The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1910-11-24
is LINKED WITH INDUSTRIAL
TRAINING ON CHAMPION
NIGHT'' BY SPEAKERS.
A Stellar Event
In Educational Life Of National
Capital When President FrisseH.
Motion, Williams and President
ThirkieId all Score Pronounced
Hits.
Thompson's National News Bureau

Thompson's National News Bureau.
Washington, D. c., Nov. "a
Hampton Night" at Bethel Literary's
special meeting last Friday evening
was a stellar event in the educational
life Of the nations capital. Spacious
metropolitan A. M. E. Church was
crowded to the doors with one of
the most representative audiences
that has gathered in many moons
hereabouts, and the story Of the
plans, purposes and ideals Of Hamp-
ton Institute was told in glowing
language by eloquent speakers to
sympathetic hearers.
Ferdinand D. Lee, president Of
Lee, president Of the champion In
stitute Alumni Association of Wash
1ngton, under whose auspices the
educational mass meeting was held,
acted as presiding officer and present
ed the speakers in felicitous Ian
guage. The object Of the gathering
was to inspite interest in the work
OF Hampton Institute and to raise a
fund for the establishment of scholar
ships for the benefit of worthy young
men and women who might not
otherwise be in a position to take
advantage Of the opportunities offer
ed at this splendid seat Of practical
training.
The principal address of the eve
ming was delivered by DIR. Hollis
Burke Frissell. president Of Hamp-
ton. He gave n 'succinct history of
the Use of the historic institution,
and Ceaoi rbed the manual training
work carried on there. His lauda-
tory references to Gen. S. c.. Arm
strong, Hampton's founder, and to
DR.. Booker T. Washington, the
schools most illustrious graduate,
eVeked-a storm of cheers. The in
huence exerted by Tuskegee Insti-
tute and similar centers Of industrial
education, which grew out of the
Hampton idea and fostered the
Hampton spirit" were warmly
praised. DR.. Frissell upheld the So
called higher education," as under
stood at Howard, Lincoln and Fisk,
but was Of the opinion that the hope
Of great masses of the Negro race lay
in the vocational training and fun
damental instruction emphasized in
the system employed by Hampton.
The education of the head, hand and
heart was sought at Hampton, and
1T was aimed to give the average
youth the rudiments that would give
him a strong start in the battle for
existence. The higher education
could be acquired by those able to
secure 1t, after the foundation in the
art Of living had been firmly laid.
--Dr--W--P.- -ThirkieId, who intro
duced DR.. Frissell, dealt pleasingly
with the cordial relations existing be
tween Hampton Institute and How
ard-one being, as he said, the
complement of the other. Miss
Elo1se Bfbb gave vivid account of
the social settlement work now be
ing carried on under her direction
in South Washington, where she is
doing much to reach the unreached
to make respectable surroundings
in what are now slums, and to instil
a. love for q clean homelife. Prof.
w. r. B. Williams, field agent for the
Slater educational fund, described
the far-reaching character Of the
work that is being done by Hamp-
ton for the elevation Of those with
out the walls Of the institution
referring particularly to the Sunday
schools, the teachers institutes, the
garden tending, home culture and
domestic science features Of it's ex-
tension service.
Major r. r. Motion, Commandant
of Hampton Institute, delivered a
telling speech, defending Industrial
education, preferring to style the in
tellectual training as the broader
education" rather than the some
what misleading higher" education
and told how the Negro, in command
of the forces of nature, could con.
quer the exasperating color-line
The soil, the seed, electricity, steam
wood and metal asked not whethe,
the hand that utilized it's benefits
| was black or white" declared he
Interspersed with witty stories and
recitais of the effectiveness Of the
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