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General ^Armstrong’s 
 Life and Work 
 
 Founder s Day Address, 1 902 
 
 Franklin Carter, PhD., LL.T>. 
 
 Ex-President of \MlUa?fis College 
 
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 The Hampton Normal and Af'HeulturMl Institute 
 Hampton, Vir"inia 
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 General Armstrong’s Life and Work 
 
 An address delivered January tzventy-sixth, nineteen hundred and 
 tivo, ill If amp ton Institute Memorial Churchy by hrankliji Caiter, 
 Ph. D.y LL. D.y ex-P resident of Williams College. 
 
 "VyO'rilING becomes more certain to one who believes that God is, 
 than God’s controlling grasp of human history. Indeed, to 
 him who reads aright, there is no more convincing proof that God is, 
 than is found in the study of human progress. 1 he contem})lation of 
 an individual life is sometimes bewildering. Many a man with good 
 puri)Ose and self-denying aim is beaten down in the collision of forces 
 that envelop him. Hut in modern days we nearly always wonder at 
 the overwhelming of a good man and ask, “ Why does God |)ermit it 
 So we sometimes wonder at the disaster which befalls a nation or a 
 race. Hut take a large enough view, and the destruction of C’ar- 
 thage, the prostration of Greece, the fall of Rome, move into })lace as 
 evidence that the world grows better, that God guides humanity to 
 nobler visions and grander achievemets. 
 
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 As we meet here this afternoon, our thoughts are invited to con- 
 template both a race and a man — a weak race brought by cruel greed 
 in fear and anguish to this continent, kept weak and denied intellect- 
 ual progress, held in fetters by the power of an ever-growing and at 
 last mighty government — a strong man who, coming up among a 
 feeble folk, imbibed the love for humanity from his mother’s breast, 
 and, sailing to his father’s country for education, gave his young, 
 vigorous life to fight for the country of his fatheis until that fight 
 was won, and then took upon his heart and mind the weak and help- 
 less race whose fetters had been suddenly removed, making them 
 through ignorance and degradation a menace to the well-being of the 
 republic. Look at the cargoes of Africans moving westward year 
 after year in the stifling holds of 
 slow-sailing ships, dumped in 
 chains upon the eastern shore, 
 multiplying in helpess dependence 
 over all these beautiful valleys 
 and plains. Does it not move you 
 to ask, “ Where is God ? ” Wait, 
 my friends. By and by, from an 
 island in the western ocean, a 
 swifter ship shall sail eastward 
 with a young man on board, of 
 large powers, but almost without 
 purpose save that he will follow 
 his Master, Christ, wherever He 
 leads, who shall be trained in col- 
 lege and war to lift this people 
 into useful service; who shall be 
 the great pioneer in transforming 
 the misdirected instincts of a de- 
 bilitated race into the fine, free, 
 organic j^owers of American citi- 
 zens. We can never forget the Samuel Chapman Armstrong at Twenty-one 
 
 sufferings and sorrows of those 
 
 helpless ones through the long years of a century and a half. Nor 
 can we forget the anxieties and fears and the heart-searchings as to 
 duty of tho.se among whom they lived. The faithful record of that 
 history we leave with God, and praise Him that when the day of 
 deliverance came, the teacher, leader, helper, uplifter, also came. 
 
 When the first missionaries sailed from Boston for the Sandwich 
 Islands eighty years ago to begin the work of uplifting and redeem- 
 ing the Hawaiian natives, not the wildest imagination could foresee 
 that out of that movement and from one of those islands should come 
 the force, the man, who would be to millions of helpless Negroes in 
 our Southern country the uplifter into the thoughtful, loving, diligent 
 apj^rehension of their own duties, into a gentle and rational patriotism. 
 
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 Love of the degraded natives of the Hawaiian Islands, stirred in 
 New England breasts, was the original force that produced the 
 heroic man, the Christian service, for which' we thank God to-day. 
 
 Surf-riding was :i I'avorite Sport of Sanuiel Armstrong 
 
 Armstrong’s birthplace on the Island of Maui, 11. I. 
 
