ABSTRACT
The triumphs of the scientific world thrilled me: the X-ray and radium came during my teaching term, the airplane and the wireless. The machine increased in technical efficiency and the North and South Poles were invaded. The Panama Canal brought the Pacific nearer the Atlantic and we protected capital investment in San Domingo and South America. The partition, domination and exploitation of Africa gradually centered my thought as part of my problem of race. Wilberforce was a small colored denominational college, married to a state normal school. The church was too poor to run the college; the State tolerated the normal school so as to keep Negroes out of other state schools. “Finally the necessity must again be emphasized of keeping clearly before students the object of all science, amid the turmoil and intense feeling that clouds the discussion of a burning social question.
