Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-09-23

/ r students proved that thinking for
here.
Co-education Carried On.
Co-education is carried on through
out the schools, from the kindergart-
en- (which is in a pretty cottage by it.
self to the senior classes. and only in
the workshops their different occupa-
tons separate the boys and girls.
At Dorothy hall-at the head of
which Mrs. Booker Washington has
shown her wonderful capacity as an
educator-are all the workrooms for
the girls. Housekeeping. cooking, sew
ing, dress making. millinery. basket
weaving. mattress making. nursing
are taught. The girls, like the boys,
spend three days of each week in
school. and three days at manual train
ing AT the end of the course of four
years they are equipped. not only with
fair school education, but with the
ability for earning their own living in
respectable way.
Poverty is no impeachment in enter
ing this school. While the tuition
throughout is free, d nominal sum is
charged for board, but by attending the
night school for a year or two and
working at a trade during the day.
the students can earn sufficient to pay
for their board for the last two years
when they are entitled TO attend the
day schools. Two advantages are at
| tanned in this way: The child is never
a charity pupil and the institution
will never have the odium of an aims
house.
Our guides had secured some car
| riages for us, and handling the fine
horses cleverly. they soon brought us
to the model farm.
The dairy. equipped with all the
modern machinery. gives ample oppor-
tunity for learning under the guild
ance of experienced dairy men as
teachers. A lecture room here unites
| the students for class instruction and
| lectures. The barns and stables like
wise have lecture rooms with charts
| statistic records, etc. Horse and cat
tie breeding and everything that goes
| to make successful farming are taught
| in scientific as well as practical way
| The visible results at Tuskegee prove
| it is not a failure.
Drive Through Fields.
A drive past the extensive poultry
yards and barns. the piggery, sheds
| for bedding (the needles of the long
| leaf yellow pine are used in this sec
ton for bedding cattle as well as
horses). the emergency hospital far
removed from the main buildings)
| brings us out in to the fields. The
work has not yet begun, but every
where busy hands are repairing gates,
fences, bitches, etc. Fine roads have
been built by Tuskegee students and
trees planted along their lines.
We stopped at the brick yard where
students under the supervision of
teachers, make all the brick used in
the construction of the buildings. A
great improvement in the quality of
the brick is noticeable-the motley-col-
ored, rather soft brick has given place
to a fine grained. hard and red one
of great durability.
One ought to spend days here in
order to do justice to all the parts of
the school. Evening came and we
were again at the railway station. Here
we met one more of the leading men
of Tuskegee institute. The train was
two hours late and so we could enjoy
a quiet chat. However, the conversa-
ton grew more and more animated
we found that we had many likes and
dislikes in common, had Travelled over
the same territory on this and the
other side of the Atlantic, until it
seemed as though we might have been