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THE GAZETTE, XENTA, OHIO.CKNConflict Between Church And State At Wilberforce U. Told In Book Formseej wi r I blarr| W :a?ori do i I t hatExtensive Study By Dr. F. A. McGinnis Is Publishedidall,vardbyaft-MainitionJ'yVFRGENCE of control finan rial inadequacy weakness in selection of the president* and sectarian over-emphasis of the African Methodist Church—these: are obstacles to the greatnees of Wilberforce University as ap 1 praised by Dr. Frederick A McOln*! jnia, professor in the college of ed-j jucation thereWritten as his dissertation for; the degree of doctor in education j conferred by the University of Cin cinnati. his A History and An In-i terpretation of Wilberforce University” has just been published as probably the firm comprehensive volume covering the evolution of the school from a tiny pre war institution of scarcely more than elementary standards to the presentuaJI]reprEvolution Of School,with Traced, Obstacles ^ Are Cited I be r, --j mermovement for accreditation which j tent, ba*- occupied the administration! Eren in recent years ha* exacted beevy toll in the matter of developing a functional institution.”He ?a» eiforts to meet the requirements of the North Central | Association of Colleges and Sec-U.ondary Schools have taxed the energies of the chief administrator- and teecbers to such an extent that little time was left to consider the real life problems of the students in a caste-ridden | American society.” j In an appraisal of the faculty ! D McOinnia seys Wilberforce* ; inadequate salary scale has made ; it difficult for the university to(OstrikdOWTfens*( nmrtionnounwaswest.. _ . ..y..,,. j compete with other schools forDR r A McGINNIS qualified teachers In the mattercurriculum and the institution bee 1 of fbe tripartite type of control,won its twenty-five year fight for be says the history or the de-The history of Wilberforce i® accrsvlitation '' nomination*; college movement in from■“ *— --- “POLITICS” CITED America show's that it 1* a funda- javiattn referring to politic* Dr Mr : mental mistake on the part ot a! MeOmnis makes jt clear throughout denominational college to seek Fusp#his dissertation, that h* means not i state aid unless it proposes tounder state control. Atmore or less familiar locally bow it was established in 1854 by the Methodist Episcopal Church to ed ucate the children of southern planters whose offspring wereit at irkedplanters whose offspring were cg bm rh|irfh „ romf „nder state control Atbarred from southern srbo°]8 how The us* of fhe pudency Wilberforce he finds this /Tipaiit, thus succeeded an abortive attempt of the African M E Churchakesluar-7 3.toas a stepping-stone to the bishop tite type of organisation ia tie ric of the A M F Church, the 1 institution's greatest weaknessSE2. “il—taf of ih* trilBt,, board with j and on, th*t orobabjv can jn.vornderfore-itterdog'eedhi*dogsDayUnion Seminary near Columbus how the A M E rhur, h todl over Wilberforce by purchase following its decline and suspension during the Civil War and how' it resolved into Its several entities in the educational evolution that followed seminary, college of liberal arts and fhe state supported Com bined Normal and Industrial DepartmentHISTORY IS TRACEDDr McGinnis traces this historyandofspokiof wlt;linert w woukA M E. ministers and the at be overcome The support tempt to dominate the C N and growth of both of these unit* (the jday I department by the church, are seminary and the C. N and I ) arejhranlt; hardly consistent it would appear conditioned by the financial and ,nuge With the r,ther feeble financial adminiMratix* weak res see of the P”«*, support given the school by that university and he finds that ^*1. _ church which, in the last four inhibits progress jn the other two ™wn year,, her nmtrltaM but U.Tf.brtnrl.,,^ 0WBCT|ve#In hi* summary of objective* heclose* with this statement. Wilberforce University should become functional institution, one whichper rent to th* operation of the schoolFrequently th* volume shows, only the third episcopal district in which the school is situated, madeISAYinterestingly and effectively. re- I aTylet^iunTn^effoH ' to rVachTti will unfit tbe student for conform llrn/l rt#Viw?nmA°rft°Hr thf In' allocation of financial aid for sup- tty to the Ideals of a segregated !f*n 1 nHrif„ . hLDn.nl*. Pnrt of Wilberforce When It. is con group M should equip Its gradu if thi nArtinl mu. .nH ILn.wu tflPrPd that state support during 3*r_ ultb the techniques and per-!?u nf li ini' 'a31 four vears has amounted sonalite* that will enable them toi.L tn cent of the total In transcend the difficulties of ad-^lnnmfnt rom,J during that period the con .m-tment growing out of segregaTnp n, v.„n i fltot between church and state in tion and th* American caste sys-I 1 h ? T . lt;■ for -‘intro! in thrown tow Wttowme. the oreetlon of aed.i.-.Hon»' b.story bit ana.ve- of ..bet ».