The colored American., 1901-06-29
HE'S AT THE HEAD.
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problems which they come face to face
with-eyeryday problems.
From the establishment of the inSti-
tuition 1t has been the policy of its
Principal, Mr.. Washington, to get hold
of the best teachers for the academic
and normal courses (aS well as for all
the other divisions, regardless of
where they are educated; neither the
question Of the place of education nor
the denOminatiOnal leanings of the in
GiVIdual are taken into consideration
the fitness Of the instructor alone is
considered.
Mr.. j. ID. Mccall, a college grad
uate, is at the head of the academic
training. The normal branch of the
academic work is under the direction
OF Miss ). III. Porter, a competent and
experienced teacher. The effort at
TuSkegee is to make the teaching nor
mai mot only in name but in fact as
welD. Mr.. Mccall has a corps of ac-
tive and brilliant assistants, q in
number, who come from such inStitu-
tiOnS as the Armour Institute of Tech
nOlOgy, University of Chicago, Kansas
State University, Hampton Institute,
Chicago Art Institute, Fisk University,
Atlanta University, Massachusetts
State Normal School, Straight Univer-
sity, Radcliffe College, Boston Normal
School of Gymnastics, and the Con
necticut State Normal School. Many
Of the teachers of the Academic De
partment also spend the summer at
Martha's Vineyard, the Hampton Sum
mer Institute, University Of Chicago,
and other places where they can be
helped. Besides, the Institute annual
ly employs one Of the foremost peda-
gOgical experts of America to come to
Tuskegee to lecture on the underlying
principles of teaching. The academic
work of the school is divided into three
preparatory and four normal grades OF
instruction. Five hundred graduates
have gone out from the school and
are doing effective work in various
communities, and more than 5000 9th
erS who were not able to remain to
complete the course Of study, are do
ing helpful and satisfactory work In
various communities throughout the
South as we'll as in many Northern
States.
Mr. Mccall, the Director of the
Academic Department, is a graduate
of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn,
and is well prepared for the work
which is under his general superyiS-
ion. Mr.. Mccall is an ardent student
In chemistry he is a trained expert.
Since coming to TuSkegee he has spent
his summers at Martha'S Vineyard,
and in studying advanced work in
chemistry at the University of Wis
cOnsin, and advanced work in bac-
teriOlOgy at the University Of Chicago.
During eight years of his connection
with the school Mr.. Mccall rendered
invaluable service as instructor in the
natural sciences and had demonstrated
his ability so completely for the more
responsible position Of Director of the
Department that he was promoted to
it when a vacancy occurred, three
years ago. During the three years
he has been Director he has brought
the department up to a very high de-
gree Of efficiency.
Mr. J. r. E. Lee, who is in charge
of the mathematics division, is a ma
tive of Texas and a graduate Of the
college department of Bishop College,
class of 1889. Mr.. Lee taught in the
public schools of Texas for a number
of years, and later returned to his
alma mater and was for eight years
employed as head of the division Of
college mathematics, and during the
summers conducted State summer nor
NAL Institutes for teachers. He has
taken a special course at the Univer-
sity of Chicago, and since coming to
hnS vic