, graduating in 1893, second in
his class. During this course he was several times elected
president of the Autonomation Literary Society. His conduct
and standing was very tersely stated by one of his
professors, when he said that "he was courteous and obliging
under all circumstances, clear and logical in his deductions
and conscientious as a Christian."

He immediately entered Dartmouth College in the class of
'97. During his college course he was prominent in
athletics, at the same time holding a good position in his
class. Despite the fact he was one of the two colored men in
a class of a hundred and twenty-eight, yet at the close of
Freshman year he was unanimously elected class auditor for
the ensuing year. He was a charter member of the Ruskin
Society, a society for the cultivation of the histrionic art
in Dartmouth College. In 1897 Dartmouth gave him the degree
of Bachelor of Letters. Says President Tucker of Dartmouth:
"He is a man of clear and earnest purpose, possessing tact
and good executive ability."

After graduation he was elected to the chair of English
language and literature in the Tuskegee Institute, but
resigned at the close of the year and was elected principal
of one of the city schools of Montgomery, Ala., which
position he held until elected by the Freedmen's Aid and
Southern Educational Society as principal of the La Grange
Academy, La Grange, Ga.

In 1899 he was married to Lily Belle, the daughter of Wm.
Hill, the wealthy truck gardener of Montgomery. Mrs.
Robinson is a graduate of the A. & M. College at Normal,
Alabama. They have a son, Mason Francis.

Prof. Robinson has a brother who is a member of the Boston
Bar. He graduated from Dow Academy in Franconia, N. H., in
1893; attended Oberlin College and received the degree of
LL. B. from Boston University. In 1898 he was a member of
the Boston Common Council.

So artful is nature that she does not permit man to break one of her
laws for his pleasure without a sacrifice on his part; that for every
action there is a corresponding reaction; and so the laws of
compensation hold good in the dealings of man with man, races with
races, and nations with nations. Slavery, as ignominious as it was,
had a dual effect. The master race, forming what might be termed a
landed arist