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Volume XXIILincoln University Is Now Million Dollar Investment For StateCompletion of Two New Buildings Makes It One of the Best Equipped Negro Colleges;' In the World—Better Facilities NowBY R. H. SLIGHTONWith the completion of the two new buildings this August at Lincoln University, the value of the institution’s holdings in dollars alone will be well over a million it is conservatively estimated.Along wit.fc the growth of Missouri's Capital City, Jefferson City’s place of higher learning for negroes has kept pace. More than a half j miliion dollars a year of state funds is going into this school and much of this amount stays in the city. Ths year appropriations committees of the General Assembly have approved an appropriation of $520,655. This amount pays the faculty members and other numerous expenses incidental to the school’s operation.Lincoln University, which until 1921 was Lincoln Institute, had its inception in the desire of members of the 62nd United States colored infantry and the 65th U. S. colored! cavalry to establish an institution of learning in Missouri for the edu-j cation of former slaves. Lieut. R. Baxter Foster w’as the moving spirit of this initial start and when the: school was incorporated in 1866; Lieut. Foster was named president. Six thousand dollars was raised to acquire buildings, land and instructors.To State In 1879It was thus operated as a private institution until 1879 when it was; taken over by the State of Missouri. It was designated then, and still is, a state teachers’ training institution.The board of curators and others connected with the school’s management, however, have a plan of march forward. The two new buildings this year are part of it.The general standard of the institution is being raised, both as to, equipment and quality of faculty members and courses of study offer ed.There are now in the college alone twenty-two instructors. Twelve of: these have a full professor rating.; With the mania for Ph. D.’s now prevalent, it is the plan of the management to add some of these to the faculty. At present there are few! ij;doctors of pholosophy on the facul- j ty roster. ,Also in the march forward, Presi- , dent Nathan B. Young is slated to go. President Young came to the University eight years ago from ! ■ Talladega College in Florida. Ac- : ; cording to the records Mr. Young i holds A. B. and A. M. degrees from j Oberlin College, a doctor of litera- j ture from Talladega College and a . doctor of lawf from Selma Universi- ] ty. The board of curators, however, ] are seeking a younger and possibly! lt;better equipped man for the job. j Dr. Ambrose Caliver, now con-; i nected with the office of education lt;at Washington, D. C., has been of- lt;fered the position and it is expected i he will accept it. Mi*. Caliver is a graduate of Knoxville College and j received his master of science at , the University of Wisconsin and al- ] so his doctor’s degree. At one time ] he was dean of Fisk University.Ranks High (Lincoln University at present is ( i ranked among the best of the negro £ schools of the nation, at least in its j class. It also is among the oldest. lt;Lincoln University of Pennsylvania ^ was organized a short while before s Lincoln University here. Howard c University at Washington, D. C.,| ] and Fisk, at Nashville are two other high class schools which were or- i ganized about the same time. (Although the school was formed t primarily for negroes of Missouri,; 1 | it has become an institution of the; s ! Middle West. Students come here c from nearly all of the western I : states including even California and £ j Idaho. There are a number here j from Texas and many from Oklaho- lt;ma. rThere are at present 133 students * enrolled in the high school and 227 j s enrolled in the college. Besides * there are quite a number taking ex-! 1 tension wTork in various parts of the 1 country. The summer school session f is attended by around 150 each • year. Last year the enrollment was 1 155. This makes a total annual en- 5 rollment of more than five hundred f students.President Young has found inter- ^ (Continued on Page 11-B)
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Daily Capital News and Jefferson City Post Tribune
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Sun, Apr 26, 1931
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