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ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD
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Published bi-monthly during the College year at Raleigh, N. C.,
in the interest of
St. Augustine’s College, Rev. E. H. Goold, President
Subscription, 25 Cents
Entered at the postoffiee in Raleigh as second-class matter, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
Acceptance for mailing at a special rate of postage provided for in
section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized April 11, 1921.
LIBRARY NOTES
Church Periodical Chib l)ranehes have sent books,
pictures, and periodicals to the Library (hiring this
coUege year. We have been remembered by the Dio
cese of New York, Cambridge, Mass., Cohoes, 1ST. Y.,
(ireenfield, Mass., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Calvary
Church and St. Thomas’s Church of New York City.
We are esj)ecially grateful for the gift of $14.18 from
the Wellesley Conference of 1937 for it made possible
the purchase of a few much needed books for recre
ational reading.
One of the most interesting of our Library j)rojects
came to a clinuix on >ramiary 13th when we put on
exhibit, during our Anniversary celebration, the mat(“-
rials concerning the history of St. Augustine’s which
have be(>n assembled during the last few years. Over
200 ])(H)])le viewed the exhibit, and older graduates
found several reminders of their student life at St.
Augustine’s. The exhibit was arranged on tables and
on charts, using both floors of the l^ibrary Thiihling.
There were pictures of graduation classes beginning
about 1900—there wei'e pictures of the Clui])el with
hanging lamps, stoves, and no transei)ts—and of the
Jjyman Ruihiing before it was enlarged. Pictures of
students showed the different types of uniforms which
had been worn and jjictures of athletics on the campus
included one of a football team of the 1890’s. On one
chart were displayed tlie ]>ictures of the pageant and
celebration of the 50th anniversary of the College.
We were able to dis])lay the earliest picture available
of the campus taken in 1889 and now appearing in
the recently j)ublished history of St. Augustine’s. In
our glass disi)lay case were several valuable jiapers,
including the carefully written sheets showing “receii)ts
and disbursements of St. Augustine’s Nornuil and Col
legiate Institute from August, 1879, to August, 1880.”
Among publications. Vol. I, No. 1, of 'rho. Aiigudian,
Avas .‘^hown. Tliis was tlie first student pul)lication and
is dated May, 1899.
Now on ])ernuinent exhibition, but assembh'd ])ar-
ticularly for this anniversary, are ])ietures of the
bishops of North (Carolina and others closely identified
witli the history of the institution. Pictures of the
five heads of the (’ollege and of our first ('Jollege Dean
are now liung in thi^ Library. Some mention should
b(' niM(h‘ of the “Book of Remembrance,” wliich was
the' gift of Dr. and Mrs. irunter in 1921 and which is
also in the Library. It was es]>ecially nuule for St.
Augi'.stiiK^’s {’ollege in Florence, Italy, and in it are
jjlaced tlu! names of those who have given generously
to the (College and to St. Agnes Ilosintal.
'I'he collection and classification of these historical
materials has extended over some years, but not until
now did we realize how vividly the early days could
be seen through them.—P. A. S.
BY REASON OF STRENGTH
It has been 70 years since that time when a Northern
man came to a Kaleigh still close to the bitterness of
war and defeat. He came to establish a school for the
so recently freed Negroes who were still chained by
ignorance. That man, the Kev. J. Brinton Smith,
built in wisdom and strength and with the aid of good
and wise North Carolina members of the Episcopal
Church. Now St. Augustine’s College stands in the
api)reciation of all thoughtful people in the community
as one of the agencies which has served the city most
in the three-score years and ten since its establishment.
Ministering in the trinitarian terms of church and
school and hospital, St. Augustine’s and its adjunct,
St. Agnes’, have helped the Negroes of Raleigh up
from slavery, up from ignorance, up from the physical
defects, diseases, and deficiencies which too often have
been a part of the too prevalent ignorance and the
hardly interruj)ted poverty in the lives of the colored
people. But the school and hospital did not only serve
the Negroes of Raleigh and the State; they served and
are serving us all.
Time was perhaps when even those who came with
only good in their hearts from the North to the South
to minister to the Negroes were regarded in some wise
as car])etbaggers still. We have learned differently
with the years. Indeed, we have realized that we
needed more such carpetbaggers and still need more.
More and more welcome are all who come in warm
heartedness, to light darkness and ease pain, wherever
they come from. Not origin but purpose is important,
^lore and more, too, thoughtful white men and black
men realize that anything that lifts either of them from
ignorance, poverty, or disease lifts them both.
Such agencies of service as St. Augustine’s are too
rare in the South. Certainly 70 years of such service
as it has rendered is a long period as we count time in
America and as the Negro and white man in the
South count time back to the milestone of slavery’s
end. St. Augustine’s has grown through so many years
bj' reason of strength and also by reason of goodness
and by reason of sacrifice. It is old as men count.
But it is young in the power to do good. Those who
know its j)ast will hope that it has been just a begin
ning and that its future may as much enrich a changing
South in which wise, kind race relations should be the
basis for a hapi)ier and more secure life for us all.—-
Editorial in the Raleigh Xeirs and Ohxerver.
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who spoke of the “great development in Negro educa
tion during the 70 years of St. Augustine’s life,” and
em])hasized the need in colleges of “meeting the ne\v
need of social work.” Dr. Newbold also brought con
gratulations from (’lyde A. Erwin, superintendent of
I’ublic Instruction.
Dr. Robert P. Daniel, President of Shaw ITniversity>
re])resenting Shaw and other Negro colleges in the
State, (‘xtended to the College “faith, hope, and lov'
as we work together for the advancement of our race.”
The Rev. J. Alvin Russell, Principal of St. Paul School
in Lawrenceville, Va., brought greetings from the
schools of the American Church Institute for Negroes.
Representatives of colleges located in Raleigh were
])resent at the met'ting last night.—From the Raleigh
Neu'f and Observer, January 14.