once have we doubted your
love. We hope that you have never mistrusted ours.

"It is true that at times we are troubled on every side, yet not
distressed; we are perplexed, but not in dispair; persecuted, but not
forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. Through all of this, our love
and loyalty to dear old Tuskegee has never wavered, and now as a token
of this love and loyalty, I hand to Dr. Washington as a Memorial
Scholarship for the class of '93, a check for one thousand dollars."

I think that this act pleased Dr. Washington more than anything that had
ever been done by the class of '93. We all were proud of this because we
wanted Dr. Washington to see that we had not forgotten what he had done
for us. We wanted to do this during his lifetime, and this we succeeded
in doing.

An address before the Alabama State Teachers' Association, held in
Montgomery, Ala., the subject being:

_"School Building Under Difficulties."_

"There is no work pertaining to the welfare of our race that is of more
importance than that of the teacher, and no class of people has a
harder task to perform than the earnest and conscientious Negro teacher
of today.

"The problems that come before the large educational associations of
this and other countries, are problems dealing largely with the child,
such as the treatment of backward children, treating of abnormal
children, care of the blind, of the deaf, special treatment for
incorrigibles, the feeble minded, and many other kinds of mental and
physical defectives.

"Other problems that demand the attention of such meetings, are problems
dealing with the teacher, his preparation and qualification for the
various grades of our schools, for instance, preparation of the teacher
for the elementary school, for the secondary school, and for colleges
and universities. These associations also give much time to such
subjects as The Relation of Education to Real Life; The Defects of our
Present School System; and how these defects may be remedied. In other
words, how can the school better fit the student to take his place in
the social and economic life of today? I repeat, these are the problems
which largely consume the time of these educational meetings. They are
vital and far-reaching, and demand the closest attention of our wisest
and best educators. They are not racial; not sectional; not even
national, but are universal in their scope and teachers in all parts of
the world must contend