New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-01

olrsupuoriing citizens In the commonwealth
Unto civilization and citizenship" IL his favoriie
motto FOR the school. and il - motto tha' mas
living force in the training ttat Is here given.
The Carlisle School vas Government barracks
in the old days before and during the war. Gen
eral Ftzhush Lee. who here this week and re
cevel a warm welcome. stelled the barracks in
the war But those days seem but dim memory
now and General Lee and General Howard have
been spending the week here. fraternizing and
swapping stories Of how they licked" each other.
Several old citizens Of Carlisle. too. havo met
General Lee and told him how he forced them TO
dust out Of tho town in those days OF fraternal
strife. This rambling old barracks has been attei
Nd for the school. and. on the whole. serves adj
nlrably for the purpose. The recitation-rooms and
Industrial shops ample and we'll equipped.
There Is an excellent gymnasium with competent
instructor whose system OF teaching is thoroughly
up to date The chapel. so-cae1 is a large audi
torium, where all the important meetings OF the
school are held The quarters OF the pupils
thoroughly comfortable, and IT Is worth coming
long Journey to see the neatness with which they
are kept by the occupants In nearly all the rooms
there are evidences of a refined that one is
not wont 10 associate with the frontier Indian.
And this suggests few words about the pupils
themselves. Many of them come here simply as
blanket Indians" wild little savages with no
comprehension Of civilization and desire TO ac-
qure 1t. But the change wrought In them during
the Ave six years OF their residence here Is little
less than marvellous. They learn English MANY OF
them speaking It with the pures. accent; they be-
come highly civilized and literally educated while
at the same time they learn some useful Industrial
trade or occupation, that they go out into the
world much better equipped for the battle OF life
than the average white boy or girl. In fact when
one looked at the higher classes they sat grouped
together this week at the commencement exercises
/, was hard to realize, except for their dusky skim
tb.y not If t,1o
some wel-estabshed Eastern high school. Their
faces spoke Q, Intelligence refinement and self
respect and In their little innocent Jokes and
coauetres among themselves they showed them
selves to be quite as human as the average white
students under similar circumstances
But what OF the results?" some objector may
ask 1T is all very we'll educate these BOYS and
girls but will they stay educated? VIII they not
inevitably go back blankets and barbarism 80
Perhaps the best possible answer to that question
is the official record OF the last seven classes brief
resume OF which will be here given In the class OF
1859 were fourteen graduates-seven girls and
seven boys OF these. one is dead. and the are
satisfactorily accounted for being teachers. trained
nurses lawyers bakers or farmers. OF the eighteen
graduates OF the class OF $780, two dead, and
fifteen are satisfactorily accounted for farmers
eleven graduates OF 1891. two dead OF MOTH
ing is known. and the rest are honorably support
! ing themselves There eleven graduates In
the class OF 1892 OF whom one Is dead and the rest
! are Government teachers. clerks or farmers. OF
the seven members of the class OF 1893. Is the
| postmaster at Red Lake Ninn.. another Is attend
| ing the Normal School at New-Britain Conn., one
| Is at home In i-health. ard the rest holding
| honorable positions There were nineteen members