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MRS. EDNA CARTER-WALTER H. HARRISON.

Mrs. EDNA (STILL) CARTER completed the course at Lincoln Institute in 1900. She entered very shortly afterwards upon the duties of wife.

A few months before her graduation Prof. Wm. R. Carter visited Lincoln Institute, saw her, admired her, wooed her, and as a sequel she is the wife of the principal of the Topeka Industrial Institute.

The following quotation from a letter written by her is so expressive that it may not be inappropriate here: "I married little over a year after finishing school, and find that my greatest accomplishment has been the becoming of the mother of three children. To be sure it is the Old Woman in the Shoe who makes a nation, yet in the present time she is relegated to the rear in favor of her childless sister - the New Woman."

Her answer to the question, "What are the Graduates of Lincoln Institute Doing?" is, they are building up a race.

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WALTER HIRAM HARRISON is a graduate with the class of 1900. While at Lincoln Institute he received many honors. He was editor of the Lincoln Institute Record, then managed by students; he won three prizes in oratory and was twice put on the program to speak before the State Legislature, the occasion being the biannual concerts given by Lincoln Institute complimentary to the legislators.

Since graduation Mr. Harrison has taught at Chamois and Pleasant Hill. He is now serving as princi-

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WALTER H. HARRISON.

pal of the Young High School, Independence, Missouri.

Because of his reputation as a speaker, he was at one time employed by the Republican State Committee to stump the State, along with such orators as T. Thomas Fortune, W.T. Vernon and Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett. He was also chosen as one of the speakers on Lincoln Institute Day at the World's Fair, 1904.

Mr. Harrison has recently married a Miss Raglain, a graduate of the High School at Independence.