Berea College Law Challenged
A mooted question in the South is to have a final legal decision. The Springfield Republican says: "The trustees of Berea College have voted to test in the highest courts of the land the new law of Kentucky, forbidding them to educate white and black students at the same institution. The litigation will probably fill two years, and not until a final judicial decision has been obtained will they alter the present9educational system at Berea, or take any steps beyond their present condition. Andrew Carnegie's gift of $30,000 to this institution is now announced, and this indicates that in the end the school may be more helped than hurt financially by the new Kentucky law." It is a good thing that the question is to have a legal settlement, whichever way it goes; then all concerned will know how to act. There is no doubt that all classes are entitled to education, whether separately or in mixed schools; and the system that will give the best educational results, with the least social or racial friction, ought to prevail.