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VIEW OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C., FROM McMILLAN PARK
Founded by Gen. O. O. Howard, and others, as a university" for the education of youth in liberal arts and the sciences." The institution receives large support from the United States
government, and is a national university in its work and influence. The picture represents the east front of the campus, with Clark Han on the right, the Main
Building and Woman's Hall in the center, and the residences of the theological professosr on the left.
REV. WILBUR P. THIRKIELD, D.O.
President Howard University, Washington. D. C. One
hundred and two teachers and 1,209 students in 19099S
theological students.
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Howard University. Washington
Rev. Wilbur P. Thirhield, D.D., President
" J 0 more uitable place could be imagined for the location
of a great chool for Tegroes than Wa hington, the nation's
capital," and here i a univer it)' that ha co t $3,000,000.
Howard niverity
may be
regarded as the
national univer ity
of the colored race.
It has for its con-tituency
one
eighth of the American
people. It is
the sole surviving
off pring 0 f the
Freedmen's Bureau
and i cared for and
fo tered in part by
the government.
It was chartered
b~r 0 n g re in
]867 a an in titution
of "liberal
culture." It first
pre ident wa Gen.
Oliver O. Howard,
and the institution
tands It the rno 1 eodurinO' memorial to hi iIll! trious name.
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The First Need of the Negro Race
Howard University believes that the first need of the Jegro
is that the choice vouth of the race should as imilate the •
principles of culture and hand them down to the masses below.
The univer ity is, primarily, an institution of liberal culture,
with preparatory, normal, collegiate, theological, law, and
medical departments. The variety and extent of its curricula
are abreast with the approved standards in similar institutions
for the white race. Its motto i "Culture for Service."
There are chemical, phy ical, biological, dental, and pharmaceutical
laboratories, and it general conveniences and facilities
of instruction meet the requirements of the educational world.
There are more than twelve hundred students in the university,
making the largest body of I egroe to be found in the world
pur uing the higher academic and professional studies. They
come from the higher departments of public schools, and from
various private institutions. Students who come to Howard
Univer ity are, for the most part, dependent upon their own
efforts for support. It is aid that the most strenuous incidents
in the biography of Pre ident Booker T. Washington
could be multiplied a hundred times in the experience of
Howard niv~.r ity students. One of the most di tingui hed
graduate of the univer ity walked all the way from Alabama
to Washington in order to enter choo!'
The university promote the higher aim and a piration of the
Negro race by employing colored men on the teaching force and
governing board. All the facultie are composed of white and
colored in tructors in about equal numbers. Colored men teach
highel' mathematics, cia sic, metaphy ics, and the variou topics
of law, theology, and medicine. everal of the colored pro-
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