The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-11-20
TWO RACES PROGRESS.
Dedication Of The Arnsirong-slaisr Memo
rial Marks an Era.
PRESIDENTS FRISSELL's FINE ADDRESS
There We're Thousands or Visitors
and the Church Congress Attended
the Dedication in u Body-Addrrss-
es by Eminent CIersymen.E Editors
md Graduates OF IIamptons

| The second days exercises attendan.
upon the dedication of the Armstrong
Slater Memorial Trade and Industrial
| Schcol at Hampton, was attended by
members of the Episcopal Church Con-
gress, In session in this city. who wen.
over TO the number of 25O on the steamer
Hampton Roads, which had been char
tered especially for the occasion The
party left Norfolk at 80 O'clock, and
arriving at Hampton an hour later. they
! repaired Immediately to the Memorial
Church, where the exercises We're held.
The building was well filled when the
delegation OF clerSymen arrived. and by
three o'clocl, it WAS packed and the au-
dience overiowed toEhe stepsNand lawns
| surrounding the church.
| Bishop Randolph opened the session,
ana on the platform were, besides the
| prominent Episcopal clergymen, many
graduates CT the Institution. men who
| by their own lfe+worh have demonstrat-
Ell the value of the course given al.
Hampton. and who ale living examples
| or the fact that through education of
| the proper kind, teaching them 20 help
| themselves and 10 teach others. both
| the Indian and the negro race can be
made great people.
y mcSt interesting feature of the ex-
| ercises was the plantation songs rem
dered by the studcmt choir
The first speaker was DR. F'risse!,
| principal of the institution, who spoke
rs follows.
| In one of his carly reports. General
/ Armstrong. speaking of the colored peo-
pie of UhiS country. says: THE race will
succeed or fail as it shall devote itself
i with energy TO agriculture and the me-
chanic arts, or avoid these pursuits and
its teachers must be inspired with the
spirit OF hard work and acquainted with
the ways that lead to success" He goes
on to say that the past of the colored
population has been such that an insti-
Il
provide training more than usually
comprehensive, must include both sexes
and variety of occupation, must pro-
duce moral as we'll as mental strength.
and while making it's students frst-class
mechanical laborers, must also make
them first rate men and women.
TRAINING or TEACHERS.
This thought of Hampton's wise ana
far-sighted founder has shaped and still
shapes the policy of the school. In the
early days of the institution. and, in
fact. all through its history. especial
prominence has been given Ia the train
! ing of toachcr.s for the public schools of
real leaders Of their race. much more
was needed than mere in.1 ructinn in
books. Habits OF living and Of regular
industry had To be formed. Two farms.
sixteen shops, Il large saw mill the gift
of Mr.. G. u. Huntington. have helped
towards this end. An industrial village
/ has grown up. with its dormitories.
school rooms. stores and offices. where
the work of real life is carried on
Every student is not merely IL learner
/ but Il worker with regular DUTIES and
the responsibility of self help.
PRACTICAL LESSONS
The lesson of the school room is put
into practice in the shop OF on the farm
! The problems OF arithmetic. of natural
PHILOSOPHY. are connected With the ac-
! tual work of every day life. and Su the
I graduates of Hampton have been fitted
mot merely To tcach in the school room.
I bat to build the house and bring up the
worn out soil.
| The young people have learned. not
/ only to do their work well, Int TO know
what their work means. They have
| gained spirit of seif-reliance and OF
nanliness; they have gone out as citi-
Hens, able to teach by example and pre-
cept right ideas of life and duty.
| CRISIS IN NEGROES HISTORY.
! II has become clear that still further
changes are necessary in order that the
work which the schools founder planned
be carried out. with the growth OF in
| duStrial schools iii the South. there
comes II demand upon Hampton for
more mechanics than the school can
supply through her apprenticeship sys-
TEN. Not only is there need for more
industrial teachers for the schools OF
cally trained in the theory and pTinci-
pies OF the trades than was possible i'm
shops where production and instruction
! We're carried on together. Moreover.
| there seems TO those Of us vino have to
| deal with this negro problem q crisis
| in The history OF the race. In certain
parts of the South the coioi'ed people are
| not holding their own i'm the trades;
(which were taught in slavery days. as
| the trades unions of the North Dtish into
! the South the negroes are being driven
! from the carpenters bench and the
| blnckSmith'S shop and thus forced into
| the more menial occupations. Unless
| Hampton. TuslleGcc. and other indus
| u'al schools of the South. can supply
men capable Of starting shops tor their
own race, and of employing and training
| cCiCred mechanics. thcrc VIII Ec little
chance for the negro for holding the
best heritage left him by slavery.
MAKE GOOD FARMERS
| Not only is 1t necessary that Hampton
do better work in The trades; IL is quite
| as in ,,ortant that it push the matter of
| improved instruction in agriculture ana
domestic science. The building tn he
opened to-day is one of three the plans
Of which have already been submitted
to the trustees OF the Hampton Institute
and the educational committee Of the
John T.. Slater Fund Board, and APP
proved by them.
SALVATION OF TWO RACES.
The salvation OF the negro and the
Indian lies very largely i'm gaining and
in bn