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 I ask you to consider for a little while how admirably fitted 
 Samuel Chapman Armstrong was for his great work. He was born, 
 as I said, in the midst of a people who needed help, and to give help 
 to whom his countrymen and his own father and mother had traveled 
 thousands of miles. He knew from childhood the perils and sorrows 
 
 Mark Hopkins, President of Williams College from 1836 to 1872 
 
 of a degraded, ignorant race, and he knew also that there is no work 
 so glorious as the uplifting of such a people. When he went to 
 America for his education, he went to a college among whose 
 students, nearly a hundred years ago, the greatest American move- 
 ment for the redemption of the world was born. He imbibed, during 
 his college course, something of the inspiration of that movement. 
 He lived in the home of one who was and had been for many years 
 
The President's House at Williamstown where General Armstronj> Lived wliile in College 
 
 the president of that great missionary society. He was taught by 
 Mark Hopkins the sublime philosophy of Christianity, and that 
 means the rescue of the lost. He learned from Albert Hopkins, on 
 whose window in our chapel arc the words, “They that turn many to 
 righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever,” as he never 
 knew it before, the majesty of Christian loving and living. 1 le did with 
 his might in college what his hands found to do. I remember that 
 
 The old I’laiitation “ Mansion House” which was (Jeneral Armstrong’s Hampton Home 
 
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 when describing fencing with him for exercise, his chum told me that 
 the intense keenness of his eye and the swift plunge of the foil some- 
 times terrified him. He thought that Armstrong would actually run 
 him through. He was physically sound and strong. I have heard 
 him say since his graduation that he was glad there was no such 
 amazingly developed system of athletics in college in his day as now 
 exists. He could not understand such an amount of money and force 
 dev^oted to a subordinate purpose in college. I thought as I listened 
 to him saying this : “ Ah, my friend, if you were in college now, you 
 
 would yield to no man in vigor of tackling on the football field, or in 
 the swiftness and precision with which the baseball would be hurled 
 to put a man out on third base ! ” His athletic prowess would have 
 given him renown and that would have added scope to his moral 
 power. Yet the play of college life would have remained play to him. 
 He was intense. I think of Von Moltke, the great Prussian general, 
 in the dawn of a summer day of 1870, riding over a plain in eastern 
 P'rance from which the Jura range was visible and planning for the 
 next movement. His young aid-de-camp, enraptured by the beauty of 
 the scene, calls the old general’s attention to the mountains glorified 
 by the advancing color of the rising sun. The great general turns 
 and says severely, “Do not speak to me of your private affairs.” 
 Armstrong might have said that, but the moment it was said he 
 would have seen the fun of it. But he was always dead in earnest. 
 
 He went into the service of his country. This was his country, 
 though he was born in a distant island of the sea, for it was his father’s 
 country and his love of it and service for it early won him citizenship. 
 Now he is glad that those islands, as they were not in his boyhood, are 
 a territory of the country he loved and for which he lived and died. In 
 the war he learned to control men, and that means that his insight was 
 quickened, his patience was enlarged, his judgment of men made com- 
 prehensive, and his swift resort to wise measures in emergency became 
 a habit. It does not mean that he for a moment lost one atom of his 
 hatred of meanness or of his love for righteousness or of his love for 
 humanity. WTat a series of promotions his war record was ! In nearly 
 every important movement from the beginning to the end he had a 
 part, and he learned to love the black race in his two years’ command 
 of Negroes. When the war was over and the Southern people lay ex- 
 hausted and quivering with pain and bewildered by their relations to 
 the freed slaves, the Northern people, chastened by the desperate 
 struggle and the desolation of their households, in the nobility of their 
 love for the colored people, gave to them, when they could not well 
 use it, the right of suffrage. Assigned to duty in this region by the 
 I'reedmen’s Bureau for the care of ten counties, having studied the 
 condition of the race and long since perceived that education of head 
 and hand and heart— the development of character — could alone save 
 this enfeebled people from misery and crime. General Armstrong said 
 to himself : “ I will found a school to educate teachers for this race. 
 
 I will begin in a humble way a more patriotic, more difficult work than 
 
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 fighting for my country. I will open the door for this people, whom I 
 dearly love, into intelligence, self-control, manhood, and woman- 
 hood, and send my pupils over all this Southern land to be centers 
 of light and love, examples of diligence and loyalty to the noblest 
 motives.” Being thus trained by God it is not too much to say that 
 he was inspired of God. His early visions of this service, his heroic 
 resolve, his single-minded consecration, his undaunted advance over 
 obstacles — these were because God was in him, guiding and inspiring 
 more and more visibly to the end. 
 
