The old college and the new: An address delivered at the commencement of the Virginia polytechnic institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 24, 1896
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The old civilization, whose ruling class was an aristocracy of land and slaves, has given place to a political and industrial democracy with no ruling class. But herein lies our danger, and out of this fact grows the special necessity for a system of popular education which shall train all our citizens to think clearly and act fearlessly each for himself.
Now this growing conception of the rights and powers of the individual is accompanied by a growing consciousness of his need of preparation for all his functions, especially for the perform ance of his duties as a citizen. Witness the great conventions of colored people like the one held recently at Tuskegee. Witness the political uprising of the poor white man a few years ago under the farmer's alliance and the populist party. Witness, also, the great movement for better schools now stirring the whole South. The plain white man has awakened and is pressing for the rights of his child, and to him we now look as our chief supporter in this effort for the improvement of the schools.
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Charles William Dabney was an American agriculturist and chemist, as wel as President of the University of Tennessee and the University of Cincinnati. He also served as an assistant secretary at the United States Department of Agriculture.
Background
Charles William Dabney was born on June 19, 1855 in Hampden-Sydney, Virginia, United States to Robert Lewis Dabney and Margaretta Lavinia (Morrison) Dabney. He was the third of their six sons and the oldest of the three who lived to adulthood. His father was a prominent and conservative Presbyterian theologian in the S.
Education
Young Dabney attended Hampden-Sydney College, received the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1873, and taught for a year in a nearby public school. He then enrolled in the graduate school of the University of Virginia, where for the next four years he studied the natural sciences.
In 1877 he took a position as professor of sciences at Emory and Henry College, but left after a year to study chemistry in Germany at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen, receiving the Doctor of Philosophy degree from Göttingen in 1880.
Dabney received honorary doctorates from Yale, Johns Hopkins, Davidson, and Washington and Lee universities later in life.
Career
In 1881 Dabney was appointed state chemist and director of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. Dabney's strong interest in industrial education led to his appointment in 1887 as president of the University of Tennessee and director of its Agricultural Experiment Station.
Dabney took a leave from his duties at the University of Tennessee to serve for three years, beginning in 1894, as Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture. He had sought the position partly for its prestige, but partly also because he feared that the new Secretary of Agriculture, Julius Sterling Morton, would discontinue a federal funding program to land-grant colleges which had been authorized by the Hatch Act and the second Morrill Act.
Dabney returned in 1897 to the University of Tennessee with a deeper conviction of the importance of scientific training to the industrial progress of the South. Realizing that the success of such training depended upon the quality of education at the elementary and secondary levels, he became active in the Conference for Education in the South, which had been established in 1898 by a group of Northern philanthropists and Southern educators. Though the Conference had been devoted mainly to Negro education, it soon broadened into a movement to promote universal education throughout the South.
In 1901, at the urging of Dabney and others, the Conference created the Southern Education Board to generate popular support for free public education, and until 1903 Dabney directed the board's propaganda bureau, the "Bureau of Information and Advice on Legislation and School Organization. " In 1902 he also organized, at the University of Tennessee, a summer school training program for teachers which developed into the highly successful Summer School of the South.
Dabney's sharp criticism of educational facilities in the South, his insistence on greater public tax support for schools, and his active involvement in an organization which sought to improve Negro education aroused hostility in Tennessee, and when he was offered the presidency of the University of Cincinnati, at a substantial increase in salary, he accepted. At the time of Dabney's arrival, in 1904, the University of Cincinnati was a small liberal arts college; for years its policies had been dictated by local politicians. Regarding the municipal university as another step toward the democratization of education, Dabney welcomed the prospect it offered of bringing a college education to those who could not otherwise afford one. Yet he accepted appointment as president only after Cincinnati's Republican political boss, George B. Cox, assured him that he would not interfere in the school's internal affairs. Operating on the same assumptions that had guided his actions at Tennessee, Dabney sought to adapt the University of Cincinnati's educational policies to the needs of the community.
After retiring in 1920, Dabney organized a firm of geologists and engineers in Houston, Texas. He also wrote an extensive historical survey, Universal Education in the South (2 vols. , 1936), in which he recommended federal aid to education.
Dabney died of a coronary thrombosis shortly before his ninetieth birthday, at Asheville, N. C. , where he had stopped while traveling from Florida to Cincinnati. He was buried in Cincinnati.
Dabney was an impressive figure, solidly built, broad-shouldered, square-jawed, with a ruddy complexion, dark eyes, and a wiry mustache; his black hair in time became snow white.
Connections
On August 24, 1881, he married Mary Chilton Brent of Fayette County, Kentucky, by whom he had three daughters: Marguerite Lewis, Mary Moore, and Katharine Brent.