < Dedicated to My Beloved Teael CHAF1 October, 1893. School opens on the first Wed nesday in October. I, with many other*, am back for another year's work as a junior college student. I saved a few dollars out of school teaching; and as I spent one of them it meant something. In those days the auestjon. was, How can I save this money? and riot How can I spend this money? We did not have much but we tried to exercise comttion judgment with it. There hive teen some changes ’ in the faculty. Dr. Mabry is gone .and Dr. Yorjte Jones is here instead. We are about to overlook that Prof. J. D. Martin succeeded Prof. J. CJ. Johnson in the fallot 1892, if I am not mis taken, and Prof. Henry A. Hunt assumed charge of the Industrial Department, in the fail of 1891 or very soon in 1892. The first morning after chapel services .the student body elected 2 Wm. Haig and myself to keep Biddle before the world through the coluriins of the Africo-Amer ican Presbyterian. We wrote something each week. The Pro fessors and students said we wrote “good notes.’ The next year they nominated me to write to have the job. My classmate A. J. Jefferson and college-mate “Buck” Williams were elected. This was an eventful year to some extent. Many noted men from the North and West deliv ered inspiring addresses in our ■chapel during this scholastic year. / Through some mistake in keeping the record of Biddle tlie faculty celebrated the quarto centennial of this institution the commencement of 1894. This was a mistake if 1917 wafe the semi centennial. The latter is the correct date. Some very prominent men of the Southern Presbyterian church were here on this -occa sion. Dr. Alexander, Biddle’s first president,* could not be present but sent his address to be read by some one. Prof. Geo. E.. Davis read it with effective ness. ,v ' .ur. John A. rreston, pastor of '-'the'PiMt Presbtyerian church of Charlotte, spoke on this occasion. Cplonel Myers, the donor of the land surrounding Biddle, was there, and many others. 'Hie first student of Biddle, the Bfev. Calvin McCurdy was here and broke ground for the pro posed Carter Hall. Dr. John H. Boyd, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Charlotte, delivered the an nual addresss. He was a broad young man, though horn in Jackson, Miss., and graduated from the Southwestern iUniver sity of Tennessee. He was all that is Princeton in theology. He died a Professor in McCor mick Theological Seminary. He said: “Some say that to educate a colored man ruins a good plough hgnd. Perhaps so, but, it has not been proven; and if it does, It intakes him a better hand at something else.” It may be recalled that Dr. Samuel B. McCormick, who was pastor of a church in Pittsburgh and whs, until recently, Chan cellor of the University of Pitts burgh, delivered the. annual ad dress here June, 1803, on a cloudy day. He is tone of the clearest speakers I have ever met before or since. I saw a •man m Lo* Angi Genera tfssembly i WAY )ld Biddle, 1888-98 B BILLIE. er, Prof. Geo. E. Davie, Ph. D.) ER V. the late Dr. W. H, Roberts for moderator. He made the clear est speech of all. When I se cured an opportunity to speak to him I inquired of him whether or not he was the Dr. McCor mick who delivered the annual address at Biddle at the com mencement of 1893. He said he remembered the occasion but not the time, but the class of '93 still remembers that this was the | year and he was the man. Going back to the quarto-cen tennial of Biddle and the com ipencement of ’94 it might be re called by some thq^the late Rev. M. G. Johnson, D.D., brought up a large excursion of people from Columbia to, the quarto-centen nial and commencement of Bid dle. This was a great com mencement. . The Rev. G. T. Dil lard was honored with the de gree of doctor of divinity by the Board of Trustees of Biddle. Only four of these young men .studied the ministry: Shute, Gregg, Rollins, and Hood. Tlfe others divided themselves into the professions of teaching1 and the practice of medicine and law. October, 1894. Hello, boys! How did you spend yopr vacation ? What did you do this past summer? That In the midst of the fall term one young white man came over from Charlotte and visited the class rooms and witnessed the •recitations and went back to Charlotte and gave his impres sions and observations to The Charlotte Observer. He was a close observer and well educat ed, but he seemed to have had fixed and well defined opinions as He was the first to receive such an honor from Biddle under the colored faculty. The class that graduated this year numbered only ten: A. P. •Allison, of Laurens, S. C.; J. E. Bowman, Neyles, S. C.; Jupius Gregg,, Sumter county, - S, C.; W. D. Hood, Laurens