The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-12-07
TUSKE|GEE
Annual Report Of Principal
Booker T. Washington.

Gentlemen: During the present
school year 1858 students have been
in attendance, and the average daily
attendance has been 1, 010. About one
third have been young women and the
remainder young men. The average
age has been 1917, and none have been
admitted under IA years of age, and
unless they have had some academic
preparation. The students have come
to us from 20 states and territories,
and from foreign countries, including
Ia from Cuba and Porto Rico.
ATTENDANCE.
Aside from the students just named,
who are in the regular industrial, acad-
emic and religious departments, there
are 160 in the training school, which is
taught upon the school grounds and
under our control. This training school
is attended by the small children from
the town of Tuskegee and the children
of our teachers, and is not only used to
benefit children of the town, but as a
school of practice for those of our stp-
dents who expect to become teachers.
A night school is also maintained in
the town of Tuskegee, which has an at
tendance of SO students, and is COM
posed of persons who work in the town
during the day. An afternoon cook
ing class is also maintained in the
town of Tuskegee for the benefit of
women who are in service. In this
cooking school, it is the aim to teach
the best and latest methods of prepar-
ing and serving food, and other house
hold duties. Most of those who attend
the afternoon cooking school, also at
tend the night school. Thirteen are at
OF inn hn oft
ing school,
Counting those who are in regular
attendance at the institution. together
with those in the training school, town
night school and the town afternoon
cooking school, there is total of 1914
students reached by our teachers. This
number does not include the hundreds
Of adults who are reached through the
Tuskegee Annual Negro Conference,
together with it's numerous local Ne
gro conferences. ~
There are in the employ of the
school, in the capacity of officers, acad-
emic teachers, industrial instructors,
assistants, clerks, ETC., los persons.
Since its beginning, 498 persons have
received diplomas and certificates Of
graduation from it's various depart
ments, and these are at work in svari-
Gus fields of usefulness in every part of
the South.
WORK OF GRADUATES. ~.
Aside from those who have gradu-
ated, it is safe to say that there are
more than three thousand who have
not remained long enough to receive a
diploma or certificate, but who, never
theless, have been so much benefited
by the school that they are doing
praiseworthy work. -... ~ -
In the early years of the school, the
larger proportion of our graduates be-
came teachers. At the present time a
very large proportion follow the trade
or industry learned at this institution
during the whole of the time. Others
combine their industrial knowledge
with teaching, while still others teach
portion of the year and work at their
trade the remainder of the time.
The calls that come to us almost
daily, not only from the Negro race,
, but from whites as we'll, for our grad
yates to enter various fields of useful
ness, are many-more than we can
supply. The calls from white people
for our graduates to take charge of
various departments of agriculture, are
especially numerous. If we had the
room and means, we could find oppor-
tunities for the greatest usefulness for
many times more graduates than we
are sending out.
In accordance with a vote of the
Trustees, Rev. R. G. Bedford, one OF
our trustees, is spending a portion OF
each year in making personal inspec-
ton of the work of our graduates and
under graduates, and one gratifying
fact in connection with this inspection
is that very few men and women who
have spent any considerable time at
this institution are to be found in idle
ness.
Since the entire value Of our work
is to be tested by the success of our
graduates, we feel that we cannot be
too careful in keeping in close and &C.
curate touch with the work of those
who have been educated here.
IN several cases graduates of this in
stitution are planting the methods ant
the spirit of this work in a surprising
ly successful manner, on large scale
in various parts of the South. Espe
cially is this true of the school known
as the Mt. Meigs Institute, at Waugh
Ala; the Snow Hill Industrial Insti
tute, Snow Hill, Ala; the Christians
burg Institute, at Cambria, Va; tn,
Denmark Industrial School, at Den
mark, S. c., as well as several others
1t is a notable and encouraging fac
that in the case of the schools at Snow
Hill and Denmark, that the prime NOV
ers in starting and encouraging, thes
schools have been Southern white men
More and more each year we ar
aiming to secure the most promisin.
students from azWide section Of terri
tory and to so train them that the.
Will return to their homes and Civ
their communities the benefit of thei
training.
IS fact as possible we are encourag
ing our graduates and others to intro
duce training in agriculture into tn
public schools of the South. This VI
think very important for the school
located in the small towns and rura
districts.
In this industrial training, we keel
specially in mind the emphasizing o
those industries at which the student
can find immediate employment
A soon as they leave us.
y GROWTH AND EXPANSION OF,
WORK.
The experiment when va hno,an =,