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THE CRISIS

this, however, it is difficulty to get philanthropy to go.  Thorough education and higher training still seem to most people a luxury and an indulgence and we must recognize these facts.  We ourselves, however, know that if the Negro is to survive in this world as a man of thought and power, a co-worker with the leading races in civilization, a free, independent citizen of a modern democracy, then the foundations for this future must be laid in the Negro university.  This much we know, but hitherto we have not realized that we have got to pay the bill for this education.

AWAKE, PUT ON THY STRENGTH, O ZION.

We can support our own universities.  We must do it. One little school in Virginia, supported simply by poor Negro Baptists, refused the help of philanthropists, paid back with interest the money that had been given to it, bought its own land and put up its own buildings, hired its own teachers and last year gave $25,000 cash to run the institution.  The Virginia Theological Seminary and College is not a perfect institution.  It does not meet the approval of all educators, but it does meet the approval of every independent, right-thinking colored man who believes that the day of passing the hat for Negro education is nearing a close and who is thanking God for it.

DETERMINATION

REMEMBER the word of Robert Browning, the great poet who shared faintly our own dark blood, how he wrote in "Asolando" of
"One who never turned his back but
marched breast forward,
"Never doubted clouds would
break,
"Never dreamed, though right were
worsted, wrong would triumph,
"Held we fall to rise, are baffled to
fight better,
Sleep to wake!"

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RANKING SCHOLARS OF NOTED NORMAL SCHOOLS.

Miss L.M. AVERITTE
State Normal, Tenn.

MISS M.T. BROWN
Hampton

J.S. GIBSON
Tuskegee

T.S. INBORDEN
Brick, N.C.