New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-24
LOVE CAN RAISE A RACE. :
ROBERT C. OGDEN PRESENTS HAMPTON
GRADUATING CLASS TO DIRECTORS.
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Old Point Comfort, Va. April champion NOR
NAL and Agricultural Institute to-day presented 20
the board Of trustees it's thirty-fourth graduating
class The attendance. which included the party
of Northern educators and philanthropists wnom
Robert c. Ogden. of New-York. is conducting on
a tour of the principal negro educatlonaI ins'itu-
,,o,s in the South was sufficient to crowd the
gymnasium to the doors. and hundreds stood out
side on the lawn TO hear the speeches through the
windows This years graduating class lncudes
seventy negroes and Indians of both sexes. most OF
whom will go out among their people the
seed of education and enlightenment they have re-
ceived at Hampton
DR. H B. FrisseII principal of the institute. pre-
sided. and among those present were ROBERT T.
Ogden George Foster Peabody. Or. Felix Adler.
the Rev Percy Stickney Grant. Bishop Coadtutor
McVickar of Rhode Island. Professor H. W. Far
man, of Yale: John Crosby Brown. President Tay-
lor OF Vassar. Julian Ralph. Lawrence Priddy. Dr.
William jay SchfefeIin. DR.. Walter II. Page. the
Rev DR. s D. NacConnen B. Glyn. DR.. Albert
Shaw Dean Russell Of the New-York Teachers
College. William Fl Baldwin. jr.. Dr. Talcott Will
Jams. Alexander Purves. V. Everett Macy and Ar
thur Curtiss James.
Governor Montague of Virginia was a guest. COM
ing from Richmond in a special train. which also
brought many Of Vrginia's best known citizens
Among those in the Richmond party were DR.. F. W.
Boatwright. president of Richmond College; Pro-
fessor F. c. Mitchell DR.. z. s Foushee. DR.. J. A.
c. Chandler. B. F. Johnson Colonel F. B. Brent.
Judge L. s Lewis. DR.. j. Allison Hodges. Major
SOL Cutchins. Judge G. L. Christian. Dr.. James
Nelson president of the Woman's College, Rich
mond; B. N Valentine. r. Fl. Meade. W. F. Fox,
superintendent Of the Richmond schools; z. L.
Pulliam. superintendent Of schools Manchester.
Va. and D. D. Brown. superintendent of schools.
Petersburg Va.
At the close of the reading Of the papers by
alumni OF Hampton and members of the GRADUATE
ing class. Robert c. Ogden president of the board
OF trustees presented the class 70 the board in
address in which he reminded the class OF tho
many interests and influences that were centred In
their graduation Their instructors he said. agreed
that the class a whole, was superior to any
nthcant that each successive class OF Hampton
should mark a advance all others in earnest
ness and scholarship. He urged the class 10 go out
and meet the responsibilities that ITS advantages
had imposed upon it, reminding them of the
declaration Of Booker T. Washington that RAGS
could rise save by the spirit OF love
Governor Montague aroused great enthusiasm by
declaring that the universal ballot without unyer-
sal education a mistake and he. for one, pro-
latter well the former Never let the public
schools of Virginia get into politics he said
cues. Education is measured by quality. not oy
quantity
dissoIIbe brotherhood of States and that no one
now more loyal 20 that union than me men
who wore the Confederate gray and followed Rob-
In the forenoon the board Of trustees vas r.
n r FrisseII. George Foster Peabody. William J
SchiefeIin, Arthur Curtiss James. j. W Cooper
Charles E. BigeIow. $. l. Lewis Archer Hnntlrg--
ron the Rev DR. Alexander Mckenzie. ". w:
Frazier Colonel Thomas Tabb. the Rev. Dr. DaVld
n Greer, the Rev. DR.. Elias H. Parkhurst. blsn4p
Coadtutor McVic<ar. Alexander Furvess anu 0lo
Rev F @. Peabody ,, -, ,,,y
Mr. Ogden's party went 70 Richmond by speciat
and in the evening Governor Montague rendered
70 than a reception