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These are not to be ignored, but encouraged if

good, eradicated if evil. The colored teacher

gave continually to his scholar the example of

attainment, the exemplar of what education

would do. Prof Reason of New York, fifty

years a teacher, ex-Minister Bassett, so long the

honored principal of the Institute for Colored

Youth, Prof Langston, now Minister to Hayti,

formerly Dean of the Law Department of How

ard University, Peter Clark in Ohio, are all living

examples ot what colored teachers in colored

schools have accomplished. Prof Greener re

ferred to Prof Dorsey and his corps of teachers

in very complimentary terms. He had known

them long' and intimately. He held them up as

models to the children worthy of emulation,

conscientious workers in the development of a

race.

He made a capital hit, by saying he noticed as

he entered the building the words “Colored

school, No 1,” and he asked himself, “Why retain

the word “colored?” Would not white children

be admitted to this school if they applied Was

it not among the possibilities that some would

apply? Why not put over schools where a

majority of Irish children attended the words

“Irish school No 2,” or “German school.No 3

He would take a chisel, if he had thejauthority,

and chisel out the obnoxious word. Here one

of the committee men, grown enthusiastic at the

Professor’s eloquent words, shouted, “It shall

be chiseled out,” which was received with rap

turous applause, in which Mayor Low, who was

seated upon the platform joined heartily. Prof

Greener complimented Prof Dorsey upon the

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The New York globe. (1883). New York, N.Y., 1883-12-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83027106/1883-12-01/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The New York globe, 1883-12-01.