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ana, Tennessee and Kentucky is $19,000 less than the yearly income 

 of Harvard University. 12 



A southern state university considers itself fortunate if it receives 

 an annual appropriation of from $50,000 to $75,000; and whereas in 

 the larger universities, like Harvard, the professors teach from five to 

 ten hours per week, it is necessary that they teach from twenty to thirty 

 hours per week in the southern universities. This practically prevents 

 the southern teachers from becoming great scholars in their respective 

 fields, as they are able to do practically nothing in research work, when 

 all of their nervous energy is expended in the class-room. They can, 

 therefore, contribute but little to the future development of the world's 

 knowledge. This dwarfing of mental power is necessarily experienced 

 in every grade of teacher, starting with the university and ending with 

 the lowest primary school or vice versa. 



What is naturally to be expected from the conditions just given is 

 conclusively corroborated when we note how seldom an article from a 

 southern scholar appears in the leading journals that are devoted to 

 the propagation of the arts and sciences, and when we observe how 

 seldom a southern writer is quoted by a European savant. 



It was a favorite saying of the great French statesman Danton 

 that a state must first have bread and then education, thus making 

 education the next necessity of life after bread. 



It must be admitted by all that the southern white people are in 

 great need of better educational facilities; and every one must also 

 grant that it is not right that the south be sapped of its energies to 

 provide wholly for the education of an inferior race, while its own 

 white population is in such need of better education. 



The educators (college presidents, etc.) of the south should recog- 

 nize and make better known to the people the present conditions of 

 the educational world (which conditions should not be hidden under 

 a cloak of self-sufficiency) ; the statesmen of the south should make 

 them known to the nation; and finally, it is the duty of the nation to 

 rectify these conditions and assume the responsbility of the educa- 

 tion of the negro race. 



Remark 



That the southern people in all the states believe in the education 

 of the negro is shown by the fact that the negro is being educated. 

 Still, there are many people, men of foresight and ability, who say that 

 " education spoils good laborers." This great minority of thinkers are 

 as a rule either unmindful or ignorant of the fact that such arguments 

 have been in vogue regarding the education of the lower classes for 



" See " Educational Endowments of the South," by Elizabeth M. Howe, 

 The Populab Science Monthly, October, 1903. 



