The imagination has oft painted Howard University as a temple-a temple of knowledge-a temple for the teaching of justice: a temple for the upbuild of mankind. Let us then hold its form to our imagination, pearly white as the palaces of the South straight in its construction as rectitude, and let us present it to an admiring world, not only for aesthetic culture but ethical grandeur, religious progress, and political righteousness, and let us say to all, be he high or low, "who touches a stone in yon God-given edifice" is guilty of vandalism, is an iconoclast not at any time to be tolerated. He is tampering with the rights and privileges of a worthy people and deserves to have visited upon him the excoriation of a fiery indignation. Howard was created to meet the dire needs of a meritorious class, and insensible indeed must the man be who for sentimental or personal reasons or for profit, swerves one degree from the line of the highest form of education in administration or instruction. There should be launched upon him the anathema of an outraged people.
Which two claims does Cook make about Howard University?
1. It has a better reputation than it deserves.
2. It should become an even more exclusive institution.
3. It must be overseen by people who respect the institution.
4. It exists to give worthy students a well-deserved education.
5. It should be used for its original purpose of religious worship.
Bot GPT 3.5
answered4. It exists to give worthy students a well-deserved education.
