Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lesson from Lincoln. "Mankind hungers for peace," he told the publishers. "This universal hunger must be satisfied. Either the nations will build a cooperative peace, or, one by one, they will be forced to accept an imposed peace, now sought by the Communist powers as it was by Hitler." Free men can have such a peace, he said, only if they will cooperate: "It is not a question of turning the press, radio, television and newsreels into media of sugar-coated propaganda, 'selling' America to the Frenchman, France to the German, and Britain to the American...
This week white and Negro notables from all over the world are helping Lincoln University* celebrate its 100th anniversary. President Milton Eisenhower of Pennsylvania State will be on hand, and so will alumni from as far off as South Africa. In 100 years, though it has only one half of 1% (300 students) of the total U.S. Negro college enrollment, Lincoln's reputation has grown out of all proportion to its size...
...only one professor-the president, John P. Carter. At one point Founder Dickey had to mortgage his house to save the school, and the struggling campus was continuously harassed by white raids from Maryland. It was not until the 40-year presidency of Princeton Man Isaac Rendall that Lincoln began to come into...
Today, under Horace Mann Bond, its first Negro president, Lincoln spreads out over 275 acres of campus, farm and woodland. Its 15 buildings are an architectural assortment ("You might call them Honest Redbrick or Grotesque Style," says one professor), but they house a first-rate liberal-arts college as well as one of the top Negro seminaries. Though Lincoln has no other professional schools, its alumni account for 17% of U.S. Negro doctors and scientists and 10% of U.S. Negro lawyers. Its graduates have served in twelve state legislatures, been U.S. Ministers to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Liberia. One alumnus...
...Gold Coast, the French Cameroons and Liberia, as well as from 22 states in the U.S. Of all its alumni, perhaps the two most notable are Africans: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nationalist leader of Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah. Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Many of Lincoln's students have returned to their homelands with a better understanding of the great progress made by the U.S. Negro since the school was founded...