In an interview, Mary Church Terrell, who taught at WU in the 1880s, said that the work load was overwhelming. She was simultaneously responsible for teaching courses in French, English, mineralogy, and music. On top of this she conducted the school's choir and played organ for the school's chapel services. Additionally, president Lee had many personal conflicts with his teaching staff which led to several staff members resigning in protest. One of these was Mrs. S. C. Bierce who was the head of the normal school department at WU. Bierce was the wife of the prominent classics scholar William Sanders Scarborough whom Lee had successfully wooed to WU and was one the school's most prominent academics. Despite pleas from the school board to find a way to convince Bierce to return, she refused and did not return to WU until after the end of Lee's tenure as president.
In 1884 Lee left WU to become the editor of The Christian Recorder. Samuel T. Mitchell, an 1873 graduate of Wilberforce, replaced Lee as WU's president; …
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