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Vol. XXXVI DECEMBER, 1930—FEBRUARY, 1931 No. 2
ST. AUGUSTINE’S GIVEN
FULL COLLEGE RATING
(Extracts from The News and Observer, Ealeigh,
December 23, 1930.)
That the Institution has been rated as a Stand
ard “A Grade” College by the State Department
of Public Instruction was the announcement re
cently made by the Rev. Edgar H. Goold, Presi
dent of St. Augustine’s College, of Raleigh, con
ducted under the auspices of the Episcopal
Church.
The first class to take the full four year College
course will graduate next May. Until recently
St. Augustine’s has offered only a Junior College
course, which was duly accredited by the State
authorities.
As a result of a careful inspection of the Insti
tution recently made by a committee from the
State College Rating Board, the four years course
at St. Augustine’s has been duly accredited and
notice to that effect sent to the College authorities.
St. Augustine’s has recently completed an ex
tensive building program which has made possible
the development of College work. The new build
ings include the New Benson Library, a gift of the
Rev. Dr. A. B. Hunter, formerly the Head of St.
Augustine’s; the Cheshire Building, containing
the College Dining Hall, Domestic Science quar
ters and other features; the Delany Building, a
dormitory for college girls; and House for the
Training School for Nurses at St. Agnes Hospital,
■which is connected with St. Augustine’s College.
Another unit of the work is the Bi°hop Tuttle
School for Religious and Welfare Workers, which
has recently been enlarged and developed, and is
in close affiliation with the State Department of
Public Welfare.
EDITORIAL
{News and Observer, Raleigh)
In 1867 St. Augustine’s School for the educa
tion of colored youths was established in Raleigh
by the Episcopal Church. It has done excellent
■vvork in all these years, adding a Hospital and
Nurses’ Training School, which filled a real
need.
Another forward step was taken yesterday when
the State College Rating Board gave St. Augus
tine’s full College rating. Mr. Goold, President
of the Institution, says that the first class to take
the full four-year College Course will graduate
next May, former graduates having been given
only a Junior College Course.
Raleigh is proud of St. Augustine’s and this
new recognition.
CONGRATULATORY LETTERS
We print below some of the comments that have
ccme to us as the result of the recent recognition
given to our College work.
FROM THE PRESIDING BISHOP OF THE
CHURCH
Office of the Presiding Bishop, Jan. 14, 1931.
The Reverend Edgar H. Goold,
St. Augustine’s College, Raleigh, N. C.
My dear Mr. Goold:
It is indeed good news, though not surprising,
that St. Augustine’s has been given full college
rating by the State Department of Public Instruc
tion. You are to be congratulated, as is the
Episcopal Church, upon this important step in the
development of one of our great schools in the
American Church Institute for Negroes. For two
generations, the school has been leading the way
in the movement for the education of the Negro
people. I know that this leadership will be con
tinued, and that the work of St. Augustine’s Col
lege in its new status will be a cause of encourage
ment and gratitude wherever its good work is
known.
I congratulate the graduating class of next May
upon the completion of the first full four-year
College course, and I look forward with interest
and confidence to the classes which will have the
same benefits in the future.
Sincerely yours,
James DeW. Peeey,
Presiding Bishop.
FROM DR, JAMES H. DXXiLARD
President of the Jeanes and Slater Funds
Let me congratulate you and St. Augustine’s
most heartily on the happy fact that the Institu
tion has become a fully accredited four-year Col
lege. I have long hoped for this consummation.
It is altogether fitting that St. Augustine’s should
have become a College in the chain of the excel-
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