The educated Negro is an absolute fact. The day is past when his ability to learn is scoffed at. But on the other hand is born that fear that he may go too far--excel or equal the Anglo-Saxon,--and that fear is a prime motive in the minds of many who seek to hedge the onward path of the race. But this path will not be hedged. This educated class, though few in number, has been keeping for years the torch aloft for the race. It must be with us for the future. It has a mission in the world and it is working in a brave endeavor to fulfill that mission. For the good of the whole country this class must multiply, not decrease in number. There are no two definitions of a scholar to be applied to different races. The Negro scholar must be the same as any other--endowed as Milton would have him "with that complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." And he should have, in order to meet this requirement, what Emerson has emphasised as necessary--"the knowledge that comes from three great fields--from nature, from books and from action." The Negro like any other scholar is not the man who has simply been through college, but the one "through whom the college has been"--the one who has not only gathered from contact with college life varied stores of knowledge, but who has grown in strength of character and breadth of culture; one who has become imbued with the spirit of high ideals; one who does not scorn the old-fashioned virtues of truth, honesty and virtue; one who has views crystalized into definite aims; one who has a settled purpose in life; one who is strenuously determined to realize a worthy ambition; one who has both microscopic and telescopic capacity, able to look into the minutest details and sweep a broad range with clear vision; and one (slightly changing a potent phrase) whose "reach upward is ever exceeding his grasp." Added to this the Negro scholar above all must be one who makes himself a reforming force for the world's betterment. Here is the Negro's opportunity--to combine in himself those characteristics Mr. Austin mentioned not long ago--the purely scholarly qualities of the German, the statesmanlike qualities of the English and then to be a _propagandist_.