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T K X A S STANDARD
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MESSAGE
To The Teachers of Texas:
I take this method to express my
gratitude to you for the high honor be-
stowed upon me as an evidence of your
appreciation for service well done and for
the record breaking attendance demon-
strated at the San Antonio Convention.
I trust you will continue this interest.
We cannot afford to let up now. The eyes
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R. A. ATKINSON
of the State and the Nation are upon us.
The world is making effort to find out-
places. No one can find our rightful place,
but may I urge each teacher to pay your
poll tax before Jen. 31st and use your
influence to have others do so, then use it
wisely and thoughtfully.
During th s crucial period, do not be
overcome by evil thinkers, but WATCH,
WORK, AND PRAY. Accept the advice
the old lady gave to her grandson: "EAT
YOUR FOOD AND SHUT YOUR
MOUTH." Remember too much talk sank
the ship.
The Association has appointed a Com-
mittee whose duty is to investigate and to
act for our interest. The personnel of this
Committee are those who are conservative
thinkers and among the most progressive
educators of our group. We must relax
and trust them.
I am appealing to each committee, each
department head, and each loyal mem-
ber to cooperate with me most heartily
to keep our rightful place in the Educa-
tional program of Texas and the Nation.
Let us do our part so well and so con-
vincingly that we will receive the Chris-
tian Fellowship with our Neighbor.
Each Department head is requested to
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The Private College:
What of Its Future ?
By PRESIDENT JOSEPH J. RHOADS
Bishop College
Increasingly, the future of the private
and/or church-related college for Ne-
groes is becoming a subject of inquiry and
discussion. The concern of a college-con-
scious public is being inspired by the
tardy investment of relatively large sums
in our rapidly growing state institutions
of higher learning. The impressiveness of
numbers and large budgetary appropria-
tions make a case for our state-supported
colleges, with which the private college
suffers in comparison.
MONEY MINOR NECESSITY
Obviously, with inadequate budgets
for respectable existence and operation, in
time many of our existing denominational
colleges will disappear. Others will enjoy
only an extended existence through fail-
ure to rise to the exacting demands of
educational progress and the achievement
of higher degrees of competence in college
supervision and administration. However,
the major problem of the private college
does not entail the necessity of matching,
dollar for dollar, the rising bi-ennial legis-
lative appropriations for our state insti-
tutions. A million dollars, invested wisely
and efficiently in limited highly integrat-
ed physical plants, curricula, facilities, and
faculty personnel, adapted to the basic
educational needs and interests of a thou-
sand carefully selected students, may pro-
vide richer and more penetrating educa-
tional experiences than can be provided
with ten million dollars within the broad
scope of the requirements of ten thou-
sand college students whose selection is
conditioned by legal right. Even the in-
dispensable material elements involved in
educational processes may be magnified
out of proportion to their true significance.
CONCERN SIGNIFICANT
However, it is significant that the
private Negro college is an object of ser-
ious inquiry in these critical times of
educational reconstruction and progress.
Having occupied a large and important
place in the history of "Negro education,"
they are entitled to the serious concern
that is extended them.
COLLEGES NON-COMPETITIVE
It is well to observe that the private
college and the state-supported college are
not competitive but complementary in-
stitutions. One is not compelled to die in
order that the other may survive. The
two are indispensable in that neither can
meet, with any approach to adequacy, the
demands of the race for higher learning.
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Painting by Samuel Conntee, Bishop graduate and prominent artist
in New York City.
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Colored Teachers State Association of Texas. The Texas Standard, Volume 22, Number 1, January-February 1948, periodical, January 1948; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth193747/m1/3/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Prairie View A&M University.