But Wisdom is justified of her children. As an illustration of the
value of the higher education of the Negro race, I point to Howard
University, which is the largest and best equipped institution of its
class. The establishment and maintenance of this institution during the
past 35 years has cost between two and three millions of dollars. As
returns on this investment it has sent into the world 200 ministers of
the Gospel, 700 physicians, pharmacists and dentists, 300 lawyers, and
600 persons with a general academic and collegiate training, together
with thousands of some time pupils who have shared the partial benefits
of its courses. These graduates and some time pupils are to be found
in every country and district where the Negro population resides and
are filling places of usefulness, honor and distinction, as well as
performing works of mercy and sacrificial service. They serve as
inspiration and stimulus, quickening the dormant energies of the people
and urging them to loftier ideals and nobler modes of life. It devolves
upon the complainant to present some plan by which a like sum of money,
in a like space of time, can be spent upon an institution of whatever
designation so as to produce a more wholesome and more wide-spread
effect upon the general social uplift.