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Black Leaders
inclined to accord to teacher-training its rightful place in a college." Favrot to Banks,
July 20, 1926, Banks Papers. There is some indication that T. D. Walton looked
upon Banks's administrative reputation as a solution to an impossible supervisory
problem, as he explained to James W. Bass, collector, Internal Revenue Department
at Austin, who was having trouble getting the free alcohol report. Walton to Bass, Ju-
ly 14, 1926, Banks Papers. Walton also wrote toJ. R. Reid, chairman, Board of Ex-
aminers, State Department of Education, concerning his hopes for Banks in raising
the standards of the college. Walton to Reid, Dec. 16, 1926.
14. Minutes of Board of Directors, Texas A & M Univeristy, Nov. 10, 1926 (Ar-
chives, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas); Banks to Walton, Nov. 11,
1926, Banks Papers.
15. Ella P. Baker to Banks, July 2, 1926, Banks Papers.
16. Peyton Irving, Jr., state college examiner, to Walton, Jan. 8, 1927, ibid.
17. The interest of the Schuhmacher family in Prairie View was enlightened and
symbolic of the better public consciousness of many other white people of Texas. The
family spent many pleasant days on the campus, and the warm friendship is clearly
revealed in the Banks-Schuhmacher letters. Banks to Henry C. Schuhmacher, May
21, 1929, Jan. 7, 1931, Schuhmacher to Banks, Jan. 10, 1931, ibid.
18. Irving to Banks, June 4, Oct. 2, 1926, L. W. Rogers, first assistant state
superintendent to Banks, July 13, 1926, Banks to Walton, Feb. 8, 1927, ibid; Walter
J. Greenleaf, Land-Grant Colleges, Year Ended June 30, 1926, Department of the
Interior, Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1927, No. 37 (Washington, D.C., 1927),
60-63 (hereafter cited as Land-Grant Colleges). Land-Grant Colleges, Bulletin 1925,
No. 44, pp. 58-62; Land-Grant Colleges and Universtttes, 1928, Bulletin, 1929, No.
13, 64-67; Luther H. Foster, C. E. Mitchell, and W. J. Hale, "Report of Committee
on Survey of Administrative, Business, and Financial Operations in Negro Land-
Grant Colleges" (manuscript copy of report submitted at the Washington meeting in
1926); Presidents of Negro Land-Grant Colleges, Proceedings ofthe Fourteenth An-
nual Conference, Petersburg, Va., Nov. 10-11, 1936, pp. 93-107 (hereafter cited as
Presidents, Annual Conference, date).
19. At the Greensboro meeting, in collaboration with the Federal Fifth Con-
ference on Negro Land-Grant College Training, Osborne read a paper on "How Can
We Strengthen Our Faculties."
20. The Washington report demanded competence in surpervising boards;
presidential responsibility in general administration, fiscal matters, and employ-
ment; national solidarity of presidents and their fiscal agents; and academic respon-
sibility for the instructional program and staff.
21. ArthurJ. Klein, chief of the Division of Higher Education of the Bureau of
Education, with a distinguished group of educators, among whom was William B.
Bizzell, president of the University of Oklahoma and former president of Texas
A & M, did this study with the cooperation of nineteen state departments of educa-
tion, seventy-nine Negro colleges and universities, the Association of Colleges for
Negro Youth, the Phelps-Stokes Fund, and the educational boards and foundations
of seven church bodies.152
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