![]() Educated at Ohio Wesleyan University and Boston University, and received his Doctor of Divinity from the latter, Thirkield particularly championed the cause of the black theologian. A year prior to Edgar Love’s enrollment at Howard University, Thirkield would write in the manual Education and National Character that the “largest hope for the moral and religious life of the Negro is in the pulpit” and that the “preacher is still the center of power.” Thirkield, a white man who served as president of Howard University from 1906 until he was elected to the bishopric of the Methodist church in 1912, had long been a champion of the education of blacks, having served as the first president of Gammon Theological Seminary between 18 and as general secretary of the Freedmen’s Aid and Southern Education Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Wilbur Patterson Thirkield was a staunch supporter of the theological department, envisioning an “intelligent and consecrated ministry” for blacks. Designed “for those who desired to consecrate their lives to Christian and missionary work,” the theological department was relatively small and obscure, as the university began to place more institutional emphasis on the wide array of professions opening up to blacks, particularly law and medicine. Washington’s position on the Board of Trustees and his assistance in securing funds from Andrew Carnegie for the building of a new library.Įdgar Love began his coursework with vigor in the university’s fledgling theological department. Thirkield acquiesced to this system of training in exchange for Booker T. degree would ultimately be removed and manual labor introduced under the Thirkield administration. The Greek and Latin requirements for the A.B. Following Gordon’s announcement of industrial education, a protest was launched by faculty groups and students, who believed such a decision as an affront to both their social positions and cognitive abilities. John Gordon, had attempted to introduce into the university’s curricula industrial education and forced manual labor, but faced the ire of both faculty and students. Howard University stressed a stringent academic program that included Greek, Latin, English, logic, foreign language, philosophy and the mental and moral sciences in its artium baccalaureatus requirements. following Emancipation, and the Missionary Society of the First Congregational Church’s response to the education and training of those new Northern arrivals. The university’s founding in 1867 directly corresponded with the influx of freedmen into Washington, D.C. Howard University was fast becoming one of the nation’s premier institutions of higher learning for blacks. The freshman class at Howard University in 1909 was the largest in the institution’s forty-two-year history.
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