Education: United Negroes

"Those Begging Joints. . . . Some folks with their mouths full of flattery call them normal schools, colleges, and even universities. . . . The 'puhfessahs' . . . will tell you without your even asking that these are 'great works'. . . . They have builded this g-r-e-a-t institution! The mouthspread would take in the mighty expanse of Columbia University, but you look around and see ... nothing to speak of in this day and year of our Lord. The next thing you know, the talk has gotten around to funds. ....

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