county, S. C.; H. H. Muldrow, Sumter coun ty, S. C.; Anderson James, Sum ter county, S. C.; S. M. Plair, Fairfield county, S. C.; J. A. Rol lins, Charleston, S. C.; C- H. Shute, Ithink, from somewhere Shute, I think, from somewhere i J. MN Vaughan, Nottoway, Va. to a real Negro’s ability to com prehend and master college sub jects ; yet he was often to con-' I victions. Here is his "report in the Observer, as near as I can recall it; I will present it,in the I indirect discourse. He said that he visited a class reading Caesar, and after hearing the boys read and stumble' over CaeSar’s diffi cult construction, etc., vhe can eluded that they did about as well as white boys did when he was in college. He said that the teacher of this subject exhibited such a thorough knowledge of Latin and the gerund and ger undive and the supine, etc., that he attributed his knowledge to the Anglo-Saxon blood in his (the professor’s) veins. This teacher was Professor J. D. Mar tin. He came to the same con clusion in Prof. Davis’ room in Science and in-Prof. Pride’s room in mathematics,- When he visit ed Dr. Hargrave’s room in Men tal and Moral Science and Logic he said that h«ad he, Dr. Har grave, kept his* tongue and not evinced sveh a knowledge in these Subjects one would be jus tified in mistaking Dr. Hargrave for “Uncle Remus;” but, he said, from his complexion you could see that, a few generations back, one could find, white blood in Dr. Hargrave’s veina; Here are his exact words: . “When I. entered the class in Greek my prejudice left me, ana my theory was completely ex ploded ; for I saw a man teaching and mastering Greek, with all of its peculiar constructions and its many genitives, who resembled one who was in the number with the first ship load that landed at Jimestown, Va., 1619. There is no Question about his knowing the Greek language.” Dr. A. U. Frierson knows Greek. Truly these men were not ashamed for any scholar to enter their class rooms. They were small-college men but strong col lege men and who went to school to study and saw that others studied. Merry Christmas! # Quite a number of boys just m their teens are making things lively today. They do not know what to get at next. And when night fell So as to conceal one’s identity some of these fun-seek ing chaps turned their coats wrong side out and took the big farm wagon and ran through the yard and around the main build ing with it, hollowing to the top of their voices. The principal of the Boarding Department, Rev. George Carson, got his double barrel shotgun and pursued the fellows, thinking some one was stealing his wagon. But realiz ing what an angry or a frighten ed man might do they left the wagon near Dr. Sander’s office and some flew east, some flew west, and some showed the car parity of flying over the cuckodjiSi nest if such obstructed their, flight. Late in the night the boys tried to locate each other by I whistling one for the other. Some one responded f down by Stewart’s pond to tnb West of Biddle; but when oni of these fun-joying young felklra on his. to Ws whistleV r«oogmaw5hatlt Was Rev. Carson, the i^ead of af fairs on the campus $hd in the Boarding Department, with his gun primed—-but he learned that they, were some of the students later in the flight—the young ster threw up his hands and said:: “We just playing!” Of course that broke up that kind of sport for the remainder of the holidays of 1894. They quit, “We just playing.” Time pass edo nand78$_ Time passed on and commence ment came and my class was the class to graduate June, 1895. The road had been long, difficult, and rugged. Twelve graduated. There were thirteen, but on ac count of some misunderstanding in the marks of one of the men in the class only twelve of us graduated. This was the larg est number at that time, in his history of the institution, to graduate. Dr. banders preached the bac calaureate sermon from Mark 8.37: “What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?” It was a great sermon, but I think no body enjoyed it or entered fully into and neither did Dr. Sam ders, for at that time his eldest daughter was lying at the point bf death. He preached under great mental strain. Every body in the audience was expect ing him to break down in the midst of his sermon. She died, I think, that Sunday night* or Monday, I am not sure, but I am sure she died in the midst of the commencement week of 1895. On the commencement of 1894, he preached a sermon which I do riot think the class of 1894 has forgotten. It was preached from Prov. 4:23, ^Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out, of it'are the issues, of life.” This was ojje of the best ..sermons I ever heard Dr. Sanders preach a baccalaureate occasion. On