 In the fragmentary notes left by the great Lincoln of the mem- 
 orable conflict between himself and Douglas in Illinois in the autumn 
 of 1858, are found these words : “ Sui)pose it is true that the Negro 
 
 is inferior to the white man in the gifts of Nature, is it not the exact 
 reverse of justice that the white man should, for that reason, take from 
 the Negro any part of that little which he has had given him ” These 
 are manly words, but what Armstrong would have said, what he did say 
 by his choice of life-work, was : ‘Tfit be true that the Negro is inferior 
 to the white man in the gifts of Nature, it should l)e the high mis- 
 sion and the supreme joy of the white man to help the Negro make 
 the very utmost of what he has had given him.” 
 
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 And then the site to be selected for the school. It was better 
 that it be near enough the North to command and receive attention 
 from Northern Christians, and yet it must be in the South, easy of 
 access for those to be helped. So, on the very shore on which the 
 ancestors of this people had been dropped in chains, on soil of that 
 state where for four long years the fiercest battles over the destiny 
 of the Negro had been fought, a soil consecrated by the blood of 
 thousands of Northern and Southern heroes, almost in sight of those 
 waters where the deadly grapple of the huge Merrimac and the 
 little Monitor occurred, — on this soil shall they over whom and for 
 whom all this carnage really was, be taught the sweet reasonableness 
 of the religion of Jesus Christ, the arts of industry, and the true 
 service of country. Here, not very far from where the first college 
 in the Southern country, the second college in America, was planted 
 ( but only for the whites ) shall be erected a normal school which 
 shall go a little way towards healing the wounds that cruelties and 
 war have inflicted, and towards making it possible for the whites 
 and the blacks to live together in charity and peace. 
 
 But he did not confine himself to the training of the Negroes. 
 The passion for studying how to uplift a race got such hold of him 
 that Indians were admitted in response to an application from one of 
 their true friends. The problem of lifting must vary somewhat with 
 the differing characteristics of different races, but, fascinated by these 
 great problems, he saw that the presence of the two races in the same 
 institution might stimulate the teachers and be of mutual benefit to 
 the two races. All uplifting of a race, like every true redemption, 
 must be made effective by quickening and guiding individual minds. 
 Armstrong knew from his college days what that meant, and it stirs 
 the blood to read the simple confession recorded in one of his papers, 
 that whatever good teaching he had done was Mark Hopkins teaching 
 through him — the teaching of a great teacher, judicious and symmetri- 
 cal in character like the round circle which Everett applied to Wash- 
 ington, the teaching of this great teacher handed down through him- 
 self to ('lod’s little ones. 
 
 Armstrong did not concern himself much with the surface of 
 things ; he went straight to the heart of every problem. He was no 
 dealer in fine phrases, no seeker after soft places, no lover of Lydian 
 airs or delicate perfumes ; he was a man, an earnest, downright man ; 
 and “ the image of God cut in ebony,” as an old writer calls it, was to 
 him just as truly an image of God as the Phidian Zeus or the Venus 
 of Melos. It was the divine that he cared for. P'or this reason the 
 Negro was more attractive than the Greek, if he needed help. 
 'I'herefore he was thus far fitted for this great work in which he must 
 grapple with Southern })rejudices; bear patiently and sympathetically 
 the criticisms and sneers of a high-tempered and just then naturally 
 exasperated peo])le ; appeal unceasingly to cold, calculating Northern- 
 ers for aid ; bear courageously the stupidities and frivolities that 
 
Samuel Chapman Armstrong at Tliirty-tliree 
 
 slavery had begotten and, worse than all, the lapses and relapses that 
 sudden liberty made inevitable. lie aimed at br(<)ad results and if he 
 was sure that those results were coming, the fashions and manners, 
 the sneers and criticisms of onlookers, nay, the trivialities and mis- 
 conceptions and ingratitudes of those for whom he was working, did 
 not greatly disturb him. Nevertheless, what faith was required to be 
 sure that the results were coming ! What a heroism, in those con- 
 ditions, “to bate no jot of heart or hope but steer righTonward ’ ! 
 
 “ Endurance is the crowning cpiality. 
 
