The age-herald., 1901-12-01
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Correspondent of New York Sun.

Correspondent of New York Sun.
 oo> ELLESLEY, November B. N/\U While Booker T. Washing
 \VNY/ ton has been one of the
 most talked of men in the country. public attention has naturally not been altogether withdrawn from his daughter Portia, who recently entered college here as a special student. Soon after the Roosevelt dinner, Miss Wash sieged by press representatives and cur- ious folk who wished to talk the whole matter out with her. But telephone message sent from New York to the em- barrassed young girl, put prompt end to this. DO not talk to anybody sent out by newspapers" said her fathers voice over the wire, about the dinner at Washington, or about our opinions concerning the attitude of the whites the negro"
 Portia Washington has a very pleasant room with Mrs. Brio in Howe street, just outside the college grounds and she takee her meals across the street with three professors of the college-Katherine Lee Bates the we'll known writer, Emily Balch. distinguished sociological essay ist, and Katherine Comans, president of the College Settlement Association of the United States-all women of culture who have been especially kind to this grand daughter of slavery, and child of the regenerate colored race.
 E The fact that Miss Washington was thus taken into the inner-circle of the faculty, inspired a mischievous rumor to the effect that the college was trying to rebuke the student body for drawing 8 color line in her case. But this seems to be wholly without foundation for welles- ley has had other colored students. and there Is now in the college hall eating at the college table a colored girl about whom nobody thinks twice.
 The real reason why a room in the col lege hall and a place at the table has not been given to- Portia Washington is because as a special student she is not entitled to them. Moreover she herself prefers. she says, to live outside, be- cause 1t Is less distracting.
 'I certainly have not had the slightest reason to feel that there might be such a thing as a color line here,'' she said "Everybody has been as nice as possible to me, and I am having very pleasant time I am studying German, musical theory and the piano, and it is my great wish to make such progress that may be really useful to my father at Tus- kegee when I go back. I have already taught a little there, you know; but I felt desire to be further educated my self before settling down to the teach ing of others as a life work.
 Besides, my father has been very anx- ious to have me attend college. He be- lieves in college education for girls where it is possible for them to have it; and my mother, you know. is graduate of Fisk University. But for most of the girls at Tuskegee father sees that the in- dustrial education and that which em- phasizes the household arts is most need ed. None the less, he encourages further study whenever 1t Is possible for the student to get it. Of course, Tuskegee's great aim is to fit girls to teach others who have been without opportunity how to live higher and better lives. The mind of the negro woman, as we see 1t, takes more readily. though, to music and to domestic science than to the subjects which could be classed as more particu- larly academic, and the poor girls with whom we have to deal sorelx need just such instruction as they are getting un- der my father
 'Direct teaching in manners and mor- aIs, like that given by Mrs Bruce, our dean who is the widow of Senator Bruce, Is also a very important factor in the uplifting of the people. The conditions out of which these students have. many of them, come are squalid and miserable beyond the imagination Spf Northerners. A large number of the gf<ls have never lr.arn in their poor homes any of the re-