The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-05

I boys under enlightened military con
. crOl, with instruction in the use OF
I arms. His school was CO-eduCational.
/ the girls under a discipline as string
F.. elr as their brothers. Every pupil was
/ compelled TO learn some useful art OF
;. manual labor. which would be a de-
Tense against becoming a burden TO So
/ c.ety; beside having the best train ne
! IN all the industrial and several OF the
/ essential personal. mental. social and
/ public virtues. No pupil was 20 be-
/ helped as long as he was able, b. the
! fuI exercise OF his faculties. 10 help
, himself. The schooling was all in the
/ English language, and fairly repre-
/ scented the graded system OF public in
/ strucuon; with suitable adaptation TO
/ the pupils. His teachers. with few eN-
/ cepLOnS, We're white men and women
/ industrial experts, or graduates from
I the hest institutions OF the country:
I and the teaching force had always been
/ equal TO the highest. most cultured and
socially accomplished faculty in any
American academical school. The girls
I were trained in practical house keep
/ ing; not OF the plantation hut OF the
superior modern type. At the center
OF the institution ne .abi.shed 4
thorough Normal school. with q great
practice department for teachers and.
incidentally, an arrangement f-r train
ing ministers. He placed the ms itu-
tiOn in vital connection with. though
not subject to, the State OF Virginia.
which subsidized it for the industrial
/ training by $4,000 year. The Pea
body and Slater Educational Funds
and, at first, the Freedmen's Bureau
and the American Missionary Associa-
ton did likewise. BY and by, the Ma
GOnal Government co-operated ana
paid the expense of training a hundred
Indian youth for leadership Of their
own race. AS the school grew in num-
bers and the policy developed. the Am
erican people North and South. and
friends from abroad came 10 its relief.
II was seen at once TO he a master
stroke of educational. industrial. social
and religious organization: a true uni
versity of Christian civilization: for
the training of the superior class of
colOred youth for practical leadership
OF their race towards their high calling
of sovereign Americ-n citizenship.
Gen. Armstrong, like his own great
schOOlmaSter. DR.. Hopkins of Williams
College, Massachusetts, only taught his
senior class in what was called men
tai and moral philosophy; but was, !
really, the science Of Christian man.
hood. But his great work. like that
before him, was a Ministry of Educa-
ton; showing the people of the United |
States how in one school of work to
lift up the children and youth to self |
supporting, self-directed and self-con- |
trolled citizenship in a republican |
state. For years. along with DR.. Sears
and DR.. Curry, Of the Peabody fund. he !
was the only man to whom the people |
OF both sections and races. all politi al !
parties and church and classes listened !
in the educating OF the negro w TIL !
hope, agreement and cooperation. He !
wore himself out in middle life. like !
the good soldier he YVES. and asked and !
received a soldiers funeral. He was
not literary: but his reports and al !
dresses read like military orders from
the headquarters OF a CJmmdnder-in- /
chief in a New Departure in the edu-
cation of mankind.
His Hampton School * now confes- |
sedly ahead of any institution in the
world organized for the educating.
Outstanding, civiliziag and general
uplifting of the people who still re-
main, under different names. a ma
jority of the human race. 1t is sun
ported largely by the free gifts of the
people: but deserves a great endow-
ment beyond any in the country. AL
ready has this great experiment borne
fruit. He educated Mr. Booker Il. |
Washington, the first educational
statesman yet produced by the cOlored
race; who has taken one step beyond
his master. in proving that a similar
school can be taught and managed en-
tirely by a corps OF colored teachers
and industrial experts, with sim lar re-
latiOns to the State OF Alabama as
Hampton to Virginia. Within the past
twenty years every Southern State has
followed this pattern, and e en- Of them !
has now one or more great schools OF
this kind; open TO both sexes. free, |
with the same blending of moral. in |
dustTial, mental. social and civic |
training for superior coIorad youth. |
More than that, beginning with Missis- !
sippi. five of these States have now or |
gained Il free normal and indus rial /
college for white girls on the same |
principle as Hampton. All the great 1
UNCONVENTIONAL schools for the col |
ored race. styled colleges and univer- |
stiles; while retaining their depart |
ment of the higher and professional |
education for such as need it in all |
other respects, notably in their indus
trial and normal grades, are being con-
formed to the same standar
Now that the nation seems to be |
called by Providence to enter upon a |
final new departure for the clvlllZlng |
and uplifting of several millions Of the |
humber children Of this world, whom,
in the islands of the two great oceans.
it has emancipated from the bonds of |
civil and ecclesiastical GespCtism; it |
may so forth armed with this last i'm
plemsnt of American civilization, the
normal and industrial school Of Gen.
Armstrong, one Of the most notable,
timely and f3r-reaching contributions
TO the cause of a Christian civilization
yet given to the world. And l. will be
demonstrated that the Republic can do
all this with no peril to republican in
stitutions; and that, as during this past
century, the American people has been
able to show the world a new and bet
ter way of dealing with Rel gion, with
Education, with Labor. with Society
and Government; it will not reveal TO
the nations a new and better way Of IL
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