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HOWARD UNIVERSITY CAPSTONE OF NEGRO EDUCATION . . . . 

[top left image] DR. MORDECAI WYATT JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY

[top middle image] THE NEW CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT BUILDING

[center left image] THE BUILDING HOUSING THE UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

[bottom right image] THE NEW FEDERICK DOUGLASS MEMORIAL HALL

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[top right image] HOWARD'S MOST RECENTLY ERECTED EDIFICE THE FOUNDER'S LIBRARY

[center left image] FRESHMEN PERFORMING ROUTINE CHORES FOR UPPERCLASSMEN

[center middle image] CHARMING CO-EDS SEEKING HIGHER LEARNING AT HOWAD

[center right image] CANDID SHOT OF HOWARD PROFS STROLLING ABOUT THE CAMPUS

[bottom left image] THE NEW WOMEN'S RESIDENCE AREA

AMERICA'S FOREMOST SEAT OF NEGRO LEARNING, Howard University located in the capital city of the nation, Washington, D.C. just passed it's 71st birthday on March 2. Its record is one boasting many years of distinguished service in education.

SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AGO bound by the skein of doubt, insufficient finances and a paucity of students, Howard University was created for the education of youth in the liberal arts and sciences, a field where their training had been pitiably meagre.

MARCH 2, 1867 saw the incorporation of the school under the title of Howard University, and during the following year the Normal and Preparatory Department, the Theological, College, Medical, Pharmeceutical and Law Depts. were opened.

[[on left page]] THE DENTAL SCHOOL was founded in 1882, and the year 1919 saw the dissolution of the secondary departments. Advancing educational ideas saw the creation of a Graduate Division and later the creation of the Graduate School in 1934 as a distinct unit.

THE YEAR 1938 finds Howard an established institution with an enrollment of more than 2,000 students from all corners of the earth, holding enrollment in 9 Undergraduate, Graduate, and Professional Schools and Colleges of the University. 

HOWARD UNIVERSITY boasts of a plant valued at more than $8,000,000, and its graduates numbering 10,008 have been at work in 43 states and 24 foreign countries. Undubitably Howard has the largest community of Negro scholars in the world.

GRADUATES OF HOWARD are an integral part of every colored center of population in the nation and their contributions represent a major portion of the impetus of progress.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States said, "here is a record of which the Negro race may be proud. It is a record of which America is proud."

[[on lower right page]] MORDECAI W. JOHNSON, the president of the university has been successful in steering an almost unwieldly educational craft over a storm-ridden course to its present prominence.

AS A RESULT OF EXPERT GUIDANCE Negro America now possesses an institution rich in historical background, educational facilities, confidence and ambition for the education of her youth.

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