The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

 students come this distance after nav ing worked all day on their farms.
 ''while if is well understood that Tuskegee Institute lays great stress upon industrial training. 1t is not so well known that the purely mental training given here is of a very high | order and that the constant enort Is made to correlate training Of the nina with that of the hand. so that the one will complement the other. The gen eral public does not understand. fear, that our industrial system Is intended not merely to put students on their feet fin the bread winning occupations, but also, as 1t does to a surprising ex- tent, to serve as the most effective medium for mind training.
 During the past winter we were wis., ited by some sixty-five city, county and State Superintendents of Education, representing nearly every section of the United States. They spent some time in Investigating all the depart ments of the school Almost without exception, these educational experts depressed surprise. as well as gratifi- cation, at tho extent to which educa- ton here is made real and natural by the close coordination of academic and industrial work.
 Great progress has been made this year in the direction of a proper dis tribution of the students time be- tween the academic and industrial de- partments. The net result of the change is the abolition of Saturday as holiday and the plan whereby the student spends an equal amount of time in the academic and in the indus trial departments.
 | Not Class Education.
 There are signs at present of one danger which threatens the success of industrial training A class of people are proclaiming that they favor indus trial training for the Negro to the OK clusion of all other forms of educa- tion. If the idea becomes fixed in the minds of the people that industrial education means class education, that 1t should be offered the Negro because he Is a Negro, and that the Negro should be confined to this sort of education, then I fear. serious injury will be done | the cause of hand training. It should be understood rather that at such in | stitutions Hampton Institute and | Tuskegee Institute. industrial educa- tion is not empha because colored l people are to receive 1t but because the ripest educational thought of the world | approves 1t: because the undeveloped material resources of the South make | 1t peculiarly important for both races: and because 1t should be given in q l large measure to any race, regardless of color, which Is in the same stage | of development as the Negro.
 | "On the other hand, no one under | standing the real need of the race, would advocate that industrial educa- | tion should be given to every Negro. | to the exclusion of the professions and l other branches of learning. It IS -vi- | dent that race so largely segregated | as the Negro Is, must have an incraa3- ing number of its own professional men | and women. There is. then. a place and an increasing need for the Negro college as well as for the industrial | institute, and the two classes of schools should and as a matter of fact do, CO., operate in the common purpose of eia- vating the masses.
 | The complementary relation which should exist between the college and industrial school Is well exemplifed at the Tuskegee Institute. Here. includ- ing the 151 officers and instructors, the majority of whom are from the bes. industrial. technical and normal schools l in the country, are graduates of tho best American colleges to the number of 32. There are more Negro college graduates at Tuskegee than at any other one institute in the world
 "It is increasing to note that the sys- | tenn of hand training in America which had its birth almost wholly in the ef- fort made by the late General Arm strong, of the Hampton Institute, to elevate the Negro race, has spread far and wide in the North and West. and has grown so rapidly among the South ern whites, that in Georgia five times as much money Is being spent for the industrial education of the white youth as for the industrial education of the Negro youth. Virginia and Alabama excepted, the same remark applies in a greater or less degree to all the South ern States.
 More and more. as the years pass by, this institution emphasizes and be- lieves in the fundamental ideas for which 1t was established and to this end Is giving agriculture In all its branches a fundamental and perma- nent place as the basis of It's thirty seven industries.
 The Finances.
 "For Q more detailed account of the receipts and expenditures of money, I beg to refer you to the report of the Treasurer In q general way I would state that the receipts this year for all purposes except additions to the perma- nent plant, have been $213,SO2.43. This sum includes donations in the form of $50 scholarships, interest upon invested fuudn uayment of entrance fees ID .tudeuts. grants from the State of Ala hama. from the John F. Slater Fund, ana from the General Educational Board.
 "FOr additions to and permanent im- movement of the plant. and equipment mainly for the erection of buildings, the purchase of land, etc., there have been received 98,s52.t4. ~
 since my last report. there have
 TNNNad been added to the Endowment funo s15.5s7.5O, making the total amount ln- vested mainly in the form or marketa- ble securities, S1.030,553.2S. This sum shoule be increased as soon as possible to at least $3.00o,oOo.
 Besides the endowment mehtioneo above. we own, as l have stated In former report, 2o,000 acres or puonc land, which was granted the institute by special act of Congress. MT. Charles w. Hare, one of our trustees, and acting agent for this land. has just | made a contract for the sale of 56O acres at $12.50 per acre, less per cent. | commission and expenses of making deed. Except for this dininution. the land remains unsold. and will in time, doubtless prove an increasingly valua- ble asset.
 Every reasonable effort has been made during the year to confine the operations of the school within its in- come, but we have not been wholly sue cessful. We have tried to pursue the policy of curtailing the number of students, and of bettering the quality