utterances that their great hope is to have successors in the 18leadership. Many of them are ready to train others to walk in their footsteps. There are thousands of men, children in our schools, youth beginning college life, and young men who have completed their course and are ready to take up a position as commanders in the battle of life.

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Here are a few of our present leaders, between whom no invidious comparisons can be made, and to whose number may be added a thousand or more working in more or less conspicuous positions to fit their people to become leaders. They are shining examples of success and merely mentioned to show your own opportunities.

Look at and study this list earnestly, it concerns you:

EXAMPLES OF SUCCESS

Rev. S. G. Atkins, President of the State Normal and Industrial College of North Carolina.

Dr. E. F. Boyd, physician and surgeon, Nashville, Tenn.

Hon. H. P. Cheatham, Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia.

Dr. D. W. Culp, A. M., M. D., author of “Twentieth Century Negro Literature.”

W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, editor “The Crisis, A Record of the Darker Races.”

Bishop G. W. Clinton, A. M. E. Zion Church, Charlotte, N. C.

Prof. J. M. Cox, President Philander Smith College, Little Rock.

E. E. Cooper, Editor “Colored American.”

Prof. A. U. Frierson, Professor of Greek, Biddle University.

Prof. N. W. Harllee, Principal High School, Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Lawrence Aldridge Lewis is a rising physician of Indiana, who made the highest record in a competitive examination for the city hospital of Indianapolis against 107 applicants.

Prof. R. S. Lovinggood, President Samuel Houston College, Austin, Texas.

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