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Founded in 1841 in Marion, Alabama, Howard College provided a Christian liberal arts education for young men living along the old southwestern frontier. The founders named the school after eighteenth-century British reformer John Howard, whose words and deeds inspired the type of enlightened moral agent and virtuous Christian citizen the institution hoped to produce. In From Every Stormy Wind That Blows, S. Jonathan Bass provides a comprehensive history of Howard College, which in 1965 changed its name to Samford University. According to Bass, the “idea” of Howard College emanated from its founders’ firm commitment to orthodox Protestantism, the tenets of Scottish philosophy, the British Enlightenment’s emphasis on virtue, and the moral reforms of the age. From the Old South, through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to the New South, Howard College adapted to new conditions while continuing to teach the necessary ingredients to transform young southern men into useful and enlightened Christian citizens. Throughout its history, Howard College faced challenges both within and without. As with other institutions in the South, slavery played a central role in its founding, with most of the college’s principal benefactors, organizers, and board of trustees earning financial gains from enslaved labor. The Civil War swept away the college’s large endowment and growing student enrollment, and the school never regained a solid financial footing during the subsequent decades—barely surviving bankruptcy and public auction. In 1887, with the continued decline of southern agriculture, Howard College moved to a new campus on the outskirts of Birmingham, where its president, Rev. Benjamin Franklin Riley, a well-known New South economic booster, fought to restore the college’s financial health. Despite his best efforts, Howard struggled economically until local bankers offered enough assistance to allow the institution to enter the twentieth century with a measure of financial stability. The challenges and changes wrought by the years transformed Howard College irrevocably. While the original “idea” of the school endured through its classical curriculum, by the 1920s the school had all but lost its connections to John Howard and its founding principles. From Every Stormy Wind That Blows is a fascinating look into this storied institution’s history and Samford University’s origins.
No. 1. Mortality among Negroes in cities. 1896.-- no. 2. Social and physical condition of Negroes in cities. 1897.-- no. 3. Some efforts of American Negroes for their own social betterment. 1898.-- no. 5. The college-bred Negro. 1900.-- no. 5. 2d ed. The college-bred Negro. 1902.-- no. 6. The Negro common school. 1901.-- no. 7. The Negro artisan. 1902.-- no. 8. The Negro church, 1903.-- no. 9. Some notes on Negro crime, particularly in Georgia. 1904.-- no. 10. A select bibliography of the Negro American. 1905.-- no. 11. The health and physique of the Negro American. 1906.-- no. 12. Economic co-operation among Negro Americans -- no. 13. The Negro American family. 1908 -- no. 14. Efforts for social betterment among Negro Americans -- no. 15. College bred Negro American -- no. 16. Common school and the Negro American -- no. 17. Negro American artisan -- no. 18. Morals and manners among Negro Americans -- no. 19. Economic co-operation among the Negroes of Georgia -- no. 20. Select discussions of race problems.