New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-04
APECORD or HAMPTON.
THE STORY OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS WORK
THIBrTE TO GENERAL ARMSTRONG

- so,y or rwrXTy.TwO YEARS WOEK-A
Tp1BrTE TO GENERAL ARMSTRONG.
A work that Will deeply interest all i1ehos oi
civilization and education Is the record OF '"'";
wears work Of the Hampton Normal ana HSI''"'''"'
Institute which has Just been issued by the press
., ,he institute II makes goodly v"lum" OF
5cs paces. and +, embellishcd by number Of appro
nr,otn mans and an extended view Of IN" bindings
., thu Institute Aside from the intrinsic value "i
the book rs a history Of "A great phi"h'h'"P'o ""i
moral movement, II would be welcomed "u "iS
fine as "A fitting memorial Of the late "chefhi arm
strong to whom the Institute Is 80 largely lhucp''"
for lis success II gives complete recors "i 'he
oo,,,,es and cx.students OF Hampton. both indian
and negro twenty classes. numbering az" graz
uo,c. ara thus recorded and their Subsequent
careers are skctch'h with painstakng accuracy. ih'
records are particularly valuable. b"caus" IL has p''
ueoucntlv asserted, sometimes on The n0or "i '"h-
gross that most Of the students Of Hampton ana
Carlisle fail 10 Justify the hopes entertained concern
inc ,b.m and I'm fact 90 back 10 their former con
d,on az ignorance barbarism. These rcc'run S"o"
that these assertions ale gro"spucly untrue vi INV
80, Graduates GOA reported a. having tus"'' vi
ns teaching now, and So or tribe over ii per oc"''
,r, q foll,rc 10 teach. of these eighty nine are
,ud,ons sixteen OF the twenty five Indian graduates
nave taught their own There IS no report from
thirty nine graduates (color'd) Among inc o.h'i
c,u,,tops of the male graduates tcolorcdJ besides
teaching are the following: Ministry, sixteen '"'
seventeen: medicine, six; missionaries In Africa
two mechanical trades, forty,two agriculture lilly
~ ~ oh"nkkccpcrs clerks and treasures, sixteen
music four. The occupations OF The women srad'c.
ra ~, foIlow,: Physician IAN Omaha lndan). one
missionary I'm Africa, one; trained nurse, three
I'm business for selves six dr,aaahS anu h
Ill ,o,o number of children taught by the cradu-
posioicc Address in which ne sTad%sSvs, rg anye
ib,u"it j. 0j6 OF these places Lon are III NlrIiid'
Gnrolina twenty eight in Maryland. and the rest III
Nineteen other states from Florida 10 Wisconsin, %
,hn n,plls that these graduates have taught. 2lo'
themselves became teachers ana .nHs ,hi rrcs
Of Hampton has reached on, IN & haw nn en- With
study since their graduation many Of them hav, ~
gone other ns,uion.G c asiTes M Which
The women own S3l l9 20 Inc %r,thr'' ,omaic
graduate is worth ESooo hc ne ro wsa'f
Graduates has been or the whole nnaatl. NV
only three, 50 far a. kn"Mm 'n MOS, taworh With
A., ~ any institution Of learning. AS ma''e
OF fact' says the summary Of e ,n' Of ncr scboo lie
a V "fen SURPRISINGLY evident ever In ibosc Of boti
race w and Some Of whom may have been thought
h@peSsy dull or % Of 10 b MS WORK in the
I'm, There Is vast amount to be done ana over.
come under the burden OF wne .oa,'d Morn'' II
' rirbt thing to do whatever comes of IT, hl
honor 10 Bn' ne 'r d, o orc aS w' H., a?
mos, and the progress made in an. direction
,i,oa,bcr this v0luminO,s record Of Hampton ,
q, npils would alone justify all hat has bee. sara
in is For ddn S9o Icda '' noble n' work %,e
been u"7 Ard in this report 1t NAV be said Sl
G Gnn Armstrong that "hc DING deao vet spe"
eth -, oco-d ~ graduates the book contains
Bes ,pna,ces nv General Armstrong and j. r. -
reminiscent. orc,c on the question Of indian health
NJ pr wadron number q h the song; OF nc
two races a. nnnol cost OF about &l55O0O Of which
sho"t 8 Is By the labor o. the students:
making an The school Is never closed but il re-
each PUBL r one-haf in summer Many colored stu
dents 60 10 W. have outings among Massachusett,
this work . HI Sssn anS e nasr
Its promise ioI leadership Of the Rev. Mr.. Frssel
%so there 's will isps Change
coed General rrhch has thus far governed It..