 And jiatience all the passion of great hearts ; 
 
 These are their stay, and when the leaden world 
 Sets its hard face against their fateful thought. 
 
 And brute strength, like a scornful conqueror. 
 
 Clangs his huge mace down in the other scale. 
 
 The inspired soul but flings his patience in, 
 
 And slowly that outweighs the ponderous globe, — 
 
 One faith against a whole earth’s unbelief. 
 
 One soul against the Hesh of all mankind.” 
 
There was an inexhaustible fund of fun in Armstrong’s mind. 
 He saw the comical side of every situation, and the humor of the sharp 
 contrasts between the ideal and the real helped him- on. In a letter 
 written for his class report twenty years ago, in answer to the request 
 to state what he had published, he said : “ I have published nothing 
 
 but a succession of howls for money for the Hampton School, to which 
 the dear public have on the whole liberally responded, though, as in 
 war, only one shot in five hundred hits.” He loved literature and 
 scholarship, but the idea that he could have any relation to these fine 
 attainments in his absorbing work struck him as comical. Those who 
 knew him well can almost hear him laugh as he wrote the words. The 
 
 General Armstrong's (irave in the School Cemetery at Hampton 
 
 fun in him was indomitable. Neither frightful danger, nor colossal 
 tasks, nor broken nerves, nor religious worship, could stop its flow. 
 Yet with all his vitality, his intense earnestness, his indifference to 
 petty things, his fun, and his faith, God only knows the discourage- 
 ments that his heroic soul encountered in the great work to which he 
 gave his life. It is because God, to whom he uttered his appeals for 
 help in this great work, knew of struggles and disappointments and 
 comforted him by the answers to his appeals, that we find in his post- 
 humous papers the declaration that “ Prayer is the greatest thing in 
 the world.” That, you know, is not what Hrummond says. He says 
 that “ Love is the greatest thing in the world.” Put there will not 
 be much prayer to God without love for Him and His will, and prayer 
 
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 rests on the very foundation of God’s love to us. So you see Arm- 
 strong and Drummond are not very far apart. Moreover, Armstrong’s 
 prayer was love — yet how he hated cant ! He was the last man to be 
 willing to claim publicly that God had answered his prayer or that his 
 love to his fellow-men was anything super-eminent. 
 
 You know, friends, that this great school whose privileges you 
 enjoy has cost much, but you do not always realize it. It has cost much 
 to many small and large givers in the North who gave of their hard- 
 earned savings to the colored people and the Indians ; much to patient 
 and gifted teachers. Nor should it be forgotten that no school in the 
 North can present in its list of teachers a more distinguished roll of 
 women than this institution. Armstrong knew instinctively a noble 
 woman. He knew also how to attach and keep such in this great work. 
 In this and in ways innumerable this school owes infinitely much to 
 him who conceived the idea of establishing it here and for twenty-five 
 years poured an irrepressible stream of his own life-blood into its daily 
 ongoing and upbuilding, with joy indeed, but often with pain, until at 
 last he had given all that blood, and fell a martyr to his loving zeal. 
 
 My friends, I love to think of him, not rushing up and down 
 before his moving lines in the hot battle, apparently swallowing bullets 
 with the charmed life of a Napoleon ; not standing on a platform and 
 painting for a Northern audience the sad picture of a race rapidly mul- 
 tiplying, but likely to stumble, fall, rapidly die, because with so little 
 inheritance of character, and arousing his hearers to a keen sympathy 
 with the lofty but not unattainable aims of this school ; nor even in 
 the loneliness and complete absorption of prayer to his Heavenly 
 1^'ather when he touched the lever that moves the world ; but teachine: 
 humbly the slow-moving minds of his pupils the great principles of the 
 law of love. I love to think of him, I say, teaching them to think, to 
 get hold of the ideas of cause and effect, sin and punishment, forgive- 
 ness and love, and then driving home to them with the explosive, 
 volcanic earnestness of the Irish temperament and with Saxon perti- 
 nacity, the truth that w(^rk, steady, diligent work, was to be the cause 
 of their progress, the deliverance for them from sin and misery, the 
 sure sign that they were worthy of God’s forgivenness and love. With 
 that lofty carriage of the head, with that keen. })enetrating flash of the 
 eye, with that swift, jerky utterance (through it all the tenderest 
 sym])athy gleaming forth ) standing before his students with their dark, 
 pathetic faces he was more than general, more than orator, more than 
 a victorious Israel, he was a fellow-worker with God, inspired, sublime. 
 
