C.,
in 1896.

In the spring of '96 he accepted the position of Professor
of Literature at Morris Brown College, which position he
held until September, 1898, when he was appointed Professor
of Mathematics and Vice-President of the same institution.
The degree of M. S. was conferred upon him by Allen
University in 1900. In the Summer school, held at Clark
University in 1901, Professor Jordan was instructor in
mathematics. He has developed with the institution with
which he has been connected, fitting himself for every
promotion which has come to him.

Professor Jordan has an experience of eighteen years in the
class room and is an excellent disciplinarian. The fact that
he has filled four different chairs with credit is
sufficient argument that he is an able "all-round scholar."
His greatest strength, however, lies in his knowledge of
English. His language is chaste; his diction, pure.

As one of the best writers and speakers of the race, he has
contributed articles to our leading periodicals, including
the "Atlanta Constitution," "Atlanta Journal," "A. M. E.
Review" and "Indianapolis Freemen," and has delivered
several commencement addresses.

I am asked to say whether or not it is time for the Negro colleges in
the South to be put into the hands of Negro teachers? The education of
a people is the greatest question that can possibly concern them. It
touches every phase of human interest and holds the key to the
solution of every rational problem arising out of man's duty and
destiny. The foundations of every helpful institution known to our
social system rest upon such conceptions of right and wrong as the
people's intelligence has called into being: for true teaching is not
only the application of methods for the development of one's powers,
but is also a directing or turning of those powers into proper
channels. With any people it will not matter ultimately who now writes
the laws, issues decrees, or enforces judgments if their youth are
kept under wise, efficient instructors. How necessary, then, must it
be to a race so conditioned as is the Negro in America that their
schools should be conducted by only those who are most capable and
worthy!

However, before we attempt to answer the question propounded, it is
important that we fully comprehend its meaning. As I understand it,
the matter might be st