The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-06-13

SchoOI-History. Objects and plan of
the InstitutiOn-The Work II Has
Done and Proposes to DO.
A special correspondent of The Norfolk
journal writing from Hampton, June II,
1873, says: .asa .
The closing exercises OF the Hampton
Normal school came off to-day. The ex-
aminations were conducted almost exclu-
siyely by the teachers. There was
A LARGE ATTENDANCE OF VISITORS
not only from this community but from
other states. The following are some of
the ....-. ...--.s ....... -r.,.,...-
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS
present: Rev. T. X. Fessenden, of
Connecticut; Alexander Hide Lee, Massa-
chusetts; Miss McCosh, daughter of Pres
ident McCosh, of Princeton college Well
lington Smith and wife, Connecticut j. B.
Beadle and wife, Brooklyn Il. B. FL
bridge and wife, Connecticut; Mrs. and
Miss Sanford, New York; Misses Smith,
Connecticut; Miss Ludlow, New York; Miss
Giddings, New Jersey; Miss Magic, Miss
Sloan, New York DR.. Coan, New York
Independent Samuel Holmes New Jer-
sey j. Boyd, Philadelphia w. N. Arm
strong, New York Hon. fl. N. Daggett;
Massachusetts Robert G. Ogden, Miss
Ogden, Brooklyn George Dixon and wife,
England. .a-...s. f..
At one O'Clock the visitors were invited
to sumptuous collation. of sandwiches,
deviled crabs, strawberries, &c.
A NEW BUILDING,
which is estimated to cost SO, 900, is to be
built in the most approved modern style,
with a front of 104 ieet and accommoda-
tons for 100 students. 1t will also contain
chapel, kitchen. laundry and basement, to
be used for carpenter, machine and turning
shop and printing Office. 1t will be four
stories high, with an imposing tower in
front.
For the benefit of your readers who may
feel an interest in this school, [ will give
some particulars of the work that it is
doing, its system Of operations. and the
number of its graduates. It's main object ia
to train and qualify the
CoLoRED PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH AS
TEACHERS -- 2.a
of their own race, and the course of
studies is adapted to their present wants
and condition. They do not propose to
give regular collegiate course, for the
simple reason that very few of the colored
people have the means to avail themselves
of it. The great want of the coloied peo-
pie at present is good practical English
education, and the Normal School is year
ly sending out teachers prepared to dissem-
inate just the kind of knowledge that is
needed. .a @
During the session of lS7l-'72 there
were one hundred and thirty-three students
in attendance during the session that has
Just closed there were two hundred and
thirty-three, though in neither case did all
Of them remain during the entire session.
Perhaps .# taH
ONE HUNDRED TEACHERS,
graduates of this school, are already at
work in this state and throughout the
south, communicating the knowledge
which they have labored SO commercially
to obtain to others of their race. John W.
Williams, recently admitted cadet at
West Point, received his instruction here,
and the proficiency which he has exhibited
in his studies is the strongest evidence of
the thorough manner in which the Nor
NAL school performs its work. The adj
juncts Of the school are an agricultural and
an industrial department, in which the
males are taught practical agriculture, car
pentering, blacksmithing, &C., and the ie-
males are taught housework, needlework,
the cutting and fitting of dresses, and every
thing that is required in a woman to take
perfect management of household. The
school is
DIVIDED INTO FIVE SQUADS,
one of which works every day from Mon
day to Friday, inclusive, and on Saturday
all are required to work. For the work
thus done they are paid ION five to eight
cents per hour, according to their capacity.
There is also connected with the school a
Job printing office, in which several of the
students are now being taught the art OF
printing. Taken as whole, we may well
venture the assertion that there is no in
stitution in the land doing so much for
the improvement of the colored race, men
tally and morally, as the Normal School OF
Hampton. Ali who desire to see the negro
educated, and thereby qualified to dis
charge the weighty responsibilities Of
free American citizens should give this
school not only their countenance, but
their cordial support and active COO pera.
ton. E @
It may be mentioned, as an indication Of
the -.
HEALTHFULNEss OF THE LOCATION.
that, during the three years of the
schools establishment, there has been only
one death among the scholars, and in thai
case the deceased had been suffering from
heart disease for considerable time prior
to his entrance here.
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