ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the base of the triangle has been widened with the advent of the 1890 land-grant colleges and Tuskegee. The preparing of teachers seems to him to still be a pressing need of these 1890 land-grant colleges and Tuskegee Institute. The alarming rate of decline among teachers means that this concern must not be abdicated as a mission of these colleges. Fewer black students are preparing for teaching careers, even at the 1890 colleges which have traditionally produced more than half of all black teachers. Harvard University patterned after the European system, prepared a small group of men for law, medicine, theology, and teaching but neglected the education of the vast majority of men and women who belonged to the working class. The academic programs at negro institutions were variously described as elementary, secondary, normal and general education—a few indicated Agriculture, Home Economics, and the Mechanic Arts.
