Twenty Years After

Mr. Chairman, President Patterson, Members of the Board of Trustees, Officers, Teachers and Students of Tuskegee Institute, Friends: I last stood upon this platform fourteen years ago to this very date, and this exact hour. We had gathered to celebrate Founder's Day, and to present to the Trustees of the Institute the Keck Memorial which stands within the shadow of this edifice. Probably no more notable, or cosmopolitan, audience had previously assembled anywhere in the United States. Statesmen, educators, representatives of great philanthropic boards, representatives of the educational departments of the great denominations among us, members of the Honorary Unveiling Committee from twenty-four states and the District of Columbia, representatives of the several social service boards of which the Founder had been a member; Trustees and friends who had come in special cars from New York, Chicago, Washington, Atlanta, Hampton, New Orleans, and nearer points, and last, and not least, hundreds and hundreds of that group of people whom he most loved-men and women who are farthest down,-made up that assembled audience. Mr. and Mrs. Willcox, Dr. Schieffelin, Mr. William M. Scott, Mr. Charles E

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