The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-09

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educating our students. The total
number Of students reached being
l1,514, and the total current expenses
Icharged being about $4,000 brings
/ the whole cost for each individual to
| $73
| The greater proportion of what the.
| students pay is in the form Of labor.
They have paid toward their expenses
] in labor this year, SCI, 291.15.
+ Every effort is constantly being
made to reduce the expenses of the in
Istitution, and to exercise the strictest
economy in every department
At this point I cannot refrain from
| mentioning ol1r indie btedness to six
friends whcaa quiet unrestricted gen
serosity has lifted this year a great
burden from our shoulders and placed
1 tbs institution in the position where
Ilt can accomplish much more good
than. has ever been true in its history.
il am sorry that cannot have the
pleasure of giving their names, but
this they forbid. It is rare and beau
tiful privilege for us to have this touch
/ with those souls who hide themselves
Ebehind t-nir deeds Of generosity.
Amons our most pressing needs at
present are the following:
An. Endowment Fund of at least
4 5000 900 towards which s250,OOO has
4 been securely.
Scholarships of $50 a year to pay for
4 the tuition of one student. 1920 en-
aoles student to complete the four
j years I purse. $1,000 creates a perma-
] nlent scholarship, the interest from
which pays for the education of a stu.
dent for all time). Money IN any
amounts to meet current expenses:
even ST. helps US.
$4,000 for Girls Dormitory.
4 100000 for a Boys Dormitory.
$4,000 for an Administration Build
ing.
$1,000 each for two Teachers, Cot
tages
$500 each for six Teachers Cottages.
$4,000 for a central heating system.
10000 for drainage system
4 $4,000 for completion of Boys,
! Trades Building.
1 $1,000 for Commissary Building.
i $4,000 for better equipment of in
/ 1ustries.
$4,000 for an addition to Alabama
4 Hall.
! MISCELLANEOUS
Since nay last report we have lost by
death Mr.. Henry G. Davis, of Philadel.
ohia, one of our trustees and most
/ helpful friends Mr.. Coils p. Hunt
tlngton, of New York, has also passed
away. Mr.. Huntingtons interest be-
gan with the early history of the in
stitution, and continued to increase tt
! the day of his death. In him the
{ school has lost one of its strongest
| Friends .s#l
Perhaps the most important event
| that has occurred during the year is
visit of a party of sixty prominent
people Interested in the education OF
sboth races. This party, known as the
! Ogden Party, came here as the guests
! Of Mr.. Robert e. Ogden, one of our
trustees. and / feel sure that their visit
will resultsin much good to the whole
South.
The spirit of industry is so strongly
| lodged in the minds and hearts of the
| students that every student upon our
rolls pursues some branch of industry.
/ in addition to other studies Every
student who graduates has received
such training in some branch of indus
|try as will enable him to earn his liv-
ling. zS .g.
In conclusion, wish, to add a thought
which have tried to express before.
and that is, more and more, each year
II feel that agriculture should be made,
in q very large degree, the basis for
our work: that the salvation of my
race will largely rest upon it's ability
and willingness to secure and culti-
yate properly the soil. [ believe that
everything possible should be done. to
enlarge and increase the efficiency of
our agricultural department In this
connection, I am glad to add that ar
rangements have been made to reserve
three acres of land around the new
training school to be used in giving
agricultural training to the smallest
children. My feeling grows stronger
each year that perhaps in the heat of
passion, growing out of racial and sec
tl0nal pfejudlces, we have not always
given the Southern people due credit
Tor the immense amount of help rem
1ered the Negro during the period that
ne was slave. The Negro as slave
& was started on the foundation of agri-
culture, mechanics and household arts.
Brush it thoroughly and hard, and
/ While would by no means limit his
| IN all cases add academic and religious
training, do believe we shall find it
helpful for number Of years to come,
IN our methods of education, to give
| great attention to these fundamental
occupations. In proportion as one
owns the soil and, has the mastery of
these fundamental occupations, in the
same proportion does he lay the found.
alton for the highest and most COM
Iplete development of himself and chill
! dren.
| When we consider the past I regard
That from every point Of view the
progress of the Negro race is satisfac-
tory and the relation of the races en-
coufaging. It is the duty of all pa
triotic and conservative citizens to see
that present conditions are not dis
turbed by hasty, racial and unneces-
sary legislation.
Respectfully submitted,
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
| Principal.
Tuskegee, Ala, May 80, 1901.
| TRUSTEES.
Mr.. George w. Campbell, President,
| Tuskegee, Ala.
Rev. g. =. CLANCY, Vice President.
lLeOminister, Mass.
wis. q - s 'ioi''
Mr.. Warren Logan, Treasurer Tus-
kegee, Ala. -
Mr. Lewis Adams, Tuskegee, Ala.
| Mr.. Charles W. Hare, Tuskegee. Ala.
Mr.. Booker T. Washington, Tuske-
gee, Ala.
T Mr.. John G. Grant, Ii. D., Chicago.
6 Mr.sJ. W..Adams Montgomery, Ala.