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their cause and an unyielding faith, they went to work, with the
result that Morris Brown College is one of the largest schools
in the South for the moral and intellectual uplift of the Negro.
In 1891, the south wing of the school was erected under
Bishop Gaines. Ten years later, under Bishop H. N. Turner.
the central building, costing $22,000, connected the two wings.
A year later, in 1902, when it was decided to teach the trades
upon a larger scale, the Industrial Building was erected.
President Lee, in writing about Morris Brown College, says:
" For a while the people were inspired by the novelty of its being
the first effort of its kind by Negroes in the state, and during thi
period of the newness of things the leaders of the people were
busy in doctrinating the idea of self-help. So the interest in the
school has not lagged, as some feared it would do, but, being
founded on such a basis, it has grown and become the more
intensified. Each year larger contributions are made for its
support, because the masses are being educated in this spirit of
doing for themselves. To-day Morris Brown College stands
as the greatest monument to Negro effort for his own education
on the American continent. It has grown upon the love and
sacrifices of thousands of hard-working people."
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From a school of 107 student in 1885, the college has grown
to 28 teachers and 993 students in 1908. In 1885 it was a grammar
school; now it is a college, with normal, cia. sical, and
theological department.. also nurse-training.. ewing, printing.
and tailorin<r.
Th annual expcn e of the college are $~6,000. The third
Sunday in eptember of ea h !'cal' i. "Educational Dav" in
the African Methodist Epi copal churches, and all collections
received in Georgia on thi day are ent to the trea. urer of Morris
Brown College. In 1908 the collection in Georgia for this
purpose amounted to $7,000. In addition, each pa tor and
delegate to the everal district conferences in Georgia contribute
$1 a year for the upport of the chair of theology in Morri'
Brown College. This makes an additional 2,000. and to this
amount may be added the appropriation' from the annual conferences,
amounting to $~,200, and the moneys received fl'Olll
other sources. There are twenty- ix young men in the school
studying for the ministry. The value of the Morris Brown
property is in excess of 100,000. The great needs of the college
are a dormitory, a lot of land for agricultural purposes,
cottages for the president and teachers, a library and laboratory.
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WARD HALL WESTERN UNIVERSITY, QUINDARO, KAN. FOUNDED 1880 TRADES BUILDING
Founded b B' h T M D Ward y 15 op . .. ,D.DOJ of the African Methodist Episcopal Cburch. Supported largely b•y the African Methodist EpiscopalI Cburch and liberal appropriations from
the state of K Thr hundred students 20 teachers. in 1908. and 25 theological students. ApprOXImate annual expenses, $25,000. s also known as tbe .. State Industrial
Department." anOsaffse.rs traiening inecollegia.te, normal, theological, industrial, and musical branches. Tbe bui.ld'Ings are madern, I'Ighted bY e1ectn.c.lty generated by the University's
own plant. The property is valued at $125,000.
