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it is hard to say that in any evident feature of mind they characteristically differ from their white fellow-citizens.**
It is argued by many southern educators that industrial edu- cation the training to become carpenters, masons, blacksmiths should for the present make up the sum total of a negro's education. 35
While in no way arguing against educative industrial train- ing, the fact remains that " the negro is a man. entitled to all the privileges of manhood." Why then limit him to developing the mechanical side alone ? " The claim for the higher education of colored youth is not based upon relative capacity, but upon their ability to profit by it."
That they are able to profit by such education seems proved by the table compiled by Dr. F. G. Merrill 36 in answer to the statement of Charles Dudley Warner that higher education is doing the negro more harm than good, and increasing his law- lessness and idleness.
STATISTICS OF THE FOUR HUNDRED GRADUATES OF FISK UNI- VERSITY.
College professors ----- g
Principals of high and normal schools - 12 Principals of grammar schools ----- 34
Teachers --------- 165
Doctors 17
Ministers 19
United States government employees - 9
Lawyers - 9
Commercial pursuits - 13
Students in professional schools - - 16
Wives at home - 44
Living at home 13
Unclassified 9
Business and homes not registered by university - 32
It would be difficult to find any northern university for the training of white youths that presents a more satisfactory record than this.
- PROFESSOR N. S. SHAILER of Harvard University.
- Report of Industrial Commission, Vol. XV, p. 129.
- DR. F. C. MERRILL, dean of Fisk University.
