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Rev. Jame. F. Lane, M.A.
Lane College. Jackson. Tenn.
Prof. J. F. Lane. President
I Lan oll('l(e the lit rary and religious ideas of education
are emphn~i:t.ed and harmoniou Iy blended. :Founded in
1 82 by the Colored 11ethodist Episcopal Church, it was
the fir. t to be made a 'onneetional school of that denomination.
and j" perhaps the rna t represcntative of its denomination in
ntcrprise.
Bi -hop I aac Lane, in who e honor
the in titution i named, at one time
a slave, wa' denied the advantage of
education. I,argely through his own
efforts he learned to read and write
and acquired a good education that
placed him in the front rank among
his brother". fter hi. election as
bi hop he was imprc 'ed with the idea
of e.;tabli hinO' an in titution for the
traininO' of the youth of hi race. Hi •
untiring effort. plendid leadership.
and self-saerifiee brought the' result
within a Ie\\' wars that stand to his eredit to-daY. - for it is • •
to him thai the institution owes it ucce and usefulness.
The chaol be~an in Xo\·cmb· r. 188'2. under }Ii Jennie E.
Lanc. who eontinued it until January. Prof. J. H. Harper
finished tIll' unexpired term.
Location, Patronage, and Equipment
Lane College i located in a railroad anti manufacturing town
in western Tennessee, where the colored population is greatest
and where there i a lack of higher institutions of learning. The
college has seven buildings, located on a campus of about seven
acres. The e erve as administration hall, reading room,
chapel. lecture hall, class rooms, laboratories, and teachers'
cottage and dormitories. The school owns a farm of about
forty-two acres, about half a mile from the institution. It is
well cultivated, well watered, and is a large profit to the college.
In addition to the regular college, normal, teacher-training,
college preparatory, normal preparatory, English, and music
course, the theological cour e of four years is maintained.
Better-prepared ministry is one of the O'reat demand to-day, and
Lane College i doing everything possible to preplLre the young
men for this work, a well as fit others to be more useful in
churches, the Sunday-school, the Epworth League, and other
departments of religiou work.
Some Representative Graduates
During the session of 190 there were twenty-six young men
in the theological class. The college seeks to qualify these
students to become leaders in thought. It is strictly religious in
it work, and everything else is made subsidiary to thi one idea.
Graduate of Lane College are to be found in all ranks,- in the
ministr)', in the school room. as president, principal, and teachers,
A GROUP OF STUDENTS, CLASS OF 1909, LANE COLLEGE
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