«• enlrlt and a will to tran.forrathe factors that alternately pushed _ .. ..it.j anWilberforce forward and held it h«v ^apter on evaluation Dr . ! the present ^ fUtfrCOnfroUed _ so-RUINI(CcAthack and hi analytical appraisal McGinnis Pomt out that six-sey- ciety be r**personalities con of the twentv-one hoard mem sponnbillty of the s Aserve queer Mb receii 1n th Amer a fre Mil Shoo!MisiplineItiveTanual 1 onit 8byanefmu-andianoandwillhes.ersof the various ptrsnnaiiries con ' v-* r — i - tnArnerted With its development and hers have heen \ M E ministers t ; 1 oltheir „ffert upon Hie university, and -ay- Hence the occupational dlnately inconslstenU Awill prove of tremendous value distribution of the board member? tion ot objectives to include theTo bystander how ever, the con ; does not serve In any way to ideals mentioned above and a re ---eluding two chaptet immarizmg ibring together points of view that direction of the educationali pm- jgewand evaluating his study ot the reflect the sentiments of the in-,gram ere necessary at MllberjTuMfin?fitut.ion are of principal cur stitutton's constituency” force in order that there may be jj flen, interest For the purposes And acain This anachronism ' other justification for the insti-of cummavv rh. oitho. ha, dt- P'csent- serious flaw in the fun tutioni than U,e fart• led th, chronolog lt;*,I h tou ot damenfal organization ot the uni that it la tie pride of the A. M. E.th,. school into five periods The'eraity In discussing the se lee- f hurchfii r co. ers the \eat when it was Hon of president^ he says As The entire diseertation is welladministered bv fhp Methodist mifht be expected a board of trus- documented and Dr. McGinnis ohFt, - rona I rhiirch a seven veai-tees with such ultra denomination- Vioiisly had acre** to authentich£,nrv J composition is prone to base the I records and information includingi h, eecond nerioH - that ev selection of a president upon , the minutes of all the board meet-tend.nc throtiKh it, purt-ha-e bv ™I mtnt.teri.l ,u»llflc»tlon« ,|nre th. founding f.ther«.,irent-i ot the \ M F rhfirrh ana and active church associations, j the minutes of the meetings of theMs struggle* through til* admin- lw,,hou* ,akin? ,n,° ron?ifipr,,t*on I general faculty and other unlvertmtion o* Daniel \ Pavne it fhP h^,8, kn°wn criteria governing | sjty ret»rds He haa supplemented mT nresMent The' third inenod «,hp m*klng of ‘u,rh 8P,Pr,1oT18-1 this information with consideraible be m fLt^undef [Je ^nsequently Wilberforce Univer |^ewrb ,nd with the personaladmfnii.trs.ion, o. Prwidonfn P »' AVi |ul?lne »f Wllbortorcn Hmdnre nndv i ee and s T Mitchell .inrine the par8 because of the seu.tlon others and similar comment on the, Pr S .. of presidents who were wholly On ,ininndtv anrt v,p£rrft MurltiBndepartment wasbesrare «nnnonen of PrM,dPntft who were wnoiiy un |univerrtty and Negro education in conceiv^ and Prepared for the tasks at hand ” |*wra1.no The situation, he says, makes for j The author also drew upon hisfounded and tbe theological work T-r»*riani*ni Tb“ a,Jfnor 51180 lt;1row upo° D!sorC:,n„.od n.o .ho P.yn. Tboo ^h,^h 'i mId1 ow knowl*d*‘ WtMmrfore. inItomcat Seminary wu.™ lt;* «««« Tbe rftcent yearj, based upon a careerThe fourth period is classified ^^^Mlwrorre^Si^B °poim-|of ******— y*ar8 ^ih tb^ ln8tt* ater!«c the years of greatest advance , nUt fhaf it lg completely con-iS1*®raent. covering the regimes oi fro„pd by thP race, mav well be ^ f edt'^5*tlonthose two active and aggressive a tf#triment rr McGinnis finds.»tintin.Aftergraduating from a two-year normalBish0_?-J_-!LJn”Z* b,-.u«, « b.r. ,h; ni «™!r!EEL.l,r w S S..,,Wh.t Who m. Z,.n,'wl.rn.burrwboM inuv■ |{J^when Roosi then day a retun the 01 bratic Mis Ml a 105 V is f hffredANfU(Coiformii 111. M: decly knowr Sobert.eased the physical plant from , and greater ' experience might i tj»1wrrttsr °f Chicago . . „ nH hie mamtepntofta from PkVi. rig*rwinthree buildings to eighteen and ex bp heipfuT anlt;j hiRr ma*ter of ar,a from ohiopatKiefl the curriculum while stu FINANCIAL WEAKNESS j State Unlveralty. In the meantimedent enrollment reached iL- peak Thf financial weakness of W11- joined the faculty of Wilber-(1800) herfoice. he fears, may well be the force a* instructor of printing inThe last period he describe* is f-aupp of decline, because its only ** 1 * ‘ “ * “*current, and he sumnwnxes it BOurce of stable income is the sum thus ThP fifth or present period pajd by th« state department for has heen one of transition and un instruction from teachers in the certainty The coming to the in- college of liberal arts on a elock-stitution of new „nd inexperienced hour basis, a support which may chief administrator*, the rapid bp withdrawn at any time What bound, by The Brown Publishing»u nover in the faculty personnel, there is of peril in the financial Co of Blanchester and the dedithe political ectivitie* on the part situation for Wilberforce ties in cation is to tbe author's wife,of members of the hoard and tbe the fact that it has never accumu* presidents, all have contributed to lated an endowment fund, the en-the present institutional disconcer dowment monies received in the tion. During the present period, past having been absorbed for cur-however, improvement has been rent expenses.made in tbe organization of the The author believes that thethe vocational course and later transferred to the liberal arts college as professor of education in which he has just taken bis doctorate at University of Cincinnati.The volume 1* printed, dothCHILDREN PLAY WITH MATCHES;Charlie Aretta McGinnieBRITISH CAN REPEL ATTACK ON SUEZ IN WINANT'S OPINIONo’clocl orders be brlt; minist to-be The Mills cerem with 1 The tered “hello’ ing fc Exp They attend afternlt; own a work she elt; other fever t I It w
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