The Reorganization of the Higher Education of the Negro in Light of Changing Conditions

The higher education of the Negro race is rapidly approaching the parting of the ways. The old dispensation with spiritual motive and moral zeal is giving way to the new order with its more concrete and material demands. The old bottle is already cracking under the fermentation of the new wine. The outbursts and rumors of commotion in the principal institutions of higher learning for Negroes are but rumblings caused by internal readjustments which are taking place often unconsciously on the part of both the benefactor and the beneficiary. These inevitable explosions are incident to the period of racial adolescence. Whenever a variable approaches a critical point we may expect capricious behavior, as when water passes from the liquid to the solid state. The Negro mind is now passing through the dawn of self-consciousness. At this stage of transformation its whimsical behavior will not conform to any laws of predictable conduct. This, however, will mark but a transient phase in its expansion and growth. We should not, therefore, be surprised at these seemingly discon

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