 As the years went on, more and more he emphasized the indus- 
 trial side. More and more he saw that what the colored people need 
 is not Greek culture of the head, not chiefly a knowledge of history 
 and literature, but enough training of the brain to make them think 
 well, control their lower desires, and love their fellow-men, but mainly 
 industrial training, steadiness, and mastery of trades, loving, skilful 
 use of hands and eyes and voice — and he so moulded the Institute that 
 
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 wherever his pupils went they should add to the productive sanitary 
 forces of the community and do something to make someone better 
 and happier. 
 
 Think of the great schools that have had their origin in this 
 school ; think of the hundreds of little schools that have been guided 
 by the student graduates of this school ; think of the thousands of 
 children that throughout the South have learned how to read, cipher, 
 write, and speak properly, to watch the growth of plants and animals, 
 to know something of the history of our country and of the world, to 
 whom the world is such a different place because dear General Arm- 
 strong lived and died here. Think of the hundreds of steady, produc- 
 tive farmers, carpenters, tinsmiths, blacksmiths, bricklayers, leather 
 workers, who have gone out from here to contribute to the comfort 
 and improvement of their own race and to the stability of society, and 
 think of the hundreds of mothers trained to neatness and thrift, with 
 enough perception and love of knowledge to quicken in their little 
 ones the thirst for respectable attainments and the sincere love of 
 home, and all this, too, because dear General Armstrong lived and 
 died here. The cost has been indeed great, but the harvest also 
 wonderfully great. Had this school with its thirty-three years of toil 
 and discouragements, but also years of leaps and bounds in progress, 
 years of amazing expansion in resources, done nothing more than to 
 send out one Booker Washington, it would have been a glorious 
 success. Had Williams College no other graduate than Samuel 
 Chapman Armstrong, it would have amply paid for its cost, for all the 
 hopes and fears, all the prayers and tears, all the self-denying gifts 
 that have marked its progress for a hundred years. But because 
 Williams College sent forth ministers and missionaries, workers for 
 the good of men from the beginning, it sent forth Armstrong. And 
 because this great school had Armstrong for its founder and head, it 
 sent forth Booker Washington, and because it has sent forth one 
 W’ashington, it will surely send forth many more to make upright, 
 industrious, thrifty, property-holding, beneficent citizens of your race. 
 
 “ Hampton must not go down,” did you write, my beloved class- 
 mate ? It cannot go down with such a history as you made for it by 
 the twenty-five years of your consecrated life and by the benediction 
 of your loving death. It must go onward, upward, guided by those 
 whom you have trained into its service, ever gaining more Christ-like 
 ])Ower, ever holding up the cross, and ever sending forth its pupils to 
 bless the nation and to win the crown. 
 
 The motto of the class of ’62 in Williams College, of which Arm- 
 strong and I were members, was three Greek words meaning, “After 
 the contest, the victory,” or more exactly, “After the cross, the 
 crown.” Xo member of our class, no member of any class, lived with 
 that motto for the guiding star of his life more truly than Armstrong. 
 Because of so living he could say with an effect which none could 
 gainsay, “ What is commonly called sacrifice is the best, happiest use 
 
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 of one’s life and resources.” He had learned to the full the meaning 
 of the thought, ‘‘Christ crucified the power of God.” 
 
 It was in this beautiful church which his magic touch had evoked 
 upon this soil, in this crowning building of your school, that the last 
 tribute of honor was paid to him. It was right here in front of me 
 that his still form lay in a coffin draped with the stars and stripes, 
 while two Negro boys standing at the head and two Indian boys at the 
 foot held up the American and the Hampton flags. It must hav^e 
 been a touching sight. Even to us who, in imagination only, call up 
 that scene the significance is large and fine. The two races that he 
 had so warmly embraced in his affections guard him tenderly in death. 
 These four figures, in their loving attitude, promise that in their races 
 shall forever live loyalty to him, and that means loyalty to all to which 
 he was loyal — loyalty to the dear old flag, loyalty to all the weak and 
 poor over whom it floats, loyalty to the divine Christ who came to 
 save us all, in whose honor he called into being this great school and 
 from whose gracious lips he shall hear, if he has not already heard, 
 the words : “ Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of 
 
 these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” 
 
