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favor of a black candidate. The attempt failed and Holmes moved to Macon, Georgia where he opened
Central City College. Holmes had expected to be appointed president of the Institute in 1890, and when he was passed over in favor of Sale, a white minister from Canada, he questioned his chance for promotion. He was further disappointed when his friend John Hope, whom he had recruited to the Institute in 1897, did not support his goal. Prominent in support of this effort was
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Seminary"), studying under its president, New Englander Joseph T. Roberts. Along with theology and literature, he studied Hebrew under
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was the only other early faculty member with a degree, and the school included a grammar school, a high school, and a three-year theology program for men.
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