June the 5th, 1895, when Dr. Sanders have me my diploma m Latin, I felt that the world was ready for me but I was not ready for the world, I felt like Moses felt when called to lead the Israelites. I was not only slow of speech but I felt that I had rio speech to deliver to a waiting world. I felt empty in mind. I could then sympathize N LEAGUE OFFERS FELLOWSHIPS. “tier who wanted to re on the mountain of trans ‘ I wanted to linger, reals a ,n 'came to myself and iitea# that such was not.tide Rnt i * c<?Hege commencement. Z, J^hmined there three years theology. .JNfethe commencement had ^ hiftoiy and the peojle -had scattered, we went to grooms and translated our for we felt that it was Mptae to have a Latin diploma unknown message before -^fNnces Social Service Train **£ Opportunities for Next School Year. If National Urban League ^S?inCes that applications may “be filed for its social service >wships for the school year ■24. These fellowships are le for colored graduates ognized colleges or persons who can present evidence of equivalent training. These fel lowships provide for monthly payments of $50,00 for living ex P®h?es during the school year in addition to scholarships cover-, mg. tuition at the leading schools of social service, such as the, New York School of Social New York City; the Grad ^ ■ School of Social Adminis ion, of Chicago University, to. 111.; the Simmons C01 of. Social Work,;, Boston the 'Pennsylvania School Social^ Service,^Philadelphia, land thVCdrnegie School of sinology, Pittsburgh, Pa. Jdlreapy some of the most sue cdidulJ colored social wor'*-"* jeivi s of social service colored people resulting past from these fellowship The candidates are se on the basis of personality, ig, physical condition and titive examination show ie student's knowledge of it affairs and social ser oblems of the day. :ial attention is called to tl Ella Sachs Plotz Memorial F bwship which is provided by tl income from a found of $10, 0 ' donated by twenty-eight fi ids of Mrs. Plotz at the last A nial Meeting of the League. S cessful candidates, of course, a: formally awarded the fellow si I on qualifying for admis si d to the school to which they ai assigned. Persons interest e< .whether north or south, si lid file their applications w | Eugene Kinckle Jones, Ex ec five Secretary, National Ur bai League, 127 East 23rd Sl6et, New York City. H IHLAND GRADED SCHOOL AT GASTONIA. i recent visit to the Highland G Ided school, Gastonia, by the Q ftet of J, C. S. University, ’ 'ed the fact that it is one ' , no.t. the best— ingS; for colored children in tl I'State of North Carolina, Rev. J A. Rollfys- is indeed a source in whence many radiating and w folesome influences upon the c} Bren are flowing. Rev. Rol b with his fine corps of teach ei i will eventually make High la id School a high school. We ^ entertained at the home of R % and Mrs. Rollins and cer *£ Wy one cannot help from S£ iig that our hohies are the pl Be which mark uS for life, a; |make lasting impressions. We appeared at the school au “• IHum in a concert of melo q® The chapel of the Spacious was filled mainly with the ’en and they all seem have inoculated in their an appreciation for One inevitably mjist say visiting and seeing the did work at this school that commendable; and Rev s is the vigilant. sentinel ie promotion of the ediica f the youth. . „ ■ Vv ■ - v JUNIOR ENDEAVOR DEPARIMENT (By Annie A. Chresfield.) Helen’s Visit to the Junior Meeting. "And you never have been to ei Junior meeting?” asked Ber tha. “Well, no, I never have,” re plied Helen. .■] . “Didn’t you ever go- to church ? Seems to me you could have gotten there in time for some part of it.” “Oh, it wasn’t that, we just didn’t have any,” said Helen. “Well, Junior meetings are nice and very instructive,” mama says. “Why I memorized the Lord’s Prayer, the Ten Com mandments and the Creed. I know the 23rd Psalm, the first and the one hundredth, but of course I have been a member of the Junior society for a long time. Let us walk faster, we don’t want to be late.” While they are hurrying on their way to church, let me in troduce to my reader Bertha Carter, a beautiful black girl of nine, and Helen Davis, a fair girl of ten years. Helen's parents had recently moved to Glenwood. Bertha had called on Helen and invited her to attend the Junior Christian Endeavor meeting. Bertha was a very-much-alive .member of the Lockout Com mittee. V ' ■ "• ’ - • • ’* A good number of boys and girls were present When Bertha and Helen arrived at the church. The first song, “Try to Carry Sunshine,” was sung, then all repeated the one ’ 4®erthe sweetesTfa6e. THFfmr and boys dearly loved Miss Hill. Her prayer was simple and ear nest. Each one understood, and