Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-23
a,ner than the total number Of girls on

With every graduating class are turned
out a number Of electrical engineers, ma
makers. carpenters, blacksmiths. brick
makers masons, carriage-makers, snoe-
makers, tailors, printers, and among the
women are dressmakers, milliners, COOKS
laundresses basket-makers and nurses:
The nursing department is regarded as OF
special Importance There is greater de-
mand for nurses than for any other class
of graduates except teachers.
Institute Requirements.
Every student is required to take course
in the academic department up to GER
tain grade. No one leaves the school with
out knowing how to read and write ana
cipher and having general knowledge OF
history and geography. The highest grace
In the academic department is about the
same as that of grammar schools. bu. tnis
institution is not intended to make scnoi-
ars. but only useful citizens. Each student
is diverted into the trade to which ne or
she seems best adapted after brief ex-
perience. The new boy must go 70 OF 't 9e
brickyard first, where those who are set 10
watch him will soon discover what KIND OF
stuff he is made of, and If he comes out OF
the clay pit without broken PACK or
broken spirit he Is CONSIDERED worth eou-
eating. 49, x,,,,r
sewing room, because 1t is assumed that
every woman should know how to do plain
sewing and she is taught COOKING mousse
keeping and other domestic sciences until
she has developed what she is good for ana
is diverted into one of the trades. Ihere
are $50 girl boarders in dormitorles Win
in the grounds and over 500 boys. Win
about thirty boy day scholars and twenty
girls from the town of Tuskegee. The aca-
demic and Industrial work alternate
three days in each week being given TO
one and three to the other.
There is a night school intended for those
who are required to support themselves ana
cannot afford to spend three days OF the
week in the academic department A girl
or boy who works ten hours day for SIX
days in the week, in the shops or on the
farm or in the building department, ana
then has ambition and energy enough lett
to study books for two hours each evening"
is worth educating; and some of the most
successful graduates have gone through
that experience.
Applicants Turned Away.
Several hundred applicants are turned
away every year; some because they have
no means to pay their expenses; some be-
cause they cannot bring a good "charac-
ter for the moral discipline is very strict
President Washington takes the ground
that one bad boy or girl can do more mis-
chief in week than the entire faculty can
repair In a term, and TuSkegee is by no
means a reformatory institution Many are
denied admission because there is no room
for them, new DuliQlngS are BolHs up every
year. but there is not room for all who
would come.
The students represent thirty-six states
and territories. They come from Maine and
from California; the several colonies of the
West Indies represented by forty-six
students, and nine foreign countries have
sent students, including seven from Africa.
But 5O7, the largest number, come from
Alabama, 2O4 from Georgia and III from
Mississippi
1t costs $50 a year to get an education
at Tuskegee, which includes board, wash
ing, tuition and everything else There is
no charge for tuition, and boy or girl