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Pre•. ]. T. Docking. Pb.D.
Solving the Problem at Cookman
Pres. James T. Dock.ing, Ph.D.
Pr.l1dent Cookman Inltltnte, Jackl.nvUle. '\a. At Clifton Conler.llce,
Au_ult 19, 1908
C K~L",,~ J:\ ~TJT TE ha -l 7 . tud nt. 'e tach
th Bible from the primary d partment up to the fir t two
or thre grades in the form of tori.. 'h n they O'et to
th f urth or fifth 'raoe we b 'gin wiU, th normal cou , a
regular prepared c-ourse. Late-r we take up the I' gular textbook.
We u Dr. Hurlbut' textbook,
and Dr... teele' a a upplement
and th . book are carried on through
the whol e ur e. "e haye al 0 two
other studie that are connected with
Manners and Morals
thi : a tudy in what i caUed "~10ral "
and a tudr in what i. called" bn- •
ners." The pupil are examined in
both of the e studies, and for each we
have a text-book. ""e were very fortunate
in £indin" a text-bo k publi hed
b.,' Heinz and Noble - one on the
tud,' of morals. and the other on the tudy of manner. "'e •
tn' to brin" the'e pupil up on hi"h ,. O'round and make the •
work ill e/fec-tive a am' other carried on in the c-hool. •
We have Our Own Church Catechism
In addition. we ha\'C our own church atechi m - on a
w k - in the. (·hool. and v ry <rirl is exp c-t d t r ad and
answcr th question.. ev n if she do s not memOt'iz th m. ,V
hav the stud.\' of Ihc eat ('hism. not the shor·ter' but the Ion" r,
- the Arrniniull cat('drislll. -, and it. em. to uit the boy and
'irIs. We al-o mak(' a 'pccial point of mcmorizinO' the Bibl •
'V Ill\\,' an a 0 ·iation where very n agr to memoriz on
vcr v ry da" in thc \\' k. and we b "in b for br aid t lli w • •
ar all _tanding and rCI at th ,·cr. e that we hay I arn d. and
keep thi up e\'Cry day. That helps u to k I it in our mind.
an I when it 'ome to aturda.,' w take up th que tion of
. p cial ..tudy in t11e I ormal ('hool. and w ]la verythinO' in
the lin of Bibl . tudy that w 'an now crowd in. I 'houJd be •
happy to wclcom any per~on or any aO'ency that will do th
peopl good in thi way. an I that i.. whllt i n('eded. but I hardly
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can I.' how an'ything mor'e can be put in than what we already
have in most of our own cour es.
Reaching Those Outside the School
I take it for granted that one of the great objects of thi mo,'ement
i not to reach the chool, but to reach tho e out ide the
. chool . - and to have a larger circle than the schools. We
have already ample in the <:hools, so we will have to reach tho e
out id in orne war. I am inclined to think that we are not •
O'oinO' to do that 0 succes fully b ' havinO' a re!rular professor. b 0 .0"
At first I did. and I told Mr. Hart horn so. I believe that we
are the men that can do these things better than anybody else.
I can ,ee a thou and objections that might come up in my school
and your chools. If the society i going to do anything in that
line, it trikes me that po sibly it might be the be t thing to get a
"The Mother Ought to be the Teacher"
paid teacher. but I reali," think that the mother olwht to be the
teacher. That would be better than to have a man ·ent. Mo. t
chool like to have a chance to say where the teacher shall come
•
from. If the as ociation is going to pick up a teacher and send
him to us, he might not be the man for tbe place. I understand
that the propo ition i thought to be a good one. I believe that
everyone who is here is willing to welcome anything tha.t is
O'oinO' to bettel' and intere t our young people in the Bible and it
truth. "I.' are heart and hand and soul in this work.
Vice-President Fairbanks at Cookman
Yi e-Pre ident Fairbank visited Cookman Institute recently.
•
"hen he went away he said: "You are olving a problem here
that w can't olve in Wa hinO'ton. This problem is never to be
.olv d in th Jegi lative hall ; if ever the Southern problem is to
b olv d, th in titutions, and others of its kind, are to do the
bu ine .'
An Ignorant Negro is a Dangerous Man
colored man, an uneducated, ignorant Negro, i a dangerou
man anywher . but he i I.' pecially dan"erou if he i a colored
man and in the outlJ, Cookman In titute has ever kept before
th peopl the two idea ,- the moral tran formation of their
li\'e , and th giving of them elve to God. I am glad to tell you
that we have never elo ed the door again t one man, nor have
w had one man e.'\peUed,
I am here a a learner, and J am read" and willinO' to do
, 0
anythinO' and weIcom anyoodv who could make better boys and
girl Ollt of the youth of the outh. '
