century must needs be a time of much rough pioneering service on
the part of those who are the most earnest friends of the negro race. As
lookers-on from afar on the European side of the broad Atlantic, we are
able to descry many reassuring signs. Both in the North and the South,
Booker Washington has met with abundance of sympathy, and a good deal of
honest, practical help. When Harvard University bestowed on him the
degree of Master of Arts, he was the first negro who had ever received
that distinction. That good Christian man and enlightened politician,
the late President M'Kinley, paid a visit to Tuskegee at the end of
1899, and on behalf of the nation he was thankful for what was being
done. His successor, President Roosevelt, entertained Booker Washington
at dinner at the White House, thus showing that he was of the same mind
as his predecessor. Thus the great work goes on from the beginning to
the end of each year, the aim of the continued and far-reaching effort
being to bring two races together, one being able to help the other
because both have interests in common.

+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| TRANSCRIBERS' NOTES |
| |
| General: Changes to punctuation and formatting not individually |
| documented |
| |
| Page 21: Nothwithstanding corrected to Notwithstanding |
| |
| Page 39: Removed duplicate as |
| |
| Page 50: every-day standardised to everyday |
| |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of From Slave to College President, by
Godfrey Holden Pike

*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FROM SLAVE TO COLLEGE PRESIDENT ***

***** This file should be named 27258.txt or 27258.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.gutenberg.org/2/7/2/5/27258/

Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading
Team at ht