 Yonder grave with its Hawaiian tufa and its Williams’ granite 
 shall become, nay, has become, one of the Meccas of humanity. 
 Anglo-Saxons — Africans — Indians — will, in the coming years, go there 
 and think of the great lov'e this man had for humanity, and the great 
 service he did for all the land. They will think, as they recall his 
 life, that the noblest patriotism in America means no narrow love of 
 one’s own race but has its holiest inspiration in the loving condescen- 
 sion of Him who, “having made of one blood all the nations of the 
 earth,” gave his only begotten and well-beloved Son that “whosoever 
 believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” — that 
 only and well-beloved Son who “ being in the form of God counted it 
 not a prize to be on an equality with God, but emptied himself, 
 taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men : and 
 being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, becoming 
 obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.” 
 
 Follow Him. Imitate Him. Get all the learning and wisdom 
 and power you can, and empty yourselves of it, pouring your life out, 
 as Armstrong did in imitation of the Master, into the uplifting of 
 those that are bowed down ; into the helping of anyone you can find, 
 without regard to creed, color, or race, who needs help. May (iod 
 make you true to the consecration and the inspiration of your founder 
 and the glory of your precious inheritance ! 
 
SAMUEL CHAPMAN ARMSTRONG 
 
 Born in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaiian Islands, January 30, 1839 
 Graduated from Williams College, Mass., in the class of 1862 
 Puitered Union Army, August, 1862, as Captain in the 125th N. Y. 
 V^olunteers 
 
 Took command of the 9th U. S. Colored Troops, fall of 1863 
 Mustered out in Nov. 1865, as Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers 
 Made officer of Freedmen’s Bureau on Va. Peninsula, March, 1866 
 P'ounded Hampton Institute for Negro youth, April, 1868 
 Began work for Indians at Hampton Institute, 1878 
 Received LL. D. from Williams, 1887 
 Died May 1 1, 1893. 
 
HAMPTON INSTITUTE, the well-known school for 
 Negroes and Indians, was founded by General Samuel Chap- 
 man Armstrong in 1 868, on the shore of Hampton Roads, 
 near Fort Monroe, Virginia- 
 
 It is an undenominational school, controlled by a board 
 of seventeen trustees. The school property includes about 
 1 100 acres of land and 136 buildings, among which are a 
 church, academic hall, library, dormitories, and buildings for the 
 teaching of agriculture and the mechanical trades. 
 
 The number of students (191 2 — 1913) is 1637, of whom 
 44 are Indians, 452 are colored children in the Whittier Train- 
 ing School, and 346 are student-teachers in the summer school. 
 The 839 boarding pupils provide their own board and cloth- 
 ing, partly in cash and partly in labor at the school. But the 
 great majority of students cannot pay their tuition, which is 
 one hundred dollars per pupil. This is divided into an aca- 
 demic scholarship of $70, and an industrial one of $30- A 
 full scholarship can be endowed for $2500. 
 
 Many Sunday-schools, associations, and friends of the 
 two races are interested to give these scholarships, or larger 
 or smaller sums, year by year according to their ability, and 
 thus assist Hampton in raising the $125,000 necessary each 
 year for current expenses in addition to its regular income. 
 Sunday-school classes are also often interested in sending 
 Christmas boxes to graduates who are teaching in the South 
 or West. 
 
 More than 7000 young people have had the benefit of 
 Hampton’s ideals and training. They have for the most part 
 gone back to the Western plains or to the Southern states and 
 there have become centers of influence — teachers, farmers, 
 skilled mechanics, thrifty home makers leading their people 
 more by deeds than by words to a higher plane of citizenship. 
 
 Any subscription, however small, will be gratefully re- 
 ceived and may be sent to F. K. Rogers, Treasurer, or to the 
 undersigned, 
 
 11. B. FRISSKLL, Frincipal, Hampton, Va. 
 
 FORM OF UFO VEST 
 
 I /^ivc niid devise to the Trustees of the llninpton Nonnid mid 
 
 A^rieidtiinil Institute at Ilmnpton, I'ir^iuia, the sum of' 
 
 dollars, jiayalde, ete.