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Fisk University. Nashville. Tenn.
FISK U:r-..TJVERSITY, founded in 1866, by the American
Missionary Assuciation (Congregational), wa cradled in
the barracks abandoned by the Federal Army. It
received its name from Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, who was tationed
at Na hville to settle the affairs of the government.
At the beginning of the enterpri e, Chaplain Cravath, who
was president of Fisk for more than twenty-five year, announced
tllat the institution would afford to the
colored youth all the education they
would show themselves able to acquire
and make use of.
In 1871 Fort Gillam, having a commanding
position and a tract of thirtyfive
acres of land, affording an ideal
campus, was chosen for a permanent
site of the University.
The problem of buildings was a
serious one. Prof. George E. White
olved it by sending out a company of
REV. JAMES G. MERRILL, D.D. the students, whom he called "the
President, '90'-
'
908 Jubilee Singers." They sang in the
northern states, in the British Isle and on the continent of
Europe. They were absent nearly five year, and brought
back to Fisk $150,000, ,vith which Jubilee Hall was built,
and the balance due on the campus was paid. In addition,
the institution gained an international reputation.
Forward, with an Even, Constant Growth
The chool has moved forward with an even, con tant growth.
There are nine substantial and commodious buildings, and the
value of the campus buildings and apparatus is in exce of
$450,000.
In 1908 the enrollment howed 42 teachers and 571 tudents,
of whom 300 were in the boarding department and 13 student
in the theological department. The tudents are of all I1rade ,
from the primary school which is utilized for" a practice chool"
for the normal department, to the college department which last
vear enrolled 125. • •
During it existence Fisk ha ent out nearly ix hundred and
fifty graduates from its college and normal department. It
keep a do e record of its alumni, and i able to how that to a
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very large e:o.i.ent Lhey ar followinl1 line alonl1 which they have
been educated. The urriculum of Fi k i uch tllat the graduates
from it colleg department are admitted a po t- raduate
at Harvard and Yale" ithout examination, and in everal in-tance
tho e who have gone from thi chool have led their
cia es.
The Chief Aim at Fisk
The chief aim at Fi k, however, is not cholarship. Manhood
is its goal, and Chri tian men and women are it product. It i
the purpo e of the faculty to end forth no one who i unworthy
of confidence or incapacitated to be a leader of tho e who have
never had the opportunitie afforded at Fisk.
The teaching force of the institution has, in the past, been
almost entirely from the North. Graduate from Harvard,
Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Amher t, Oberlin, Mt. Holyoke,
Smith, Syracuse, Wesleyan and Wellesley have been members
of the faculty. They have almost without exception been
actuated by missionary and philanthropic pirit which has
held subordinate the matter of emolument or the securing of
renown. To shape character has been a higher aim than to
CHASE HALL, FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
A buildin& for the Department of Applied Science, erected with the aid of the General
Education Board and friends of the school.
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