The Century Volume 66; A Popular Quarterly (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...of one of the most conservative educators of the South, Chancellor Walter B. Hill of the University " Georgia. Chancellor Hill's were golden words indeed, and should be read everywhere in the North and in the South as the mature conviction and earnest proclamation of one who looks upon the question of Southern education not merely with the responsibility of an expert, but in the broad light of statesmanship. Such an utterance, along with similar statements by other distinguished Southern college presidents and molders of opinion, justifies the present hopeful attitude of patriotic men and women, North and South, in relation to this tremendous problem. Said Chancellor Hill, in part: In the days when the Southern section of our country was threatened with force bills and similar legislation there were utterances in the South, which might be gathered up from press, pulpit, and platform of that time literally by the millions, in which it was said that if the North would only let the South alone, the South would solve the problem in wisdom and in justice. These utterances were sincere, and their fulfilment involves not only a plain duty, but involves also the strong point of the South, the point of honor. The change in the attitude of the North cannot fairly be regarded as a desertion of the negro; but, as Mr. Cleveland aptly said, it is an "expression of faith and confidence in the respectable white people of the South." There are some to be found who say, or at least imply, that it would be dangerous for the South to do full justice to the negro in the matter of education. They affect to fear that the result of such a policy would be to bring the negro into dangerous competition with the white race. There is no surer way to dishonor the blood in...