all felt the presence of the Friend to whom she was talking. At the conclusion o fher prayer Benny Williams repeated the Lord’s Prayer, all present re peating it with him. “I’ll lead it, next Sabbath,” whispered Ber tha. They now sang, “Work Away With Happy Heart.” The next was responsive read ing from Matt. 5:1-10. This was led by Mabel Evans, a pretty brown girl of twelve years. The memory verse, “Blessed are x the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God,” was soon com mitted and recited. Miss Hill talked a few minutes about the beauty of being peacemakers. Then all stood for the sentence prayers. Some said. “Lord, make me good, for Christ’s sake,” but nearly every one said, “Lord help me to be a peace maker, for Christ’s sake.” Miss Hill closed the series of prayers with a sentence of prayer and “Amen.” After this all rever ently joined in a prayer song: “Jesus from thy throne on high, Far above the bright blue sky, Look on us with loving eye; Heat1 us, Holy Jesus.” Miss Hill then told the boys and girls about the little girl in Africa, who wanted to go to school, but had to wait a long, long time until the people in America sent money to build more rooms to the school build ing. Minnie Irving spoke of two sick members of the society. Charlie Morrow made the report for the oLokout Committee. The offering was taken after which Robert Laney announced the subject for next Sabbath, which was “Bible Trades.” Dif ferent girls and boys were put.on the program to tell about the carpenters, tent-makers, shep herd, merchant, lawyer, fisher man, etc. After singing, “Are You i Hero for Jesus?” all repeated the Mizpah benediction and th< meeting was over. “How did you like it?” askoc Bertha, as the girls were walk ■j pQh! oyer so much,” exclaim ed Helen, “I am going to., ask mother if I may join,” - “Oh. Fll be so glad,” Bertha joyfully" exclaimed/ Then she aded, “I have been wondering hoW your church could d6 with out a Junior society.” “Yes, I wonder how we could,” replied Helen. NEWS OF ABBEVILLE, S. C. Sunday morning, March 4, we listened to a wonderful sermon by Rev. Kennedy from the text: “Come, and let us build up the Walls of Jerusalem that we be no Nehemiah more a reproach, 2:17. Miss Lucinda H. White attend ed the Atlantic Synodical Sun day school committee meeting at Haines Institute, Augusta, Ga., February 28th. Mrs. Mary L. Pope, of 71 Sec ession Avenue, who has been on the sick list for several days, is out again to the delight of her many friends. Mr. Howard Kennedy, of Due West, was in the city Monday visiting his cousin, Rev. H. Y. Kennedy. ; / -' in.,,--* i ■ ' Mr. L. A. Richie, Mrs. Jennie Rapley and Rev. Rhodes, attend ed the funeral of Mr. Nelson Morton, at Due West, last Thursday. Mrs. Minnie L. Brown, a faith fur and loyal member of Wash ington Str eet Presbyterian church, died at her home on Greenville street, Friday morn ing homeward. v1 ei relatives and friends” The funeral service was conducted by her pastor, Rev. Kennedy, Sunday afternoon at 3:30 P. M., March 4th. Rev. Kennedy’s text was I. Chronicles 29:15, “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fath ers : our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding ?” Mrs. Maggie Wright made a . strong talk in behalf of the Court of Calanthe. There was a large number of floral offerings. The body was laid to rest in Mt. Olin cemetery beside her husband who preced ed her to the grave about four years ago. The Court of Calanthe, of which Mrs. Brown was a mem ber, turned out and officiated at the grave. “Death’s but a path taht must be trod, If man would ever pass to God; A port of calm, a state of ease, From the rough rage of swelling . seas.” Those who attended the fun eral from out of the city were Mr. J. H. Bogan and Mrs. Min nie Taylor, of Birmingham, Ala; Mesdames Susie Ellis, and Addie Ellis, Messrs. Lawrence Mc Adams, Ollie McAdams, Robert Pratt, Sr., Ed Jones, Ralph Ellis, and Robert Pratt, Jr., Miss Cleo Ellis and Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Wright. NOTICE. To the pastors of the churches in Fairfield Presbytery:. I would like very much to send literature to the Young People’s Society, that they may learn more of the work and also be able to give such information as is requested by the Boards. I have made strenuous efforts to get the officer’s names but have failed. . Will you assist me by sending to me at once all names and ad dresses of all officers in all of your Young People’s Societies? Thanking you in advance for your cooperation, I am, Sincerely yours, ! , MissC. JE. Pearson. Coulter M> Academy, Cheraur, S. . . • C4 Young Peopled Presbyter ! ial Secretary.
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