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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt:...contains 5,227 bound volumes and a large number of pamphlets. The reading room is an adjunct of the library and this year has been provided with twenty-five of the best periodicals and thirty-five newspapers. Aims. Fisk University aims to be a great center of the best Christian educational forces for the training of colored youth. During the thirty years since its founding, the faculty and trustees have held unfalteringly to this purpose and all plans have been laid for providing the best possible advatages for the "Higher Education." The University in all its methods seeks to develop character and to give its students a thorough preparation for the practical duties of life. The Alumnl The Alumni are making a record of useful services to which Fisk points with pride as ample vindication of the wisdom of founding a University for the Negroes of the South in the very dawn of their freedom. Christian education accomplishes the same beneficent results in the case of the Xegro that it does in the case of other races. College and university education are a vital necessity to the study and permanent advance of any race or class of humanity. Rev. E. M. Cravath, D.D., President. Rev. A. K. Spence, M.A., Dean. Rev. E. C. Stickel, M.A., Treasurer. Ihev. CHAHhHS E. flUEXflNDER, Memphis, Tenn. The subject 1Y of this sketch was born of slave parents in Princeton, Ky., on Jan. 31,1853, was transferred by sale to Mississippi where he remained until the breaking out of the war, when he, with his parents, ran away to Memphis, remaining in Memphis until after the war; he then attended school at Nashville where he graduated in the Normal class in 1876; he was then elected Principal of the Mason Preparatory School where he spent fourteen successful years as the princi...